Habituation = Healing?

[ajith]

Hey guys,

In the last couple of months I have read so many success stories. One thing I came to notice in common of the stories is that the majority who claimed they were healed was those who were initially habituated to it.

Now I wonder, is habituation the first step to healing?

Also found an interesting fact that these guys are not frequent visitors to this site. They occasionally come, report their status and then disappear for a month or so before next visit.

All of them mentioned that they were busy with their lives. Probably that may be the key for habituation / healing. Neither thinking nor focusing on it.

 

[Lesly]

Habituation is definitely the first step. For me habituation is the process when the subconscious mind has built so much resilience to the T that it can easily block it out the same way it's able to block out the sound of your fridge. Ever wondered why you sometimes don't hear your fridge?Habituation is tough because you have to train your mind. Think of a headache, ever wondered why a pill takes it away? The pill basically blocks those pain signals going to the brain. It doesn't get rid of the source of the pain. So with T you have to teach your subconscious to block those sounds before they get to your brain where they are perceived and real. I've had days where I woke up in total silence but after a few minutes of Thu king about T and saying 'Oh it's not There'. Guess what? It comes back. That just tells me that the brain has the ability to block T.

 

[Bill Bauer]

It seems to me that the quieter T is, the easier it is to habituate. T doesn't just turn off. If it is loud, it won't go away overnight, it will gradually fade over a period of many months. So every person who got to hear silence again, had their T being very quiet at some point. At that point T was hardly noticeable, and the term "habituation" might have been appropriate.

The above could be completely wrong (or wrong about some of the cases).

 

[ajith]

It seems to me that the quieter T is, the easier it is to habituate. T doesn't just turn off. If it is loud, it won't go away overnight, it will gradually fade over a period of many months. So every person who got to hear silence again, had their T being very quiet at some point. At that point T was hardly noticeable, and the term "habituation" might have been appropriate.

The above could be completely wrong (or wrong about some of the cases).

Yes. As you mentioned they had also gone through a time period where they can only hear static tv noise,followed by a period where they even dont heard it nor bothered about it for hours/days/weeks and suddenly one day when they accidentally think about their 'T' and searching for it'. Its not there. Hurray!!!!
I noticed that most of them given an advice too, to avoid searching on forum once you got enough knowledge about the condition and you reached that mindset from where you can carry on by your own without a support

 

[Bill Bauer]

they had also gone through a time period where they can only hear static tv noise,followed by a period where they even dont heard it nor bothered about it for hours/days/weeks and suddenly one day when they accidentally think about their 'T' and searching for it'. Its not there.

I just realized that I never read any posts in the Success section of this site posted before 2016. Did those people mention a period where they could only hear T in quiet rooms?

 

[Lesly]

It seems to me that the quieter T is, the easier it is to habituate. T doesn't just turn off. If it is loud, it won't go away overnight, it will gradually fade over a period of many months. So every person who got to hear silence again, had their T being very quiet at some point. At that point T was hardly noticeable, and the term "habituation" might have been appropriate.

The above could be completely wrong (or wrong about some of the cases).

I agree. Severe pain is harder to ignore compared to mild pain. I really pray and hope your T gets better and I believe it will. When my cousin had it very bad he would get up and walk out the house at night. They had to keep the doors locked so he doesn't get out. He was probably 12 years old at that time. Now he's in his 20s and can't even remember. He has no T. He was even surprised when I asked him.

 

[ajith]

It seems to me that the quieter T is, the easier it is to habituate. T doesn't just turn off. If it is loud, it won't go away overnight, it will gradually fade over a period of many months. So every person who got to hear silence again, had their T being very quiet at some point. At that point T was hardly noticeable, and the term "habituation" might have been appropriate.

The above could be completely wrong (or wrong about some of the cases).

Yes. As you mentioned they had also gone through a time period where they can only hear static tv noise,followed by a period where they even dont heard it nor bothered about it for hours/days/weeks and suddenly one day when they accidentally think about their 'T' and searching for it'. Its not there. Hurray!!!!
I noticed that most of them given an advice too, to avoid searching on forum once you got enough knowledge about the condition and you reached that mindset from where you can carry on by your own without a support

I just realized that I never read any posts in the Success section of this site posted before 2016. Did those people mention a period where they could only hear T in quiet rooms?

Yes. Indeed. They had a period like that , but most of them can't recall it when or for how long 'T' existed like that solely because they were not bothered about existence of 'T' at that period of time. Some even mentioned that, at the point when they realised they have no'T' ,didn't felt any difference .May be because they were that much habituated to it.

 

[ajith]

I agree. Severe pain is harder to ignore compared to mild pain. I really pray and hope your T gets better and I believe it will. When my cousin had it very bad he would get up and walk out the house at night. They had to keep the doors locked so he doesn't get out. He was probably 12 years old at that time. Now he's in his 20s and can't even remember. He has no T. He was even surprised when I asked him.

I think shifting our primary focus from 'T' to something else is the first step in habituation. As long as we are thinking about 'T' be it in a positive way or negative, wont help much in habituation. We have to get rid of the connections of our brain with 'T'.