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Tinnitus doesnt discriminate. It effects all ages, genders, and professions. Millions of people deal with subjective tinnitus sensing grief, loss, an absence of silence and peace within. There are ongoing questions that develop as to how one lives with this disorder. The broadest question is, How does a person cope and positively live with tinnitus? Learn how the P.E.A.C.E. Step increases mind control empowered by a new way of thinking over the tinnitus environment. Learn how to regain interior peace by stepping out of the tinnitus crisis and into a desired stillness. P.E.A.C.E., is a pioneering methodology introducing word distraction and inspirational quotes as tools for success to bring power, control, and redirection over tinnitus. With detailed instructions and positive reinforcement, P.E.A.C.E. challenges and motivates tinnitus sufferers to employ their minds by relying on innate discipline in ways that work. Become the master over your tinnitus and engage in life positively! Encouraging, inspiring self-help book that provides a great basis for taking control of how you think about your tinnitus. The steps outlined here are easy to remember thanks to the P.E.A.C.E. acronym and will prove to be helpful tools for people to use in learning how to cope with tinnitus stress. Katie Fuller, Former Director of Support, American Tinnitus Association ATA Informed by years of nursing experience, Elizabeth presents tinnitus knowledge well. Her lifelong commitment to helping others overcome challenges ensures all will be helped by this book. Donna Clair Gasiewicz, LCSW, BCD, Psychotherapist

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Publié par	Inspiring Voices
Date de parution	29 décembre 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781462410842
Langue	English

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TINNITUS: A Storm Within
Learning the P.E.A.C.E. Step
Elizabeth Marie Kobe

Copyright © 2014 Elizabeth Marie Kobe.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014921760

Inspiring Voices rev. date: 12/17/2014

Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Power Over Tinnitus
Chapter 2 Emotional and Physical
Chapter 3 The Pollution – Toxic Thinking
Chapter 4 Stages
Chapter 5 Taking Back Ownership of Control
Chapter 6 The P.E.A.C.E. Step
Chapter 7 Meaning of P.E.A.C.E. Letters
Chapter 8 Tackling a Storm Within

About the Author

In memory of my Dad, Albert Kobe, who too had tinnitus and sometimes he would say “There goes the tea kettle!” and “Who’s whistling at me now?”
Introduction
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us “universe” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Albert Einstein
Tinnitus is like that. It becomes part of one’s physical and emotional existence of the world within one’s being. The need here is to widen the circle of compassion by understanding others and ourselves as we learn how to comprehend and live with tinnitus while waiting for a cure. As we wait, we can choose to be more constructively powerful than what our thoughts or feelings allow us to do. We can choose to get out of the emotional and physical destructive path of tinnitus storms by forever changing and redirecting negative thoughts and feelings tinnitus produces. Controlling tinnitus is like weathering storms, predictable and unpredictable when dealing with it. When you recognize the unique inner ability of how powerful the brain is in controlling and redirecting the inner noise, consciously or subconsciously the focus on tinnitus stops. Detaching oneself from the tinnitus battle and magnetic attraction it has over the brain takes a real desire to develop coping skills that work.
Having tinnitus makes one live in a unique troubling world of phantom noise. Freeing the self from a tinnitus world can seem impossible. What we choose to do with this world can either bring misery or a life filled with enjoyment. My goal in this book is to inspire you to motivate the will and learn as many alternative ways to put the tinnitus storm to rest forever or at least part of everyday life. To move out of the tinnitus prison walls and learn to enjoy life again to the fullest even if tinnitus remains part of it.
Achieving this success in controlling tinnitus doesn’t come easy. Controlling the tinnitus level can have failures or setbacks sometimes, but these setbacks should be a measure in how well you understand your tinnitus and the need to learn skills to control it. Gaining success of control over the tinnitus and acknowledging its’ stronghold on the mind will greatly contribute in effectively dealing with it. Tinnitus’ best ability is interference in focus and cognitive activities. You can easily lose focus when it is active. You have to practice coping skills to regain this focus and control. In this book, the intervention P.E.A.C.E. Step helped me through difficult moments with tinnitus. Through this experience I learned how words and quotes can be extremely powerful tools in tackling the tinnitus storms. Words can create a diversion that blocks the control tinnitus has over you. Using this P.E.A.C.E step sharpens the skill of mastering control over the inner ear noise. Concentrating on a word or a quote changes the brain’s focus when listening to tinnitus. The more I challenged myself with practicing this intervention, the more powerful my control over tinnitus became. Eventually I was able to slow down or stop the tinnitus flare ups quicker. When you begin to understand the physical and emotional operation of tinnitus it will help you grasp better control over the disturbing sound. The P.E.A.C.E method is a great tool of assistance in managing and controlling tinnitus. Take back what tinnitus steals from you and learn the steps to bring back peace.
Acknowledgments
During one of the ATA support group meetings facilitated, many tinnitus sufferers expressed the sounds of hearing peace or silence again. All knew very well how tinnitus robs this silence. Acknowledging this peace loss is a real sense of grief and loss in life by those afflicted with tinnitus. Listening to the feelings of grief and loss produced by the “tinnitus ear” disorder prompted the writings of this book to encourage and help empower other tinnitus sufferers to regain control over tinnitus, to bring back their own sense of peace into their lives once more. Tinnitus grief is a deep feeling that influences the moods and overall wellbeing in how one affectively deals with tinnitus or not. In rediscovering the “Five Stages of Grief’”, written by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, it provided information that helped me connect tinnitus grief and loss to similarities found in this book. With sincere acknowledgement, I am extremely grateful and thankful for her theory and works, and to Mr. Ken Ross, her son, in granting verbal permission to utilize his mother’s work. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s work influenced my ongoing spirit to help others through my book to achieve a positive and manageable life place with tinnitus. The website www.ekrfoundation.com is a wonderful and resourceful place to discover healing.
Many thanks for the years of support to the staff at the American Tinnitus Association ( www.ata.org ). Their support and caring concerns with listening to my numerous questions, and providing ample verbal information and literature over the years was a blessing to my tinnitus success.
I am also particularly grateful to my friend Mary Jellison, of Southwest Harbor, Maine who helped in the birth of this book by offering her coastal house of solitude during the cold snowy month of January. There I became a snowbound hermit waking up to many beautiful Maine morning sunrises which energized the spirit to continuously write to nightfall.
Many thanks to Eddie Marencik, whose encouragement and support made the difference when telling me not to forget to do the things I love to do when tinnitus was raging.
Thanks to Ken Enhoffer, a tinnitus buddy who not only assisted in the tinnitus groups but took numerous tinnitus hikes in all kinds of weather with me.
Thanks to Camille Titone for inspiring confidence. Thanks to Rosemary Brislin and her “golden ear” in editing.
A million thanks to my brothers Albert and Paul, sisters Margaret, Kathleen, Jeanne and twin-sister Theresa for acknowledgement.
Another million thanks to my tinnitus friends who listened to the conception of the P.E.A.C.E. step to the final production.
1 POWER OVER TINNITUS
As I was driving home one Saturday afternoon after seeing a movie, I realized there was no ringing in my ears. There was this incredible sense of relief bursting with joy because finally I heard nothing but silence. I didn’t bring along this time those protective ear plugs or even attempt to sit in the back seats of the theater away from the sound system. That afternoon of February 9, 2008, I honored this moment of complete silence as a tinnitus survivor because ten years ago after an accidental gunshot triggered the beginnings of right ear tinnitus in 2004, I’d never of thought the possibility of peace ever to return again would occur. In those days tinnitus was ruining my existence.
But life with tinnitus didn’t truly stay peaceful for long in 2008. It was compounded again on May 17, 2008 when I experienced a traumatic brain injury after falling eleven feet down off a roof ladder and slamming the left side of the forehead against a concrete cinderblock wall.