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Exercise Your Tinnitus Away

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 like-mind