Hearing Center: Improve Your Ability to Hear

Most doctors will tell you there's little you can do to improve your natural senses. This flies in the face of case after case of blind individuals who have a heightened sense of hearing, and other similar examples. While you may not be able to physically lower or raise the level of sound you are capable of listening to, you can certainly get more in tune with the abilities you already have. In practical terms, that is just as important. A hearing center may be able to give you a listening aid that improves volume, but you may already have the key that can unlock a greater ability to hear on your own. Relax It sounds like the most useless advice ever written, but relaxing the muscles in your face can have a positive effect on your ability to hear. Try smiling or otherwise tensing your ears. You'll find that the canals leading to your inner ear are choked off to some degree. So if you're trying to overhear what the people in the other room are saying about you, your best bet is to ignore your natural impulse to tense up and just relax the muscles of your face. Enjoy Some Silence Your ears attenuate themselves to the sounds around them. This is why you find rock musicians (who haven't actually lost some auditory function) often look puzzled when you mention how loud it is when they play. By the same token, landscapers may not realize how loud their equipment is. They're used to it. You may not be exposing yourself to this level of volume on a daily basis, but even the average person is surrounded by volume all the time. Take a break from all this noise. Enjoy some silence and give your ears a chance to get used to listening to nothing at all. Pay Attention One of the first pieces of advice a hearing center will give to someone who has an impairment is to try and concentrate when someone is talking to them. By taking that advice from a hearing center and becoming an active listener, you'll find that you are able to pick out much more than you otherwise could. Don't just pay attention to words and volume when talking to someone. Listen for vocal changes, tonal variations, and everything else there is to hear. It won't be natural to listen for those things at first, but if you practice it will become human nature. Before you know it, listening to the sounds around you has become a 3D experience and you'll find that speech is a pleasure.