Re: Tomatis (was : Probability Biasing)
Helen Hendricks ( helen@hendricksfarms.com )
Sun, 01 Mar 1998 07:16:16 -0600
Jean-Pierre Lentin wrote:
>
> Hi all !
>
> Mathias wrote :
> > .Tomatis found out that, as we age (and/or
> > evolve in a specific culture), some frequencies simply desappear
> > altogether from our voice or earing. In anilyzing one's voice imprint
> > and making a tape including all missing frequencies, then listening to
> > the missing frequencies over and over again, the person would in effect
> > gradually recover the hability to percieve/pronounce such lost sounds.
> > This amounts to rewiring the brain functions apparently lost with
> > sounds. Resulted in encreased health, facility to learn foreign
> > languages.
>
> I interviewed Alfred Tomatis a few times, read all his books and even
> underwent a "Tomatis cure" at his lab, so I'm quite familiar with him. Here
> is something to complement Mathias' account.
>
> True, we lose the ability to hear certain frequencies as we age (loss of
> high frequencies), or after we are exposed to very loud noises, or after
> some diseases, or even for psychological reasons (some voices we don't want
> to hear when we are young... like mother or father, sometimes). True also,
> our native tongue and culture fashions our ear, we become selectively deaf
> to certain frequencies. And true again, after the Tomatis program, you
> regain lost frequencies (which is considered as impossible by conventional
> ear physicians), your health may improve, your head certainly does and you
> have a better ear for foreign languages...
>
> The method is a bit different than the above description. You put on
> headphones and listen to continuous music, with weird filtering effects, for
> 1 hour (typical cure is 20 or 30 sessions). Could be any music, but Tomatis
> sticks on Mozart's violin concertos. Filtering is constantly and rapidily
> changing between normal spectrum and extremely high parts of the spectrum
> (sounds quite ugly and piercing). So the tiny muscles and bones in the inner
> ear are constantly shifting, and a reeducation occurs.
>
> The method was originally designed for partially deaf people, but Tomatis
> soon found that regaining lost frequencies had all sorts of unexpected
> effects - on mood, cognitive functions, physical health, etc. So today the
> cure may be indicated for all sorts of troubles.
>
> Let me add that my experience with Tomatis (about 10 years ago) was
> especially enlightening for me. Until then I was a "normal" science writer,
> with a cursory interest for controversial science. When I did my piece on
> Tomatis, I also interviewed mainstream ear specialists about him. I knew
> they thought he was a quack. I wanted to know why. I found out that they
> knew nothing about him. They didn't met him, nor any of his patients, they
> never went to his lab, they never even read his books ! ... It was all based
> on rumours. And they deemed as impossible things I had been seeing and
> hearing for weeks. I guess that's when I lost half my faith in conventional
> science... (Still keeping the other half, though...comes in handy sometimes...)
>
> Cheers to all
>
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> Jean-Pierre Lentin
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