Tomatis was born in France on January 1, 1920, and later became an ear, nose and throat specialist in Paris. During the Second World War, he began to learn about sound conditioning methods. In 1951, he was awarded the French Chevalier de la Merit de Health and in 1958 he won the gold medal for "Scientific Experiments". Sadly passed away at Christmas 2001.
Three laws proposed by Tomatis based on his discovery
The first law
Tomatis discovered that if our ears cannot hear a certain frequency , which means that the sound we want to emit cannot emit this frequency.
Second Law
After that, he continued to experiment and found that if singers could only hear certain frequencies, their voices would be destroyed immediately, and the blocked frequencies would immediately be lost. lost in the singer's voice. Based on this discovery, he concluded that if you change the sounds we hear, the sounds we make will also be changed.
The Third Law
In addition, he also discovered an interesting phenomenon. Some professional singers suffered from occupational deafness, and subsequently they lost their original voices. , the reason they become deaf is that they sing too loudly. To be more precise, the audio area where they become deaf is around 2000Hz. As the First Law reveals, the sound they lost is also in this area. Tomatis discovered that the reason why professional singers gradually become deaf is because they have been in a noisy environment for a long time, and the muscles in their ears become more and more relaxed, so loud music can no longer enter the inner ear. In other words, if we want to help those who are deaf or become deaf, we must first exercise the muscles in the ears. This is where his third law comes from. We all know how to make the muscles of the body strong and developed, that is, constant exercise, but how to exercise the smallest ear muscles in the body? After many experiments, Tomatis discovered that by letting users listen to some music that turns on and off for a while, the purpose of training the ear muscles from relaxation to strength can be achieved. Later, he discovered that a better way to exercise ear muscles is to let the user wear headphones so that the left and right ears can receive different frequencies respectively. In the process, the entire channel of both ears will be opened, which forms a "door"-like "Scientific principles.
Based on the above three laws, it has developed a unique music hearing theory through continuous experimental research and practice. The following are described separately:
Listening and learning
Tomatis discovered that each language has its own frequency interval: for example, the frequency interval of French is 1000Hz to 2000HZ, so French People are particularly sensitive to sounds of this frequency. The British are particularly sensitive to sounds with a frequency interval of 2000Hz to 12000Hz, so the British feel "deaf" to French sounds. This also explains why learning a new language is so difficult. But Tomatis also discovered that it was possible to adapt to various external frequencies by training the ears, so as to achieve the purpose of learning a new language easily. In other words, if you want to learn a new language, the key is to first learn to listen to the new language.
This discovery opens a new door for language learning.
Although Tomatis asked himself: "Can both ears hear the same things?" Probably most people. Think that our ears are exactly the same and have the same function. But this is not the case. Tomatis found that people who use their right ear more often learn faster. He explained this phenomenon using neurological principles: the right ear is connected to the left brain, and the left brain is the center of language learning. The connection from the right ear to the left brain is fast and accurate; while for the left ear, it is connected to It is a place that cannot process language - the right side of the brain. Language from the left ear is transmitted to the left brain through the corpus callosum. This transmission process is not only slow but also unreliable. During the entire transmission process, some high-frequency sounds that are important for language learning are lost. For example, "ba" and "pa" are only different in the high harmony part. If some people listen mainly to the left ear, then they are likely to often guess which word others say. If "listening" is important in learning a language, "receiving" the frequency of sounds is equally important. Based on thousands of experiments, Tomatis believes that people with an "ideal hearing curve" learn language much faster than those with a "bent hearing curve."
If you want to improve people's "hearing curve", you must use filtered music to allow only some frequencies to enter the ears, so that you can train those curves that need to be strengthened. As the experiment progressed smoothly, Tomatis discovered even more surprising results. He found that people who received high-frequency sound hearing training could not only strengthen their learning ability, but also their spirits became higher than before. In the ear, there are many sensory organs (auditory cells) that receive high frequencies. High-frequency sounds can be transmitted to the brain as more auditory information, and the brain nerves can be regulated. In other words, when we hear more high-frequency sounds, the brain will receive benign stimulation, thereby increasing the body's energy. This phenomenon is called "ear energy", an energy that comes from the ears.
At the same time, high-frequency sounds will stimulate the ear canal, the organ in the ear that channels movement ability, helping you improve your movement ability. When the ears are "conditioned," people with motor imbalances can gain the ability to catch a moving ball, learn to ride a bicycle, and more. This is another benefit of receiving high frequency sounds.
Listen with your ears
As an ear, nose and throat specialist, Tomatis knows that we not only listen with our ears, but also with our bodies, and so do our bones. A sound receiver. You can try this experiment: put a fork above your head and hit it. You will feel like the sound is traveling through your ears. If a good "listening" function is the prerequisite for high-quality learning, then it is best to use two channels to "listen", "one with the ears, one with the bones, mainly with the ears." From then on, he created A new concept of "sound entering the inner ear".
The sounds heard by the ears are adjusted by the middle ear. In this process, some sounds are enhanced and some sounds are diluted and become the background. At this time, the middle ear acts like a gatekeeper, helping us focus on hearing the most important sounds. Different from the sound heard by the ear, the sound passing through the bones is directly transmitted to the inner ear. Since it does not pass through the "gatekeeper"---the middle ear---this barrier, some noisy background sounds and some important sounds will be It also penetrates into the inner ear, which will make people unable to concentrate. In order to achieve better learning results, it is necessary to enhance concentration. If most of the sound passes through the bones, you will not be able to concentrate, which will inevitably destroy your concentration. Therefore, it is necessary to weaken the absorption of sound by the bones. Can the filtered music be transmitted directly to the bones, thereby reducing the bone's absorption of sound? In order to achieve this purpose, it placed an oscillator on the person's head while listening to high-frequency filtered music to test the effect of people absorbing sound. The results show that his method can indeed weaken the bone's absorption of sound, and can achieve the purpose of making people listen mainly with their ears. Subsequently, the behavior of ADHD users has been greatly improved. Children and teenagers My grades in school have also improved a lot.
U.S. trials have proven that high-frequency music therapy can be effective in treating autism, ADHD, dyslexia and depression.
Autism:
"Autism" is a developmental disorder characterized by disorganized integration of senses and communication, typically manifesting in the first three years of life in boys. It is four times more common in girls and is found in all races and societies around the world.
High-frequency music therapy can help autistic users adjust their physical condition. Although there is no guarantee that the user can recover in a short time, it can greatly improve the lonely living condition. Our products can reduce the symptoms of isolation to a very small level. Its principle is to stimulate the brain by stimulating the auditory system.
According to the different time and methods of conditioning treatment for each person with autism, the results of conditioning treatment will also be different. In addition, the progress of conditioning treatment is not a straight line. Sometimes the effect is good and sometimes the effect is slightly worse. However, when you persist for a period of time, you will see the following significant effects:
1) Reduce sensitivity to sound: They will be able to handle noise better. Able to do different things while hearing other sounds. Because they no longer feel threatened by the sounds surrounding them and begin to gradually establish a connection with what is going on around them, thereby reducing their impatience.
2) Begin to learn to focus: It is the lonely person who becomes attuned and able to focus on a certain thing.
3) Reduce resistance: When their resistance is reduced, they will show a desire to communicate with others, and their social skills will gradually increase.
4) Become cuter: The child will take the initiative to sit on your lap, looking forward to playing with you and being caressed.
5) Improve language skills: The language skills of withdrawn children will improve significantly. They will try to make various sounds and experiment with their own voices. With certain language skills, withdrawn children's way of speaking will also change. They can use longer sentences, use more suitable words to describe things, and use "I" and "you" correctly. The mastery of language skills will stimulate the user's desire to communicate.
6) Reduce picky eaters: Those who are picky eaters begin to accept a variety of foods, including those that they have never eaten before.
7) Feeling better about themselves: Once they are able to connect with their voice, they will begin to feel better about themselves.
8) Improve social skills: They will start to find new people and know how to communicate with others.
9) Listen better to other people’s opinions.
10) Be able to take the initiative to talk to others.
11) Reduce provocation and radical behavior.
12) Learn to protect yourself from getting hurt.
13) Better eye contact: They can start communicating with you with their eyes, learn to look at people when speaking, and start paying attention to what they see. Because people with autism are very sensitive to sounds, they must first be conditioned and treated. When this is cured, they will learn to truly listen. Our products open access to sensory synthesis, improve listening skills and enhance sensory synthesis. Improve their communication skills.
People with autism are so sensitive that they suffer intolerable pain that cannot be properly expressed in words. As they process every sound that comes in, they become inexplicably temperamental and need to repeat the same words, phrases, or sentences over and over to express themselves.
Children with autism often suffer a lot because of their super-high sensitivity. When they feel too many sounds, they cannot concentrate. Over time, they will become Alienation and isolation.
Highly sensitive indicators often exhibit a self-protective behavior. They can cover their ears with their hands as a way to comfort and stabilize themselves when they encounter strong chaotic sounds.
So why are they so sensitive to sound? The reason lies in the way we listen. We all use our ears and bodies to listen. Our skin and bones act as sound sensors, and our bodies respond to sounds. And when people listen with their ears, some useless background sounds will be filtered out, or the intensity of the background sounds will be reduced, so they hear the main sound that is really effective. But most children, teenagers, and adults with autism primarily use their bodies to "hear." The sound enters the brain directly from the body without being filtered. Being disturbed by this sound means that irrelevant background noise is also transmitted. Many people with autism simply lack the ability to remove background noise.
ADHD
More and more people are talking about ADHD. Especially for children with ADHD, parents are worried about having such a child in the family. There are some such students in the school, and the teachers want them to leave the class in their inner thoughts. Because the main characteristic of ADHD is difficulty in concentrating and being unable to concentrate, even if children know that they have such a problem, although they try to restrain themselves, they still cannot control themselves and often engage in involuntary behaviors. Why?
ADHD has long been a topic of debate. Some marketers believe that ADHD lacks support from pathological evidence and should not be considered a disease, while other experts believe that ADHD is a hereditary mental disorder. The entire pathology and structure of ADHD have not been fully investigated, and we still don’t know which part of the brain is related to ADHD. So let’s not discuss the correctness of that expert’s theory, but focus on how to help users overcome ADHD through high-frequency music therapy.
We mentioned earlier that when you listen, you not only listen with your ears, but also with the bones and skin of our body. When we cry, our bodies will instinctively shudder or even get "goosebumps."
That's because moans enter our brains directly through the bones, without any sound filtering or warning. But if the sound received by the ears is reduced to an intensity that we can adapt to, then the body can help the ears warn the sound in advance. With ADHD, their bones are mainly listening, so when all sounds are transmitted directly to their brains without filtering, they will be at a loss because they lack the ability to block out the background noise around them. And each sound has the same intensity, so you may lose some important words when you speak, and the speaker may be unhappy because you didn't hear it. Even if you want to hear what others say, but the external The noise is always disturbing you and causing you more distress. This also includes: feeling emotionally overwhelmed; having difficulty studying because of distractions; feeling shy and unable to concentrate; always trying to catch up with other people's learning speed but never being able to; feeling helpless and confused; feeling less than A feeling of inferiority; you may be quiet sometimes, may keep reacting to every word spoken by others, move from one topic to another, and never stop at one topic. In short, if you have these symptoms, then you may have ADHD. What should I do if I have ADHD? No matter what kind of conditioning treatment method is adopted, it will last for a long time, and their purpose is to get the best results.
Clinicians use sports methods to stimulate the ear vestibule. This will have better results, but it is not very convenient to use.
When a sensory organ cannot work properly, problems will occur in our learning process and the entire perception system. For some children, they can improve their sensory synthesis ability without any effort through daily play and games. But for others, sensory synthesis develops in a disrupted condition, causing problems in learning, growth, and behavior.
Dr. Ai Rui believes that these problems are due to the poor development of the "auricular vestibule". She believes that it is important for the auricular vestibule to maintain a stable and alert state. The auricular vestibular system helps maintain the balance of the arousal level of the mental system. A low-energy vestibular system can lead to overactivity and distraction. Although there are many ways to overactive the vestibule, doing so will not have any good results because the vestibule cannot translate it into something useful in the brain. stimulation.
Over the years, we have been helping people with ADHD through "listening". We use music therapy to help users coordinate the functions of the ear vestibule, reduce the bone conduction of sound, and make the right ear the main hearing ear.
"Efficient music" can first increase the energy of the ears, giving it the ability to process all sounds. At the same time, "efficient music" will also weaken the body's absorption of sounds. After a period of time, the user will be able to absorb sounds primarily with their ears like a normal person.
Dyslexia
What is dyslexia? Maybe you know someone who has dyslexia. Their general symptoms are problems in listening, writing, reading, spelling or calligraphy. The main reasons for these problems are the following three points:
1) Analyze sounds
The impact of dyslexia on everyone is different, but their most common symptom is that their reading ability is much lower than that of their peers.
Reading, whether it is reading aloud or silently, must deal with sound. Sound is a very complex mixture of different frequencies and intensities. It is very difficult to analyze it quickly and accurately. Even the most sophisticated computers have difficulties. Generally speaking, analyzing sound is in the inner ear, more precisely. In "Cochlear". Dyslexia occurs when the "cochlea" cannot accurately analyze sounds. Every sound has a basic frequency and some higher frequencies (or higher harmonics). When the basic frequency of the sound is the same but the high-frequency sounds are different, dyslexic people cannot distinguish the basic frequency. It is different from higher frequency.
2) Ear-eye coordination
Reading is a complex work movement that requires the ears and eyes to cooperate and synchronize. As your eyes read each word, your ears recognize the corresponding sounds you make when you read them. The vestibule then guides your eyes from word to word, guiding the cochlea to translate each word into a sound.
Under normal circumstances, these processes occur almost simultaneously, but the trouble is that one of the time processes is sung for too long, causing the eyes and ears to not work at the same time. Each sound has its own length of time, and the ears are constantly adapting to these rapid changes. When the ears cannot adapt to these changes, the eyes and ears cannot work in sync. When the word seen and the word heard by the ears are not released at the same time, it can be said that there is no sound and the word seen is death. The meaning of the words cannot be revealed. Therefore, people with dyslexia will use "guess", hoping that a miracle will happen, and hope that the pronunciation of the final guess will match the text they see.
3) Luck is an ear
And improving music therapy can help you use your right ear more effectively.
Depression
In recent years, depression has gradually become known to the general public, and its harm is also obvious. There are nearly 30 million patients with depression in our country. The number of people who commit suicide, attempt suicide, and commit crimes due to depression every year far exceeds the number of casualties caused by traffic accidents every year. The economic loss is nearly 70 billion yuan, and these numbers are still rising. What is even more frightening is that this disease is spreading to people with high education and high IQ.
Because the causative factors of depression are too complex, scientists from various countries still have not reached a satisfactory conclusion. But scientists have found that diet, physical fatigue and nerve stimulation, especially visual and auditory stimulation, are the biggest similarities among almost all patients with depression. Therefore, we have concentrated a lot of manpower and material resources to develop "high frequency music therapy".
High-frequency music therapy stimulates the ear auditory system through air oscillation and directly conducts through human bones. These two methods stimulate the brain. Although it cannot cure the patient in a short time, it can greatly improve the user's condition. Mental state and quality of life. Of course, due to the differences in the time and degree of illness and each patient, the results of treatment are also different. However, after using it for a period of time according to the instructions on the product, you will find how significant the effect of high-frequency music therapy is:
1. Improve sleep quality. Users can enter a deep sleep state faster, and the frequency of dreaming, insomnia, early awakening, awakening, and sudden awakening for unknown reasons is significantly reduced or even rarely occurs, greatly improving the user's sleep quality;
< p>2. Restore self-esteem, self-confidence, and maintain a good mood. Patients with depression have one big thing in common: lack of self-confidence and self-esteem, over-reliance on others, thoughtfulness, sentimentality, weakness, etc. After a period of conditioning, users can regain their self-confidence and self-esteem to varying degrees and no longer belittle themselves or give up on themselves;3. Maintain a good mood and state of mind. Many patients with depression have gloomy expressions, listlessness, sleepiness, and are prone to tears. Patients who cry often use words such as "depressed", "desolate", "dull", "empty" and "lonely". After the conditioning of high-frequency music therapy, the user's mind will no longer be clouded and dark, and he can better integrate into society and communicate with others;
4. Change cognition. People with depression usually lack interest in daily activities and experience no pleasure in various entertainment or pleasant things. Users can regain their interest in external things and actively participate in them, and can fully experience the fun and enjoy the happy mood;
5. Change behavior. Patients with depression usually have very low volitional activity, making it difficult to concentrate on work, and some even lack the ability to get up and wash themselves. After conditioning, the user can restore normal behavioral abilities, concentrate more easily and for a longer period of time, and concentrate on work and study.
Patients with depression are tortured by negative emotions such as low self-esteem, loneliness, and boredom all the time, and suffer a lot of pain, and this pain cannot be expressed or vented in words and actions. In this case, even if they receive a little stimulation from the outside world through vision and hearing, they will have many inexplicable reactions. Over time, this reaction will get bigger and bigger, and gradually develop to harm yourself, your loved ones around you, and even innocent people.
As mentioned above, visual or auditory stimulation has been recognized as an important factor in depression. The reason is that both the visual system and the auditory system are directly connected to the brain and are closest to the brain, so they can stimulate the brain fastest and to the greatest extent.