Quelling My Tinnitus
A 5-10 minute read,
It was in May of 2021, I was sitting on my couch in my apartment living room on one of my days off from work. I noticed that my tinnitus was ringing a lot louder than it normally does. It was just so loud, so much louder than ever before that I literally could not stand it. I tried to figure out what had caused it to spike so loud all of a sudden. Had I done something or maybe eaten something that made it worse? It did not take me long to figure out that as much as two days earlier I had received the second shot of the covid-19 vaccine.
The fact of realizing that the shot itself had done this was not as bothersome to me as the enhanced ringing. Normally it was maybe a four or five out of ten in volume, and did bother me that it would not stop, but I lived with it. This increase was a seven and a half to eight out of ten in volume and was not going down and because it was brought on by what I then had decided was a dangerously toxic experimental pseudo-chemical, I was extremely concerned. I was worried that it would never go back down. What if I was stuck with it like that forever? I had even had half a thought of it getting worse and killing myself at some point, but my self-resolve had already gotten so strong by that time in my life that I shut that thought down. I was so distressed in my living room that day that I cried heavily, by myself and in front of my then fiancé after she came home from work.
I met with an audiologist in Seattle to get my ears evaluated for worsened tinnitus and to discuss what can be done. She was not able to turn down my tinnitus, but she did recommend hearing aids. I was hesitant to go through with that and live that way. I just wanted to live in peace with my natural body, how it is supposed to be.
A month after receiving that shot, I enrolled in the Hypnosis Motivation Institute, one of the nation’s only fully accredited colleges of hypnotherapy. I had been considering taking their year long online course for a few months by that time and decided to do it. I was so happy when I found out that they offer students free sessions with their certified interns, so I got in touch with an intern who was certified in Tinnitus Hypnosis Treatment. We started distance sessions by phone every week. I was surprised how well the hypnosis worked for me over the phone, but he was really good and knew his stuff. After a number of weeks I noticed a difference in my tinnitus and it was getting noticeably quieter.
As I was already a student of hypnotherapy, it was easy for me to get hypnotized and become suggestible to his voice. It was also easy for me to learn self-hypnosis, to practice everyday on my own. The self-hypnosis practice made a huge difference for me to use the procedures we practiced to heal my associations and traumas and to practice adjusting and turning down the ringing. I kept at it because it was really helping, and over that course of three or four months I could tell that my tinnitus was gradually getting quieter. This is the first time that I found a therapy that actually helped my tinnitus!
Part of the hypnotherapy I have been taught is the practice of learning to converse directly with your subconscious mind, the super-intelligent always observant inner part of you that speaks to you in your dream imagery. I have always been a very auditory person; I learn and remember through hearing often more than seeing, my intuition and inner voice is often auditory and I talk with myself out loud a lot. So it was only natural that when I started literally hearing my subconscious speaking to me throughout my waking hours that it was audible, in my mind, and sometimes so clear that it was like a person speaking to me. One day, I was thinking about the work I was doing on myself and changing my condition while I was driving home and I heard the voice of my subconscious tell me “the rest is effortless.” It was so loud and direct that it caught me off guard, but it was a clear message. The rest of the work I do on myself moving forward would be much more effortless than before.
It was my mistake that for quite some time I stopped my frequent tinnitus hypnosis treatments. Honestly the volume of the ringing had gotten so low most of the time that I barely heard it and often hours of my day would go by without me noticing that there was any ringing there. I had definitely passed advanced milestones in quelling my tinnitus. In the beginning of 2021 I had often been annoyed by the ringing and was determined to get rid of it once and for all, no matter the cost. There is no cure for it, no permanent fix for tinnitus in my cases, but I vowed to get rid of it. I was willing to pay the thousands of dollars it would probably cost to get rid of it, I just wanted it gone.
With my comprehensive hypnotherapy education from HMI and my Tinnitus Hypnotherapy specialty certification, and my training in the Usui Reiki lineage, I have the skills and knowledge to manage my noise induced case of constant tinnitus, to the point that I barely hear it and go long periods often without noticing it. These days I manage it with self-hypnosis practice and self-reiki and with no pills or invasive treatments. It’s just me, my mind, energy and the assistance of background noise and soothing tones from my computer, tv or a portable noise maker machine. I have achieved the next best thing to getting rid of it completely, which probably is not medically possible at this time, the power to manage the constant ringing to the point that it has no power over the quality of my life.
It is currently the spring of twenty twenty three when I write this article and I have recently resumed a regular practice of tinnitus self-hypnosis, which has resulted in my perceived ringing quieting dramatically again. On average it is between a one and two out of ten volume, if I do notice it. When I do, I do not suffer from being bothered by the ringing, because of the extensive emotional trauma healing I did previously that was associated with the fact of the damage and ringing. I am happy to be able to offer my Tinnitus Hypnosis Treatment program to anyone who suffers from this affliction and teach them how to manage it to live a happy life again, if you still have it when we are done. It does not matter if you hear ringing, whooshing, humming, droning, whistling or other noises, constantly or periodically. Hypnotherapy works on this condition because it addresses things from the level of the brain and within the subconscious, changing how you perceive the sound.
So, the question remains, how much money are you willing to pay to stop suffering and turn down the noise in your head? What are you willing to do for a life free of the unending influence of that noise? Have your specialist doctors that you have met with been able to help you turn down your ringing? In my program, in a matter of six weeks or less, you will notice a major change and continue your life equipped with the tools you need to manage that noise, if you ever have to again.
