Book: Healing at the Speed of Sound: How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains

Mari · 01-04-2012, 05:13 AM

Hi,

Here is a book I heard about on the radio:
Healing at the Speed of Sound: How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains and Our Lives by Don Campbell and Alex Doman

You can listen to the NPR interview or read the transcript:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/20...ng-speed-sound
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/20...und/transcript

Quote:

It's very interesting how the brain hears sound, through bone conduction, air conduction. Do you remember, when you were a kid on a bus and you put your head next to the window and you got that buzz out of it? And that was a very, kind of, a fun experience, in a way. Well, we are over-buzzed. Just within the last six months, World Health Organization has released 125 page report called "The Burden of Disease From an Environmental Noise."

Quote:

Cardiovascular disorders, cognitive impairments, sleep disturbance, tinnitus, different forms of normal annoyance and literally, these studies, have been so profound, in Europe with mostly in Germany, they have found that actually the amount of energy it takes for us to sort out those sounds -- you know the ears are not just for hearing and absorbing, they have to work at filtering out sounds that you don't want to hear.

Quote:

Well, you know, so much has happened in the last 20 years. We are really over bombarded. Can you imagine 100 years ago where the living music was not on the radio or the television. You had the music in your home, you had it in the church, you had it in the concert hall. If you lived in an agrarian context it gave you a sense of space. There were different wakeup calls.

Mari

waves · 01-07-2012, 04:45 AM

Dear Mari

great find!

i am, or rather have become, supersensitive to stimuli, but sound stimuli in particular. staying home from work helped a little, with the hyperstimulation in general, but sounds are still a big problem. this is something i might want to look into. thank you for posting about this.

~ waves ~

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