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Guest Hypnotist Astrid Harms on Tinnitus and Mind Body Issues · The Hypnotist

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Hi, it's Adam here, and on this very special episode of The
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Hypnotist, I'm going to be joined by a guest hypnotist.
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Welcome to the show, Astrid Harms.
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Hi, thanks for having me. Great to have you here now.
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I think we met at the Irish Hypnotherapy Convention last
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April. We're both going to be talking
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there next April. Tell us a little bit about what
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you're going to be talking about at that convention.
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Well, the title of my presentation is going to be
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Reframing Tinnitus for better Client Outcomes.
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Basically, how we can improve, well, a hypnotherapy practice
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by, well, by knowing a little bit more about the background of
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tinnitus, what it actually is. Because I've found that many
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hypnotherapists and also patients or clients with
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tinnitus don't even know what it precisely is.
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And there's a lot of misunderstandings out there and
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misconceptions from that stem from the past when nobody knew
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anything about how tinnitus comes.
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About. Fascinating stuff, but before we
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go into tinnitus, you know, area of specialization, most people
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that become hypnotherapists have some kind of light bulb moment
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that kind of lures them in or, or or kind of they discover
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something. Sometimes it's a book or a stage
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hypnosis show or something else. What was it for you that was the
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catalyst for you to explore hypnotherapy?
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Well, first of all, I had a period of high stress years ago
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and I as so many people, I got into cognitive behavioural
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therapy. I was sent to a therapist and
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that didn't do anything for me. It was like, you know, the
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serenity prayer, the serenity prayer meaning that can you
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change anything about this? No.
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Well then, you know, just accept it.
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Can you change something then do it.
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That that's basically the outcome of 12 sessions.
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I'm like, Nah and I was really sick as well.
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And that was from incredible amounts of stress that I went
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through. So I was losing my hair, I was
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really, really fat and all kinds of other health issues that I
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had. And so with what I discovered
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hypnosis really by accident, then went on a taster course of
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master class. And then it's like, Oh my God,
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this is, this is actually working.
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This is great. And so I just went on and went
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on. And since then I haven't stopped
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learning and getting more and more into hypnosis and partially
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into NLP as well. And I think that's the key thing
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that makes hypnotherapy different on the, the, the kind
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of modality or therapeutic spectrum.
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Because there are lots of, let's say, if we look at a, a long
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spectrum, on one side you've got things like counselling and kind
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of psychoanalysis where the whole premise is we're just
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going to talk about your problem and then hopefully something
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changes. And then at the very other end
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of that therapeutic spectrum, you've got the change modalities
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where the whole point is change. And I think a lot of people
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gravitate towards hypnotherapy and certain elements of the 3rd
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wave CBT approaches because they work and they can notice a
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difference in their life. Obviously you had health issues,
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you had a lot of stress. What?
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What was the evidence that things were working for you when
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you started using hypnotherapy? Well, the evidence was my hair
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grew back, I lost weight and I became a lot happier and just I
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just got a whole different outlook on life.
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I guess. I was a bit depressed as well.
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It was a horrible time. But well, I had tinnitus as
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well. So that's the connection there.
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And luckily that went away as well.
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And that was with the help of hypnotherapy.
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I also got a bit into spirituality and and meditation,
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all of those things. But yeah, it's hypnosis is
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really a way of not just talking about your past and your past
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problems. But that's what CBT does, you
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know, tell me about your problem and deepen the the memory and,
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you know, get it out and put it back again and until next week.
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But with hypnosis, you really do disconnect the emotion from the
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memory. So I can think about what
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happened back then and just think, yeah, it happened.
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It's made me into the person I am today, but it doesn't define
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really well 100% how I feel at the moment.
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So. It just, it gave me a lot of joy
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back in my life because I at the time I couldn't see much of A
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future and even had suicidal ideation, all that stuff.
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So, but now it's well, you know, that there's a lot more to
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discover, a lot of stuff to learn.
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And that's really what hypnosis has done for me.
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And, and also getting into the, the well, the, the company of
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fellow therapists and, and this, yeah, it's kind of connection
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that you build with other people who want to help people
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basically. Yeah, and it and it is, you
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know, we, we were at the UK hypnosis convention a few days
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ago and there is this unique collection of of people that
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have this kind of shared interest where it is their
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profession, it is their industry.
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But at the same time, it is an industry where you're having
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that kind of real impact on people's lives.
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It's quite a fulfilling element. And I think, you know, it's one
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of the nicest bunch of people I ever see is when you hang out
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with other hypnotherapists. And, and there are other
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industries where a convention like that has the very opposite
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energy, where it tends to be quite territorial.
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And it's a lot of posturing and kind of backbiting and, and
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those kind of things. So yeah, it's it's it's lovely
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to kind of see that that energy you talked about evidence of
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change within you was some of that kind of mind body, you
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know, kind of things that that kind of change.
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So your hair grew back, you lost weight, other things.
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Obviously tinnitus is that kind of mind body connection to a lot
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of people would kind of condense tinnitus down to this kind of
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ongoing ringing in the ears. So tell us a bit about, for
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people that aren't familiar with this phrase, tinnitus, what it
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actually is and what tends to cause him.
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Right. So tinnitus is a noise that's
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usually only audible in your, in your head to people that nobody
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else can hear it but you. There's no external sound that
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would cause it. There's, well, there's one sort
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of tinnitus, objective tinnitus that an ENT would be able to
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hear a doctor if they listen to you, to your ear, which is
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caused by blood flow or something similar.
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And tinnitus is really the sound.
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Some people think it's in the ear, what's caused by the ear.
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That's not true. It is made-up by the brain.
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And there are very many different ways of why it's
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made-up in the brain and how it's made-up in the brain.
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And even scientists don't know entirely what tinnitus actually
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is. So there are also 200 causes and
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comorbidities of tinnitus. So really what it is it has,
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it's a heterogeneous collection of, of causes or of, of well
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expressions really. So you can have it from hearing
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loss, which is very, very often the case.
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You can have it from physical blockages.
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So it might just be ear wax or eardrum being pierced, anything
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of that. And there's four main groups
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that you could put it into. That's auditory alterations
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inside the ear, then hearing loss inside the ear due to that,
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or sensory neural hearing loss, which means that you have the
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auditory nerves destroyed from something like auditory trauma,
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like loud noises, for example. Lots of veterans, war veterans,
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have tinnitus and have hearing loss at the same time.
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It can also happen through autotoxic drugs.
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That means there are many, many different medications that will
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cause tinnitus or can cause tinnitus, metabolic disorders,
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autoimmune diseases. This.
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And in that case, tinnitus is very often a symptom or occurs
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as a symptom. You've also got TMJ,
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temperament, mandibular joint disorder, that means problems
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with your jaw. You can get it from dental work,
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from root canals, all kinds of things that you know happen
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around the ears or also from blood related issues and of
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course, lots of psychological issues.
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So these these 4 components would be those auditory
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alterations then somatosensory around and inflammation is a big
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one at the moment. So these inflammatory disease,
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autoimmune diseases that can cause neuro inflammation as
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well. And that means the auditory
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pathway, the nerves in the brain, you know that the signal
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signals in the brain aren't transferred the way they should
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be, but they're changed. And the theories are that either
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your brain makes up for the frequency that are lost
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somewhere in this pathway or that there is some sort of, it
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works as a sort of alarm, fire alarm.
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So, and it might be, I mean, what I believe is that it might
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be either of those. So people with PTSD have a high
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prevalence of, of having tinnitus as well.
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Tinnitus also very much related to migraines and to hyperacusis,
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misophonia. That's all the the things, the
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auditory things that are connected to the nervous system
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and the auditory system is highly connected, or the limbic
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system has direct connection to the auditory system.
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So that means if you hear the tiger growling, you run off
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before you even notice that there is a tiger.
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Yeah, and it's one of the first. One of the few fears that people
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are actually born with is the fear of lab noises and the fear
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of fear of falling. Do you get, because in a lot of,
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let's say psychological issues get this weird paradox where the
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coping strategy actually amplifies the issue.
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And it gets worse. And, and sometimes if I've got
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like a little chip in my tooth, you know, I'm checking, it's
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still there. I keep checking with my tongue.
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And that makes me more aware of something.
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I would imagine with a lot of people with tinnitus, because
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they've identified that something isn't right, something
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isn't as it was, they end up focused more of their attention
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on the very thing which encourages them to hear it more.
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Do you get these kind of weird paradoxical loops with tinnitus?
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Yes, Oh yes, there is first of all the, the tinnitus itself and
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then the distress that the the noise causes because you can't
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escape it. It's, it's a very traumatic
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situation for many. And it becomes a feedback loop
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where the noise becomes louder because stress, of course,
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increases tinnitus and you're distressed, then you hear it
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louder then you know, and it goes up.
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And some people will avoid any kind of stress, any kind of
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social interaction because first of all, they can't hear people
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talking. That's going to increase their
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stress because they're like, you're talking to me, but I
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can't really hear you and I don't know what to say.
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So that increases the stress and they become, well, recluse
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recluses, you know, a bit like hermits.
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They don't go out anymore. And this is actually what
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happened to my, to my mom. She had a sudden hearing loss
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and then tinnitus and it must have been incredibly bad because
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she wasn't able to cope with any stress whatsoever.
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So really me and my, my sisters and brother, we were just kind
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of left alone. And you know, we couldn't,
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couldn't put any stress on her because she would either explode
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or, or just kind of halfway breakdown.
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I guess I, I was just too small as a kid back then to really
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grasp the whole situation. So I just realized that when I
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started getting into tinnitus that this, that her, well,
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tinnitus really has had a great impact on me.
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And she refuses to this day to, to get any help because she's
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tried everything. And that's very common with many
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people. I have tried everything already
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and I just just leave it be of, you know, I'm kind of used to
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it. So just just leave it.
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And that's a lot of people will say the same thing.
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You also have people who are habituated to it and they say,
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yeah, well, sometimes it bothers me, but there's nothing I can
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do, is there? Which nicely brings me to the
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negative suggestions of doctors that we very often have, which
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is you go to the doctor. Well, I have this noise in my
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ears. And then the doctor will say,
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yeah, well, you know, there's no cure.
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There's nothing we can do. You will have to live with it
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until the end of your life. And that being a doctor, that is
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a very strong suggestion. And this is usually the very
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first step that you have to deal with as a hypnotherapist or as
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any kind of therapist, telling people that there is no proof
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that you cannot get rid of it. I got rid of it.
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And about 20 to 30% of people do get rid of it as well, just just
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on its own. So there is no proof that it
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will stay, but many people take it on subconsciously as a
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suggestion, which is again why hypnotherapy is such a good way
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to to deal with it. You get that, that learned
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helplessness that can come when people have tried things, not
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got the results. Then the belief that anything's
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going to work decreases. Now imagine particularly with
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your mother there. She doesn't want to have this
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idea of false hope because just hoping could lead to
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disappointment or devastation. So better the devil you know
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than the devil you don't. And a lot of people get trapped
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in those kind of cycles. I've not worked with a lot of
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people with tinnitus, but I have worked with quite a few with
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burning mouth syndrome. And where I see the parallels
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with that is that you've got something which is not provable
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from a neurological perspective in the sense that neurologists,
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they can't figure out why it's happening, but they've got
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someone in front of them absolutely describing the
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symptoms exactly as they are. And again, you know, lots of the
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coping strategies try and deal with that, but you've got things
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like stress that can kind of amplify it and those kind of
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things. And what I found is, is a level
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of desperation almost. And it's kind of like just
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talking about, well, there might be a solution actually creates a
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great deal of hope. And even that hope can actually
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reduce symptoms in the short term before you find a long term
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solution. What do you find when you're
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working with people with tinnitus is, is that kind of
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early stage? Like clearly it's it's kind of
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eroding the belief that change isn't possible.
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But what else is is an important part of that journey?
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So when tinnitus starts, people are very often get anxious and
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it can lead to depression as well.
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Because I'm not getting out of this, as we said, the the
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traumatic part of it, but most people habituate to it after a
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while. And still people do notice it
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and do want to get rid of it. They will either with or without
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desperation, try any new thing that comes out, any pill which
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is, or ear drops. I mean, I've just explained to
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you how how tinnitus can come about.
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South ear drops, What are they going to do?
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But they might have a certain placebo effect or red light
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therapy or grounding. I mean, grounding might actually
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work when you do have inflammation.
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If you do have inflammation, that might actually work, same
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as red light therapy. So each of those things may work
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on a certain part, but the main part I think is stress and the
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emotional background that we have potentially.
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So the very first thing I usually do is reduce anxiety and
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stress and instill belief in people that it actually can
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change to what Also make use of the placebo effect because the
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perception of tinnitus and the OR the distress and the severity
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of tinnitus are not necessarily related.
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There are people with tinnitus at 10 who aren't bothered by it
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and others who have it at 2:00 and they are really bothered.
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So just changing that can increase quality of life by a
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lot. And studies on on hypnotherapy
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or hypnosis for tinnitus have always given a reduction in, in
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improvement, reduction in symptoms and improvement in
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quality of life for about 70% of participants.
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And I've had that in Group sessions that I've had.
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I've had about 70 to 80% of people who had a reduction of
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symptoms. And the next part that I usually
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do is give people a sense of control that they can control
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tinnitus. As soon as you have a session
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where something changes, even if it's during the session, which
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is quite common actually, you need to let them believe that
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there is a possible change that can be down regulated and that
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you can down regulate it. And another one is self hypnosis
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techniques because just having session after session is going
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to be way too expensive for most people.
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So, and there's talking about expensive, there's lots of
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experts out there who charge a fortune for tinnitus relief.
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And it might be, might be good, but you do have to believe in
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that this person can help you. And that might just be that the
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the thing that tips you over the edge in a positive way so that
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you'd actually do reduce it. But I also imagine, like when
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you've got very desperate people, there is going to be
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some charlatans out there that just want to exploit that
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desperation. How could someone listening
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discern between someone that actually is credible, knows
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their staff could help, and those people that are just being
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a bit more exploitative? Well, I would say those, those
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four big categories of issues that that or the auditory
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inflammatory somatosensory and the psychological stress.
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If you have any four of those, any, any issues in that sort of
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way, and it's usually more than one, it's usually two or more
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factors that come together. If that solution either covers
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all of those or you know, exactly, yes, it's because of my
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jaw, it's because of my dental work, or it's because I had
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trauma, then that solution can work.
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But ear drops from a Chinese factory sold on a big Internet
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retailer's website are not necessarily going to help if you
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have, you know, PTSD or anything else.
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Very fast. So kind of use some common sense
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and, and I imagine also like word of mouth is quite a good
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thing. Like if you know, because there
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are lots of kind of online groups and communities where
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people, you know, kind of share their experiences.
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So I imagine if people, you know, say they've worked with
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someone that that can be helpful.
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Online communities, OK, this is not going to sound very nice,
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but it's like with with chronic pain as well.
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And tinnitus is very often likened to chronic pain.
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So there are people who are who've come to terms with it,
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who want to calm other people and actually help them.
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But there are others who are really frustrated and will tell
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you, oh, what are you doing in this group?
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Nothing is going to help you. It's going to get worse and
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worse. So that in might increase any
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negative suggestions further. So if you go to find an online
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community, make sure that it's a supportive 1.
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And there are some even on Facebook and and other places
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that are highly moderated and that are really good and
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supportive, but others are just toxic.
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You know you. See.
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In your issue. That, that that's true because I
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remember knowing someone with fibromyalgia and they asked me
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to create a, a hypnosis session for fibromyalgia and they said
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I'm in all of these Facebook groups, I'll share.
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It got taken down within a day. So even though it was something
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created for someone with fibromyalgia designed to kind of
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not just even like the, the suggestions, but the behavioral
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things, because things like a lot of sugar can cause
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inflammation, which can amplify these kind of things.
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No, it was taken down in a day. So there is sometimes a lot of
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judgement. I had one experience with an
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online group which I found, you know, it could have been life
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changing for me because I went to a part with my kids.
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I got bitten by a tick and it had this kind of big red kind of
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rash. And I'd heard about Lyme
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disease. I took a picture of it, put it
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in a couple of different groups and, and they're like, yeah, now
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that's, that's an early warning sign of, of Lyme disease.
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You need to get this checked out.
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And I'll be like, yeah, I'll do it on Monday.
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And they're like, no, you need to go right now.
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You need to go to the doctor. You need to get this particular
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thing and had I not had, and I think it came from people that
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they didn't have that chance to kind of capture it early, but
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they were able to influence me, just meant that I went to the
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doctor. I, I got this kind of all these
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kind of antibiotics and, and stuff.
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And he said, Oh, you don't need all this stuff.
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And I remember saying to the doctor, it's kind of like, well,
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if this could prevent Lyme disease, like what's the
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consequence of getting Lyme diseases?
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Oh, it's very difficult to get rid of.
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So it's like the upside is that, well, I have some antibiotics I
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don't need is the worst case scenario.
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But the best case scenario is I don't get Lyme disease.
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And that could be a lifelong condition.
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And the doctor didn't look at it in this risk reward ratio.
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It was purely no, no, I don't think I can prescribe these.
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So he gave me a school, a small diagnosis and I found just like
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an online website, I had to pretend I had malaria to get
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sufficient, you know, kind of antibiotics, but it was enough.
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And I kind of took these for a few months, don't have Lyme
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disease, thankfully, but I'm not sure I would have got the
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outcome if I didn't find this kind of particular online group
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and and they were taking it more seriously than than I was.
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So you're right. It's a very double edged, sharp,
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double edged sword there. We're going to be doing a, a
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hypnosis experience that I guess relates to kind of mind body.
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But before we hear your hypnosis, if someone's curious
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to learn about you and they want to kind of work with you
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directly or learn more about you or even see you speak at the
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Irish Hypnotherapy Convention, where can they go For more
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information? Well for hypnotherapy conference
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to Irish hypnotherapy conference dot IE to get tickets.
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My website address is solessence.co.
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You'll also be able to reach it soon by astridharms.com because
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it's one of the worst names I could have ever thought of
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spelling wise. So astridharms.com or just on
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Facebook? Perfect.
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Well, send me those links. I'll make sure they're in the
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show notes. When, when this goes live and
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you're going to do a hypnosis kind of experience for us, give
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us a bit of an intro about what you're about to do and then I'll
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put my my commute and it will all be over to you.
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So just give us a bit of a heads up of what to expect.
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Right, so because stress is a part of almost every tinnitus
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sufferers experience, I would do something that reduces the
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stress and just takes the focus of the tinnitus and hopefully
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it'll help the odd person. I'd love some feedback on it
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wherever you're listening to the show.
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And yeah, just. Let's get into it.
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Perfect. Well, in which case we'll we'll
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have your e-mail address in the show notes as well.
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So if anyone has got any feedback they wanted to share
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with with you, then they can certainly do that.
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I could also do with reducing some stress levels just because
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it's good to have less stress and more stress.
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So I'm going to experience this alongside our audience here.
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So I'm going to put myself on mute and it's over to you.
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Wonderful. So when you're ready, just sit
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back. Oh, do not listen to this while
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driving or operating heavy machinery if you are listening
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right now in the car or anywhere else.
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So just go ahead and take a deep breath in, and as you breathe
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out, just close your eyes and just imagine.
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Yourself floating. Inside your own experience.
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By your own mind, just notice how your body feels inside that
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chair, inside the. Bed wherever you are, that's
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being supported. And safe wherever you are, your
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body. Will stay straight and keep you
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upright. So as you're breathing in and
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out, just. Slowly.
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Breathing in breathing in calm, peace and relaxation and.
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On the out breath. Breathing out any stress, any
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worry. And with every breath you take.
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You can find yourself going deeper and deeper, floating
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down, deeper and deeper. That's it.
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As you go down deeper into your own experience, just notice any
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sounds outside your head, inside your head, on my side, on your
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side, and just notice. How they tell you that?
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Everything is normal, everything's fine, just.
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Turn your attention inward. And as you float down all the
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way down to a. Place where you.
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Can make all positive lifestyle changes, all changes that you
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would like to make to date. Imagine how all negative
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feelings, images, thoughts, emotions and sensations that
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have been holding you back, that have been influencing you just
27:20
bloat up out of your head and just dissolve.
27:27
They're being pulled out of your head, pulled out of your body,
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out of your mind. Just imagine this force pulling
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out all negative feelings, images, thoughts, emotions,
27:45
sensations that have been holding you back, that have been
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influencing you for the past few days, weeks, months, all the way
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back and see we're a little child.
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And while that's happening, you just notice that any any sounds
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that. You were focusing.
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On become totally unimportant that you just focus.
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On your inside and. Just let go.
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You might see images, you might see memories that you've been
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holding on to and just let go those now.
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And just notice how your breath, your heartbeat start align just
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like you let go of those peeling insimilators, thoughts, emotion,
29:15
sensations. Just imagine you're cleaning out
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your house. There's so many things that you
29:25
have been holding on to boarding.
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Maybe I'd like you to just throw out anything that you don't need
29:40
anymore. Just let go of anything that's
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useless to you now. So as you're floating.
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This is going to keep happening. It's letting go.
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Just imagine yourself floating out of this house out of this.
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Place that you're just. Cleaning out the subconscious,
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cleaning out for you. Just float above it, Float high
30:23
above it, higher and higher. You might notice this feeling of
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being free, being totally harm and free and far down below you.
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This clearing out continues and will continue for the next few
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days, weeks and 1:00 as a subconscious mind that is always
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helping you, clearing out all of these issues for you.
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As you are floating, relaxing in calm, you might notice that this
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floating is calm, just increases inside your body, inside your
31:34
mind, floating, calm, racing with every moment, every breath,
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and just allow this calmness, peace to fill you up and become
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stronger and stronger. And along with that, you might
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be feeling warmth, you might be feeling lightness, joy,
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happiness you haven't felt in a long time.
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This feeling, any time you'd like to go back to this feeling
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of calm, maybe joy and happiness.
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OK, so you can just close your eyes.
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Take a deep breath. And just take yourself.
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Back. To this place that you're in
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right now, floating, calm, peaceful, happy.
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I don't know whether it's going to be in a few days, weeks,
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months or maybe immediately that this, these things in your head,
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thoughts, those noises, those sensations, you'd notice that
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you haven't thought about them or haven't paid any attention to
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them whatsoever. So at some point in the next few
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days, weeks, man, you'll. Just notice.
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That you haven't paid any attention to that at all
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whatsoever. As you're enjoying this floating
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calm, be enjoying. You can let those changes that
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you've made, the space that you've made by letting go of
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anything that didn't serve you, you didn't need any more, be
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filled up with that joy, peace, calm, happiness, and a calm and
34:50
peace and joy and happiness. Every time you sleep, every time
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you dream, you can notice that calm, peace, relaxation,
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reinforcing again and again, again so that every time you
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sleep, every time you dream, you can feel that calm, peace and
35:16
relaxation, all of that reinforcing, feeling you again
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and again and again. When all of those changes have
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been taken on and you know they've been taken on, just take
35:38
your time and come back out, open your eyes and feel amazing.
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Better than you have all day. Thank you so much for that.
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That was that was lovely. You're welcome.
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It's just like Adam doesn't have two to.
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So what do I say? Because I always focus on my
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client, so I was focusing on you really.
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So that was a bit of a challenge.
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Well, my imaginary tender test is completely gone, if that, if
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that gives you amazing. So we're going to be at the
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So check out that if you want to learn more about Astrid Astra.
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You're welcome. Thank you for having me.
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