Tinnitus Help - Stop the Ringing in Your Ears

People with tinnitus often find that physical exercise helps their condition -- both physically and mentally.  For instance, when your heart rate speeds up during a work-out, the blood flow to your inner ears increases too. Some tinnitus suffers find this decreases the noise in their heads.  Exercise can be a safety-valve as well, used to relieve depression, frustration and rage often associated with tinnitus.  And it's not just cardio exercise that helps: The meditative and self-disciplinary aspects of yoga can alleviate stress and help you focus past the noise. Reflexology (like  massage ) is another practice that if it doesn't actually help, can't hurt to try.  With tinnitus, a normal social life can sometimes become hard to manage.  If you join a gym or exercise club, it provides you with a place to go where it's easy not to be "social". In other words, the focus is not on chatting but rather on exercising. You still get to be with a group of l...

While tinnitus is said to have no cure per se, there are some things you can do to help yourself as you explore treatment options.  For example, relaxation therapy can make the tinnitus sounds easier to ignore. Stress makes the volume of ringing in the ears louder, so while the sounds will not disappear through yoga or tai-chi, learning how to meditate will help lower anxiety which will in turn make the sound somewhat more manageable to live with.  A simple exercise to start out with is to focus "past the noise" of the tinnitus and instead on the sound of your breathing. If that's impossible to do, try it initially with white noise or natural sounds in the background.  Exercise is known to help people who suffer from clinical depression -- a condition that is very much associated with tinnitus sufferers. The physical well-being that exercise brings about lowers stress and again may make it easier to ignore and cope with the noise of your tinnitus. Concentrating on so...