Tomatis

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Tomatis is/was a great scientist with an interest in exploring a

different approach as to how to the ear actually functions. Some

people have taken his ideas and attempted to use themin various

electronic formats or recordings, associated with learning or

stimulating the loss of hearing. My fatherin law had quite a set of

higher pitched tapes and so on many years ago, from this idea, that

were supposed to restore hearing. Of course, this did not happen,

but perhaps it does for someone else.

Tomatis did not, however, create sound therapy for hyperacusis. The

Auditory Integration Therapy *AIT was created in the late 70s I think

to help children with autism and other spectral disorders, again, not

specifically for hyperacusis, but for brain development.

After all, we do stimulate our brains through our ears, and noses,

and mouth, and fingers, and eyes, etc etc. so stimulation can be

growth enhancing or neural encouraging, in a sense.

In SSS, I am continuing to explore, clinically, why some people are

delivered a double-whammy of sound and emotion with specific stimuli,

consider Pavlov's dogs, they associated bells with food, ergo

salivation upon hearing......actuallly this example has much

significance for SSS, as we have stimuli that evoke strong emotion

AND physical response, whereas other sounds of similar fq components

do not.

The key is discovering the mechanism, I believe, and then figuring

out how to walk backwards of this disagreeable woods.......to back

track to a less volatile auditory state of being, to un-trigger the

gun, so to speak, and this is the work I pursue, with all of your

help, of course.

The walking backwards may end up, in all likelihood, in the guise of

a pharmanceutical agent, directed at that area of the brain, and I

can forsee a grand study happening where all of you enroll as guinea

pigs *cute ones and come out west to be in trials, etc etc.

That is the long range plan.

Marsha J.

Plus we can have fun swim party or something splashy to avoid those

difficult situations!

MJ