Tinnitus Forum - Mytinnitus

I have had Tinnitus since almost 18 months now, but my research capabilities have brought Tinnitus to almost NIL. Please read the ANALYSIS few times before we can

discuss this further ....Hope this helps some of you - Thanks

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In short this is the explanation of TINNITUS solution:
One usually start with NON SPIRITUAL METHOD-1 as described in text below:
We are just replacing the focus from ear or tinnitus voice to acquired visualized image thus re- programming the brain to look for acquired image rather than ear or tinnitus in case of any distress.

For first 2-3 days one must practice FOCUSING INNER VISION on anything "FAR AWAY visualized object" 24/7. For example one can continue to park INNER vision on visualized image of glowing SUN, CROSS (Jesus), OCEAN (SEA), SKY, SUNLIGHT, glowing MOON, or anything that’s easy to focus on using visualization. I have used “SUN” as visualized object for this purpose. What is important here is that you always see this acquired image of ‘SUN’ every few seconds in back of your mind or through inner vision.

ATTENTION to TINNITUS is what keeps it alive. Every time tinnitus starts; the first reaction is to shift attention to ear. What we are going to do henceforth is that we will shift attention instead to visualized image of SUN. Since there exists ‘no tinnitus’ at this acquired image of SUN or CROSS (Jesus), you get NO Tinnitus voice or tinnitus voice diminishes quickly; as ‘switched attention’ away from ear to visualized image makes Tinnitus weak and it diminishes early. .
Always remember that Attention to Tinnitus is what keeps it alive so once attention is shifted to object away from ear, there exists no Tinnitus in long run. There exists nothing but silence at the visualized acquired image, this is dissolution of tinnitus at acquired image.

So next time Tinnitus starts; SIMPLY turn your attention to acquired visualized image of ‘SUN’; continue to focus attention to this image as long as Tinnitus is alive. Soon it will diminish. All we are doing here is that we are cultivating habit to focus on acquired image of glowing SUN or CROSS, rather than focusing on ear or tinnitus voice during any DISTRESS.
As you continue to PREVAIL focusing on VISUALIZED IMAGE during onset of Tinnitus or any distress situation, you would have re-programmed the brain to send tinnitus to background during every such focus on image.

NOTE:-This method is working just fine for me.

What had happened was that TINNITUS had TIED UP with EVERY DISTRESS signal of body, thus, every-time there was a distress (for example audio distress) the inner vision focus would shift to location of ear and hearing tinnitus. What we are doing now is that we reconnecting / re-programming the distress signal with acquired visualized image.  There exists nothing but silence at the visualized acquired image, this is dissolution of tinnitus or distress of any kind at acquired image.

With this method where we see acquired visualized image of 'glowing SUN in my case' always in back of mind every few seconds, and we see this image 24/7 every few seconds or every few minutes to train the mind, and when the distress of any kind appears, instead of focusing on location of ear and tinnitus voice the brain now is trained to look for acquired visualized image for every second the distress signal is ON, and there exists nothing but 'JUST SILENCE' at the visualized acquired image, this is dissolution of tinnitus at acquired image.

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+ I BELIEVE THIS IS THE FINAL ANALYSIS about TINNITUS ISSUE +

There are TWO visions, one is DIRECT vision and other is INNER vision. The INNER vision is that allows you to visualise and see things as you perceive.  For example, you can close your eyes and still keep focus on any part of your body. In other example, while you are watching TV (direct vision), your 'inner vision or back of mind' is trying to hear tinnitus voice and this is the root cause. Shift inner vision also to hear TV audio in this example to alleviate the misery. Also every few seconds you must continue to visualize acquired image in back of mind during all activities till the recovery from tinnitus completes.

Now in Tinnitus, what happens is that neuronal electrical activity inside ear gets mixed up with the other sounds. Somehow, we have programmed the brain to listen to neuronal activity along with other sounds, and that is the crux of all problem. We are not supposed to hear that neuronal electrical activity.

During regular activities while our DIRECT vision is parked at object of interaction, out INNER vision (back of mind) has a habit of getting PARKED at object of DISTRESS. We shall DISALLOW that, and make sure to park our inner vision away from Object of distress.
What happens here is, that although your DIRECT vision is on something, your INNER vision or back of mind gets PARKED ON TINNITUS Activity. The inner vision attention to tinnitus activity accumulates enough neuronal electrical activity aka tinnitus, that goes into loop forever.

THUS, INNER VISION PARKED ON ear neuronal activities is the issue here. The problem here is that more the sound is closer to ear, more the chance that attention to ear will trigger tinnitus whenever one tries to hear sound that is close or at ear (continuous AUDIO in case of headphones on ear and continuous touch of air in case of running FAN).
Thus, in order to stop oneself from accumulating tinnitus activity one must make sure to PARK DIRECT vision and INNER vision at SAME activity. ATTENTION TO ear neuronal activity is the cause of trigger to tinnitus build-up and this PARKING OF INNER VISION to hear this tinnitus sound shall be STOPPED to do away with the issue of TINNTIUS.

One must always make sure not to allow INNER vision to PARK on tinnitus activity going on inside ear. And this is done by shifting focus instead to acquired visualized image during all activities especially for the ENTIRE DURATION WHEN TINNITUS is active. For every second tinnitus is active you have to focus on visualized image thus re-programming the brain to focus on acquired image in case of any distress (tinnitus) instead of focusing on trying to hear tinnitus from ear. There exists nothing but silence at the visualized acquired image, this is dissolution of tinnitus at acquired image.

When experimenting on trying to move tinnitus away from ear to nearby ‘face area connected to middle ear’ ("area-T"), I kept my focus on "area-T", 24/7 ignoring the sound of tinnitus from ear and continued to focus on area-T during the entire duration of onset of Tinnitus. In next 2 days my ear was free from the sound, but tinnitus had moved to area-T. Please note that I was NOT trying to hear tinnitus at area-T, but was just focusing on area-T using inner vision during onset of tinnitus voice.

This experiment made me believe that by focusing instead of "area-T" to FAR AWAY visualized image of glowing SUN, or OCEAN, or SEA, or SKY, or sunlight, OR glowing MOON we can actually stop tinnitus sound to take birth. All one has to do was keep their INNER vision or back of mind parked at one of visualized object (24/7) whenever one was free from NO-AUDIO or talking activities (like when walking , when sleeping) or in the case one starts to hear tinnitus voice starting to overcome your surrounding voices.





DEALING WITH TINNTIUS using BUDDHA’s teachings:
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In BUDDHA's teachings on how to alleviate miseries, we have understood the following:-

ANY CLINGING to either [sensations or thoughts, (TINNITUS in this case)] is the ROOT OF BECOMING i.e. cause of birth of a misery. This ROOT is none other than desire [craving, attachment] for them, (craving or desire to listen TINNITUS voice in this case).

In short, one who grasps [CLINGS], is thereby bound by MARA the evil. Only those who realize that grasping (clinging to tinnitus voice in our case) is fearful will reach liberation through NOT clinging, and to reach the destruction of all clinging requires letting go even of the most sublime type of experience.
In fact, the total absence of clinging and grasping (to TINNITUS VOCIE in our case) is the final goal (NIBBANA) itself. Once the perception of CRAVING (desire to hear tinnitus voices in our case) behind the TINNITUS is understood the root is cut off and TINNITUS lies there open and naked without any effect, and thus disappears. WE NEED TO CUT OFF THIS "ROOT", of desire to hear tinnitus.

Thus, to continue with logical explanation, if there was a person and by our past experience we knew that any interaction with that person would cause us some sort of misery or unhappiness, and then if you find that person coming your way, what shall be the reaction of a noble person? A NOBLE PERSON would change the direction and look away from that person so as to NOT INTERACT with him and cause any unhappiness or misery later.
Here the NOBLE PERSON would do this without creating any hatred or ill feelings or aversion for that person. A NOBLE PERSON WOULD ""SIMPLY CHANGE THE PATH OR LOOK AWAY" from that person without causing any harm to self by creating hatred or thoughts of ill feeling or aversion towards that person.
IN THE SAME way, when one sees or hears TINNITUS VOICE, one shall SIMPLY keep their VISION on "outside objects/interactions" or "outside sounds" or acquired image. Every time TINNITUS starts to bother the person, they will 'SIMPLY' make sure to CHANGE PATH OF their INNER VISON to acquired visualized image or "outside objects" or "outside sounds", thus alleviating the misery. When doing so, they will not create any hatred or ill feelings or aversion towards the tinnitus sound. ONCE THE DESIRE TO HEAR TINNITUS VOICE is CUT OFF, tinnitus will become helpless and lie in background just like before.
WE HAVE SIMPLY FORGOTTEN THAT "OUTSIDE VOICES and outside interactions" are the PRIMARY ATTENTION and NOT THE TINNITUS VOICE as is our present case which is causing us the misery. The desire to hear tinnitus voice over all other outside voices and outside interactions is the ROOT CAUSE HERE. Once you cut of the ROOT (i.e. desire to hear tinnitus voice, you will be cured of this issue.

THERE IS NO NEED FOR MASKING devices or trying to CHALLENGE or suppress THE TINNITUS VOICE. YOU SHALL SIMPLY GIVE ATTENTION to OUTSIDE INTERACTIONS/objects and outside voices and the tinnitus voice will automatically go back in background. Learn to keep BOTH your Direct vision and INNER vision on outside objects and outside interactions. Tinnitus will play its game to rope you back in different ways, to make you give it primary attention, but if you have learnt to keep your INNER VISION and DIRECT VISION on acquired visualized image or outside objects of interactions and continue to show disinterest in tinnitus voice, you would have killed it in due course of time.

**NOTE** There are TWO visions, one is DIRECT vision and other is INNER vision. The INNER vision is that allows you to visualise and see things as you perceive.  For example, you can close your eyes and still keep focus on any part of your body. In other example, while you are watching TV (direct vision), your 'inner vision' is trying to hear tinnitus voice and this is the root cause. Shift inner vision also to hear TV audio in this example.  For example, I continue to watch TV, and alongside I continue to see acquired visualize image every few seconds in back of mind ****

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The steps to recovery are as follows:
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0) For first 2-3 days one must practice FOCUSING INNER VISION on anything "FAR AWAY object" 24/7. For example one can continue to park INNER vision on visualized image of glowing SUN, CROSS (Jesus), OCEAN (SEA), SKY, SUNLIGHT, or anything that’s easy to focus on using visualization.

For example I continues to focus on visualized image of SUN or CROSS (Jesus), FAR AWAY all the time I was free (sitting, sleeping or when walking) and whenever tinnitus voice started to overcome surrounding voices I would look @visualized image of SUN till I prevailed. Continue to carry this visualized image of SUN 24/7 with you. Every few seconds you must look at this image during recovery, and in case tinnitus is active then you must focus on this image till the duration of tinnitus voice is active, eventually you must prevail on this image and make tinnitus feeble or weak or diminish altogether.

In other words if you are engrossed on something you will forget tinnitus and but when you come to senses or become aware of surroundings, in that case you must continue to focus on visualized image of SUN or CROSS every few seconds. There exists nothing but SILENCE at the acquired visualized image, this is dissolution of tinnitus at acquired image.

1) When WATCHING TV, make sure to focus your DIRECT VISION and INNER VISION on sound that is coming from the LOCATION of TV. During this time tinnitus activity may start but you must make sure to NOT ALLOW INNER vision to park on ear activity. You must make all efforts to make sure that “BOTH” your’ DIRECT and INNER VISION, are focused on sound coming from TV. Also every few seconds you must continue to visualize acquired image in back of mind during all activities including during watching of TV, till the recovery from tinnitus completes.

IN case of multiple sounds (for example sound of overhead fan along with TV audio) you may decide which 'ONE' sound you want to PARK at, both your direct and inner vision (TV sound in this case).
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If I ask you to ignore the Tinnitus sound then that will be a wrong statement as it reeks of some kind of aversion towards voices, instead I ask you to focus on ‘’outside sounds’’ (TV, people, audio of any kind) so much so that automatically you forget the tinnitus voices. You must try to prevail on ‘’ outside sounds’’ or visualized far-away objects, by one pointed concentration or focus on ‘’ outside sounds or far-away objects’’, and in case there is no ‘outside sounds’ then you must meditate or focus on SURROUNDING SILENCE and PREVAIL so much that you only hear silence. The other option is to focus on far-away object like SUN, CROSS, OCEAN, SKY, SEA, etc. till tinnitus has subdued or taken a back seat. I normally start to concentrate on visualized far-away image of ‘glowing SUN’, in case I see tinnitus starting to take dominance when surrounded by no-activity like TV or music and also there is no silence around. There exists nothing but silence at the visualized acquired image, this is dissolution of tinnitus at acquired image.

The trick here is to BE AWARE that every time you hear tinnitus voice it clearly means that your INNER vision is trying to focus on tinnitus voice and make that as primary voice instead of surrounding sounds or surrounding silence. As soon as you hear tinnitus voice you must immediately take action to put focus back on acquired image or surrounding outside voices (pick any one voice to focus) or put focus on surrounding silence or far-away object in case there is no voice.

Also in the case when one is sleeping on affected ear on a pillow where tinnitus voice is so much audible due to nearness of ear due to sleeping position, in that case you can either focus on FAR AWAY object like visualized image of SUN, CROSS or Vast Ocean, or SKY, or MOON etc. or may try to meditate or put one pointed focus on surrounding silence till you prevail. There exists nothing but silence at the visualized acquired image, this is dissolution of tinnitus at acquired image.

When I say you must “PREVAIL”, that means concentrate on outside voice or silence or far away object till you do not hear tinnitus anymore or you are sure that outside objects are now given more preference by INNER vision and tinnitus is just a feeble helpless voice going on in behind.


2) When doing NO activity (related to talking or listening ), make sure that INNER vision is parked at one of acquired visualized object (24/7) whenever one was free from NO AUDIO or talking activities (like when walking , when sleeping)

3) What has happened in case of tinnitus is that we have been programmed to give tinnitus voice as primary attention over other voices. This habit has to be reversed by giving more attention to acquired image and surrounding voices.

4) This also means that one shall NEVER EVER hear any audio inside of ear but strive to hear all sounds away from the ear. HEADPHONES shall be avoided in initial periods of recovery (except of talks, not music listening) because they will bring attention back to ear and trigger TINNITUS to start again. Later one can practice hearing sound inside of head and not from ear to avoid tinnitus coming back. At present headphones or earphones shall be avoided till complete recovery from tinnitus.


IN SUMMARY; what we are doing here is that:--
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0) during regular activities while our DIRECT vision is parked at object of interaction, out INNER vision has a habit of getting PARKED at object of DISTRESS. We shall DISALLOW that and make sure to park INNER vision away from Object of distress.

1) KEEP INNER VISION parked away from ear to anywhere else. Mostly you will keep your both vision (direct and inner) at one object of interaction and during no interaction your focus will be on visualized image of FAR AWAY object like SUN, CROSS, OCEAN, and MOON etc.

Continue to carry this visualized image of SUN 24/7 with you. Every few seconds you must look at this acquired visualized image during recovery, and in case tinnitus is active then you must focus on this image till the duration of tinnitus voice is active, eventually you must prevail on this image and make tinnitus feeble or weak or diminish altogether.
In other words if you are engrossed on something you will forget tinnitus and but when you come to senses or become aware of surroundings, in that case you must continue to focus on visualized image of SUN every few seconds. There exists nothing but silence at the visualized acquired image, this is dissolution of tinnitus at acquired image.

2) In case of NO activity (sleep or doing nothing), keep inner vision focused FAR AWAY visualized object like SUN or CROSS, 'Ocean', SKY, MOON.
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If tinnitus starts to bother you that means inner vision has parked strongly on Tinnitus; in that case; close your eyes and use your inner vision to Prevail on acquired visualized object or direct vision sound (TV or other audio) or far off visualized image of SUN, or ocean or sky.
Simply speaking train your inner vision to prevail upon acquired visualized object or outside sounds or No Sound by focusing on image of SUN, sea or sky. This you can do by closing your eyes and interact with acquired object other than Tinnitus till your inner vision have prevailed on outside object (either sound or visualized far away image)
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What has happened in case of tinnitus is that we have been programmed to give tinnitus voice as primary attention over other voices. This habit has to be reversed by giving attention back to outside or surrounding voices.

++ REMEMBER, that for every second you turn your attention to Tinnitus, you ACCUMULATE tinnitus which will loop back to haunt you; hence it very important to NOT let your inner vision focus on Tinnitus even for a second. Prevail on keeping your focus on everything away from ear and towards acquired object during recovery. ++


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Let’s do these tests to begin with, if you are able to prevail even for a minute on object of concentration and do not hear Tinnitus then you have succeeded the test:
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1)    (FAR AWAY visualization test)
Close your eyes, and MEDITATE (concentrate on specific object) on VISUALIZED image of SUN, CROSS, vast ocean,  or SKY, or MOON, far away, FOCUS BOTH YOU DIRECT AND INNER VISION on this far away image, till you prevail, i.e. you only see for example ‘glowing SUN’ and all other voices (tinnitus or other voices) are subdued or gone. There exists nothing but silence at the visualized acquired image, this is dissolution of tinnitus at acquired image.
If tinnitus voice starts to bother you, that only means that your INNER VISION is not yet focused on object of interaction i.e. visualized far away image of ‘SUN’, in this case. This initially may require 5-10 minutes but as you progress you shall be able to quickly PREVAIL on far away image of ocean next time you do this just in few seconds or a minute

2) (MEDITATING (concentrating) on surrounding SILENCE test)
Similarly when hearing NO SOUND or there is COMPLETE SILENCE around, then go ahead, close your eyes and start meditating or concentrating on surrounding silence. Keep you focus on SILENCE, FOCUS BOTH YOU DIRECT AND INNER VISION on the silence, till you prevail, i.e. you only hear silence, and all other voices (tinnitus or other voices) are subdued or gone. There exists nothing but silence at the visualized acquired image, this is dissolution of tinnitus at acquired image.
If tinnitus voice starts to bother you, that only means that your INNER VISION is not yet focused on object of interaction i.e. SILENCE in this case.
This initially may require 5-10 minutes but as you progress you shall be able to quickly PREVAIL when meditating on silence, next time you do this just in few seconds or a minute

3) (AUDIO/VIDEO/Music sound test [do not use headphones ever])
When SOUND is very much AUDIBLE, then you FOCUS BOTH YOU DIRECT AND INNER VISION to this sound, no matter what even if tinnitus is active at that time. You will notice that your one pointed focus on SOUND that you are interacting with at that time will subdue all other voices. Also every few seconds you must continue to visualize acquired image in back of mind during all activities till the recovery from tinnitus completes, that means while watching TV, every few seconds you must keep focus on acquired image through back of mind. FOCUS BOTH YOU DIRECT AND INNER VISION on the SOUND from device along with acquired image, till you prevail, i.e. you only hear sound from device, and all other voices (tinnitus or other voices) are subdued or gone.


++ REMEMBER, that for every second you turn your attention to Tinnitus, you ACCUMULATE tinnitus which will loop back to haunt you; hence it very important to NOT let your inner vision focus on Tinnitus even for a second. Prevail on keeping your focus on everything away from ear and towards acquired object during recovery. ++
In other words if you are engrossed on something you will forget tinnitus and but when you come to senses or become aware of surroundings, in that case you must continue to focus on visualized image of SUN every few seconds.


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The acquired image of glowing SUN, CROSS (Jesus), MOON etc. must now be carried almost every second in back of your mind. More specifically as soon as Tinnitus starts you have to focus on this acquired image instead of focusing on Ear or Tinnitus voice. Not only that, you must cultivate the ability to focus in such a way that once you concentrate on acquired image of CROSS or SUN, within seconds or a minute you shall see only this image and do not hear or see anything else. There exists nothing but silence at the visualized acquired image, this is dissolution of tinnitus at acquired image.
Once you have learnt to prevail on this image, you must continue to see this image every few seconds in back of your mind. Once Tinnitus starts you shall continue to see this image till you have rid of Tinnitus voice or Tinnitus has become feeble enough to not bother you.
When watching TV, Sleeping, walking you shall always see this acquired image of CROSS or SUN every few seconds so much so that your brain is re-programmed to instead look for this acquired image during distress rather than focusing on hearing tinnitus or ear. All the sounds must be listened or heard away from the ear henceforth.
Also we will have to figure out how to hear voice coming from headphones, till then you must avoid headphone. Since sitting under running FAN triggers Tinnitus as continuous touch of AIR on ear causes attention to EAR and hence build-up of tinnitus, in that case one must focus on this acquired image when sitting under running FAN. Same principal may apply to music when heard from earphones. One has to focus on acquired image away from ear so that attention is on the image while listening to music, this way one can avoid accumulating tinnitus when using earphones. But I would ask you to be away from headphones for now.
** All other explanation given on tinnitus previously in other blogs can be ignored except breathe watch/observing touch of air on upper lip part. Also NON SPIRITUAL METHOD part SHALL BE USED as explained.  **

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OPTIONAL method to shift focus away to upper lip:
VIPASSANA SENSATION OBSERVATION MEDITATION AT UPPER LIP, METHOD-2:
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Contact point selected for observation = “exactly at upper lining of Upper Lip”)
Sit on floor or chair and close your eyes. Only one contact point [either of nose tip or exactly at upper lip] is selected for sensation watch here. Here one observes touch of AIR or Breathe as it GENTLY touches contact point of exactly at upper lip. One shall observe each touch of breathe on upper lip, WITHOUT MISSING EVEN A SINGLE TOUCH OF BREATHE when doing sensation watch meditation
Gentle TOUCH OF AIR at contact points is a SENSATION and one must observe this sensation every time air touches contact point of upper lip. This process will enable subtle sensations (vibrations) on contact point selected during meditation. Just observe touch of air that hits gently on contact point selected during this mediation.
Watch gentle touch of air or breathe on upper lip 24/7, while walking, sitting or in a sleeping positions several times, at least 20-30 minutes at stretch for each session. You must do at least 2-3 such session each day till recovery. It is a good idea to always switch to sensation watch at upper lip DURING EVERY FREE TIME ENTIRE DAY. In this case you ignore breathe, you only watch gentle touch of breathe as it happens on anywhere on upper lining of upper lip.




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NON SPIRITUAL METHOD-1:
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First line of defence against tinnitus is, using noise reduction (23DB noise reduction or more.)EARMUFFS minimum 20 minutes at a time, and cotton swab or just plain cotton rolled and placed inside ear canal 24/7 all days for few weeks. EARMUFFS help create VACUUM and NO electrical conduction can take place in VACUUM.

Also while walking, sitting or sleeping, practice seeing acquired visualized image of SUN every few seconds, thus making this as primary focus rather than Tinnitus. This has to be practiced extensively first few days. What this means is that for the duration of Tinnitus or otherwise you will "focus on image of SUN" rather than focus on Tinnitus. You are just replacing the FOCUS here.

Apart from preliminary precaution like using speaker mode to talk on cell-phone, avoiding cell-phone on affected ears, avoiding earphone or headphone, using cotton swabs rolled and inserted inside ear canal 24/7 for few months, avoiding proximity to all electrical sounds or devices (AC/FAN, COOLERS, remain away from them at least 5 feet away), following Buddha way of protocol shall bring one out of misery of tinnitus. Cover your Ear with bed sheet etc. when sleeping under running FAN as continuous touch of air on ear triggers tinnitus, or sleep in such a way that FAN air reaches only up to neck.

** It is also STRICTLY ADVISED to GO SILENCE, at least for 3-4 weeks to speed up healing in initial periods of recovery. This means one must TALK only when necessary, SPEAK on speaker mode of cell phone when attending calls ‘not for more than a minute or two’, shun listening to all TV, Radio. **
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