There is more to our ears than hearing!!!
Quick Energy Boost
Our ears give us energy! High frequency sounds energize us, while low frequency sound drains our energy.
In an experiment, I listened to high frequency music with earphones for 4 hours a day for about 6 weeks. (Turn up the EQ button on your stereo up for the treble sounds to get lots of high frequencies.) At the end of this time, I had so much energy, I was requiring 2 to 3 hours less sleep a day, while maintaining a creative "high" mood and fountains of energy all day.
Another method to boost your energy and mental functioning is to turn the underside of your tongue so it touches the roof of your mouth and hum for about 15 minutes a day. Watch your disposition, mental clarity and energy skyrocket in just one week!
There’s more to our Ears than Hearing
Dr. Alfred Tomatis discovered that when our ears don’t hear certain frequencies, our voice doesn’t contain those frequencies either. That is, when you modify your hearing, your voice changes.
In order to help opera singers, whose voices were failing, Dr. Tomatis developed a method to strengthen ear muscles, to improve hearing damaged at select frequencies. He developed music that quickly switched from base tones to high frequency ones, making the ear muscles relax and stretch, strengthening them. He developed an audio gym, to exercise your ears! Thus, he was able to help the opera singers regain their voices.
Dr. Tomatis later discovered that strengthening our hearing not only affected our voices, but our emotions as well. We can selectively tune into one sound over another. For example, we can ignore the roar of a crowd and tune into a secret that a friend is telling us.
During times of trauma, we tune out sounds associated with that trauma. For example we can tune out our mother’s voice yelling at us. Dr. Tomatis found that Jewish people right after World War II, were deaf in the frequency of the sirens that took Jewish people to death camps. They tuned out some frequencies so much, they lost the ability to hear them at all!
Unfortunately hearing loss associated with trauma affects our emotions as well. For example, if we tune out our mother’s voice yelling at us, we may experience emotional difficulty making friends with other women whose voice is in the same frequency as our mother’s voice. When we regain our hearing in these frequencies, we gain emotional flexibility and strength! When we regain our hearing, we loose the pain that we formerly associated with that frequency. Our emotions change. We open up new opportunities for ourselves.
Learn Faster!
Dr. Tomatis uncovered that LEARNING IS DEPENDENT ON OUR HEARING! For example, we learn faster if we are right ear dominant rather than left ear dominant. You would think we hear equally in both ears! Wrong!
The right ear channels sound to our left brain that understands language. Our left ear sends sound to our right brain, which does not understand language. It’s that simple. Sound from our left ear has to make a voyage to several areas of the brain before it gets to the left brain that understands language.
Therefore, people that hear primarily with their left ear take longer to understand the spoken or written word, and sometimes information gets lost in its voyage to the language-processing, left brain. By the time this person understands a message, the speaker has already gone on to several more topics. He is constantly behind and frustrated.
If you know someone who has learning disabilities, get them to check out www.tomatis.com. One can train their ears to hear with the right ear first, and improve their learning ability!
Motor skills can also improve with increased hearing abilities. Our ears are hidden gold mines to enrich our lives!
Learning Disibilities
We not only hear with our ears, but with our bones. Sound that travels through our bones, goes directly to the inner ear, bypassing the middle ear. The middle ear has the ability to focus on only a portion of sound. Without sound going to our inner ears first, we loose the ability to focus on ONE thing. Poor listeners can’t distinguish what they want to hear from meaningless distractions. They can’t zoom out irrelevant sound.
People with attention deficit disorders, (ADHD and ADD), receive sound primarily through their bones. They are forced to pay attention to all sounds, feeling overwhelmed with too much information, and distractions. Frustration, anger and inability to pay attention result. Sometimes these people give up trying to learn.
Tomatis Centers can teach people to channel sound through your ears first, rather than through the bones.
In the Tomatis Center in Toronto, 400 children with learning disabilities were retrained in their hearing processes. Parents saw improvements in;
greater communication, 89%
better attention span, 86%
frustration decreased, 80%
reading comprehension increased, 85%
quality of speech improved, 74%
memory improved, 73%
better spelling 69%
increased maturity 84%.
In a six-month follow up report, 83% of the children maintained their gains and increased them, 14% maintained some of their gains. Only 3% did not maintain their improvements.
H.A. Stutt "concluded that the Tomatis Listening Program produces benefits …including;
A significant increase in IQ,
Better reading skills,
More perceptual processing,
Increased academic skills,
A general sense of adjustment,
More developed communication skills,
A greater ability to express thoughts and feelings."
