Hypnosis for Tinnitus: How Can Hypnotherapy Help?
It is absolutely terrifying to wake up one day and hear an annoying buzzing in your ear that you cannot get rid of. Nobody around you can comprehend this easily since it’s not something they can hear. It’s like no matter what you do, where you go and what you try to focus on, this sound never leaves you alone.
Living with tinnitus is difficult. It is a condition that affects life quality and mental health significantly. Unfortunately, this newly added stress makes things even worse usually. Especially if you went to a doctor and got cleared for any physical causes for tinnitus, hypnotherapy can be a significant help in your journey.
In these cases, simply put, your subconscious mind is bringing this noise to your attention for a reason. Understanding the root cause while retraining your mind with hypnosis can help with long-term tinnitus relief!
What is tinnitus?
Tinnitus is a widespread auditory condition. It is characterized by the perception of ringing, buzzing, or other phantom sounds in the ears without any external source. This can be a distressing experience for individuals affected by it.
Tinnitus can feel like;
- Ringing in ears
- Buzzing in ears
- Whooshing sounds in ears
- High pitched ringing in one ear
Understanding the nature of tinnitus is crucial in order to deliver the most effective therapeutic approaches, such as hypnotherapy, hearing aids, or medications.
Tinnitus causes
Tinnitus, the sensation of hearing ringing, buzzing, or other sounds without an external source, can be caused by many factors. Exposure to loud noises, like concerts or machinery, is a common trigger. Age-related hearing loss is another contributor, as is the buildup of earwax or certain medications.
Health conditions like high blood pressure and TMJ disorders can also play a role. Additionally, important stressors in life and chronic anxiety can trigger tinnitus as well. Identifying these causes is key to effective treatment.
Hypnosis for tinnitus relief
Working with hypnosis to overcome tinnitus is a step-by-step journey that one must be ready and committed to go through. Hypnosis is a natural way to stop tinnitus, without having to rely on medications or supplements.
In this journey, many subconscious issues are addressed; resetting your mind to bring long term relief. Here are some of the steps you can expect when working with hypnotherapy:
Hypnotherapy can help with tinnitus in a variety of ways from discovering the root cause to retraining the mind subconsciously.
Subconscious tinnitus retraining
Retraining the mind to change the perspective on tinnitus is essential in order to receive long-term relief. Hypnosis allows us to target the subconscious mind; the part of the mind that triggers the constant uncomfortable buzzing sound in the ear.
Retraining the mind with hypnosis may look like direct positive suggestions, creating a positive expectation or giving a sense of control to the person who is suffering from tinnitus. By doing this not only we can decrease the intensity of the sound but we can also push the noise into the background of the mind.
Relaxation with hypnosis
It’s been found that stress and anxiety exacerbate tinnitus symptoms significantly. Anxiety overall can make us feel the discomfort and pain more intense. During hypnosis, we can also retrain the mind for relaxation and calmness in day-to-day life.
Working with stressors subconsciously, we can bring long-term stress relief with hypnosis. But also, hypnosis by itself is a calm and relaxed state, which makes it possible to re-evaluate negative situations and feelings from a dissociative state.
Discovering the root cause
If there is no medical cause of tinnitus, there may be an emotional trigger that initiates the buzzing sound in the first place. This may or may not be apparent to you. This may also result from suppressing lots of unresolved emotions for a long time.
Hypnosis helps us dive deep and understand the root cause of the issue. By understanding the root cause, we can help the subconscious mind to process and let go. We can also use rescripting or forgiveness techniques to associate different emotions with a negative event.
Regulating mind-body connection with hypnosis
When the mind and body work together in harmony, everything flows perfectly. The body knows exactly what to do to heal and move forward. But when there is a disconnection between these two significant parts of our lives, we can face many problems and tinnitus is one of them.
Disconnection usually happens because of repressed difficult emotions such as shame, guilt, anxiety, fear, or betrayal. Our body almost gives up. Hypnosis facilitates release of the emotions and reconnects with the natural mind-body power.
Success rates of hypnosis for tinnitus
When it comes to managing tinnitus, hypnotherapy has shown promising results. Studies have indicated that hypnosis can be an effective tool in reducing the perceived intensity and distress associated with tinnitus symptoms.
While individual experiences will vary, many people report significant improvements in their overall well-being after undergoing hypnotherapy sessions tailored to address tinnitus.
For example, in a study in which self-hypnosis and brief auditory stimulus were administered to participants, 73% of the self-hypnosis participants reported the absence of tinnitus during treatment sessions compared to only 24% in the brief auditory stimulus group.
Another study that administered Ericksonian hypnosis to participants reported a 90.5% decrease in the Tinnitus Questionnaire among the patients.
Wrapping up
Tinnitus sound can vary from person to person but the tinnitus stress will be similar for many people. If you are struggling with tinnitus, just know that there are many therapeutic ways you can receive relief and hypnotherapy is just one of them.
If you are looking for holistic relief from tinnitus and you’ve already visited your doctor to be cleared out from any physical causes for tinnitus, hypnosis can be an excellent help for you. Make sure to work with a qualified hypnotherapist who can support your needs!