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Hearing loss
Dan Stuckel, Red Deer , Alberta , Canada :
"Before I began using the Sound Therapy tapes my hearing was becoming progressively worse. Ear specialists told me it was caused by nerve damage, therefore there was nothing which could be done for me. They said the ringing in my ears would become louder as time went on, thereby reducing my ability to hear. I purchased an 'in the ear model' hearing aid after I found their predictions to be correct. My hearing did indeed deteriorate. I found I had to wear the hearing aid more and more as time went on, to a point where I was wearing it 80% of the time.
After about 3 weeks of beginning the Sound Therapy, the ringing in my ears began to subside. Along with that my hearing also began to improve. One day I felt something almost like a minor earthquake taking place deep within my ears. Since then my hearing has improved to such an extent that I seldom have to use my hearing aid . I am able to function quite well without it now, after 7 months of Sound Therapy.
To list a few of the other benefits from this therapy: I am able to sleep better and can do with much less sleep than previously required . I am doing less needless worrying and stressing situations are much easier to cope with than they were before. In fact my entire well being is showing a vast improvement."
Darrell Johnson, Delisle, Saskatchewan , Canada :
"About four years ago I started getting ringing in the left ear, followed by light-headedness and dizziness. Sometimes I couldn't stand without falling. This I was getting about once a month, then twice a month, soon twice a week and not long later three or four times a day. My doctor told me I had Meniere's Syndrome, which is a problem of the inner ear past the stirrup. There wasn't much that could be done; I would just have to put up with it. Being my age was 53, I knew I would be quite some time putting up with this problem.
Then I heard about Sound Therapy. I bought the Sony Walkman ä and tapes. Now, four months later, I have no light-headedness and dizziness, and the ringing in my left ear has gone. The hearing in my left ear has also improved. I can't express how much Sound Therapy has done for me. I am never dragged out and tired any more. I can stay up very late at night and still get up rested early in the morning. Also, I don't get uptight and stressed about the little setbacks of the day, but can just relax and take them in my stride. I even find it easier to talk to people - am not so shy! It's like a new life."
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Flick Evans, Somers , Victoria , Australia :
"In the early part of 1989, I began to suffer from Tinnitus and only by mid 1989 had received medical advice that nothing could be done about it. I read the Sound Therapy book from cover to cover at least four times, and each time put it down - convinced that it was just too good to be true. I mentioned it to a member of our local library, who told me that her daughter was using the tapes and ".wished that she had started 2 years earlier." So I decided to try them, without any great hopes or expectations.
I had been listening for approximately 100 hours when I suddenly became aware that the Tinnitus whistle had stopped - I wasn't sure WHEN it stopped - but it had. Since then I have periodically been aware of the whistle but by relaxing my head muscles for about 2 minutes - it disappears.
About the same time I noticed distinct improvement in hearing to my left ear - there had been noticeable loss in that ear for about 3 years.
I had a client who served in the Royal Navy during the last War - in Gun turrets on board ships in action. His hearing was affected to the extent that one had to raise ones voice when conversing with him. After my hearing improvement I started talking to him about Sound Therapy - and eventually found him with his Walkman and tapes. A few weeks later I received a phone call at 11 p.m. one evening. It was my client - and his message was that ".I thought I would ring and let you know that I have just heard my wife's Microwave 'BEEP' for the first time." 'nuff said!
I do not know what response others will get from the tapes. I can only say that I have been VERY, VERY satisfied."
Annaliese Palsans, Ahrensburg , Germany :
"It's a wonder! Your sound therapy has helped really. One morning, it was the 22 nd of August, I suddenly noticed that the noises on the left ear had gone. I switched on the television to look if the speakers words are more clearly, and they were. I couldn't believe and knocked on wooden things - Germans do that to make sure that a situation will stay long. I didn't tell Jurgen but the whole day I put the buttons in and off the ears to make sure there are still no noises. Up to this day I have no noises in the left ear and can hear very well the whole day. At first (my doctor) wasn't very interested. The audiogram tells him the truth. My left ear is as good as it has been before all the trouble began. He has never had a patient whose ears had become better again, when they had been as bad as mine.
Two week later.
I'm still happy, for the good success goes on. Now the right ear, too starts to get better. There are still noises but I can hear the music on a lower condition so by and by there changes something too.
Friends of mine often tell me, that I'm now again this person they have known before I became ill, though I thought I had never shown how desperate I was. They must have noticed it."
William A. Whiteside, Toowomba , Queensland , Australia :
"My hearing was progressively deteriorating and my social life disintegrating as I could not possibly concentrate on a conversation in an environment with a cross current of various conversations. When trying to sing in church I could not hear my own voice, and so gave up trying. Whereas I used to enjoy music, now it just existed and gave me very little lift. I had to try so hard to distinguish any words a soloist was singing.
Road noise drove me frantic. The noises I did not want to hear became a maddening roar, and those I wanted to hear I could not.
After listening to the Sound Therapy tapes, all this is changing. It brings tears of gratitude to my eyes, this recharging of life, made possible by this wonderful therapy. I can now hear the timbre in my own voice as I sing equally with that of others, and I can even hear the birds singing as I walk in the park. I am using my hearing aids less and less.
It is more than just improved hearing though. I find myself able and willing to communicate with people, it is easier to smile and reciprocate love.
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Hans Wuelfert, Lavington, NSW, Australia :
When I was in the German army in January 1944, I had an infection of both inner ears and the Eustachian tubes. Because my temperature was only slightly elevated I was given a few Aspros. The greater part of the problem became chronic.
A year later I was a gunner in a light armoured car. During gunnery exercise there was a malfunction in the 2cm. Gun which caused some kind of explosion. Fortunately all the hatches were open, but I had little hearing or sense of balance for a few days.
The result of both incidents was tinnitus with a combination of sounds; a waterfall, ringing and static. My eardrums tended to feel sucked in, quite uncomfortable at times, often I could not pop them out when I blew my nose with nostrils blocked.
In 1979 a sinus condition developed which I blamed on the type of chalk I was using as a teacher. My singing tended to be out of tune. The range of notes became narrower. For many years I suffered from tiredness which I now attribute to some degree to the "low-frequency noise."
In January 1987 I had encephalitis and myelitis endemic to the Murray Valley . At one stage the resulting symptoms were called the M.E. syndrome: chronic lack of energy; diminished long-term and short-term memory, self inflicted stress, pronounced sensitivity to variations in atmospheric conditions.
After two months of Sound Therapy (330 hours) this is my assessment:
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Sinus condition has improved gradually and is about 80% better in general.
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Eustachian tubes improved about 50%
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Left ear, much lighter noise of a higher pitch, almost pleasant compassed with the original noise. Congestion far less, about 70% better.
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Right ear; very slight ringing, higher pitch, some congestion left, about 90% better.
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Hearing in general has improved. All the sounds are crisper. At the dentist the "new" crisp sound of the drill nearly m a de me happy.
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Singing : during walks along the open road, there is a "resonance space" again in my head, singing is in tune again and I can correct a wrong note.
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Deep refreshing sleep. Requirements shortened by 1-2 hours.
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Energy seems to have increased, I find it easier to start something, have a bit more go.
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Memory has improved slightly. Words of some forgotten songs have come back and dialling a phone number is a lot easier.
Generally speaking, I feel that a considerable change has been going on within me and apparently still is."
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K. Joseph Biggs, Burleigh Heads , Queensland , Australia :
"Looking back over past years, I have come to the conclusion that somewhere in my childhood, I closed off my hearing level to a point where the darkness of retreating eventually overcame my ability to want to hear.
...by the time I was 35, I had passed through some of the most disastrous years of my young life. About that time I contracted an industrial disorder where industrial noises repeat in the hearing long after the noise is out of range. Within the next four years, I made an appointment (out of sheer frustration) with a specialist who performed a stapedectomy. I say categorically, no person should be subjected to this dangerous treatment before being alerted to the alternative treatment which sound therapy provides.
I was always mentally drained, the numbness was still there and there seemed something pressing on the ears which affected my ability to hear. My doctor shrugged his shoulders and said the audio test was the same as that taken about four years ago.
I commenced sound therapy in January 1991. After about 200 hours of listening everyday.I noticed some changes, headaches diminished, tiredness fading, less restless sleep. Shoulder and back pain reduced, posture improved, better sense of direction of sound, improved sense of balance. Hearing improved, fuzzy noises in ears not so apparent.
Previously, trying to talk to a group of people in a room was nearly impossible, and a one on one conversation always brought signs of rejection, when everyone else thought that they were not part of the conversation.
I have now clocked up 444 continuous days for a total of 2043 hours, and now average about 3.5 hours per day. You don't have to be sick to gain benefit. One very noticeable benefit is the correlation between resonance in the voice and the ear. If you can hear better, you can speak better.
Noises in the ear, (by the way aggravated by an operation) at times now reduce to zero. I am not embarrassed by noisy locations, or entering into casual conversation. Sometimes there is pain in the ears, but this soon passes. The reduced need for sleep, about six hours per night, is sufficient and does not interfere with what may have been necessary previously.
Being able to express thought better, do not tire easily - more energy, posture improved, mental alertness, self confidence, better concentration, more relaxed - but alert, some dizziness - soon passes.
There is no doubt in my mind, the findings of Dr. Tomatis are widespread, with outside noise levels discharging our energy and childhood problems being carried into adult life..a great deal of credit must go to Patricia Joudry for her effort in making the treatment available."
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Tinnitus and Meniere’s syndrome
Julia Angel Gulenc, Moorabbin Victoria , Australia :
About eight years ago, I read an article in a Women's magazine about the damaging effects of loud noise on our hearing. Sound Therapy was mentioned.
Since I was suffering of frequent ringing in my ears , was very sensitive to noise, with frequent headaches etc., I rang the phone number given on the article.
I read the book in one sitting. I was so impressed, that immediately after reading it, I purchased the tapes. I have said many times since, that the few hundred dollars I spent buying the tapes was the best investment I ever made for my health. From the very first moment I started listening , I knew they were going to do me good.
I couldn't get enough. I listened for 6 hours straight. That same night I slept with my headphones on. I was amazed and very pleased.
A few months later, the ringing in my ears, my regular dizzy spells, and my headaches, were largely gone . I felt so energized that I went from needing 8-9 hours sleep a night, to only 7. Many times since, I have woken up feeling fully rested after only 5 or 6 hours of sleep.
Sound Therapy has certainly made a great difference to the enjoyment of my life. My ears and I are very grateful.
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Mrs. Gertrude Rempel Brown, Vancouver , Canada :
"It was pure accident that I heard Patricia Joudry being interviewed on radio. The word tinnitus caught my attention, and I began the Sound Therapy. My tinnitus, which my doctor said was incurable, was cured after several weeks of 3 hours a day listening. I had tinnitus for two years - and it was SHEER HEAVEN when it stopped - not to have incessant ringing in my ears . It also gives me a sense of well being. I am lending the book to my doctor!"
Lee Heffele, West Australia :
". When I was about 43, I had my first tinnitus attack. At the time I didn't know what it was. Eventually after going to specialists who did brain scans where they found nothing, they determined that it was Meniere's syndrome. I continued to suffer from Meniere's syndrome until I found Sound Therapy.
I would describe my experience with Meniere's as horrific. I think anyone that has Meniere's would say it's horrific, if they have the severe one. I ended up in the hospital, on one occasion because I couldn't stop vomiting and you feel as though you are falling through the floor. You are lying on the floor and you are hanging onto the floor virtually in terror because you feel as if you are flying backwards. It's the balance in the middle ear that's effected, and it's terrifying, to the point where I was almost suicidal at one stage. I said I won't live with this, if I have to live with this I will have to leave the planet. From what I've heard, anyone that's ever had it feels the same way. They don't really want to live, you lose interest in life, it's such a shocking feeling. No one can describe it, you have to experience it. So fortunately I didn't panic, I found ways to control it. It got to the stage when it was bad, where I was getting an attack once a week. It would take a week to get over it and then I would get another one. The attacks would last for about two or three hours but it didn't then leave me in a healthy state. I would be ill then for a week, feeling ghastly and just generally ill.
I dealt with it by taking every precaution and used the Sound Therapy constantly, which helped a lot. To begin with, I had the Sound Therapy on all day. I used to have it in a bum-bag and it sat on my hip wherever I went. I took it to the shopping centre, wherever I was I had it going. At that time using the Sound Therapy stopped my Meniere's attacks entirely. I had tinnitus as well, which also got considerably better when I used Sound Therapy. I also got my hearing to the stage where it was almost normal and I could hear on the phone.
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Background noise
Patricia Joudry, an excerpt from her book: Sound Therapy Music to Recharge Your Brain
"On an afternoon in my sixth and final week, as I sat listening in my little room, the therapist came strolling in. I tensed up, in mortal fear that he was going to say something. Not only did I have to keep silent when there were voices in the background, but also when music was playing.
He began to speak. I went into my act, waving my hands frantically and objecting: "I've got the music on! I can't talk when there's music on, I never could!". He smiled and said calmly: "You can now." I stopped short and listened to him. I ventured to answer. We chatted about many things and the music played on, and he was right: I had been cured.
I went out into the stores and talked to salespeople, with the babble of voices all around me. No problem. I couldn't believe it. Neither could my family when I got home that night. I walked into the house and all talk stopped, as usual. "Go right on," I said airily. "Doesn't bother me a bit."
Noise sensitivity
Patricia Joudry, Saskatchewan, Canada
It happened that the next day I couldn't do my listening at home, for it was shopping day, the occasion of the week that always filled me with dread. Though a mixture of voices could now be tolerated, I remained atmosphere sensitive and couldn't stand the din of traffic or the psychically crushing environment of supermarkets and shopping malls . My daughter did the driving, which helped; and she lugged everything around and made decisions after my mind was blown.
Well, if I couldn't listen to my new therapy cassettes at home, at least I could take them with me. I played the music throughout the forty minute drive to Saskatoon, and the half hour finding a place to park, with the volume set low so that we could talk. Then I kept it on, the Walkman ä tucked in my shoulder bag, as we went around the stores.
Soon an amazing thing became apparent. It was as though I walked on a battlefield with a shield held before me and my head protected by armour. The noise was still there; my mind registered the fact like information of no particular significance. If there were cross-currents of psychic agitation, they found in my immediate atmosphere a wall of harmony that could not be breached.
After an hour or two, when I would normally have been a wreck, I was discovering that shopping could be fun. I wanted to investigate the sales. But we didn't have time, because it was turning into "one of those days." As chance would have it - or was it fateful design? - our ancient Volvo broke down three (3) times in traffic, making us the focus of all eyes as we waited for the mechanic. I drew some particularly strange looks, sitting there under a mantle of tranquillity with my headphones on, and being somewhat beyond the age of the average music addict. The spectators would have been even more surprised if they could have heard what I was hearing.
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Intense focus
Norman Altrogge, University student and part-time restaurant worker:
"Over and above assisting me in relaxing and winding down, my hearing became much keener as I listened to the cassettes from day to day. There followed improved concentration and it seemed easier to zero in on things. The listening had a sort of snowballing effect in improving my ability to focus my mind and put myself into whatever I'm doing with a larger degree of intensity."
Dyslexic adult "switched on"
Cecily Bova, Cape Town, South Africa:
" Being a dyslexic adult, with switched off ears, has caused terrible suffering, as you will understand. I am in my mid 50's and it has taken all these years to wait, and work only with body and eyes, cut off from true sound.
I have experienced a lot of anger and frustration, because of the loneliness and isolationI was ignored. My anger was in my voice. No doubt all who heard me would switch off.
...Last week a change began to take place. I could not sleep a whole night. I was wide awake... my mind clear and active all night. Then awake all day, with no fatigue. This has continued, my mind clear, not disturbed. My ears are lighting up…
At last I am aware of the other, the thou in my life. There is no doubt about it. Sound therapy in my case acted like First Aid. I was drowning, like a stranded whale, disoriented, I missed that quality of being bathed in sound. Supermarkets, noisy places, and loud pop music drove me insane. I am in awe of sound. I can actively focus on sound sources. It's incredible, as though I have been given a new instrument, calming my mind and soul.
Bless you, Patricia, and all the brothers who helped you and worked with you to produce this for the man in the street. I could not have afforded the therapy in a listening lab.
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Dyslexic hearing
Madonna Schoonder, Sydney, NSW, Australia:
I've always had bad concentration & memory. I also have what I call dyslexic hearing. People talk to me but I have no idea what they're saying most times. It makes no sense to me & I just shut off. I listened for 3 hrs the first night & slept the whole night through & soundly. Something that's never happened before; my whole life I've had trouble getting to sleep and staying asleep more than 2 or 3 hrs, even when exhausted. So for me, that was great.
I've also noticed my concentration has improved enormously. I can read a book now without my mind wandering & I only need to read it once because it makes sense the first time. My conversations have improved also because people's words make sense now & don't seem all jumbled.
The first time I listened to Sound Therapy was just a quick listen from a friend. I didn't even really know what it was. I'd just had a huge fight with my boyfriend & was extremely upset. Within seconds of listening to the music it calmed me down a lot.
More focussed singer
Melanie King, singer-composer, Melbourne, Australia:
"I have had some beautiful benefits from using the tapes - trebled energy, less sleep needed, steadier moods, more focused concentration - and I have notes in the top of my vocal range which are brand new."
Stress
ans Energy
Sarkis Doueihi, Syndey,
Australia
"My name is Sarkis Doueihi, I am a
personal trainer & full time Athlete (competing in Track and
American Football). I studied psychology at California State college
Fullerton, and NLP at Master practitioner level with Wyatt Woodsmall
& Marvin Oka.
My greatest passion is performance
enhancement, to see Human beings becoming and being the absolute
best that they can be, whether that be sports, business, family,
relationships, or even the spiritual path.
I first came across Sound Therapy
while reading Cosmic memory by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder.
The chapter on using the ear to recharge & learn just knocked me
out. Firstly, because of its claims, secondly, because of evidence
and background, but most importantly, to the extent that it
described certain experiences I had experienced. I must have read
and re-read the chapter at least three times, then exploded to the
back of the book, looking for the resources listings, only to find
an address in far off Canada. I didn't want to wait weeks and weeks
to get the tapes. I wanted them now or at least by the next morning.
I was sure there had to be an Australian connection.
Funnily enough the next day a
catalogue arrived in the mail for the upcoming Mind Body & Spirit
festival. As I flicked through, my jaw dropped, there right in front
of me was a local phone number for a supplier of the Sound Therapy
audio tapes, and they even had a stall at the show.
On the Thursday of the show I rushed
straight to the Sound Therapy stall. The cosmic joke was here I met
the daughter (Rafaele) of the originator of Sound Therapy for the
Walkman (Patricia Joudry) and she lives in Sydney. On that day I
picked up the book ''Sound Therapy for the Walkman''. That evening
after the festival I read the book from cover to cover in one
sitting. Now was I hyped. I wanted these tapes and all the benefits
that come with them. I picked up the tapes on the Saturday- I
remember it was on the 3rd of December.
In the first week I must have listened
to in excess of 70 hours, I was so excited I literally lived with my
walkman. It took me about 4 weeks to to hit 300 hours of listening
and when it hit me the fatigue was phenomenal. Sitting in front of
the TV after a pretty ordinary day, it was only 7.30pm and off I
dozed. For the next two weeks it was pretty much the same. I would
wake up exhausted, I would fall asleep at the smallest rest break or
inactivity. It wasn't like I couldn't continue with my daily
schedule of training or working, it just took a lot more effort and
concentration on my part. I was tired all the time and when I slept,
I slept like a rock. Then my ears started to ache, all the dizziness
and deep bone soreness! Despite all the fatigue and aches, all the
dizziness and confusion, I persisted. I knew there was a pot of gold
at the end of this colourless rainbow and I persisted. As suddenly
as all the symptoms came, they one by one disappeared, but as each
disappeared there was a gift of some new ability.
The fatigue, for example, was not only
alleviated, it was totally gone, with energy to burn. There was this
new intensity to my workouts, my work had a new spark, and my life
felt energised. When the ear aches dispersed there came a new sense
of balance and proprioception. There was clarity in my brain, not
just in my mind. I had so much energy and more than anything I
became totally addicted to my sound therapy tapes. I seemed to feed
on them.
About two or three months later I
ordered the advanced tapes. I listened to them for about 100 hours
before it all started to happen again, but from a higher order, the
symptoms came on for only five days this time and the after effect
escalated the original by at least four fold. I was so energised, so
earful it was great! Like my hearing seemed to get deeper and wider.
And I noticed more than ever how I
slept like a baby, totally stress free. Most of all I seemed to be
able to feed off all the sound around not only the sound therapy. I
was always energised.
What next you ask? Well I tried the
Full Spectrum audios and was totally blown away. They have a depth,
a dimensionality to them like nothing I have ever heard. To describe
them in words almost seems impossible, because to hear them is to go
beyond the horizontal mind, into a verticality beyond words.
Sound therapy is performance enhancing,
it is life enhancing. If you are after truly getting an edge on
yourself then it would pay you handsomely to try the sound therapy
experience. Persist through till the end and you will swearing by
them too."
Creative potential opened
Herbert Spanier, Toronto, Canada:
"My immersion into the world of Sound Therapy has had several positive results. A strikingly noticeable one was in my work as musical performer and composer, where my creative potential was dramatically opened up. The compliments I am receiving for my concerts, where improvisation is a key, are more numerous and enthusiastic, and this from contemporaries and audiences alike. Also in the areas of stress and fatigue, considerable modification is being observed."
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