Where are you based if you don't mind me asking? I'm looking for a UK specialist
I'm based in the US but not in the same state as one of my hypnotherapists. I find it doesn't matter too much as they all do Zoom or phone sessions and record the mp3 for me to listen to for the rest of the week. What is far more important is that your hypnotherapist has training and experience treating tinnitus specifically and with good results in the patients he/she has treated. My hypnotherapist who practices in Utah actually has his local patients take a minimum masking level test prior to starting the hypnotherapy and at the end of his 6 session program. He's told me people are surprised to see their MMLs come down after they finish the therapy. Since I don't live local I didn't do this test, but it's important to find a hypnotherapist who is willing to quantify progress in this way and discuss with you what tangible results you may expect (whether that is habituation or noise reduction).
This gives me some hope. Thank you.
You're welcome!
Here is something fun both of you can do. Follow the link below to take the hypnosis suggestibility questionnaire. This test is usually administered amongst other tests such as an arm raising induction before the first hypnotherapy session and gives your therapist an idea of how best to hypnotize and introduce suggestions to you. People who score higher on the physical scale will accept literal suggestions better than people who score higher on the emotional scale.
https://hypnosis.edu/sq/intro
Some more info below
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100% EMO will respond to all suggestions affecting her emotional behavior, but will not respond to suggestions affecting her physical body or physical movements. Does not respond well to direct, literal suggestions, but is very responsive to inferred suggestions.
The suggestible pattern of an Emotional is based on a defense to protect his or her physical body. She will put her emotions out first, before she will accept physical touch. In other words, when she is faced with uncomfortable physical contact, attention, or pain, or if she senses she is about to be put in such a position, she responds with emotions of embarrassment, fear, anger, apprehension, emotional irritation or frustration, as a line of defense to protect her physical body from discomfort. She is especially susceptible to this threat because she tends to be overly concerned with what others think about her, and her embarrassment level relating to her physical body is easily reached. Only if the threat turns out to be unfounded or nonexistent and she finds that she can accept positive emotional feelings, will the defense mechanism lessen and her capacity for physical acceptance increase.
The end result of the Emotional's defense is that she develops a habit of suppressing feelings in the physical body, and her ability to feel ego sensations diminishes. The extent of this suppression, of course, is relative to her degree of Emotional suggestibility.
The Physical speaks inferentially and understands literally; the Emotional speaks literally and understands inferentially.
With the Emotional, a message unit is taken in as a
thought, which then becomes an
image, followed by an emotional
feeling, and, ultimately, a
physical reaction.
100% PHYS will respond to any direct, literal suggestion affecting his body, but will not respond to suggestions affecting his emotional behavior.
The Physical, unlike the Emotional, uses his physical body as a defense to protect his emotions. He will respond to physical touch with pleasure and has a great need for it, as it represents acceptance to him. He expresses himself literally and bluntly and is not overly concerned with how others see him. When he becomes involved with explaining something, he tends to be animated in movement and gestures and to move close to the person to whom he's talking. He will usually dominate a conversation, barely listening to what the other person has to say. He may cut someone off in the middle of a sentence, in order to get a point across. Whether he recognizes it or not, he has difficulty understanding the emotions of others because he can relate only to what he feels and not to what others say and feel. Because he relates to physical communication, he attempts to reach others through physical closeness and body language and suppresses his ability to relate verbally on more than a surface conversational level. Only when he has achieved enough physical acceptance to ease his urgency and make him feel comfortable, can he open up to positive emotional communication.
The
Physical speaks inferentially and understands literally; the
Emotional speaks literally and understands inferentially.
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