When Your Tinnitus Is Really Bothering You, What Do You Say to Yourself to Calm Down?

Basically, what are some thoughts you have to either overcome the negative emotions or relax? Also, can you do this and tune it out faster?

 

Few glasses of red wine helps take the edge off for me.

 

"if this gets bad enough i can take a pill"

"I've been though this before and come out of it again"

"i love things and i can visualize the love leaving my body in waves"

"mantra: may i be held in loving kindness. may i know peace and comfort in the world"

 

I used mental imagery technique described in my success story. It works for me but may not work for others. I mean if every loud spike is going to bring a mental blackhole for the rest of my life, I rather accept the mental imagery alternative to deal with the huge spikes. Check my success story 'From Darkness to Light...' for detail as I actually post some videos for this technique.

 

"The worst always passes, also this time"

"I have spent so much time agonizing and that never did anything, so I will skip that part this time"

 

have a beer, take an emergency shower for really bad spikes, clean the house, anything to put your attention elsewhere.

 

If it gets bad, I generally turn on a playlist of beautiful songs to distract me.

 

This..
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/back-to-silence.7172/#post-81327

 

Once your mind stops perceiving tinnitus as a threat, it will no longer cause stress or anxiety. For example, I hear it, but could care less.

 

I'm going to start going to yoga again. I get so focused on my poses and listening to the teacher and any music they may play that I think it will really help my tinnitus. Yoga also makes my body feel better overall so that's an added bonus.

 

Anxiety + alcohol.

Nope.

 

I do a lot of things others here do.

What I also do is just try to offer it up to God. I say "Jesus, I surrender this to you; You take care of it". It helps me tremendously.

 

As awful as it is I thank my lucky stars it's not terminal.

 

There's always tomorrow!

 

Hey what do you guys think about this statement: I don't hear it anymore in all those past days that it bothered me. Why not view today from the viewpoint of tomorrow looking back on today?