Actualization and tinnitus

[dalink]

When my thinking subsides, I begin to notice and experience the ringing in my ears which is psychologically laborious. So in a way it is a relief to have an over active mind because it takes away my attention from the tinnitus, but at the same time it moves me further away from actualization. So I'd appreciate any advice or insights how to overcome this unbearable obstacle and bear in mind.. the tinnitus I experience literally blocks out all other sounds when I put my full attention on it. It's unbearable...

[Dino D]

Check your neck and spine, your ear, your iron and ferritin level, your salt and coffee, maybe zinc

do you eat meat, are you undernourished (low calorie)...

 

It was a combination of low iron and sitting on laptop for me...

just do some exercise for the neck and spine, yoga can work, but do the hard stuff and stretch till the start of pain

lifting also helps...

 

after that, you can look into spiritual reasons for tinnitus...

[Forestluv]

@dalink I also have relatively intense tinnitus for about a year. A few things I’ve learned. . . At first, the ringing would drive my mind and body into “fight or flight”. I couldn’t make it stop and it would never stop. There was a lot of anxiety an panic. The first thing I did was work on that reaction. What helped most was EMDR therapy. It uncoupled the fight or flight response and changed my relationship with it. . . . Then it seems like I was in a similar place to what you describe. The ringing was annoying and distracting. When my mind got immersed into thinking and imagination, I didn’t notice it. Yet when I returned to Now, I then became aware of the ringing again, which sucked. For a while, it ruined things I used to enjoy. I now longer wanted to do meditation and yoga - I stopped doing it. It was sooo disappointing. I can’t explain how much I missed silence. And I still do. 

There has also been times I develop a new relationship with it. It has been challenging and takes work and effort because my natural tendency that it’s annoying and I want it to stop. A couple things I’ve been working on is to allow it to exist in the background an to expand my awareness to include all sensations in my environment. This is difficult because my mind either wants to focus on it or push it away. Yet there are periods of time, in which it is just another happening and awareness can go deep into the Beingness of Now and for insights to arise. I may have lost the ability to simply be in silence and I dearly miss that. However, I can honestly say I’ve reached levels of relaxation that go deep. At one point, I thought “I may not ever have silence, yet this may be an opportunity to reach new levels of relaxation”. I’ve returned to yoga and have reached states of relaxation and imagination deeper than before the tinnitus appeared.

Another thing I’ve been working on is to change my association and meaning. This too is difficult in that I am trying to trick my mind in recontextualization. During the periods of deep relaxation and presence, I try to associate the ringing with the relaxation and presence. There have been periods in which the ringing means absolute Now. In which the ringing is a super power that allows me to ground in Now. I’ve actually focused on the ringing in curiosity and grounding - it has allowed extended periods of thoughtless Beingness - longer stretches than before the ringing started. However, this is still fleeting. Later, I’m trying to have a conversation with someone and the ringing becomes annoying. 

You also mentioned that your mind doesn’t notice the ringing when it is immersed in thinking. I’ve also noticed that my doesn’t notice it when it is entertaining imagery (even without thoughts). This is a different type of awareness. It’s sorta like awareness is Now, yet not really. When the mind re-notices the ringing, it is like returning to Now. Almost like re-returning to the breath. In one way, this is a nice tool - yet I would also like to become aware of how the “not noticing” works. It really seems like it stopped and went away for a bit. So the holy grail for me is to attain a state in which the mind is fully Now, yet not noticing the ringing. To me, not noticing is the same as it going away. I’ve had some progress in this area, yet it is challenging. 

[Zanoni]

Recently had a discussion of a ringing in the ears in a other forum. Someone though it was tinnitus and like me and a other member had it only in the left ear. It was suspicious that most members had this phenomena happening. It is more like a short ringing and lasts for a short while and comes nowhere, for me atleast. But it feels pleasant and celestial. So we though it would be original Vibration of Aum. 

https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/04/10/whats-that-ringing-in-my-ears/

(channeled material, if you are openminded to it) 

However, I do not know the experience you are having and the severity. So I would stick to @Serotoninluv advice. 

[montecristo]

I suspect that ringing is a side effect of psychedelics.

[Zigzag Idiot]

@Zanoni What I hear is pleasant and has been with me nearly constant for about 3 years. Heard in both ears and definitely sounds like crickets on a summer night. It also varies in intensity at times.

Ive connected it possibly with what Gurdjieff called the Nirioonossian world sound.

https://gurdjieff.org.gr/ae/terms/en50/0496.htm

About a year after it started I ran across this site that connects it with a minor chakra called the Alta Major

http://humanityhealing.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/The-Cerebellum-and-the-Alta-Major.pdf

?‍♂️?‍♂️

 

[Spaceofawareness]

I have had tinnitus since as long as I can remember. As I was so young when I first noticed it, I developed a relationship of curiosity as I didn’t know what it was. As the years went on it never bothered me too much, just a slight annoyance sometimes. Now I go weeks or even months without focusing on it. It fades into the background, even during meditation, it has become just the sound of being, but only when I notice it.

[Zanoni]

8 hours ago, Zigzag Idiot said:

 

http://humanityhealing.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/The-Cerebellum-and-the-Alta-Major.pdf

 

Thank you for sharing that, read it all through

[Mulky]

Not sure if this helps, but I noticed my computer makes a constant sound at the same frequency, and I use my computer quite a bit. I am pretty sure this is why I have this frequency of sound constantly ringing in my ears,I find it sort of relaxing though.