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Evidence for Joudry Sound Therapy

Rafaele Joudry M. Psych

Rafaele Joudry is the Founder and Director of Sound Therapy International. She has authored three books and designed a practitioner education program on Sound Therapy. She has completed her Masters and is currently undertaking her PhD and leading a team of practitioners in Sound Therapy research. She is looking for Doctors interested in collaboration.

www.soundtherapy.com.au

Premise
Joudry Sound Therapy is an effective treatment for tinnitus because it directly stimulates the ear mechanism in such away as to improve both the mechanical, muscular function of the middle ear and the sensorineural function of the cochlea. It also activates many brain centres simultaneously, thus promoting the creation of new brain connections and better neural integration between auditory centres as well as integration with other sensory pathways.

Definition and Scope of Joudry Sound Therapy
Joudry Sound Therapy is a treatment system based on the discoveries of the ENT Dr Alfred Tomatis. New treatment protocols and improved algorithms have advanced the therapy to render it more potent in the treatment of tinnitus and other ear related problems.

Music Therapy. Extensive evidence exists for the efficacy of music therapy in altering stress, mood states and assisting with a range of health disorders. In particular the music of Mozart has proven beneficial in assisting mood and also stimulating neurological connections and improving intelligence and short term memory.

Tinnitus - is learning to live with it still the best answer?
Because no suitable drug therapy has been found for tinnitus there is a tendency to accept that the condition is untreatable. However stimulation and retraining methods have been found to deliver relief for the majority and in some cases total recovery.

Masking. Tinnitus masking was discovered in 1977 by Jack Vernon who observed that an external sound is easier to tolerate than an internal sound and went on to develop specialised devices for masking tinnitus. While helpful to some sufferers, this method was found effective in providing temporary relief only.

Habituation theory. In the 1980s Dr Pawell Jastreboff and Dr Jonathan Hazel, developed the theory of habituation which holds that tinnitus only becomes a problem if the limbic system is activated and the patient associates the tinnitus with stress or another negative emotion. Jastreboff developed Tinnitus Retraining Therapy which uses counselling and sound generators to train the patient not to pay attention to the tinnitus.

This method has gained wide acceptance in the audiology profession. It provides a measure of relief but requires a fair time commitment, and cost, as subjects must attend a course of training to learn the method.

Intermittent masking. In the 1990s a program was developed by Dr Paul Davis and marketed under the brand name Neuromonics. This program delivers a more tailored form of masking which has proved more palatable as it is delivered via music, giving an intermittent effect at a level tailored for the patient. However, the cost is prohibitive for many tinnitus sufferers. The efficacy of this method has not been verified by independent research.

Ear rehabilitation. Dr Tomatis’s discoveries provide a unique approach wherein ear function is rehabilitated using classical music processed with particular algorithms to create a stimulating effect for the ear. His work has been largely overlooked in the audiological field due to the fact that the short term treatment possible in the clinic setting was usually insufficient to produce the needed changes to affect tinnitus. However, the portable program developed by Joudry uses a different protocol which allows for more intensive, long term treatment, and is now proving to be highly effective in this area.

The improvements made to the Joudry program include:

The physiological basis of Sound Therapy
Dr Tomatis in the 1950s invented a method of Sound Therapy where the frequencies in classical music are altered to provide a physical stimulus for the ear as well as the brain.

Tomatis advanced some radical ideas about the ear and nervous system for which he was acclaimed during his lifetime by the French academies of medicine and science. Several of his theories were tested and confirmed at the Sorbonne University. His premises, established through clinical observation included the following:

Efferent impulses activate the ear
The middle ear mechanism is an active organ which responds via efferent nerve stimulus to incoming sounds. While generally thought of as passive, the middle ear muscles tend to be ignored in seeking remedial solutions for ear problems. Their only recognised role is generally the impedance of loud sound, which could damage the ear. However, Weeks and Richards through investigating the role of the cranial nerves and efferent impulses arising within the Superior Olivary Complex in the brain stem, confirmed that there is a voluntary and proactive component to our hearing. In fact it appears that we are continually tuning the middle ear in order to focus on sounds that we deem to warrant our attention.

Sound can improve ossicular performance
The middle ear muscles can be activated by alternating high and low tones, leading to permanent improvement of their functioning. Tomatis made this discovery after many hours of clinical experimentation with his filtering device, the Electronic Ear. Though more interested himself in psychological aspects of hearing, and in treating autism and dyslexia, he laid the foundation for others to exploit his breakthrough for “ear physiotherapy.”

High frequencies reactivate the cilia
Moving through to the cochlea, Tomatis found that presenting the ear with increasing high frequency sound enhances the capacity of the ear to respond to high frequencies. He developed a program which progressively increases the high frequency content of the sound, increasing both tolerance and capacity for frequencies of 8,000Hz and above. Standard medical advice holds that if the cilia are damaged by noise or infection, they have most likely been destroyed and no improvement in hearing can eventuate. This has been called into question by a growing body of evidence that listening to the Joudry Sound Therapy, (an extended version of Tomatis) sometimes results in significant hearing improvement for sufferers of sensorineural hearing loss. This can only be explained by the premise that the hair cells in some instances were not destroyed but only damaged, and that the repeated stimulation by gradually increasing high frequencies helped to reactivate them.

Better ear function increases appreciation of sound
Tomatis asserted that the ear can be re-trained to receive a greater range of sound by repeated stimulus to “exercise” the middle ear muscles. Listeners to the Joudry method frequently confirm this finding by observing that their appreciation of sound improves, musical and vocal ability improve and they are able to hear birdsong and appreciate music in a new way. Along with this, following a conversation becomes easier, they can hear better in different environments and many report being able to turn down the TV so they can listen without annoying the rest of the family.

The right leads language integration
Tomatis discovered that singing, speaking and all language skills are enhanced by ensuring right ear emphasis, which creates a shorter, more direct brain route for processing sound in the left hemisphere. While it is generally accepted that the primary processing centre for language is on the left, no one apart from Tomatis has used this knowledge to create a simple, auditory remedial program for laterality confusion and the resulting learning and language problems. Tomatis discovered this phenomenon by accident when working with singers who he found greatly improved their vocal range, control and fluency when monitoring themselves with the right as opposed to the left ear. He found that subjects could be trained to be right ear dominant by consistently supplying louder sound to the right ear.

High frequency bombardment improves brain energy and integration
Perhaps the most groundbreaking of Tomatis’s discoveries was that intensified high frequency sounds, primarily in the range of 8,000 to 16,000 Hz, consistently supplied, serve to stimulate and enhance brain function. This has implications for a wide range of brain disorders from depression to epilepsy, but also explains the benefit of the method to stress, anxiety and general wellbeing. Tomatis said that the brain needs to receive 3 to 4 billion stimuli per second for at least 4 ½ hours per day in order to function at optimum potential. Various forms of brain stimulation have been looked at for their therapeutic impact on dystonia, stroke rehabilitation, depression and chronic pain. By using classical music with augmented high frequencies, Tomatis found a way, via the auditory system, of making brain stimulus more acceptable and universally beneficial to the nervous system.

Supporting evidence for Tomatis’s discoveries
Enhanced Brain states. Davidson of Madison University has studied the ability of humans to create and maintain positive emotional states and has integrated Western medical investigation with the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism by engaging in extensive enquiries with the Dalai Lama and other leading Tibetan lamas. Davidson’s research shows that certain centres in the left hemisphere of the brain, which are activated by meditation, contribute to more positive emotional states. This corroborates Tomatis’s discovery that stimulating the left hemisphere via the right ear emphasis produces beneficial results.

Classical music. Tomatis and Joudry Sound Therapy are delivered through classical music that has been altered to enrich the high frequencies, provide a right ear emphasis and present the ear with constantly alternating sounds of high and low tones in a particular algorithm, using Tomatis’s purpose made filtering system, the Electronic Ear. Western classical music is most suitable for this system due to the fact that it uniquely combines complex rhythm, melody and harmony to a greater degree than any other form of music, thereby stimulating numerous parts of the brain at one time. This is believed to enhance brain connectivity by causing connections to be formed by many diverse regions of the brain. Through experimentation Tomatis established that classical music was the most suitable type of music to use for Sound Therapy. The clinic based Tomatis method was used extensively to treat dyslexia, autism and a variety of listening or auditory processing disorders.

Tomatis research. A variety of beneficial effects of the Tomatis method have been recorded in research at specialised clinics in South Africa, Canada and Australia. These include benefits for dyslexia, anxiety and depression, language disorders, stuttering, mental retardation, learning difficulties, vocal quality and tinnitus.

Ear disorders showing improvement. The Tomatis method was made portable in 1984 by the Joudrys, so longer-term treatment became feasible as cost and convenience were dramatically improved. This led to evidence that on-going Sound Therapy can assist in certain cases with a number of ear related problems not previously considered treatable. These include various types of hearing loss: sensorineural, acquired hearing loss, industrial deafness, age related hearing loss and conductive hearing loss for which there is often a muscular component. They also include blocked ear, hyperacusis (sound sensitivity) cocktail party syndrome (difficulty hearing in a noisy room) and tinnitus (ringing in the ears.)

Data has been gathered for these effects through extensive written testimonials, surveys and clinical observations by some 200 allied health practitioners who recommend the method.

Evidence of success with tinnitus
There is extensive clinical evidence for the portable Tomatis (Joudry) method in the form of surveys, case histories and in depth interviews with clients.

A survey of Sound Therapy listeners found that 90% of tinnitus sufferers benefited from the method in that it reduced stress, anxiety and sleeplessness associated with the tinnitus. 45% experienced a reduction in the noise level and 7% found their symptoms were completely gone. Of hearing loss sufferers, 56% reported improvement. Improvements were observed through changes on audiograms, decreased volume required on Walkman or TV, being able to hear better in noisy environments, on the phone or when the speaker had their back turned. Such changes made a significant difference to the person’s life.

Numerous practitioners from various fields including musicians, psychologists, medical doctors and audiologists have become advocates and as independent practitioners actively promote and recommend the method.

Eric Jordan, a UK based audiometrician treated 200 to 300 tinnitus patients over a 2 year period and observed that 90% of patients benefited. Though not a formal study, this nevertheless constitutes objective, clinical observation of patients using the method in their day to day lives by a pracitioner interested and experienced in the tinnitus field.

As most of these results have been gathered from qualitative measures of actual clinical applications, including the personal reports from the clients on the impact on their lives, they are more informative than single quantitative measures from controlled research situations. More extensive research is needed to determine more precise statistics for the potential results in each category of hearing disorder. However, the information gathered so far leaves no doubt that Sound Therapy is beneficial to most people suffering from a hearing related complaint and that in many instances it can be quite life changing. The affordability of this method makes it a very favourable and low risk option for tinnitus sufferers when compared to other treatments available.

A Non-pharmaceutical Treatment for ADD

Sound Therapy in the Treatment of Dyslexia, ADD/ADHD, Delayed Speech, and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Today more and more parents are looking for non pharmaceutical treatments for the increasing levels of learning difficulties affecting their children. Creating a toxin free environment is of vital importance so that growing children do not become overloaded with chemicals that the liver cannot process. Early exposure to chemicals is being linked to developmental delays and learning disorders.
In addition to good nutrition and assistance with detoxification, a very important aspect of treatment, too often overlooked by learning difficulty specialists is treatment through auditory retraining, or Sound Therapy. This treatment is now available as a home based therapeutic listening program which assists listening, brain function and language development. Evidence points to the potential benefit of Sound Therapy in counteracting today’s environmental assaults on the developing child. Dr Veira Scheibner, who is well known for her extensive research in the vaccination field, suggests that Sound Therapy is an important treatment to assist the child’s brain to recover from the damage caused by vaccination or other environmental toxins.

Why the ear
Dr Tomatis the ear specialist and originator of Sound Therapy said “We read with our ears.” This theory is founded upon the fact that the ear is the only primary sense organ which is registered at all three levels of the brain, the brain stem, mid brain and cortex. In contrast the visual sense is seated only in the cortex. It is for this reason that Tomatis believed that perceptual problems often need to be addressed through the auditory function.

Julia, Dive, a tutor specialising in Sound Therapy explains the importance of listening when a child is learning to read: “if children can’t hear the sounds, if they can’t relate a sound to the symbol, then they have trouble having it register in their head and then relating that sound again to that symbol next time they see it. They need to able to understand, see the letter, hear the letter and reproduce the sound of that letter next time they see it. And then they need to be able to blend that letter in with all the other letters that form a word and be able to reproduce that sound again. And Sound Therapy, I think actually helps that process of what happens after the sound goes into the head and then where it goes inside your brain and what your brain does with it and how it spits it back out again at the other side.”

For this complex decoding process to occur, millions of brain connections are needed. Susan Greenfield, a leading educator on the human brain, explains that axons and dendrites, the tiny filaments which enable communication between the neurones, are created in response to stimulation of the brain. This stimulus could simply be from thinking about something of interest, or it could be a sound, particularly a high frequency sound. Dr Alfred Tomatis who developed the Sound Therapy program in the 1950s, made crucial discoveries on the neurological and psychological fronts. These included the fact that the brain needs a concentrated input of high frequency sound in order to function at maximum potential, and that the baby’s brain develops much of its basic structure from hearing language while still in utero. The growing foetus actually hears the mothers voice.

Dr Veira Scheibner explains that Sound Therapy creates new brain connections, restoring some of the damage done by vaccination. Once the nutritional and detoxification aspects have been addressed, many practitioners believe Sound Therapy is an important tool for restoring neurological functioning.

Other leading specialists have reached the same conclusions as Tomatis about the importance of the ear in learning. Dr Levinson, author of Smart but Feeling Dumb has specialised in the clinical treatment of dyslexia and ADD for several decades and, like Tomatis, concludes that these problems are somehow related to the ear. His approach, however, is to treat the ear with pharmaceutical remedies, while Dr Tomatis treated it with sound.

Conditions treated successfully with Sound Therapy
Dyslexia. Word reversal, one of the typical symptoms of dyslexia, is according to Tomatis’s theory, linked to left ear dominance. Sound Therapy encourages right ear dominance, thereby improving the efficiency of the brain in delivering sounds directly to the left hemisphere which is primarily responsible for language.

ADD/ADHD Sound Therapy improves attention by increasing high frequency perception, processing speed, and the ability to inhibit action and therefore decide on the appropriateness of an action before jumping in.
Autism is typified by hyperacusis or phonophobia (sensitivity to or fear of loud sounds.). Sound Therapy increases the resilience of the ear in accommodating the full range of frequencies. It also improves language integration and increases the ability for meaningful communication.

Speech problems such as stuttering and delayed speech development are frequently remedied by Sound Therapy. If there have been ear problems or emotional problems at a crucial stage of development, neural patterning may be interrupted. Sound Therapy stimulates the process of speech patterning and allows listeners to catch up with speech development.

Down’s syndrome. Research in recent years has shown that hearing problems play a major role in the disabilities experienced by children with Down’s syndrome. As both hearing and auditory processing are improved, children with Down’s syndrome show significant social and learning improvements.

Pre natal development. Dr Tomatis investigated the role of sound in the unborn foetus and demonstrated that much of the neuronal patterning of the brain is laid down as a result of the child listening to its mother’s voice while in the womb. When the mother listens to high frequencies, her voice is stimulated, having a beneficial effect on the developing foetus.

Inner ear dysfunction
The ear has been described as “the Rome of the body,” because so many of the cranial nerves are linked to a some part of the ear. The auditory nerve has branches surrounding the ocular motor nerve, indicating its control of eye tracking. Dr Levinson says, “The inner ear system has been proven to direct and guide our eyes and tracking responses automatically during the reading process.”

Through thousands of case studies Levinson came to the realisation that in every case of dyslexia the unifying factor was inner ear dysfunction. He realised that dyslexia affects every aspect of ones life, auditory and visual processing as well as motor coordination and balance, both waking and sleeping. Hence, he says: “I came to view the inner-ear system as a fine-tuner for the entire sensory input and motor output system.” This led to understanding of the role of the cerebellum, which could be seen as the grand central station linking the local exchange of the inner ear to the final destination of the cortex.

The cerebellum
The cerebellum plays a significant role in sensory coordination, both visual and auditory, and has been dubbed by Susan Greenfield the ‘autopilot of the brain.’ Levinson believes that any learning difficulty associated with auditory processing problems is linked to the cerebellum.

The following graphic description of the cerebellum and its vital gate-keeping role in the human body is from a Scientific American article by R. Snider. With a group of outstanding neurophysiologists he reached these conclusions after completing a series of animal experiments.

“In the back of our skulls, perched upon the brain stem is a baseball sized, bean-bag shaped lump of grey and white brain tissue. This is the cerebellum, the “lesser brain.” In contrast to the cerebrum, where men have sought and found the centres of so many vital mental activities, the cerebellum remains a region of subtle and tantalising mystery, its function hidden from investigators….Its elusive signals have begun to tell us that, while the cerebellum itself directs no body functions, it operates as monitor and coordinator of the brain’s other centres and as mediator between them and the body…”

Many other studies have corroborated the evidence for the inner ear dysfunction theory. When numerous dyslexics tested at four leading hospitals with electronystagmography (ENG), a special physiological inner-ear testing method, 90% showed definite evidence of inner-ear dysfunction.

Correspondence with Tomatis’s views
Levinson analysed 35,000 dyslexics, the largest sample ever he claims. He paid great and detailed attention to all symptoms he observed, and eventually wove the symptoms together into a new understanding of dyslexia. His conclusion was the same as Dr Tomatis’s, that dyslexia is caused by an inner ear dysfunction, which can affect capabilities in any or all of the following areas.

Reading, writing, spelling, mathematics, memory, direction, time, speech, hyperactivity, overactivity, impulsiveness, concentration and distractibility, ADD ADHD, phobias and related mental behavioural disorders, balance and coordination.

ADD ADHD
Levinson found that ninety percent of children diagnosed with ADD/ ADHD have inner ear related problems similar to dyslexics. He therefore concludes that both dyslexia and ADD originate from the same cause, but have been slightly differently defined leading to different diagnoses. However, both have proved responsive to treatment with Sound Therapy, corroborating both Levinson and Tomatis’s view that finely tuned ear function is fundamental to learning.

Pre-Natal Listening
Dr Tomatis, made significant discoveries about the role of the ear and sound in the prenatal development of the brain. Sound is the first sense to develop fully in the womb. The foetus's ear is ready to perceive sound at four and a half months. The baby listens to its mother's heartbeat, respiration and digestive sounds. Dr.Tomatis believes that the baby can also hear the mother's voice and becomes familiar with this sound before birth.
 
The sound of the mother's voice with its familiar tone and rhythm is what provides continuity between the prenatal and post-natal worlds. The infant is particularly accustomed to the high frequency sounds of the voice as heard in the womb, and therefore is immediately reassured when presented with high frequency sounds filtered to a similar level.

When the mother listens to Sound Therapy during her pregnancy, the benefits she receives are passed on to the infant. The effects of listening for the mother are a soothing of her whole system and a stimulation to the cortex of the brain from the high frequency sound.

The hormonal shift experienced by the mother at birth sometimes causes post natal depression. This can be greatly alleviated by the continued use of Sound Therapy after giving birth, as well as by herbal treatment to balance the hormones.

Dyslexia
The left hemisphere of the brain is the main center for processing language. In order for speech sounds to reach the brain efficiently the right ear must take a leading role in listening, because the right ear communicates most directly with the left brain hemisphere.

Dr. Tomatis contends that children with dyslexia have failed to achieve right ear dominance and that therefore the order in which they hear sound becomes jumbled. The balance between the two hemispheres of the brain is of fundamental importance in overcoming dyslexia. Both hemispheres play a role in processing language, but the roles they play are different. The eye must combine with the power and the quality of the ear to make sense of the written sounds. This co-ordination happens easily when the left hemisphere deals primarily with audition and the right hemisphere deals primarily with vision. In dyslexia, the route which allows for phonic analysis has been damaged. Sound Therapy restores the functioning of this route and eliminates the cause of the problem.

Sound Therapy stimulates and exercises the ear, teaching it to receive and interpret sound in an efficient manner. Music is a highly organised series of sounds that the ear has to analyse. Therefore, listening to music is an excellent way for a child to learn how to perceive sounds in an organised fashion, or in other words, to listen. The higher volume of sound to the right ear, which is built into all Sound Therapy recordings, means that the right ear is educated to be the directing ear. When this right ear dominance is achieved, the problem of reversal will frequently disappear.

Autism spectrum disorders
Many children with autism spectrum disorders exhibit extreme sensitivity to noise. Some frequencies are actually painful for them to hear. Dr. Tomatis suggests that in order to shut out painful sounds or other unwanted stimuli the child closes down the hearing mechanism so that certain sounds cannot penetrate the consciousness. On a physiological level, this closing off of the ear is achieved by a relaxation of the muscles of the middle ear. Over time, these muscles lose their tonicity. Sounds are then imprecisely perceived and as a result incorrectly analysed.

Sound Therapy offers a child with autism the opportunity to re-open the listening capacity. The fluctuating sounds produced by the Electronic Ear gradually exercise and tone the ear muscles, teaching the ear to respond to and recognise the full range of frequencies. As this happens, communication takes on new meanings and the child begins to respond where before he or she was unreachable.

Sound Therapy recreates the pre-birth experience of audition and enables emotional contact to be made first with the mother and then with other people.

Children with autism respond to Sound Therapy by showing a greater interest in making contact and communicating with the people around them. Interactions with their family members become more affectionate and appropriate. There is often increased eye contact and the children have a longer attention span.

Attention Deficit Disorder
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are believed to be caused by a deficiency in the transmission system which relays messages between cells in various parts of the brain.

The majority of children with ADD/ADHD have auditory reception problems. Although they can hear they cannot make sense of what they hear, because the ear and the brain are not working efficiently to process the sound. They have difficulty tuning out unwanted input and focusing on selected sounds.

It is this indiscriminate reception of auditory input which leads to the inability to concentrate on a selected topic for any length of time. Where hyperactivity is part of the child’s condition, there are additional problems of impulsiveness, behavioural problems and poor social skills.

Sound Therapy provides this rehabilitation for the ear and re-organises the auditory transmission in the brain. This process reduces stress and tension in the whole nervous system as the child becomes able to attend to a chosen stimulus instead of being constantly distracted by every sound in the environment.

Very dramatic results can be achieved with Sound Therapy for children with ADD/ADHD. The first change to be observed will be a marked decrease in activity (for overactive children) while under active children will become more energised. As the listening discrimination is retrained, memory and concentration improves so that learning can be achieved with a great deal less effort. Sleep and appetite problems are resolved as the whole system becomes calmer and less erratic. The behavioural difficulties, such as impulsiveness and aggression, are now brought down to a manageable level. The child is now able to pay attention in class and to understand and follow instructions and is motivated to communicate and learn.

Speech Problems
Unless there is a deformity in the vocal apparatus, most speech difficulties are caused by some interference or distortion in auditory reception. Although the hearing may test as normal, the relaying of verbal information to the brain may be impaired. Hearing your own voice is a source of constant feedback while speaking and any confusion in the sequence of received sounds can cause confusion in speech output. The results can be substitutions of one sound for another, stumbling over words or a flat and toneless voice.
Most people use the left hemisphere of the brain as the primary integrating centre for language. Some studies have shown that stutterers process language primarily in the right hemisphere or a mixture of the two. The right hemisphere is less efficient for processing auditory information, so the result is problems in the timing of speech output such as stuttering.

Speech difficulties frequently lead to problems in other areas where language is used, such as reading and writing. The element which is the basis for all these skills is the ability to hear and process sound accurately.
Dr. Tomatis made an important discovery about the relatedness of the ear to the voice. He established that the larynx emits only those harmonics that the ear hears. A lack of tone in the voice indicates a lack of tone in the hearing. Sound Therapy fine tunes the hearing and restores the ability to hear missing frequencies.

Sound Therapy is flexible, portable, easy and fun
Listening can be done during sleep, play, homework or travel. If the child wishes to listen at school, parents can ask for the consent of the teacher. This will likely be granted, as listening in the classroom will often help the child to concentrate and perform better.

Sound Therapy is used on a personal cassette player with headphones
The total listening time required for most children to receive the full benefit from the program is approximately 100 hours. Most children have an instinctive response to the acoustic stimulation of Sound Therapy and will take to the listening keenly.

Close to two hundred practitioners in Australia now recommend the method. However, the portable program means that parents can use Sound Therapy at home without needing to see a practitioner.
In its portable form, Sound Therapy is affordable, portable, easy, harmless and requires no special testing or supervision.

For more information on Sound Therapy readers are referred to the book: Why Aren’t I Learning? : Listening is the Key to Overcoming Learning Difficulties, by Rafaele Joudry

This can be obtained through your local bookstore or from Sound Therapy International Pty Ltd. Phone Australia 02 4234-4534 or 1300 55 77 96

info@soundthrapyinternational.com
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Doctors Use Mozart

Ngare Ring lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and practiced for many years as a speech pathologist, before being struck by a mysterious 21st century disease. She says “from one day to the next, my energy disappeared and I was baffled as to the cause of the problem.” But the disease, despite its debilitating effects, has proven to have changed her life for the better.

Ngare’s father, the late Dr. Frank Ellis (1912-1974) used to play Mozart and other composers to his patients during surgery when they were under local anaesthetic. He found that the music soothed and calmed them, making the experience much more comfortable and even pleasant. He adopted this procedure after spending time in the USA with the famous ear, nose and throat surgeon, Dr. Morris Cottle, who loved music and began the practice of using music during surgery. This was in the 1950s and the music he used was on a large reel-to-reel tape player. Many music connoisseurs still claim this is the best sound reproduction system ever invented.

Dr. Frank Ellis was one of Australia’s leading ENT (ear nose and throat) surgeons between the 1950’s and 1970’s and was president of the Otolarygological Society of Australia for a time. He was a pioneer in Australia in the use of microsurgery to remove austic neuromas (benign tumours of the auditory nerve).

Ngare was led to speech pathology due to her father and a lifetime interest in language which, she remembers, began even as a toddler. She believes that she was very fortunate to have been raised on classical music as it has greatly enriched her experience of speech and language. While working in California, she was able to combine her interest in language and learning with her fascination for foreign languages and became fluent enough in Spanish to work as a bilingual Special Education teacher with immigrant children from Mexico.

Ngare worked as a speech pathologist/special educator all her life until 1995 when she found that several amalgam dental fillings were cracked and she was advised by her dentist to have the fillings replaced. Being ill informed, like many dentists, on the dangers of mercury in the amalgam; the dentist removed her fillings without taking precautions to protect her from the toxic effects of gases and particles that were released during the drilling process. He then replaced her fillings with fresh mercury amalgam, which increased the level of toxicity.

That was when Ngare’s energy disappeared and, from one day to the next she, was faced with an enduring and inexplicable illness: including lethargy, migraine headaches and vision problems. Ngare was told by another dentist, who finally diagnosed her problem, that she had a very severe case of mercury poisoning along with gangrenous areas in her jawbone where wisdom teeth had been extracted. Because of all this she was also showing signs of early Multiple Sclerosis.

She sought help from many practitioners, and while pharmaceutical medicine made her condition worse, she received some relief from chiropractic and naturopathic treatment. But the beginning of the real turnaround came when she discovered Sound Therapy. Prior to this, Ngare undertook some rebirthing sessions in the hope of getting to the cause of her problems. One day the therapist asked her “tell me what you love most in the world.” Ngare was surprised to notice that the first three things she mentioned all had to do with music. During the rebirthing session, Ngare had what she describes as an incredible out-of-body experience where she saw herself sliding into a pool, surrounded by beautiful music. It was this experience that renewed her great interest in music and which eventually led to her discovery of Sound Therapy.

It was soon after the rebirthing experience that she came across the book “The Mozart Effect” by Don Campbell and from there was led to Sound Therapy, a portable self help listening program based on the work of the French ENT Specialist, Dr. Alfred Tomatis. Ngare read with fascination of the work of Dr. Tomatis who, using the reel-to-reel tape machines of the 1950s devised a listening program which not only could improve speech and language function and was a highly effective treatment for learning difficulties, but also helped to stimulate brain pathways and replenish energy systems in the body. Plagued as she was by chronic fatigue and constant severe migraine headaches related to heavy metal poisoning, Ngare was eager for anything that could give her back her vitality. She began using the Sound Therapy tapes and very soon her energy started to improve. The filtered music also gave her a feeling of hope and, from this time on, she was led to all the other things she needed. Beginning Sound Therapy was a real turning point for Ngare.

Along with a new sense of positivity, Ngare found she had an incredible new musical awareness. She says “I always loved music, but now I can’t live without it. It opens my heart.”

Dr. Tomatis, who knew of the healing power of Mozart for learning and emotional healing long before it was scientifically tested and proven, said “Mozart is a good mother.”

Given courage to seek further healing, Ngare found a Holistic dentist who replaced her amalgam fillings with the new composite type, but this time used proper protective measures such as rubber dams, oxygen supply, proper sequencing to reduce the battery-like effect of dissimilar metals in the mouth (mercury fillings and gold caps) and, of course, safe disposal of the amalgam material. She experienced immediate improvement in her health once the mercury fillings were removed. She also continued to benefit from Sound Therapy and began introducing the method to her family and clients. Ngare says that all members of her family have seen remarkable improvements from the therapy. Her husband has experienced a lowering of blood pressure and, with the reduced stress, he is like a different man. He no longer gets upset about minor things and sleeps like a baby for the first time in years. He uses the Sound Therapy while working in front of the computer. "One of the great benefits", explains Ngare "is that you don’t have to concentrate on the therapy as it works on your ear at an unconscious level, so it is very suitable for busy people."

Ngare’s mother, aged 86, had severe insomnia for many years, but now it is rare for her to have any sleeping problem. Her hearing has also improved; she had a loss of high frequencies in her left ear, which is no longer apparent. She now looks and acts like a woman 20 years younger than her actual age!

Ngare’s sister has been through some very stressful years. Since using Sound Therapy, she has become much more positive and is sleeping a lot better. She says: "I can cope with just about anything these days thanks to Sound Therapy. I keeps me calm and centred." Ngare’s twin nieces who are typical of identical twins, being very emotionally, close have also been through trying times; so Ngare suggested they try Sound Therapy. One of them took up the listening and, as a result, her grandmother describes her as “a different girl.” She now has a much more positive attitude, is sleeping better and no longer waking every night at 2 am.

Ngare is particularly excited by the possibility of using Sound Therapy in conjunction with speech pathology. Having had to give up her practice due to her illness, she intends to resume it in a new form, combined with Sound Therapy. Ngare loved her work but found there were some clients she simply could not help. Coming from a medical tradition of using Mozart in the surgery, Ngare is undeterred by convention, for she has experienced first hand the remarkable healing power of music and is determined to gain for Sound Therapy the recognition it deserves in her field.

This article was written in 2001. Ngare is now retired and prefers not to take enquiries.
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Environmental health for children

By Rafaele Joudry

Protecting your baby from toxic and dangerous interventions
Mothers who took thalidomide did not know until their babies were born that the drug would cause birth defects. The last generation of people who took to smoking cigarettes did not know what a serious health hazard they would prove to be. All the workers who installed asbestos in the 1950s, 60s and 70s did not know they were setting themselves up for mesothelioma and asbestos lung cancer. Likewise, mothers today do not know the implications for their children’s future health, when undertaking procedures such as ultrasound and vaccinations. There is sufficient evidence that these procedures may be harmful, to warrant every parent undertaking careful investigation before deciding if they will expose their children to these procedures. A few hours of research beforehand could save years of remedial therapy and thousands of dollars. It is my hope that many parents will read the following sections in time to make their own informed decisions at least for their next child.

Ultrasound
Ultrasound technology is based upon ultra high-frequency sound waves, which bombard the child in the womb at an extremely high rate of speed. To get an idea of what this may do, think of the situation where a woman with an extremely high voice can break a glass by singing an extremely high-pitched note. That is an example of what just ONE relatively slow sound wave can do. Ultrasound is super high frequency, which may have more detrimental effects. Ultrasound waves in laboratory experiments have been known to damage chromosomes, produce internal cellular heat which damages cells, retard the normal development of cells, and many other phenomena.

According to the World Health Organization and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Report, ‘It is not clear at this time whether ultrasound foetal monitoring is beneficial to the mother or foetus in terms of pregnancy outcome...If there is no generally acknowledged benefit to the monitoring, there is no reason to expose patients to increased cost and risk. The question of benefit has not yet been resolved...and the potential for delayed effects has been virtually ignored.’

Ultrasound technology carries potential risks which have not yet been evaluated, yet it is assumed to be completely safe and doctors are telling women that there is no risk. Having an ultrasound is not essential to a healthy pregnancy. However, most doctors are trained to use expensive technology and not trained to use hands-on skills. The fault is not with the doctors, but in the way they are trained.

Before you allow an ultrasound to be done on you, do some research, thoroughly question your healthcare provider about safety as well as the value of the information which would be received from doing the procedure. Don't be afraid to refuse the test if you are not comfortable with the information you have discovered. It is your legal right to refuse any tests you do not want.

Evidence has been uncovered by scientists suggesting that ultrasound scans on pregnant women cause brain damage in their unborn babies. Several studies done in the 1990s hinted at this. In the most comprehensive study yet on the effect of the scanning, doctors have found that men born to mothers who underwent scanning were more likely to show signs of subtle brain damage.

Research has suggested that subtle brain damage can cause people who ought genetically to be right-handed to become left-handed. In addition, these people face a higher risk of conditions ranging from learning difficulties to epilepsy.

A team of Swedish scientists compared almost 7,000 men whose mothers underwent scanning in the 1970s, with 170,000 men whose mothers did not, looking for differences in the rates of left- and right-handedness. The team found that men whose mothers had scans were significantly more likely to be left-handed than normal, pointing to a higher rate of brain damage while in the womb. Crucially, the biggest difference was found among those born after 1975, when doctors introduced a second scan later in pregnancy. Such men were 32 percent more likely to be left-handed than those in the control group. Premature babies are five times more likely than normal to be left-handed. According to the Swedish researchers, the human brain undergoes critical development until relatively late in pregnancy, making it vulnerable to damage. In addition, the male brain is especially at risk, as it continues to develop later than the female brain.

Ultrasound scans in late pregnancy are now routine in many countries. It appears that as many as one in 50 male foetuses pre-natally exposed to ultrasound is affected.

The growing evidence that ultrasound affects unborn babies may cast new light on the puzzling rise in left-handedness over recent years. In Britain, the rate has more than doubled, from five per cent in the 1920s to eleven per cent today. Researchers have estimated that only twenty per cent of this rise can be put down to the suppression of left-handedness among the older generation.

Dr Francis Duck of the British Medical Ultrasound Society said, ‘When the first study suggesting a link came out, it was possible to ignore it, but now this is the third,’ he said. ‘What it demonstrates is the need to investigate the link further, and to look at possible mechanisms.’

Other research by scientists at University College, Dublin, confirmed the findings of earlier American research that ultrasound tissue-heating creates changes in cells and can cause bleeding in mouse intestines.

Patrick Brennan, who led the research, said, ‘It has been assumed for a long time that ultrasound has no effect on cells. We now have grounds to question that assumption.’ Four and a half hours after the mice were exposed, the rate of cell division had reduced by twenty two percent and the rate of programmed cell death had approximately doubled. Mr Brennan believes there will be similar effects in humans.

Although supposedly said to work with sound waves, ultrasound waves are not in the audible range, so their high frequency is not natural to the body. Dr. Mendelsohn wrote, ‘Ultrasound produces at least two biological effects—heat and a process called 'cavitation', in which bubbles are created that expand and contract in response to sound waves. The first time I saw this cavitation process in action, a chiropractor turned on the therapeutic ultrasound machine in his office and placed a few drops of water on the part of the machine that was applied to the patient. I wish every reader...could have been with me to watch that water suddenly boil and bubble’

Dr. Mendelsohn has done extensive investigations to learn the truth about ultrasound. He eventually ortained copies of documents researching the procedure, which anyone may receive by writing to: WHO Publications Center, 49 Sheridan Ave., Albany, NY 12210, asking for ‘Environmental Health Criteria 22: Ultrasound.’

Experiments cited in these documents indicated reduced foetal weight and reduced foetal organ weight in animals who received ultrasound. Researchers are noticing a small but definite reduction in newborn birth rate among human infants exposed to ultrasound. There is evidence that the immune systems of laboratory animals exposed to the procedure are affected. The procedure also affects the blood platelets which allow the blood to clot. This could lead to problems with circulation because of travelling blood clots. Of even greater concern, changes in the structure and composition of cells, including genetic material, have been suspected. In experiments with animals, these changes have resulted in defective embryos with a variety of problems. Much more is not known, than is known, and researchers postulate that it may be twenty years before we really know the problems incurred by ultrasound, including the possibility of cancer and, most commonly suspected, leukaemia. The mother might also experience congenital malformations.

Reading this information, one cannot but suspect that the increasing use of ultrasound is responsible in part for the increase in learning difficulties today.

The vexed question of vaccination
Vaccination is a complex and emotion-fraught question which all parents must address. My mistake was not arming myself with information sooner. My parents were well-informed on issues concerning natural health and stopped vaccinating their children in my early childhood, so I received fewer vaccinations than most.

However, I failed to fully investigate the reasons and pass on the knowledge about the dangers to my foster daughter, in time. Her active, healthy boy returned from his first round of vaccination with respiratory disturbances and fretful behaviour which had not been there previously. After the second round of vaccinations at eighteen months, his symptoms worsened. As he became a toddler, behavioural abnormalities showed up which were finally diagnosed as ADHD. His mother then informed herself, found supportive professionals and did not vaccinate her second child, who shows none of these behavioural disorders.

This alerted me sufficiently, and I decided to seek out well-informed scientific information. I went to visit one of Australia’s leading authorities on the subject of vaccination, Dr Viera Scheibner, who lives in the Blue Mountains. My eyes boggled as I walked into Dr Scheibner’s archive room. On the shelves were two hundred magazine holders, each containing about thirty scientific articles on vaccination, and another two hundred ring binders containing more articles. I asked if she had read them all; she had. It was clear that she is a true authority on the subject.

Of Slavic origin, Dr Scheibner holds a PhD in Natural Sciences. After an eminent scientific career, during which she published three books and some ninety scientific papers in refereed scientific journals in Australia and overseas, her study of babies’ breathing patterns and cot death in the mid 1980s clearly pointed to vaccines as being behind the majority of cot deaths. Together with Leif Karlsson, an electronics engineer, she developed Cotwatch, a breathing monitor to be used for babies thought to be at risk of cot death or ‘sudden infant death syndrome’ (SIDS). The team soon realised that the Cotwatch was sounding alarms when babies were affected by a range of stressful events, the most prominent being vaccination. In her own words, ‘It took over three years of research before we looked at each other and said, “Vaccines are killing babies”’. This introduced her to the subject of vaccination, which she has, as a result, been avidly studying ever since.

Despite extensive examination of orthodox medical research published on vaccines over the past one hundred years, Dr Scheibner told me she could find no scientific evidence that these injections of highly noxious substances prevent diseases. To the contrary, she found that they increase susceptibility to them, in addition to causing a host of immune disorders and other damage to the body, including the brain. She was therefore forced to conclude that they represent nothing but a medical assault on the immune system. Having vaccinated her own two daughters when she was a young mother (and also, more recently, having insisted on being given a tetanus vaccine herself) this was not easy to come to terms with.

Numerous other doctors who are true investigators in their own right, in that they are willing to go outside their standard medical education and search out their own evidence, have reached the same conclusions. Here are some quotes from some of these experts, featured in the video:

Vaccination: ‘The hidden truth’

‘... [my daughter’s] symptoms were intensifying after each vaccine...So I wrote to the governments and got figures.…I realised there was a lot of information that we were being told... which wasn’t true...’ Dr Isaac Golden—Homoeopath, Teacher, Author: ‘Vaccination: A Review of Risks and Alternatives’

‘They say openly in the [medical] legal system that if you advise against vaccination the A.M.A. will push to deregister.…These are symptoms that, if they were seen in a child who had not just been vaccinated, all us doctors would be a little concerned that this child perhaps had a type of viral meningitis. We wouldn’t just sit back and say, ‘That’s fine. Take some Panadol and it will go away.’ Dr Robyn Cosford—Medical Doctor

‘It is a well documented fact that the incidence and mortality from infectious diseases fell by 90% well before any vaccine was even introduced...This is not a rare occurrence. Epidemics in fully vaccinated populations are a rule rather than an exception....So [in the U.S.] they mandated vaccination and it resulted in a three-fold increase in whooping cough...’ Dr Viera Scheibner, Ph D Principle Research Scientist (Ret.), Cotwatch Monitor researcher.

‘Babies are injected with bits of animal, bacteria, viral DNA. They can be incorporated into the human genome.…Why is it that only since the ‘40s have autism, brain damage come about? Because this was when immunisation was introduced to a large extent.…Vaccines are a billion dollar industry, and there are at least a billion good reasons there why it’s continued.’ Dr Peter Baratosy—Medical Doctor, Author: ‘There is Always An Alternative’

‘Even once they’ve stopped vaccinating, residue results through infertility, arthritic conditions,... dogs have one seventh of the length of a generation that a human does, so what we are seeing in dogs today is what we will see in the future with humans, and that’s a really frightening thing.’

Ashleigh Oulton - Registered Dog Breeder: ‘Before he (Louis Pasteur—the “father of modern medicine” and originator of the Germ Theory of disease) died, he changed his mind. He ended up saying it’s not the germ, but the conditions within the body...’ Ian Sinclair—Natural Health Lecturer, Author ‘Vaccination: The Hidden Facts’

‘They don’t tell us that if your child misses the whooping cough vaccine it is less likely to develop asthma, ...measles vaccine...inflammatory bowel disease, Hepatitis B or Hib vaccine ...diabetes, ...rubella vaccine ...arthritis...’

‘I call it a cultural trance .…Most health experts... very rarely read their own professional journals—most of them are so busy….We believe health is not bought in a bottle or a syringe. Health is a direct result of healthful living, and natural health, there is no other sort.’ Greg Beattie—Father of 7 children, Author ‘Vaccination: A Parent’s Dilemma’

The evidence against vaccination
In our life times we were taught, and passively believed, that vaccination was a good thing and that it reduced disease.

Statistics were offered which showed a decrease in disease which was attributed to vaccination. In fact, deaths had already declined by more than 90% during the 20th century before vaccines were introduced. The main reason for the decline was, in fact, improved sanitation and better living conditions.
There has been no properly run, randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled trial to prove the effectiveness of vaccination. This will not occur because the pharmaceutical industries control all of the research and have too much to lose, since vaccination is a billion dollar industry.

Many articles in medical journals present evidence that vaccination works, and claim effectiveness. However, unbiased independent researchers who have examined the evidence have noted that many unscientific methods were used in these studies.

These include:

• The use of toxic injections used in the placebo group.
• Comparing groups which historically did not vaccinate, ignoring the fact that the reasons for this may pollute the evidence such as:
      - May have been already immune-suppressed
      - Low socio-economic status, leaving them more susceptible to disease due to poor nutrition and living  
        conditions
      - Excluding participants on other technicalities which may falsely influence the statistics...

For those who will look, there are vast amounts of statistical evidence that vaccination is harmful. This is not widely published, and has been gathered by dedicated doctors who place their commitment to the truth ahead of their acceptability and recognition by the normal circles of the medical establishment. Dr Viera Scheibner cites the following evidence that disease outbreaks actually increased dramatically after the introduction of vaccines.

• Whooping cough has been rising in the US since 1978, when vaccination was mandated for school entry.
• The incidence of cot death dropped in Japan when the DPT vaccine was stopped.
• Measles, which had virtually died out in Europe, rose again when measles vaccination programs were started.
• Vaccines which the mother received herself in childhood, weaken the tranplacentally-transmitted immunity that should be passed on from mother to baby.

Vaccines are known to contain bacteria, viruses (or their protein envelopes) and a number of toxins with specific neurotoxic activity. An injected vaccine doesn’t go through the immune system. It actually gets direct access to vital organs. There is no natural filtration.

According to Dr Scheibner, the entire precept on which the theory of vaccination is based, is in error. The fact that the body produces antibodies in response to the vaccine, is the evidence used to say that immunity has been achieved. This is a false assumption, and a gross oversimplification of how the immune system actually works. For example, for immunity to be created there must be activation of the secretory antibody IgA, which plays an important role in the whole process. This, and many other processes which occur in the outer levels of defence, are bypassed by injections, leaving the immune system damaged and compromised instead.

In a properly functioning immune system, after a disease has been contracted, the person becomes immune to that disease. However, it has been found that vaccine recipients are not only still as susceptible to the illness, but that they can contract it more than once.

Development of the immune system is retarded by vaccines, so that by adolescence it has only reached the stage it should be at in childhood. This immune damage means that only those who have been vaccinated are contracting atypical forms of the disease—where the disease heads straight for the internal organs, bypassing the mouth, nose throat and respiratory system which are designed as the body’s natural immune defence system.
Oral vaccines do not eliminate this problem, as Dr Scheibner explains: ‘…What would be the difference between natural infection, which is through the gastro-intestinal system, particularly in polio, and the oral polio vaccine? The difference is this. When you get the natural infection, you get 10 cells of bacteria or 10 pieces of crystals of viruses. This is published. Vaccines contain billions of organisms, so it’s like a septic shock. It’s a massive overdose of infective material.’

Dr Scheibner says that what vaccination achieves is sensitisation, not immunization. Sensitisation is really the opposite of immunisation. Sensitisation, also called Anaphylaxis, creates increased susceptibility by confusing the immune system. Interestingly, immunologists themselves are becoming more uncomfortable about the fact that vaccine injections can only stimulate a significant IgG antibody response if they include toxic sensitising substances, referred to as ‘adjuvants’, in the concoction.

Vaccination can in fact lead to the development of auto-immune diseases, because of this confusion. What happens is that the immune system’s detection ability is damaged so it cannot identify the ‘good guys’ from the ‘bad guys’, resulting in the body attacking its own cells.

The importance of information Dr Scheibner believes in having full knowledge, and insists that it is imperative that parents educate themselves about the whole issue, because, as she says:‘Some of them may continue vaccinating their children. Or the other children in the family, thinking that it only happens to one in a million, which is not true. Every child is affected. Vaccinated children are not the same as unvaccinated. There is some damage in all of them. Allergies are number one. Or eating problems, mild digestive problems, it still is totally unnecessary.’

A network of concerned parents and professionals have dedicated themselves to making this information available to the public. The Australian Vaccination Network is an association which provides up-to-date information—that is not biased by pharmaceutical company interests—on the latest knowledge and research into the effects of vaccinations, alternatives and remedial therapies to deal with vaccinations’ after-effects. Thanks to the internet, it is now easy for families to access this health-saving information. If you are convinced that you do not want to vaccinate, visit www.avn.org.au to learn more about the AVN and their resources. Their magazine, Informed Choice, is an excellent resource for parents and practitioners wishing to keep informed.
If you need to know more in order to make the right decision for you, a very informative website on vaccination, which includes easy to understand scientific articles and many resource books and videos, is www.vaccination.inoz.com. There you can order the video, ‘Vaccination: The Hidden Truth’. This is a highly informative exposé of the facts about vaccination, with interviews by over twelve doctors, researchers and parents who have in-depth knowledge of the issue. The flier for the video asks, ‘Should we shoot first and ask questions later?’ Parents who like to make their own decisions will want to see this video before giving their children any further vaccines.

The medical and educational establishments exert great pressure on parents to vaccinate. It is very hard for a parent who is less educated than their doctor to refute apparently well-informed arguments put forward by a medical practitioner; and not to be intimidated when the day care centre says they must vaccinate. However, it is constitutionally illegal for vaccination to be mandated. A form stating conscientious objection, which must be signed by a sympathetic medical practitioner, will give the child access to educational facilities. Parents can join the AVN to get the necessary resources and referrals. Go to www.avn.org.au and then click on related links and then conscientious and medical exemption forms. However, be aware that if you take one of these forms to an average medical practitioner they may try to persuade you to vaccinate. The form requires that they inform you of the potential risks of not vaccinating your child. Most parents will need to find a supportive practitioner to give moral support if they are to go against the sanctioned medical position.

As a person armed with such extensive information about vaccination, Dr Scheibner is concerned about the fact that most parents simply believe what their family doctor tells them, when in most cases the doctor is simply following the established medical line with very little information. ‘We also need to tell the doctors,’ she says ‘ because they get a very limited education, and they believe anything they are told.’ Dr Scheibner’s concern is well-founded as she has confronted this ignorance in many settings, including courts of law. She explained to me in our interview: ‘As an example, the United States keeps publishing that there are only 12 cases of vaccine-caused poliomyelitis in the United States per year. One GP said that to me and I said ‘And you believe it?’ Learn to ask that question – ‘And you believe it?’ Well, don’t believe it. Because they only mark one in every 154 cases of vaccine-caused poliomyelitis per year. From the statistics I have examined, I estimate that the United States must have 12,000 cases of vaccine-caused poliomyelitis. And that’s about the size of it. Well, I said 12; you know—they just lost some zeros. They feel better like there’s some truth in it.’

For more information on this subject read the very informative article, ‘Do vaccines protect against diseases at all?’ by Bronwyn Hancock 1999.

Shaken baby syndrome
The following is an excerpt from work by Dr Viera Scheibner on her extensive research and advocation work in the area of so-called ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome.’

‘Recently there has been quite an ‘epidemic’ of the so-called ‘shaken baby syndrome’. Parents, usually the fathers, or other care-givers such as nannies have increasingly been accused of shaking a baby to the point of causing permanent brain damage and death. Why? Is there an unprecedented increase in the number of people who commit infanticide or have an ambition to seriously hurt babies? Or is there something more sinister at play?
Some time ago I started getting requests from lawyers or the accused parents themselves for expert reports. A close study of the history of these cases revealed something distinctly sinister: in every single case, the symptoms appeared shortly after the baby's vaccinations.

While investigating the personal medical history of these babies based on the care-givers' diaries and medical records, I quickly established that these babies were given one or more of the series of so-called routine shots—hepatitis B, DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus), polio and HiB (Haemophilus influenzae type B) —shortly before they developed symptoms of illness resulting in serious brain damage or death.

The usual scenario is that a baby is born and does well initially. At the usual age of about two months it is administered the first series of vaccines as above. (Sometimes a hepatitis B injection is given shortly after birth while the mother and child are still in hospital. However, a great number of babies now die within days or within two to four weeks of birth after hepatitis B vaccination, as documented by the records of the VAERS [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] in the USA.) So, the baby stops progressing, starts deteriorating, and usually develops signs of respiratory tract infection. Then comes the second and third injections, and tragedy strikes: the child may cry intensely and inconsolably, may stop feeding properly, vomit, have difficulty swallowing, become irritable, stop sleeping, and may develop convulsions with accelerating progressive deterioration of its condition and mainly its brain function.

This deterioration may be fast, or may slowly inch in until the parents notice that something is very wrong with their child and then rush it to the doctor or hospital. Interestingly, they are invariably asked when the baby was immunised. On learning that the baby was indeed ‘immunised’, the parents may be reassured that its symptoms will all clear up. They are sent home with the advice, ‘Give your baby Panadol’. If they persist in considering the baby's reaction serious, they may be labelled as anxious parents or trouble-makers. So the parents go home, and the child remains in a serious condition or dies.

Until recently, the vaccine death would have just been labelled ‘sudden infant death’, particularly if the symptoms and pathological findings were minimal. However, nowadays, with an alarmingly increasing frequency, the parents (or at least one of them, usually the father) may be accused of shaking the baby to death. The accused may even ‘confess’ to shaking the baby, giving the reason, for example, that having found the baby lying still and not breathing and/or with a glazed look in its eyes, they shook it gently—as is only natural—in their attempt to revive it. Sometimes, ironically, they save the baby's life, only to be accused of causing the internal injuries that made the baby stop breathing in the first place, and which in fact were already present when they shook the baby to revive it.’

Our choices
This information about the potentially damaging effects of chemical toxins, ultrasound and vaccination, will inevitably bring grief, remorse and anger to parents who find out too late what they might have avoided. However, it is better to be informed than not. On the encouraging side, the reports in Chapter 8 detail the positive changes which can be achieved in healing children with supportive therapies.
It is never too late for a child, or even an adult, to improve. Nature and the human body are incredibly resilient, always striving to heal, always recreating cells, always processing and clearing out foreign matter which the immune system rejects. Given half a chance, remarkable healing happens. So please be heartened by the new knowledge you have, by the fact that you have choices every day as to which chemicals, foods and other stimuli your family will be exposed to. Use this information to exercise those choices and help to create a toxin-free, naturally nurturing environment for your loved ones.

Rafaele Joudry is the founder and director of Sound Therapy International and the author of three books on Sound Therapy, including, Why Aren’t I Learning? Listening is the Key to Overcoming Learning Difficulties. Contact: Sound Therapy International, Phone (Int+612) (Aust 02) 4234-4534 or 1300 55 77 96

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Katie’s Blocked Ear

Excerpts from interview with