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JoshHiram Registered User (1/20/04 3:40 am) Reply	AUM technique and tinnitus Can one properly perform the AUM technique despite suffering from tinnitus? All comments and advice welcome. Thank you.
SsSsSnake Registered User (1/20/04 6:47 am) Reply	Re: AUM technique and tinnitus I had a friend who said he heard the music all day then I realised he wore an earing aid
SerenityNow7 Registered User (1/22/04 7:31 pm) Reply	Re: AUM technique and tinnitus Hi Josh, I've tried it only once so far and was quite discouraged because I do have tinnitus and only in my right ear. I was able with great concentration to discern that I have three different levels of sounds in that ear....which are there all the time but I never really listened closely. I have no idea how I will ever manage to hear the AUM with all that racket already in my head. I will anxiously await answers in this thread! sn7
jyotirmoy Registered User (1/23/04 9:28 am) Reply	Re: AUM technique and tinnitus Tinnitus is a bother, and it sometimes begins in people on a spiritual path seemingly as a consequence of their meditation etc. Tinnitus can be stopped by concentrating on the throat chakra, also by just listening to the racket unjudgmentally, letting it be there and letting it go. Also give up caffeine. My first experience of the Sound was just after Kriya initiation. I sneaked into the college auditorium at night and stood in front of the curtain. I thought, this is real silence. And then I realized that there was a sound, white sound, froth on the sea etc. I immediately doubted. But it sure wasn't tinnitus. I continued to doubt, but I tuned into it now and again, then more and more. Now I hear it if I want to, even under outward sound. At this moment, with earphones listening to Prokoviev on web radio, it is there. Can still doubt whether there is anything supernatural about it. Does the brain just generate white sound as part of the sensory faculties? Yet even it is just brain phenomena, it still is beautiful, gives peace, is a symbol of the gentle omnipresence of God, who is there whether or not I pay attention, but God never forces me to notice.
SerenityNow7 Registered User (1/23/04 10:16 am) Reply	Re: AUM technique and tinnitus jyotirmoy, this is very interesting, thanks for sharing your experience! When you say concentrating on the throat chakra stops it, do you mean that it stops it temporarily or cures it? And caffeine....oh giving up that would be a hard one. I can try the non-judgemental listening. I must admit the time I tried it I was quite annoyed at the noise. That's wonderful that you can hear it whenever you want to now....the voluntary part is reassuring too. I could see it being distracting if you couldn't turn it off. How is it different from the tinnitus noise? Also interesting that it took kriya rather than the AUM meditation to lead for you to hear it. Hmmmmm. I had my hearing checked recently and they assumed I would have hearing loss because of the tinnitus. But actually my hearing was better than average! So go figure.
etzchaim Registered User (1/23/04 10:56 am) Reply	Re: AUM technique and tinnitus What is tinnitus?
chrisparis Registered User (1/23/04 11:14 am) Reply	Re: AUM technique and tinnitus Tinnutis is a constant ringing in the ears. I have it as well, but it never prevented me from using the Aum technique. You just have to reach beyond it. Hard to describe any better how to do that, but it is doable...
etzchaim Registered User (1/23/04 12:11 pm) Reply	Re: AUM technique and tinnitus Thanks. Is it in one ear or both ears, or does it alternate?
chrisparis Registered User (1/23/04 2:23 pm) Reply	Re: AUM technique and tinnitus It can be in only one or in both, either, whatever. I think it's usually both. I have it in both, but it's more noticeable in my left ear. I wish there was an emoticon that had a hand up to one ear in that "eh?" pose (or "ehasana" as it is called)
SerenityNow7 Registered User (1/23/04 2:35 pm) Reply	Re: AUM technique and tinnitus Here's a webmd.com tinnitus article my.webmd.com/content/Arti...genumber=1 For me it is always on the right side, very high pitched tones which separate into about three separate ones if I focus closely. I can only hear them if I'm in a very quiet place - had it since I was a teenager.

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