Tinnitus Hypnosis.

An article by Adrian Featherstone:

The use of Tinnitus Hypnosis and Tinnitus Hypnotherapy in the battle to help clear tinnitus symptoms has long been recognised as the most effective of the alternative treatments available to the tinnitus sufferer.

The positive effect of tinnitus hypnosis is particularly successful where stress is a factor in producing or exacerbating the symptoms of tinnitus. It has been known for decades that hypnotherapy is capable of reducing stress and anxiety, as well as helping people deal with all manner of phobias.

Tinnitus hypnosis deals with the effect that tinnitus has on the sufferer rather than the tinnitus itself. During the tinnitus hypnosis session the patient is drawn away from the inclination to focus on the sounds of tinnitus and moved towards developing a greater tolerance of them. The effect of this is to put the patient into a much more relaxed state of mind which in turn dilutes the effects of stress.

Stress is often the fuel driving a vicious spiral where tinnitus causes stress, that stress causing louder tinnitus; the louder tinnitus causes greater stress and the greater stress causing even louder tinnitus. Tinnitus hypnosis can begin to arrest this devastating spiral in very short order bringing some much needed calm to the situation.

An extremely valuable aspect of using tinnitus hypnosis is that it can be very effectively practiced at home with the aid of pre-recorded material. Studies of self hypnosis have demonstrated average improvement rates at between 60 and 75 per cent for tinnitus sufferers.

With such a high success rate there is a strong argument for buying a tinnitus reduction program using self hypnosis techniques and putting aside an hour or so each day to devote to listening to it. The effect will not only be a reduction in apparent tinnitus noise but potentially produce a general relaxation and stress detoxification.

One reason that tinnitus hypnosis has not become part of the mainstream treatment for the condition is the often negative perception of hypnotherapy. Hypnosis has been the subject of a number of television shows where people from an audience have been hypnotised and persuaded to make themselves look rather foolish. This has nothing to do with hypnotherapy and even less self hypnosis, but for most people that is the only experience of hypnosis they have come into contact with.

Tinnitus hypnosis is an approach to this debilitating condition that many doctors and therapists have used to great effect with people who have failed to respond to other treatments. Of all the alternative therapies available to minimise the effects of tinnitus, hypnotherapy offers sufferers the highest likelihood of success. 

More articles by Adrian Featherstone:

• Ringing in the Ear. The onset of a sound like a ringing in the ear can be caused by a sudden exposure to a loud sound, continuous exposure to noise or potentially to an underlying health issue.
• What Causes Ringing in the Ears.  What causes the ringing in the ears that we universally call tinnitus?
• Much Needed Tinnitus Relief.  Living a normal life with the sounds of tinnitus constantly ringing in your ears would seem an impossibility to most tinnitus sufferers.
• Tinnitus Cures That Might Work For You. With the realisation that the noises you are hearing in your ears or in your head are not going to go away comes the journey to either eliminate them or to learn to live with them.
• Alternative Tinnitus Treatment.  Most people who have found that they are living with the ringing in the ears which characterises the sounds of tinnitus will have been told by their medical practitioner that there is no known tinnitus cure.
• Subjective and Objective Tinnitus.  The sounds of tinnitus that will be so well known to those living with this condition are variously described as ringing in the ears, hissing,whistling or buzzing.
• Symptoms of Tinnitus.  Millions of people around the globe experience the symptoms of tinnitus. The ringing in the ears which characterises this complaint is especially common in the towns and cities of the industrialised western world.
• Symptoms For Tinnitus.  Ringing in the ear is one of the primary symptoms of tinnitus. Tinnitus being a condition which commonly affects about a fifth of the population aged 55 or over.
• What Causes Tinnitus.  There will be few people who have gone to a discotheque or to a live band concert who will not have experienced the sounds of tinnitus.
• Finding Your Own Tinnitus Relief.  Only those of us who have lived with the sounds of tinnitus singing away in our consciousness and who have suffered the constant ringing in the ears that goes with it truly understand the trauma tinnitus creates.
•   The Early Days of Your Tinnitus. Whether they realise it or not most people have heard the sounds of tinnitus. After exposure to any very loud noise we all have a ringing in the ear to some degree
• The Effects of Tinnitus. Tinnitus is widely described as a condition
  in which a person hears noises where no corresponding external noise exists.
• Beginning the Search for a Tinnitus Cure. If you were able to ask a large group of sufferers who were looking for a tinnitus cure to describe the arrival of a tinnitus sound in their lives, a great many of them would tell you a remarkably similar story.
• Do Any Tinnitus Remedies Actually work?  Anybody who has had the misfortune to find themselves living with tinnitus will be only too well aware of the frustration that this debilitating condition can cause the sufferer.
• In Puruit Of A Tinnitus Cure. Realising that the noise in your ears just isn’t going away can initiate a sense of panic and stress into even the most stoic of us. The diagnosis of tinnitus that so often follows this realisation only serves  to compound the problem still further. 
• Tinnitus Masking. Those of us that suffer with the intrusion of tinnitus sound in our ears will know that the condition is at its worst when there is no other external noise to dilute that sound. It is at these times that tinnitus masking can be extremely effective. 
• Turn Down Those Tinnitus Sounds. The volume of your Tinnitus Sounds will almost certainly relate closely to your state of mind. When we are feeling down and out of sorts, when we feel depressed and moody we become very inward looking. Of course for the tinnitus sufferer, waiting for them inside their head there are always those tinnitus sounds.
• Tinnitus Sound and Stress. Stress has long been recognised as being a major player in both the cause and subsequent intensity of tinnitus sound.