hearing loss

[adamfuray]

i have been performing music professionally for 10 years, and have noticed a small amount of damage to my hearing. i have also been practicing taiji and qigong for 4 years and have not noticed an improvement in my hearing. has anyone heard of qigong restoring or improving hearing?

[darth_freak]

not qigong but i've heard about an exercise: you get in a closed room, better with no external noise, you play some music to the minimal level you can hear, day by day you should hear more the same music at the same volume, and you gradually lower the volume to the minimal you can hear, putting all your concentrations on hearing...

[Inga]

I wonder if you could apply that to eyesight? I have appalling vision.

[adamfuray]

sounds good to me...no pun intended!! i will post my results in a week or so. thanx!!

[darth_freak]

adalfuray: aright! I hope you'll get result

Inga: i don't know. It's easier to focus on sounds than on vision because you'd have to be extremly focused (can I say "focused"?) on the same spot/point or whatever. Maybe candle training can help but I won't swear. Otherwise there're qigong for eyes. It has been talked about somewhere on the forum...

[Dvivid]

WHat??!!!!!

Hmmmm...I dunno. I remember reading that there are little hairs which are a big part of your hearing, and once they're 'pushed' over from excessive sound levels, they never stand back up again. BUT where there's a will, there's a way....or so they say.

I've played drums since I was 11 and Im sure I have hearing loss.
http://www.robotswin.com

[Inga]

darth_freak, thanks, i will look (hoho) into the candle training and the qigong for the eyes. although if they improve i will have to invest in new specs..

[darth_freak]

Dvivid: I'm not 100% sure. It was my first kung fu teacher who told me about it. It was some famous singer who had used this technic. I persony haven't tried but when I read this post it came to my mind.

[DOM]

yoga also has exercises for the eyes,that were the same as on a chigung video I have.I do not know if you can improve your vision but I do know that when My mother was a kid she had lazy eyes that made here eyes cross.A Dr.Beleave it or not,gave here excecise for here eyes correcting them 100%You would never know she ever had a problem.The one's I have seen have you look up,down,left,right,on angles,rotate clockwise and counter cockwise and look fare and near and near and far.I have heard that playing video games can improve you eyes too.In theroy both sound good but who knows.If true no Dr. know adays would say so.To much money to be made other wise.

[Inga]

DOM, if playing video games alone could improve your vision i'd be back to 20/20 by now mate! :) i have heard that too, and that they are good for hand-eye coordination as well (and therefore good for general training?) but i'm glad to have another mention on the qigong for eyes..sorry to drift the topic away from hearing loss. so does regular and correct application of qigong heighten all of one's senses? is this why if they are impaired we might see improvement?

[yat_chum]

Hi Inga, I’ve posted some eye exercises for you in, General Training and Practice. Jo

[Inga]

cheers jo!! i'll check it out now.. inga

[Sascha]

Hi

Sorry to continue the divergence from hearing loss. But loss of eye sight is also a major problem and I came across this document on natural vision improvement. It's 50 to 70 pages printed and includes exercises with candles, yoga and QiGong exercises, eye movement, explanations etc.

The author says he used these techniques to go from near blind to better than 20/20 vision. It took time of course, but he got there.

I'm finally getting around to reading it myself - and am glad I've started.

http://www.universal-tao.com/article/perfect.html

While looking for this page I also found this document on same site. Not sure how useful you'll find it (cause I haven't read it yet), but check it out for your selves.

http://www.universal-tao.com/article/improvement.html

On hearing loss:
Beating the heavenly drum is supposed to stimulate hearing. Anyone had any success with using this technique to IMPROVE (rather than maintain) hearing.

Regards

Sascha

[joeblast]

darth, that's an interesting technique regarding the hearing recovery. I had some severe otitis media when I was growing up and I think it affected my hearing, as my ears are very sensitive (I also play drums/guitar/bass/etc and ear plugs have always been a must for me....I've noticed that my ears are more sensitive to loud noises than anyone else I know.)

I've done some research in acoustics and a decent part of it is on human hearing. to the best of my knowledge, the little hairs dont have that significant of an impact.

it also depends on what kind of hearing loss; it can be due to nerve damage (I'm not sure if the cochlea falls into this area, I think it might....but this type of nerve damage is usually caused by some sort of disease, i.e. meningitis) or conductive, where the ossicles (bones) arent transmitting sound properly. (that's how loud sounds damage your ears; if your eardrum's amplitude travels outside of its good working range, damage results. it was pretty interesting reading about how the function of the ear almost perfectly translates vibration from an air meduim to a liquid meduim.) it can also be a combination of both.

after some consideration, I believe it would be possible to marginally improve hearing using that method, but I think you'd need a pretty quiet room. (and lots of time spent on it, but that's a given with such things, right?) heck, if its quiet enough, you should be able to hear your heartbeat clearly and (I've heard...from a pretty reliable senior sound & vid engineer that I'm lucky enough to be able to pick his brain every so often...) even 'hear' or feel the air pressure on your eardrum. most of us arent that lucky to have such a quiet environment though! I'd like to get a studio (soundproof room or two) built for myself when I get around to getting out of my condo and into a house...I'll try this technique out or at least keep it in mind when I've got someplace sufficiently quiet to give it a concerted effort!