Description

Listening for the Light is for parents, teachers, principals, psychiatrists, doctors, psychologists, nurses, music therapists, and anyone else concerned about people suffering from dyslexic syndrome, schizophrenia, bipolarity, depression, addictions, substance abuse, or other abnormal behavior.

Listening for the Light is the story of a mother’s struggle to understand and to find help for a child diagnosed, first, as dyslexic and, when Daniel was 16, as schizophrenic. Ten years later, when he reached for her headphones and reacted immediately to the music, the author applied Focused Listening (with his right ear) to high-frequency music for two hours per day. This innovative technique healed his schizophrenia. While she was studying to find out how and why Focused Listening was healing him, she made a discovery that unlocked the mystery of mental illness, of normal brain processes, and of physical and spiritual health.

The Tallman Paradigm is a new, neurological framework that explains behavior. It builds on and extends discoveries made by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and by Alfred Tomatis. The paradigm is simple: we have two brains and the left one has to dominate the right one for the person to learn, think, or behave normally. The dominance of the left hemisphere of the brain depends on the strength and flexibility (tonus) of a tiny muscle in the right ear that controls the flow of high-frequency sounds into the inner ear and into the brain, especially the left-brain. The tonus of that stapedius muscle is essential to providing an accurate and strong flow of sound energy that drives integration speeds. Focused Listening to high-frequency music strengthens that muscle.

450 pages. softcover. Illustrations, diagrams, notes, bibliography, appendices, index.