TINNITUS RESOURCES
10 TIPS TO HELP MANAGE TINNITUS TIP
The first thing that helps is learning to self-soothe and consciously bringing your nervous system out of fight-or-flight mode. Gentle yoga or tai chi can help reduce the levels of activation and alertness. An hour a day can tip the balance significantly in your favor and gives you a healthy distraction from the ringing or other tinnitus sounds that you might hear.
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Instead of a lion, we now all face the invisible predator called Covid-19 and expose our ears to threatening news bulletins that put us directly in touch with traumatic information. This needs to be limited as much as possible. Ten minutes of news in the morning is more than enough to keep us abreast of what’s important. Then we can recover, settle, and look after ourselves for the rest of the day. Please stop exposing yourself to stressful information.
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Just 20 minutes of meditation or yoga can prevent us from being hijacked by anxious thinking and can open up a whole new way of being. Feeling trapped inside a noisy head can be overwhelming. Now is the time to learn to shift the focus out of your head and into the body. This very real alternative helps pull our attention away from the ringing and negative thinking patterns, and also settles the nervous system.
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You need to take better care and be kind to yourself to help your nervous system settle. Don’t give yourself a hard time or demand too much of yourself just now. With heightened stress levels, it is important to pace yourself. If in doubt, do things that relax you, get out, go for a walk, have a bath, take a cold shower.
Many people with tinnitus feel very afraid and threatened when they first develop symptoms. This is often compounded when they go online and read no end of horror stories that further trigger the alarm bells. Please avoid negative information about tinnitus like the plague.
TINNITUS TODAY SUMMER 2020
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