Listen to what this man says. He’s absolutely right. I’ve had tinnitus for 12 years. I’ve recently had a massive spike and relapse which sent me into a massive depression and anxiety state. I have it in my left ear. I had it habituated for about 11 years. It completely shocked me when it came back as strong as it did. You have to accept it and realize that it’s a part of you. Unfortunately it is very hard to do but that’s the way to get better. You have to learn how to live within it instead of fighting it every second. Fighting it will only make it worse. Your mind will get bored with it eventually and move on. Trust me, it will happen and you will get through it. Just have faith and don’t give up. You are not alone. What has helped me is my belief in Jesus and the support of my family. God bless everyone and I hope and pray for everyone’s wellbeing.
I have had tinnitus for over 25 years and about 13 or so years ago I went to see Julian in London. I had about 4 sessions with him and he was lovely to talk to, was very kind, calm and understanding and really gave me hope that I could get rid of the tinnitus completely. I am so pleased that he managed to do so but I think that for the vast majority of people, they can learn over time to not be distressed or even bothered by the tinnitus but it is extremely rare for it to disappear altogether. He gave me hope that mine could go completely and for years it was the hope that kept me going even though most of the time i was very anxious and felt my life was sometimes hardly bearable. I could still get very distressed and had suicidal thoughts on many occasions as I felt I was failing somehow because I couldn't do whatever it took to get rid of it. After reading every book written about tinnitus and seeing many tinnitus specialists I realized how extremely rare it is for people to have complete silence again because after all, tinnitus is just the normal safe sounds that our brain and body make but we have tuned into due to our extreme state of anxiety. I did TRT in London and after about 3 years I fully accepted that the tinnitus would not go because it was a normal sound that previously I did not hear but now was doing because of the fight or flight state I was in. For me, only once I had accepted it, did I start to improve. I had finally stopped trying to 'cure' it and was putting my energy into living with it, not living without it. My tinnitus is as loud as ever but it so rarely bothers me and I know that it is my thoughts about the tinnitus that are responsible for how I feel; not the tinnitus itself. After speaking with many specialists I am aware that it is rare for it to go away but I am delighted for people who can say that has happened and I pray that it happens for many more but after a couple of decades of reading every book and trawling every forum, I do not want people to live in hope of a cure as I did, when they could be putting their energy into living well and happily with it. It can be done because my life is just as good now as it was before tinnitus. Julian is a lovely man and great to work with and extremely knowledgeable but remember that living in hope of a cure, will keep you focused on it and can make you feel you have failed if you do not get rid of it but if you learn to live with it, the chances of it going are the same, but at least you are getting on with life and not waiting for a cure before you start living again. I wish you all well.
Love your post and agree totally with your comments! People that reach habituation are still hearing their tinnitus, it just is no longer impacting their lives.
@@patriciamangless4512 Thank you for your comments. I feel quite strongly about people being told there is a cure for it because it gives false hope and they are waiting for silence again before they feel they can be OK. I have seen two of the most experienced TRT specialists in the world and they both said that in all their many years of helping people, they knew of not a single case where the tinnitus actually went away apart from one gentleman who had a wisdom tooth problem which once removed the tinnitus disappeared but he had it for only a short time . People need to understand that the fear and anxiety that they feel is totally caused by their thoughts about it and focusing on making it go is giving it importance it does not deserve. Habituation, in my opinion, is the only way to get your life back and if it's still there, but you hardly ever hear it and when you do it does not affect you emotionally in any way, then it's as good as gone. I sit and listen to my tinnitus now and again because I was told by both TRT people that those who struggle the most are the ones who have silence for a while which makes them feel very elated but then when they hear it again they feel dreadful so it's good to remind yourself that although it is still there, you are fine with it.
In my darkest time i stumbled across your videos a couple years ago, its been a journey ups and downs went from 10-10 t everyday for a year to slowly calming my T down to next to nothing. Diet, exercise and lifestyle changes and stopping negative thought loops detaching my T from my feelings and understanding my emotions and working on myself letting go and feeling feelings again. Used to never be able to go to sleep without my earbuds to consistently sleeping with no masking audio, walking in silent rooms and hearing nothing! Dont believe the negative and bad information out there on the internet this guy saved my life!
Really glad to hear it. Good for you! Thanks for sharing your positive story here. It really helps others. It starts like a positive ripple that floats out into the tinnitus people community and inspires those to find a path that leads them back to well-being and quiet. Wishing you well, Julian
@@dj112397 So i try to stay away from high inflammatory foods like dairy cheeses, sugary stuff also does me in specially chocolate or very high sodium foods. id try making a journal of the foods you eat and over a period of time and see what your happy medium is and what works and what doesnt, i also fast the first 5 hours im awake. Im sure its a lil different for everyone but i wish you the best of luck!!
Totally agree with you. You could listen to the lecture of fight or flight freeze, or what turns up the volume in the useful information section on my app to understand more: www.quietenapp.com . There is a lot of information on Quieten app that can help you understand how this condition works and how to get better. What we think about comes about! Wishing you well, Julian
Julian Cowan Hill is the Gandalf/Aslen figure we all need on this journey of recovery from this Tinnitus maze! Its a very bumpy path and we all get lost and get anxious where we will end? However we must all trust in master figures that will help guide us into our end destination of Narnia/Middle Earth! Thats the geek side of me needing to turn this anxious time into a new adventure! Cheers lads for the positive video. Be happy and de-stressing is the key to success.
Please download my app www.quietenapp.com You can join our bi-weekly live Q&A sessions and find a lot of help and support there. It is free for the first month and then you can either select a monthly or yearly subscription. Yearly is £70 which is less than one therapy session or half of one if you live in the states! and you get support and regular check ins bi-weekly. Best wishes Julian
Tengo tinnitus muy muy fuerte en ambos oidos desde hace 4 meses. Estoy haciendo yoga y meditación todos los días desde hace 3 semanas. Tambien voy a psicólogo y Osteopatía.Ya salí del nivel 10. Hoy me encuentro en un nivel 6. Voy a tener la constancia y seguir por este camino!
I came across your channel when Robbie Shore's testimony suddenly popped up. I got tinnitus when I went to an indoor gun range for thee first time 2 years ago. I didn't not have proper ear protection and wanted to buy a specific kind. The gun range had another brand I didn't want. I asked a guy that worked there his opinion and he said these little foam plugs would be fine. I noticed some guys that worked there had small ones on also, so I thought, sure, it will be fine. I have used them before and I know I used them correctly. Well, they didn't work for me. They did for my wife. Of course, I did take my left one out for a second to hear my wife say something - bad idea. Anyway, wish I would have paid the $30 for the good pair, right now I would pay $30,000 to get my hearing back to normal. I was dizzy and sat alone in my basement for 2-3 weeks and would not leave and had vertigo and thought I could not live anymore if it didn't improve. It slowly....very slowly did. I have lived with it for 2 years and barely thought about the ringing anymore till I got in my wife's car recently and she forgot she made a mistake and had the radio literally on FULL blast. Was like a gunshot in the car - back to ground zero almost to start over with bad ringing. I have learned to just not think about it and that helps a lot. I just move on and live. Quite honestly, what I find more annoying that the ringing sometimes is that I also have that very high sensitivity to certain sounds. Being around a barking dog, putting away plates etc, it hurts my ear - mainly my left one. It's hard to believe the ringing will go away permanently. I feel like it can be masked and maybe the kind of ringing from tinnitus that happens from other causes but a gunshot, has anyone ever recovered from that? When they tested my ears, I had no hearing loss. They said I have better hearing than anyone she tested in the past couple months and that it would just go away. It never fully went away but it is true that I can still hear everything, even much better than my wife. I just have the blasted ringing and they hypersensitivity in my left ear at the same time. Sorry to ramble, but has anyone ever improved tinnitus from a gunshot? And what about that hyper sensitivity - I think it's called hyperacusis. Can that be improved also and is a gunshot tinnitus issue treatable with your programs?
So sorry to hear about your noise trauma. Yes you can get better from this experience. I have worked with many people suffering from acoustic shock after gun exposure or sudden loud noise. Spinning and vertigo are common shock/overhwhelm responses too. Please find a craniosacral therapist near you and go once or twice a week for a few weeks. Also please do the clench and relax technique on my app in level one techniques on the matrix: www.quietenapp.com I recommend doing the evening face massage every evening on level one techniques and the boatmast meditation on level 4 techniques a couple of times a day. If you would like personal support let me know what time zone you live in and we can set up an online session. Please contact me here: info@juliancowanhill.co.uk I hope this helps. Don't panic. This will back off. Wishing you well, Julian
My tinnitus began in April 2023 after bad cold.. Horrible first month but after accept and commit therapy which is part of CBT, it began to get better until I hardly notice it now as the end of July... I get setbacks sometimes specially when tired but I use the same technique again and the setbacks are becoming shorter and shorter.....After all tinnitus is nothing but benign bodily sensations. Brain has become too sensitive to filter out the noise... It gets better... Trust me
I have had the tinnitus since Christmas 2021. The 1st 6 months it wasn't too loud or particularly bothersome and I hoped it would go away but it didn't. I had long covid for the previous 8 months and couldn't work out what was wring with me so kept on trying to work it out so I guess that tipped my nervous system over the edge? I took the plunge and went to the drs, he said it could be the earwax so I spent the next 6months washing out my ears. The tinnitus was still there so after Christmas 2022 I went to the Drs again. "There is no cure for tinnitus, but you need to get it sorted out" was the result, which of course sent me down the rabbit hole :( Needless to say the tinnitus got a whole lot worse and bothersome. Another trip to the drs and he said he would refer me to ENT, still waiting and I don't even know if I am in the queue? Anyway I developed noise sensitivity to sharp sounds in the kitchen etc which made things worse. The last few weeks I decided that I would take control of my problems and am now working on calming my nervous system as Julian and others suggest. I have activily started avoiding social media, the news and any youtube that promotes conspiracy theories on food, governments, covid WEF etc. Now I try and concentrate my thoughts and ears on my surroundings and not use the radio or youtube as a distraction. I am seeing the 1st tentative results and sometimes I realise that I don't hear the tinnitus at all, that gives me hope. I am also in the last few days trying a "brain dump" where I am writing down my thoughts on a sheet of paper to try and organise my thoughts in a more rational way. Will try some of Julians relaxation techniques over the next few months, like he said its remembering do do them. I get a lot of enjoyment sitting on my allotment observing the sounds around me so will use this as more therapy as I grow my food. Thanks both for guiding us all on our tinnitus journeys.
I’ve just about finished reading the Long Tide to Silence (ebook form from Amazon) and I swear i started noticing the tinnitus reducing in a sustained way for the first time while I was reading! I think just knowing it’s possible has done something to me! Thanks Julian, you’re a dude! I will follow your advice, which is a lot better than the Audiologists shrug. Is it true that having childhood trauma makes you a bit more likely to develop tinnitus later on in life (think I saw a study concluding that)?
I'm really glad to hear "the Long Tide to Silence" helped you. Tinnitus From Tyrant to Friend is the best book to read to help tinnitus back off. Yes it is true. If you are traumatised from childhood this could make you more sensitive and more of a people pleasure trying make sure you don't anger others etc. This can lead to hypersensitivity in your hearing as you are probably listening out for danger. When you come out of the fight or flight response then your radar ears revert back to settled ears that can switch off an ignore sound again. You can find out more on my app here www.quietenapp.com Hope this helps, best wishes Julian
@@JulianCowanHillThanks Julian, yeah ‘people pleaser’ describes me exactly. I also found ‘From Tyrant to Friend’ very helpful. I’m going to download the Quieten App today - thanks again for all that you do!
Thank you Julian for all you do for the Tinnitus community.. now the question is, did you experience Anhedonia as a result to Tinnitus in your early T days?, If you did, did you overcome it eventually and find your emotions and interest once again??
Totally. When I was told by the ENT that there was no cure and that I was going to have to learn to live with it I went into a very dark depression. It was the worst few months of my life. I had no energy, no motivation and certainly nothing that gave me any sense of comfort or pleasure. I remember people in my family laughing at me for being tired all the time. I felt my days were over. Swimming was the first thing that helped. Then craniosacral therapy frankly saved my life. It brought me back from the depths of dreadful depression and unbearable symptoms. I wrote a book about this called "The Long Tide to Silence" (on Amazon) which describes my quest for peace and how I got there, going to hell and back. These days I am a completely different person. Calm, relaxed, positive and in touch with a palpable sense of peace. The boatmast meditation on my app www.quietenapp.com on level four techniques has been one of the most useful things I have learnt. From the midline you can sense stillness in the room. This is a real thing that is available to experience. This is very helpful for tinnitus people once things have become more manageable. Hope this helps. Wishing you a steady recovery, Julian
@@JulianCowanHill Fantastic. indeed ur remark has set the ember I will rise with, & for the first time I really intend to commit to do the work.. 8 months in and Having gone past my active s.ideations, now hanging in this limbo of anhedonia, & inverted consciousness where I find my previous active self & emotions in my dream state, & my anhedonic self in this reality, I find myself hanging in the hopelessness and passive s.ideation but your testimony, assurance and poise has set me on a new mindset.. Thank you for responding and really caring about the well being of the Tinnitus community, I now see T as an opportunity to enforce my mental, physical, emotional & spiritual well being. FYI, I will be very active on your comment sessions and any other means of contacting you so please tolerate my consistence sir🙏
I live in Greece.I have been listening to the soren 24/7 for two weeks now.3 days ago I had the wax removed professionally,I hadn't done this for a decade because my hearing has always been really good and I would NEVER have a q-tip or anything else in there to remove it.Only water while showering or a long nail while showering.I have an appointment in 2 days for an audiogram.I have also been a vegetarian for 13 years now and I am seriously thinking of turning to a carnivore diet.I have already quit all processed food and coffee cold turkey. Thank God I don't drink alcohol and I have never smoked. Shoul I start having red meat and chicken again? What do you think?
Eating a healthy diet helps overall yes, but the most important thing is for your sound sensitivity to come down. When your nervous system switches off the fight or flight response your ears will stop listening out for danger and the heightened sound sensitivity will normalise. I recommend finding body-based practices and therapies that help shift your focus away from your ears and help bring down the adrenaline levels in your system. This helps a lot. You can download my app www.quietenapp.com and watch the videos in the "First Things First" section and practice the techniques there. Hopefully this will help you develop a positive mindset and understanding of how this symptom works. You can also come along to our bi-weekly Q&A sessions where you can bring questions and any worries you have. I hope this helps. If you need one-to-one sessions please contact me on info@juliancowanhill.co.uk. Wishing you a steady recovery, Julian
Hey julian could u state to these tinnitus people that quitting sugar is one thing that can really heal tinnitus..i was in a dark place and was suicidal for months im in my 4th year since i got tinnitus and im living my best life..
Really wonderful and informative podcast! Julian, have you had the same success with clients that have Pulsatile Tinnitus? I am hopeful craniosacral will help for this too. Many thanks!
Yes. Although you are hearing the cardiac pulse, the reason you are hearing this is because your hearing sensitivity is up. This is often because there is a fight or flight activation or stress and anxiety causing your system to become more heightened. So the safer and more settled you feel, the more the sound sensitivity comes down and the more your auditory system stops tracking boring background information that is not important. So yes craniosacral therapy can help this too. Wishing you well, Julian Cowan Hill
@JulianCowanHill thank you so much for your reply! Just hearing that gives me hope. I'm looking forward to trying it! May the Lord continue to bless you.
Mr.Hill first of all thanks for the informative videos they motivated me so much. I was planning to ask this question on Q and A at quieten app on friday but because I’m anxious I couldn’t wait. I have had mild tinnitus for years and it was not bothering me and affecting my life but 3 weeks ago when I was brushing my theet I sneezed and one of my ear plugged so I stressed out and my tinnitus got loud and I freaked out more. I went to ent doctor and everything seems fine. Nowadays I can manage my tinnitus better than a week ago but something wories me. My left ear adding high pitched noise when I hear sound like laptop fan, water machine, air conditioner motor. My question is, Is it becauese of my tinnitus? Did you have patients like my situation, should I be concerned? I also realised when I lay down a wavy metalic sound occurs at that ear
Yes I have come across this a few times. Sneezing can put a lot of pressure on the hearing system. Sometimes its best to let the sneeze come out freely and not worry too much about making a noise. Other times we can muffle it so it doesn't have much force... Can you find a craniosacral therapist to help release any tension in your face, jaw, ear system? To state the obvious: please do not worry about this. Just do the evening face massage a few times every day on level one techniques on my app www.quietenapp.com with plenty of yawning. Things should revert to how they were before, or if you are having cranial work and are practicing self-soothing techniques then they should gradually get better. Hope this helps, best wishes Julian
The central nervous system ramping up your sensitivity is the cause. Please download my app www.quietenapp.com and watch the "First things first" videos. Then click on the Matrix and click on the red banner and work your way through the introductory videos there. You will gain a good overview of how this condition works. On each level there are techniques which I encourage you to try out. Find the ones that work best for you and develop a toolbox of coping strategies. I recommend doing the evening face massage (level one techniques) and the boatmast meditation (level four techniques) every day. The app is free for a month and then costs roughly £10 for a month, or £70 for a year which includes bi-weekly check-in sessions with me on-line live. So for a whole year you get on-line support, useful information and practical techniques for less than the price of one therapy session. Mindset is everything. Focusing the attention is essential. Practice helps enormously. Understanding how this condition works turns it from a terrifying monster into a temporary healthometre and feedback loop. You can get better too. I hope you find this information helpful and wishing you a steady recovery. Best wishes Julian
Julian you are amazing Wonderfu person I’m so happy to know there is a such special inteligente kind person, I’m so happy to fine you. Julian you give houpe to me i did everything you sugest to do on your videos today I’m so much better I’m filling much happy, Julian you are so important to us I love 💕 you so much 😘🇧🇷
Dear Raquel, I am so glad to hear you are feeling much better and happier. Wishing you a steady recovery back to quiet. Please send my love to that amazing country Brazil form me! Tenho saudade! Julian x
While you are waiting for the silence you crave, please do all you can to act as if the noise does not bother you. I know how difficult it is (if you read my other posts on here you will see how bad I felt) but every time you react to the tinnitus in a negative way, you are validating the brain's fear and it will keep it in your awareness because it is trying to protect you so keeps you aware of the sound. I struggled for years and was desperately looking for a cure but when I put the same amount of energy into living with it as I did in trying to cure it, I started to improve. If you read the success stories on somewhere like tapatalk tinnitus, you will see that most of the people who are 100% fine with it, still hear it and they consider they have been cured. I wish you all the best.
Listen to what this man says. He’s absolutely right. I’ve had tinnitus for 12 years. I’ve recently had a massive spike and relapse which sent me into a massive depression and anxiety state. I have it in my left ear. I had it habituated for about 11 years. It completely shocked me when it came back as strong as it did. You have to accept it and realize that it’s a part of you. Unfortunately it is very hard to do but that’s the way to get better. You have to learn how to live within it instead of fighting it every second. Fighting it will only make it worse. Your mind will get bored with it eventually and move on. Trust me, it will happen and you will get through it. Just have faith and don’t give up. You are not alone. What has helped me is my belief in Jesus and the support of my family. God bless everyone and I hope and pray for everyone’s wellbeing.
Jesus Christus mein Erlöser lebt ❤
I have had tinnitus for over 25 years and about 13 or so years ago I went to see Julian in London. I had about 4 sessions with him and he was lovely to talk to, was very kind, calm and understanding and really gave me hope that I could get rid of the tinnitus completely. I am so pleased that he managed to do so but I think that for the vast majority of people, they can learn over time to not be distressed or even bothered by the tinnitus but it is extremely rare for it to disappear altogether.
He gave me hope that mine could go completely and for years it was the hope that kept me going even though most of the time i was very anxious and felt my life was sometimes hardly bearable. I could still get very distressed and had suicidal thoughts on many occasions as I felt I was failing somehow because I couldn't do whatever it took to get rid of it. After reading every book written about tinnitus and seeing many tinnitus specialists I realized how extremely rare it is for people to have complete silence again because after all, tinnitus is just the normal safe sounds that our brain and body make but we have tuned into due to our extreme state of anxiety. I did TRT in London and after about 3 years I fully accepted that the tinnitus would not go because it was a normal sound that previously I did not hear but now was doing because of the fight or flight state I was in. For me, only once I had accepted it, did I start to improve. I had finally stopped trying to 'cure' it and was putting my energy into living with it, not living without it.
My tinnitus is as loud as ever but it so rarely bothers me and I know that it is my thoughts about the tinnitus that are responsible for how I feel; not the tinnitus itself. After speaking with many specialists I am aware that it is rare for it to go away but I am delighted for people who can say that has happened and I pray that it happens for many more but after a couple of decades of reading every book and trawling every forum, I do not want people to live in hope of a cure as I did, when they could be putting their energy into living well and happily with it. It can be done because my life is just as good now as it was before tinnitus.
Julian is a lovely man and great to work with and extremely knowledgeable but remember that living in hope of a cure, will keep you focused on it and can make you feel you have failed if you do not get rid of it but if you learn to live with it, the chances of it going are the same, but at least you are getting on with life and not waiting for a cure before you start living again. I wish you all well.
Love your post and agree totally with your comments! People that reach habituation are still hearing their tinnitus, it just is no longer impacting their lives.
@@patriciamangless4512 Thank you for your comments. I feel quite strongly about people being told there is a cure for it because it gives false hope and they are waiting for silence again before they feel they can be OK. I have seen two of the most experienced TRT specialists in the world and they both said that in all their many years of helping people, they knew of not a single case where the tinnitus actually went away apart from one gentleman who had a wisdom tooth problem which once removed the tinnitus disappeared but he had it for only a short time
. People need to understand that the fear and anxiety that they feel is totally caused by their thoughts about it and focusing on making it go is giving it importance it does not deserve. Habituation, in my opinion, is the only way to get your life back and if it's still there, but you hardly ever hear it and when you do it does not affect you emotionally in any way, then it's as good as gone. I sit and listen to my tinnitus now and again because I was told by both TRT people that those who struggle the most are the ones who have silence for a while which makes them feel very elated but then when they hear it again they feel dreadful so it's good to remind yourself that although it is still there, you are fine with it.
Cada vez se incrementa el uso de dispositivos y ordenadores todas las señales u.ondas pordoquier cómo no va afectar nuestro sentido auditivo
You said it well.
Thank you.@@melodyebuskin5490
Trained my brain not to hear it as much and God helped me not be depressed. Can be a big deal at times.
In my darkest time i stumbled across your videos a couple years ago, its been a journey ups and downs went from 10-10 t everyday for a year to slowly calming my T down to next to nothing. Diet, exercise and lifestyle changes and stopping negative thought loops detaching my T from my feelings and understanding my emotions and working on myself letting go and feeling feelings again. Used to never be able to go to sleep without my earbuds to consistently sleeping with no masking audio, walking in silent rooms and hearing nothing! Dont believe the negative and bad information out there on the internet this guy saved my life!
Really glad to hear it. Good for you! Thanks for sharing your positive story here. It really helps others. It starts like a positive ripple that floats out into the tinnitus people community and inspires those to find a path that leads them back to well-being and quiet. Wishing you well, Julian
@smoothiemachine6330 what type of diet changes did you make?
@@dj112397 So i try to stay away from high inflammatory foods like dairy cheeses, sugary stuff also does me in specially chocolate or very high sodium foods. id try making a journal of the foods you eat and over a period of time and see what your happy medium is and what works and what doesnt, i also fast the first 5 hours im awake. Im sure its a lil different for everyone but i wish you the best of luck!!
I went on a candida diet for two years!
I gave myself tinnitus by thinking about it and looking for it in silence during a time of extreme anxiety.There is more to this than hearing loss.
Totally agree with you. You could listen to the lecture of fight or flight freeze, or what turns up the volume in the useful information section on my app to understand more: www.quietenapp.com . There is a lot of information on Quieten app that can help you understand how this condition works and how to get better. What we think about comes about! Wishing you well, Julian
how are you now?
It's great to have a blog from Julian . And you are saving lives.
Julian Cowan Hill is the Gandalf/Aslen figure we all need on this journey of recovery from this Tinnitus maze! Its a very bumpy path and we all get lost and get anxious where we will end? However we must all trust in master figures that will help guide us into our end destination of Narnia/Middle Earth! Thats the geek side of me needing to turn this anxious time into a new adventure! Cheers lads for the positive video. Be happy and de-stressing is the key to success.
Thankyou so much for giving me hope from this hell of tinnitus . I have just bought your book from Amazon . It can't come soon enough for me ! 🌿
Please download my app www.quietenapp.com
You can join our bi-weekly live Q&A sessions and find a lot of help and support there. It is free for the first month and then you can either select a monthly or yearly subscription. Yearly is £70 which is less than one therapy session or half of one if you live in the states! and you get support and regular check ins bi-weekly. Best wishes Julian
@@JulianCowanHill thankyou ever so much .
Tengo tinnitus muy muy fuerte en ambos oidos desde hace 4 meses.
Estoy haciendo yoga y meditación todos los días desde hace 3 semanas. Tambien voy a psicólogo y Osteopatía.Ya salí del nivel 10. Hoy me encuentro en un nivel 6. Voy a tener la constancia y seguir por este camino!
Enhorabuena. Sigue adelante. Poco a poco lograrás a conseguir un buen final. Saludos Julian
I came across your channel when Robbie Shore's testimony suddenly popped up. I got tinnitus when I went to an indoor gun range for thee first time 2 years ago. I didn't not have proper ear protection and wanted to buy a specific kind. The gun range had another brand I didn't want. I asked a guy that worked there his opinion and he said these little foam plugs would be fine. I noticed some guys that worked there had small ones on also, so I thought, sure, it will be fine. I have used them before and I know I used them correctly. Well, they didn't work for me. They did for my wife. Of course, I did take my left one out for a second to hear my wife say something - bad idea. Anyway, wish I would have paid the $30 for the good pair, right now I would pay $30,000 to get my hearing back to normal. I was dizzy and sat alone in my basement for 2-3 weeks and would not leave and had vertigo and thought I could not live anymore if it didn't improve. It slowly....very slowly did. I have lived with it for 2 years and barely thought about the ringing anymore till I got in my wife's car recently and she forgot she made a mistake and had the radio literally on FULL blast. Was like a gunshot in the car - back to ground zero almost to start over with bad ringing. I have learned to just not think about it and that helps a lot. I just move on and live. Quite honestly, what I find more annoying that the ringing sometimes is that I also have that very high sensitivity to certain sounds. Being around a barking dog, putting away plates etc, it hurts my ear - mainly my left one. It's hard to believe the ringing will go away permanently. I feel like it can be masked and maybe the kind of ringing from tinnitus that happens from other causes but a gunshot, has anyone ever recovered from that? When they tested my ears, I had no hearing loss. They said I have better hearing than anyone she tested in the past couple months and that it would just go away. It never fully went away but it is true that I can still hear everything, even much better than my wife. I just have the blasted ringing and they hypersensitivity in my left ear at the same time. Sorry to ramble, but has anyone ever improved tinnitus from a gunshot? And what about that hyper sensitivity - I think it's called hyperacusis. Can that be improved also and is a gunshot tinnitus issue treatable with your programs?
So sorry to hear about your noise trauma.
Yes you can get better from this experience. I have worked with many people suffering from acoustic shock after gun exposure or sudden loud noise. Spinning and vertigo are common shock/overhwhelm responses too. Please find a craniosacral therapist near you and go once or twice a week for a few weeks. Also please do the clench and relax technique on my app in level one techniques on the matrix: www.quietenapp.com
I recommend doing the evening face massage every evening on level one techniques and the boatmast meditation on level 4 techniques a couple of times a day. If you would like personal support let me know what time zone you live in and we can set up an online session. Please contact me here: info@juliancowanhill.co.uk I hope this helps. Don't panic. This will back off. Wishing you well, Julian
Great to see a positive video on tinnitus.
My tinnitus began in April 2023 after bad cold.. Horrible first month but after accept and commit therapy which is part of CBT, it began to get better until I hardly notice it now as the end of July... I get setbacks sometimes specially when tired but I use the same technique again and the setbacks are becoming shorter and shorter.....After all tinnitus is nothing but benign bodily sensations. Brain has become too sensitive to filter out the noise... It gets better... Trust me
Who did you do CBT with?I'm with treble health for over a month now I just cant seem to shake this off. Any advice thanks
I have had the tinnitus since Christmas 2021. The 1st 6 months it wasn't too loud or particularly bothersome and I hoped it would go away but it didn't. I had long covid for the previous 8 months and couldn't work out what was wring with me so kept on trying to work it out so I guess that tipped my nervous system over the edge?
I took the plunge and went to the drs, he said it could be the earwax so I spent the next 6months washing out my ears. The tinnitus was still there so after Christmas 2022 I went to the Drs again. "There is no cure for tinnitus, but you need to get it sorted out" was the result, which of course sent me down the rabbit hole :(
Needless to say the tinnitus got a whole lot worse and bothersome. Another trip to the drs and he said he would refer me to ENT, still waiting and I don't even know if I am in the queue? Anyway I developed noise sensitivity to sharp sounds in the kitchen etc which made things worse.
The last few weeks I decided that I would take control of my problems and am now working on calming my nervous system as Julian and others suggest. I have activily started avoiding social media, the news and any youtube that promotes conspiracy theories on food, governments, covid WEF etc.
Now I try and concentrate my thoughts and ears on my surroundings and not use the radio or youtube as a distraction. I am seeing the 1st tentative results and sometimes I realise that I don't hear the tinnitus at all, that gives me hope. I am also in the last few days trying a "brain dump" where I am writing down my thoughts on a sheet of paper to try and organise my thoughts in a more rational way.
Will try some of Julians relaxation techniques over the next few months, like he said its remembering do do them. I get a lot of enjoyment sitting on my allotment observing the sounds around me so will use this as more therapy as I grow my food.
Thanks both for guiding us all on our tinnitus journeys.
I’ve just about finished reading the Long Tide to Silence (ebook form from Amazon) and I swear i started noticing the tinnitus reducing in a sustained way for the first time while I was reading! I think just knowing it’s possible has done something to me!
Thanks Julian, you’re a dude! I will follow your advice, which is a lot better than the Audiologists shrug.
Is it true that having childhood trauma makes you a bit more likely to develop tinnitus later on in life (think I saw a study concluding that)?
I'm really glad to hear "the Long Tide to Silence" helped you. Tinnitus From Tyrant to Friend is the best book to read to help tinnitus back off. Yes it is true. If you are traumatised from childhood this could make you more sensitive and more of a people pleasure trying make sure you don't anger others etc. This can lead to hypersensitivity in your hearing as you are probably listening out for danger. When you come out of the fight or flight response then your radar ears revert back to settled ears that can switch off an ignore sound again. You can find out more on my app here www.quietenapp.com
Hope this helps, best wishes Julian
@@JulianCowanHillThanks Julian, yeah ‘people pleaser’ describes me exactly. I also found ‘From Tyrant to Friend’ very helpful. I’m going to download the Quieten App today - thanks again for all that you do!
Thank you Julian for all you do for the Tinnitus community.. now the question is, did you experience Anhedonia as a result to Tinnitus in your early T days?, If you did, did you overcome it eventually and find your emotions and interest once again??
Totally. When I was told by the ENT that there was no cure and that I was going to have to learn to live with it I went into a very dark depression. It was the worst few months of my life. I had no energy, no motivation and certainly nothing that gave me any sense of comfort or pleasure. I remember people in my family laughing at me for being tired all the time. I felt my days were over. Swimming was the first thing that helped. Then craniosacral therapy frankly saved my life. It brought me back from the depths of dreadful depression and unbearable symptoms. I wrote a book about this called "The Long Tide to Silence" (on Amazon) which describes my quest for peace and how I got there, going to hell and back. These days I am a completely different person. Calm, relaxed, positive and in touch with a palpable sense of peace. The boatmast meditation on my app www.quietenapp.com on level four techniques has been one of the most useful things I have learnt. From the midline you can sense stillness in the room. This is a real thing that is available to experience. This is very helpful for tinnitus people once things have become more manageable. Hope this helps. Wishing you a steady recovery, Julian
@@JulianCowanHill Fantastic. indeed ur remark has set the ember I will rise with, & for the first time I really intend to commit to do the work..
8 months in and Having gone past my active s.ideations, now hanging in this limbo of anhedonia, & inverted consciousness where I find my previous active self & emotions in my dream state, & my anhedonic self in this reality, I find myself hanging in the hopelessness and passive s.ideation but your testimony, assurance and poise has set me on a new mindset..
Thank you for responding and really caring about the well being of the Tinnitus community, I now see T as an opportunity to enforce my mental, physical, emotional & spiritual well being.
FYI, I will be very active on your comment sessions and any other means of contacting you so please tolerate my consistence sir🙏
I live in Greece.I have been listening to the soren 24/7 for two weeks now.3 days ago I had the wax removed professionally,I hadn't done this for a decade because my hearing has always been really good and I would NEVER have a q-tip or anything else in there to remove it.Only water while showering or a long nail while showering.I have an appointment in 2 days for an audiogram.I have also been a vegetarian for 13 years now and I am seriously thinking of turning to a carnivore diet.I have already quit all processed food and coffee cold turkey. Thank God I don't drink alcohol and I have never smoked. Shoul I start having red meat and chicken again? What do you think?
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Eating a healthy diet helps overall yes, but the most important thing is for your sound sensitivity to come down. When your nervous system switches off the fight or flight response your ears will stop listening out for danger and the heightened sound sensitivity will normalise. I recommend finding body-based practices and therapies that help shift your focus away from your ears and help bring down the adrenaline levels in your system. This helps a lot. You can download my app www.quietenapp.com and watch the videos in the "First Things First" section and practice the techniques there. Hopefully this will help you develop a positive mindset and understanding of how this symptom works. You can also come along to our bi-weekly Q&A sessions where you can bring questions and any worries you have. I hope this helps. If you need one-to-one sessions please contact me on info@juliancowanhill.co.uk. Wishing you a steady recovery, Julian
Hey julian could u state to these tinnitus people that quitting sugar is one thing that can really heal tinnitus..i was in a dark place and was suicidal for months im in my 4th year since i got tinnitus and im living my best life..
So did yours go away after giving up sugar?
Really wonderful and informative podcast! Julian, have you had the same success with clients that have Pulsatile Tinnitus? I am hopeful craniosacral will help for this too. Many thanks!
Yes. Although you are hearing the cardiac pulse, the reason you are hearing this is because your hearing sensitivity is up. This is often because there is a fight or flight activation or stress and anxiety causing your system to become more heightened. So the safer and more settled you feel, the more the sound sensitivity comes down and the more your auditory system stops tracking boring background information that is not important. So yes craniosacral therapy can help this too. Wishing you well, Julian Cowan Hill
@JulianCowanHill thank you so much for your reply! Just hearing that gives me hope. I'm looking forward to trying it! May the Lord continue to bless you.
Mr.Hill first of all thanks for the informative videos they motivated me so much. I was planning to ask this question on Q and A at quieten app on friday but because I’m anxious I couldn’t wait. I have had mild tinnitus for years and it was not bothering me and affecting my life but 3 weeks ago when I was brushing my theet I sneezed and one of my ear plugged so I stressed out and my tinnitus got loud and I freaked out more. I went to ent doctor and everything seems fine. Nowadays I can manage my tinnitus better than a week ago but something wories me. My left ear adding high pitched noise when I hear sound like laptop fan, water machine, air conditioner motor. My question is, Is it becauese of my tinnitus? Did you have patients like my situation, should I be concerned? I also realised when I lay down a wavy metalic sound occurs at that ear
Yes I have come across this a few times. Sneezing can put a lot of pressure on the hearing system. Sometimes its best to let the sneeze come out freely and not worry too much about making a noise. Other times we can muffle it so it doesn't have much force... Can you find a craniosacral therapist to help release any tension in your face, jaw, ear system? To state the obvious: please do not worry about this. Just do the evening face massage a few times every day on level one techniques on my app www.quietenapp.com with plenty of yawning. Things should revert to how they were before, or if you are having cranial work and are practicing self-soothing techniques then they should gradually get better. Hope this helps, best wishes Julian
@@JulianCowanHill Thank you so much , I can't describe how much your videos helped me in this journey 😇🌻
How in the world do you calm somatic tinnitus? Chewing, yawning, or just moving your neck? No TMJ issues either so that's not the cause.
The central nervous system ramping up your sensitivity is the cause. Please download my app www.quietenapp.com and watch the "First things first" videos. Then click on the Matrix and click on the red banner and work your way through the introductory videos there. You will gain a good overview of how this condition works. On each level there are techniques which I encourage you to try out. Find the ones that work best for you and develop a toolbox of coping strategies. I recommend doing the evening face massage (level one techniques) and the boatmast meditation (level four techniques) every day. The app is free for a month and then costs roughly £10 for a month, or £70 for a year which includes bi-weekly check-in sessions with me on-line live. So for a whole year you get on-line support, useful information and practical techniques for less than the price of one therapy session. Mindset is everything. Focusing the attention is essential. Practice helps enormously. Understanding how this condition works turns it from a terrifying monster into a temporary healthometre and feedback loop. You can get better too. I hope you find this information helpful and wishing you a steady recovery. Best wishes Julian
Julian you are amazing Wonderfu person I’m so happy to know there is a such special inteligente kind person, I’m so happy to fine you. Julian you give houpe to me i did everything you sugest to do on your videos today I’m so much better I’m filling much happy, Julian you are so important to us I love 💕 you so much 😘🇧🇷
Dear Raquel, I am so glad to hear you are feeling much better and happier. Wishing you a steady recovery back to quiet. Please send my love to that amazing country Brazil form me! Tenho saudade! Julian x
From 13:55 I like that idea.
silence trying to get there
While you are waiting for the silence you crave, please do all you can to act as if the noise does not bother you. I know how difficult it is (if you read my other posts on here you will see how bad I felt) but every time you react to the tinnitus in a negative way, you are validating the brain's fear and it will keep it in your awareness because it is trying to protect you so keeps you aware of the sound. I struggled for years and was desperately looking for a cure but when I put the same amount of energy into living with it as I did in trying to cure it, I started to improve. If you read the success stories on somewhere like tapatalk tinnitus, you will see that most of the people who are 100% fine with it, still hear it and they consider they have been cured. I wish you all the best.