Hi. My name is Julian Cowan Hill and I'm going to introduce you to a book I've written on
tinnitus called, "Tinnitus, From Tyrant to Friend: How to Let Go of Ringing in your Ears."
This book is built on years of experience working with hundreds of clients as a psychotherapist
and craniosacral therapist. I used to have tinnitus and I had it for 16 years, and then
for 4 years I had really severe symptoms. And these days I don't have it at all. Through
the process of letting go of tinnitus and helping hundreds of people let go of their
own tinnitus, I have collected together all my findings, and all the techniques that I
share with people, and have condensed them into this book with the sole intention of
helping other with tinnitus, and helping you let go of your symptoms. You'll hear many
negative things about tinnitus. People say "Oh you can't let go of that. Oh you've got
it for life." Sometimes you can feel like "will it ever go?" and its very easy to really
stress out about it. Well this guide is designed to help you recognise the landmarks and progress
that you will make as you start to let go of these symptoms. So the first section of
this book is very much dedicated to explaining what tinnitus is, why we get it, and making
sure that understand that tinnitus is nothing more than temporary state that shows that
your nervous system is in a state of FIGHT OR FLIGHT or red-alert. When you are in this
highly activated state your hearing becomes so sensitive that you end up hearing the internal
noise as well as the external noise. That's all tinnitus is. Its hearing too much, you
are too swtiched on. And a way out of this is to help your whole system switch off and
let go. If you have got tinnitus you're going to be needing to learn how to LET GO massively.
And at the beginning you are going to need to GET SUPPORT either through physical, hands-on,
body-based therapy to help you relax much more than you are used to, or by unpacking
all your issues in your mind, going and seeing a psychotherapist and helping to lighten the
load so that your whole system can settle. So the first part of this book is very much
dedicated to making sure you understand this, because the more you understand tinnitus the
less threatening it becomes, and the more you can start to let go. I'm going to move
onto the main part of the book based on this chart. Here you can see lots of different
colours and they represent different levels of tinnitus. So at the bottom here you have
got STUCK, this red line, and this is where tinnitus feels like a tyrant, it has taken
you over, you feel hopeless, you feel like you're severely affected by this, you can't
get away from it, you feel like it will never go. I'm charting the various common ways of
thinking, how we feel in our mind, and what the big challenges are at each level, where
we need to work. At the STUCK stage you really need to get help, and help unburden and release
and open up our systems. As we improve, we start to really change our relationship with
tinnitus. So at level 3 here, I've called it the DOCTOR level, we may feel a bit resigned
to having tinnitus, but we start to realise that it is a little bit like a doctor. You
know, if we do the right thing, it backs off, if we do the wrong thing, it pipes up again
and starts irritating us. So we start to realise that we do have quite a lot of control over
tinnitus, depending on how we live our lives, how we eat, how we stress ourselves out, how
we relax, and eventually, at this level, we really start to make important changes in
our life, and we can move up to this big line here. Then level 4 where tinnitus really is
behaving like a TEACHER. So we really start learning from it. We let the tinnitus guide
us back to our health. By this stage we know that if we go to bed early or if we have another
craniosacral therapy session or we do some relaxation or some tai chi we know that it
will just pipe down again. It might take a day or two there may be a slight delayed response
but once we get over this line we really are becoming pretty much independent and we know
how to manage it ourselves. Many clients come to see me at this STUCK level and we quite
quickly get up over the line here to level 4, the green level. This is really the dividing
line. Once people are up here they are ok, they can kind of manage it by themselves.
They might not need help from a therapist. Getting them up to this level here may take
a few months, it may take three or four months of really learning to let go. So this book
charts all the way back up to the top where you are liberated from tinnitus, you no longer
have it, it is not in your awareness, and you really feel grateful towards it because
you have realised that it is you own in-built HEALTHOMETER and you have learnt from it have
probably gained a much clearer sense of self and more well-being than you had perhaps before
you had tinnitus. In my case I am truly grateful to my tinnitus because it has really taught
me masses about well-being and my own state of health. Finally at the end of each level
I give some very specific techniques that help you focus and relax and settle your system.
There are lots of different techniques that I have built up and developed over the years
and I find that clients that have craniosacral therapy or psychotherapy and clients that
put techniques into practice, so really centring focussing techniques do get better. I have
really good results with these people. If you are in therapy and you are off-loading
and releasing and you are regularly paying attention to yourself and helping your system
let go, your tinnitus will get better. It will back off. First you'll stop being bugged
by it so much, you will be able to focus and settle more which helps your nervous system
relax which means that the hypersensitivity calms down which means that you relax even
further and you get into this positive cycle of letting go. So really this book is very
much a practical guide which will help you out of tinnitus. If you go to my website you
will see the EBOOK page and there are lots of papers there that you can read and if you
want to buy this book you can pay for it on the ebook page, and then you will receive
the downloadable webpage, you just click and download the book in an easily printable format
that you can print out on your computer and you'll find the chart and you can take it
away and read it a few times and really think it will help. I wish you all the best and
if you are ever in London do get in touch and I can share these techniques with you
in more detail or give you a cranial session. I wish you all the best. It is JUST A TEMPORARY
STATE. If you look after yourself appropriately it will get better. All the best to you. www.cst.eu.com
I'm going to introduce you to a book I have written, "Tinnitus, From Tyrant to Friend."