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I get a lot of email and posts to my tinnitus blog from people who don’t like my approach to tinnitus healing. They say things like, “tinnitus cannot be controlled by thought,” and “you should be ashamed of yourself for giving hope to people with tinnitus.”

Well, I must tell you that no matter how many complaints I get, I will not stop promoting what I know to be the most effective tinnitus treatment for many people. My approach is based on my own experience and has helped many more people than the ones who are angry and refuse to try it.

But, why do my teachings make people angry? Because when ego gets in the way there’s no way to reach those people. What is your ego? Your ego is your mind and your mind only knows one thing; the past. Therefore the mind searches its database for all past experiences and comes up with a reason why what I teach won’t work.

The problem is, the mind cannot think of an infinite number of ways that healing can happen. It can only think of a very finite number of ways and all of them are based on past experience.

You see, the mind wants to keep you safe. That’s its only job. And, by trying something new, such as my formula for tinnitus healing, that would require stepping outside its comfort zone and that to most people is very scary indeed.

So, when the mind gets scared, it also gets angry. Why? Because it has to prove that it is right. But, here’s my question to you; would you rather be right or would you rather get what you want? Being right, means mind driven reasoning based on the past. But, getting what you want on the other hand, means shutting your mind down and allowing only what you want to flow easily to you.

Fighting, resisting, planning against or even lashing out in anger will only make what you don’t want worse! You must understand this. Therefore, anyone who lashes out at me in anger is only hurting themselves. Why? Because they’re cutting themselves off from the one thing that could truly empower their lives; the positive flow of energy.

The simple act of letting me know that they don’t agree with me means they are cut off from learning and therefore dying emotionally and spiritually little by little. Every act of anger depletes your positive flow of energy and takes away your ability to get what you truly want.

It’s all about energy. And, when you use up what little you have fighting or resisting your present situation you have nothing left over to focus on creating what you truly want in life which is to be free from fear and worry. Tinnitus breeds fear and worry, but only if you allow it.

Simply do not allow this to happen. Do not allow yourself to get sucked into the drama and fear of the rest of the world. Live your life and do not concern yourself with the negative mind driven know-it-all advice from other people.

Here’s a good rule of thumb. Ask yourself this question when someone wants to give you their opinion or advice; “Does this person already have what I want?” If the answer is no, then you must resist the temptation to listen to them, no matter how hard that may be. This includes well meaning friends and family.

Therefore if you hear advice from someone who says, “positive thought and feeling cannot affect tinnitus volume,” ask yourself, “has this person healed their tinnitus?” If the answer is no, then do not under any circumstances listen to them. It’s just their ego talking and it’s saying, “I know best.” But that’s nonsense if they do not have what you want. That’s like taking financial advice from someone who’s broke.

Anyone who lashes out in anger, in an attempt to be right, cannot under any circumstances lead a completely happy and fulfilled life. Only when they wake up and realize that their resistance to what is, is keeping them stuck where they are. And, only then can they begin to heal the parts of themselves that is keeping them from getting what they truly want.

 

Here’s a link to read about this tinnitus treatment.

Many people write me and inform me of all the things they do to try and keep tinnitus at bay or how they can focus on fixing it. The truth is, if all you do is focus on fixing it or making it better you will do nothing more than give it more attention. Stop giving it attention and you will fix it.What I’m saying may seem cryptic at first. But, if you follow this advice you will over time gain an understanding of what I’m suggesting. Only by focusing your attention on what you truly want will you rid yourself of what you don’t want.

Yet still, many people ask me how to do that. Do you really want to know? Do you really want to know how to attract more of what you want and less of what you don’t want? If so then I suggest to you that you pay close attention to what I’m about to share with you.

Here is the true secret to getting more of what you want and less of what you don’t want. This formula is courtesy of Dr. Robert Anthony, a famous author and motivational speaker, who taught it to me. Here’s how to figure out what your true heart’s desire is;

#1 Ask yourself this question; What do I want to have in my life, that I don’t have right now?

#2 If I had that in my life, or I was that, how would that make me feel? When you ask yourself this question, really try to focus on what you are feeling. The stronger the emotion, the closer it is to your true heart’s desire.

#3 Rate each feeling for the answers to question 1 and 2 on a scale of 1 to 100. We call this the heart’s desire intensity scale.

When you do this exercise it may take some practice and time to get it right. But, as I said, you must focus on the feeling.

Now, anything less than 100 on your heart’s desire intensity scale is less than good enough. Desires that carry a 100 are your true heart’s desires and as such cannot be denied. In other words, you have a 100% chance of achieving these things if they rate at least a 100.

You may be asking yourself at this point, “How come I’ve never heard this before?” Simply because no one has every told you this. But, I can say with 100% assurance that if you pursue desires that rate less than 100 on your heart’s desire intensity scale that you are doomed to living the same uncomfortable existence for the rest of your life. And, that includes the pain and anguish that tinnitus brings into your life.

Only to the extent that you are willing to let go of the past and focus 100% of your energy on the things you truly want in life, will you be able to achieve success and happiness to the extent that you desire.

Letting go means having a clear expectation of receiving what you desire while at the same time detaching from the outcome of every circumstance. This is true living.

Paul Tobey

More information about ringing ears and tinnitus.

A while back I talked about getting out and doing what you love in an effort to control the negative grip that tinnitus has on you. This works more than anything else you could do and here’s the reason why;When you are doing what you love you are in vibrational alignment with the natural flow of the universe. More specifically, by vibrating at a higher positive energy you become a magnate for all your desires to flow easily into your life.

I’m sure that you recognize that every thought we have has energy. And, because everything that we can see, feel, touch, taste and experience also has energy, by enjoying what you love you are naturally attracting good energy like a magnate.

What’s the perfect vibrational alignment? When you no longer feel uncomfortable about what you don’t have in your life, while feeling grateful for everyone and everything, you are in the perfect vibrational alignment to allow the steady fulfillment of every desire to come into your life.

That’s a powerful statement but very true. You see, you are never more happy and truly fulfilled than when you are doing what you love. Consider this; why is work considered work? When you don’t love what you’re doing.

The most successful people are the ones who have discovered how to love what they do and therefore they become powerful magnates for more success. If you get up and go to a job everyday just to pay the bills and you hate what you do, image how much of your day is spent spewing negative energy into the universe.

If you spend as much time as possible feeling good in the moment, while at work, rest and play then good things cannot not come into your life. It’s vibrationally incompatible for negativity to affect you when you are feeling good and on purpose.

The more you feel good, the less negativity can adversely affect you. Tinnitus is like this. I don’t know too many people, except me, that see tinnitus as a positive thing. Therefore, the less you spend focused on tinnitus by doing what you love, the less it will negatively affect your life. You may even learn, such as I have, to see tinnitus as a positive thing. Why? Because I’m never more sure about what I don’t want in my life than when tinnitus is bothering me.

So, I promptly pick myself up and get on with what I do love to do. I don’t wait. Even if I feel the slightest negative effects of tinnitus I change my thoughts quickly and efficiently onto something I do love. It works every time.

How can you do more of what you love and less of what you don’t? That’s the magic question. I of course know that everyone’s life is different and everyone has experienced a different version of tinnitus. But, if you are to rid yourself completely of tinnitus you must first understand that you cannot live in a negative space and attract good things into your life. The law of attraction knows nothing else. It will follow your thoughts and feelings and give you more of what you are focused on.

Everyone will experience “have toos” on the way to their “want toos.” But, remember this, even your “have toos” will seems a pleasure when your overall pupose and goal in life is to pursue the things you want most. When you are on the way to you true heart’s desire, a term that I’ve mentioned before, everything you’ve ever wanted will be on the way to you. And, you will be loving every minute of it.
Have a great day,

Paul Tobey

More tinnitus relief here.

Tinnitus Treament Tinitus Downloadable MP3 Seminar Now Available ONLINE!

This tinnitus seminar was recorded on March 14th 2007, when Paul Tobey appeared as guest speaker at the Canadian Hearing Society’s London Tinnitus Treatment Support Group. Edited into a wonderful 90 Minute Seminar and accompanying workbook, Paul Tobey’s Tinnitus Free Living Seminar offers some valuable insight into the power of healing! If you are living your life on the coat-tails of constant ringing in ears, you will absolutely love this inspirational message and thought provoking tinnitus treatment seminar about your life and living tinnitus free! It’s the tinnitus treatment that can have a profound impact on a soul level!

Visit http://www.paultobey.com/tinnitus/tinnitus-treatment.html

Part 1: Paul Tobey’s Tinnitus Free Living Seminar – The #1 Tinnitus Secret

Part 2: Paul Tobey’s Tinnitus Free Living Seminar – The Healing Power of Quantum Physics

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The Canadian Hearing Society in London Ontario will be hosting a Tinnitus Seminar

A Practical Guide to Tinnitus Free Living – by Certified Trainer Paul Tobey
March 14th – 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Central Library, London

Is Tinnitus driving you CRAZY? If you are a chronic tinnitus sufferer and you feel mentally frustrated, emotionally drained, and phycially stressed out by the loud intrusion of the ringing in your ears, then this seminar is for you! Pianist and Composer Paul Tobey has travelled the world in search of gurus, shamans, healers, pills, maskers,diets, and anything that would promise a cure.

Find out what he has learned from his own journey with severe chronic Tinnitus and HOW IT CAN HELP YOU find your own road towards tinnitus free living.

Paul Tobey’s story “MY CHOICE” was published by the American Tinnitus Association in June 2006 Edition of Tinnitus Today. Read Here for full story http://www.paultobey.com/blog/?p=4. Paul’s Tinnitus eBooks, Seminars, and Meditations have been downloaded world-wide to rave reviews by fellow tinnitus patients. Paul Tobey is a certified trainer and motivational speaker.

If you would like to attend the Tinnitus Free Living Seminar contact:
Julie Menten, B.A., M.Sc. Couple and Family Therapy
CONNECT Counsellor
The Canadian Hearing Society
(519) 667-3325 ext. 234

OR email jmenten(at)london.chs.ca
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Interested in seeing Paul Tobey perform live? Visit and learn more about “A Journey Through Spain“, the world-premier of Paul Tobey’s Road to Santiago Suite with the Brantford Symphony Orchestra Sunday Feb. 18th at the Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts.

Happy New Year Everybody! May 2007 bring you abundance and joy and all of God’s blessings!

I would like to take this moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of my readers, speaking audiences and piano music fans for supporting www.paultobey.com in 2006! 

It’s been a terrific year.  Over 30 000 unique visitors came to my website in December alone! That is a new record! Thousands and thousands have downloaded piano music, piano sheet music and my free movies and free videos.  We have shipped product all over the world including Africa, Australia and the Middle East! Many of you have downloaded seminars, tinnitus ebooks and topped it off with Christmas Music.

There are over 13 thousand people who opted into the Paul Tobey mailing list this year!

It’s been a banner year because of you, and I THANK YOU! 

My heartfelt best wishes to you and yours for 2007!  May you enjoy peace, abundance and many of God’s blessings!

Musically yours,

Paul Tobey

www.paultobey.com

 

 

After numerous requests from readers I have decided to start a Tinnitus FAQ page. Here you will find helpful resources for all things related to Tinnitus. This page is a work in progress and will be updated as times permits and as the information becomes available.I hope that you find these Tinnitus resources useful. If you have any comments or would like to contribut to the Tinnitus FAQ section please enter a comment on this blog post.

Here is the URL for the new Tinnitus FAQ page.

==> http://www.paultobey.com/tinnitus/tinnitus-faq.html

If you suffer from tinnitus enough to seek out medical attention for help, you are not alone. Tinnitus Sufferers are on the rise with tinnitus making headlines throughout the world. Noise induced tinnitus seems to be the one making the most headlines with expressed concern over how IPOD’s and other music devises promoting “loud noise” can be contributing to the growing problem.  With an aging population, hearing loss is another contributer adding to an increased total of persons suffering from tinnitus. 

On the scale of 1 to 10, (10 being the worst), if you rate your tinnitus a 5 and up, it is interfering with your happiness, your life, and your well being.  There is help! For more information about Paul Tobey and Tinnitus visit

http://www.paultobey.com/tinnitus/

 

Are you a chronic tinnitus sufferer and with thoughts or feelings of suicide? Please consult your medical doctor right away and ask for help. There are treatments available to help you on this difficult journey. I know, because I’ve been down that road. Chronic tinnitus feels like a nightmare and can lead to suicidal thoughts. Having said that, your life situation can change for the better. There are things you can to do that will improve your life situation. The road to recovery is possible.

The following Tinnitus Story about my Journey with Tinnitus (ringing in ears) appeared in the the June 2006 Edition of Tinnitus Today published by the American Tinnitus Association. I hope it inspires you to find the help you deserve!

“My Choice” by Paul Tobey – Copyright Paul Tobey May 2006

I have devoted my life to the study of sound. I am not a physicist, a doctor, a scientist, nor an audiologist. I am a master of sound, an accomplished concert pianist. Since the age of eight, I’ve studied the relationship between the body and the vibration of musical notes. What I couldn’t have known is that one day I would deeply yearn for the one note I would never hear again – the note of “no sound.”

Perhaps the tinnitus was caused by all of those over-the-counter decongestants I was taking for my flu, or maybe it was the stress of being at the pinnacle of my performing career, or maybe it was the news that my wife, Nancy, was giving up a good paying job, or a combination thereof. Whatever it was, one night I dreamt I was sitting on an airport tarmac between two jet engines. When I woke up, I realized this noise wasn’t just a dream. It was in my head! I rolled off the bed onto the floor in a fetal position with hands over my ears.

Over the next few weeks, I begged doctors to help me. My journey of hope began with visits to family doctors, referrals, and audiologists. Weeks turned into years with more research leading my wife and me to more doctors, shamans, and dozens of healers around the world. We live in Canada, but traveled to as far away as Japan.

What started as my journey of hope turned into a dark and painful life with bouts of deep depression. The tinnitus sabotaged my music, my marriage, and sometimes my very desire to live. The worst part was that because my injury was not visible to the world, people had no appreciation or ability to feel compassion for my suffering. I felt very alone. It suddenly occurred to me that maybe Van Gogh cut off his ear to make his suffering visible to the world – not because he thought it would stop his tinnitus.

Believing no one in the world could understand my physical pain, or my emotional burden, I turned to the Internet only to find chat groups with more stories of chronic depression and misery. It became clear I wasn’t alone in my suffering, but it didn’t make me feel better about my situation. That was when my wife became the most afraid, and ordered me to stay out of the virtual company of these sufferers, and instead to stay abreast of research through the American Tinnitus Association.

I was so busy fighting the tinnitus and struggling to make it through the day, I barely noticed my wife’s struggle with my tinnitus too. I had no energy for her personal fight to keep me alive, or to fight the Canadian Hearing Association when they told me they couldn’t measure the volume of the noise I hear (higher than their instruments could measure). I had no strength to fight the audiologist who sold me “white noise/masking hearing aids” that, despite my discipline, hope, and full cooperation, didn’t work for me. I didn’t have the energy to fight other health professionals who tried to help but whose good ideas didn’t work. They got my money; I kept the tinnitus.

My last hope, or so I thought, was an audiologist and medical doctor team who specialized in treating musician’s hearing problems. Because I’m self employed, I have no drug insurance plan. Feeling for my situation, they gave me dozen packets of antidepressants. Feeling hopeful that maybe they would work, I poured the boxes out on the kitchen table. That’s when I noticed my wife’s anger and when she gave me the ultimatum: “Paul, either you choose to live your life on antidepressants, or you choose to face your disability and conquer it. If you choose to conquer it, you will live a happy life with me and Adrian [our son]. If you choose the antidepressants, you will miss your music and your family. It’ll all be gone.” She stood there with hands on hips and said, “You choose now, because I’m ready to live with whatever you choose.”

With my glimmer of hope turning into profound rage, I swept the table with my arm, and all the pill boxes flew around the room. My rage turned into deep sorrow for my loss of silence, and I bawled for the longest time, curled up on the floor. Nancy never came to comfort me. Maybe she knew I needed to let go of my rage. She watched standing at a distance and repeated the words “You must choose now. It’s been four years, and you have to choose what you are going to do.” I sheepishly got up knowing that I would get no sympathy from her now. This was tough love. I picked up the packets, and began to flush the pills down the toilet.

I cried all night, mourning the fact that after four years, the tinnitus wasn’t going away. I had cried many times before, but this time was different. On this night, I began to surrender to the tinnitus. I knew the tinnitus would somehow have to become my new best friend.

But I wouldn’t be doing it alone. With Nancy and Adrian by my side, my tinnitus healthcare team at the ready, a new spiritual mentor into my life, I was introduced to books about the theory of mind, body, and spirit. I kept a journal of what I ate, how I lived, and my thought processes. Over a period of time, I learned by trial and error that I could control the volume of my tinnitus by completely eliminating wheat products, milk, caffeine, yellow vegetables, pork, salt, red wine, and citrus fruits from my diet, and introducing a high-protein diet of beef and certain types of beans, plus broccoli and other green vegetables. What I eat seems to control the volume of the tinnitus. I learned that exercise, sex, meditation, and playing the piano kept my mind off of the tinnitus for long stretches of time. I learned that my negative thought processes had kept me focused and addicted to my tinnitus, and that I could actually control my thoughts to take the focus off of my tinnitus. I learned that no one else in the world was empowered to heal me, and that I would ultimately be responsible for my own healing.

Seven years later, I am a completely new person. Tinnitus has transformed my life – in very positive ways. Because of the tinnitus, I have walked an 850km pilgrimage across Spain, produced spiritual films, composed symphony music, became a certified motivational trainer, and am currently writing my first book. I am healthier, wiser, more grounded, humbled, and very grateful for my life.

Because of the tinnitus, I now teach people how to find their inner strength and use it to conquer their mind’s attachment to illness, vulnerabilities, emotional burdens, and fears. And yet, with all of my professional credits, nothing in my life’s journey comes close to my personal accomplishment of conquering my tinnitus. No, I may never experience silence again. But tinnitus now serves as a beacon in my life. It is no longer the cruel enemy that once controlled me.

As a master of sound, I can tell you that the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard is the suspended space between two musical notes – that open space of “no sound,” of silence. It’s such a great gift. But I’ve learned that other profound gifts do come, and from the strangest forms of suffering. As my loving wife once said in one desperate attempt to save my life, “It’s your choice.” And so I’ve chosen. 

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