“The basal ganglia is thought to contain a sort of gating system. When the gate is closed, the tinnitus is held back — and on mute. When it’s opened, the noise floods through. Cheung and his team believe if they can go in and manipulate that part of the brain, they just might be able to muffle the noise — and provide some real relief.“ I’m going to script a self hypnosis session to close the gate on my basal ganglia!   “This internal sound is commonly used in meditation focusing techniques. Rather than fight or fear it, listen to it. Those that feel they suffer from it and fear it should know that meditation techniques deliberately focus on it. Doing so creates a consciousness of depth, dimension and variety and the sound seemingly becomes louder. In fact, these variations may be auditory illusion. Regardless, the idea is immerse oneself consciously in it to develop concentration skills. Awareness of the sound is also used as a form of warning. One may suddenly be stimulated to hear it due to an internal or physical stress. If it’s an internal stress, and perhaps sometimes too if it’s a physical stress, It’s advised to slow down at that moment, stop and listen to it.” 

In my 20’s as a meditation student, I was taught to listen to the sounds in my head, some say you’re listening to the nadis (the ida, pingala and sushumna) as you breathe prana through them and through the chakras as the kundalini awakens.   I’ve had it many years, a low level buzzing in both ears. I hear best out of my left ear. Twice in December — for the first time ever — the tinnitus got so loud that it kind of freaked me out. I could not hear a friend talking to me right in front of me.  When it was that loud, however, it did sound rather orchestral, even angelic. I’m reading about “Retraining therapy involves reprogramming or resetting these networks which are selectively picking up the tinnitus signal in the auditory system.” That’s what I hope to script the self hypnosis file to do for me.   I’ll keep you posted.