Part I • THE SOUNDS OF WELLNESS ↑UP↑ Introduction 19 Part II • A LITTLE COURSE ABOUT OUR EARS ↑UP↑ Hearing and Listening 37 The Role of Our Ears 41 The Evolution of the Ear 43 Do Fish have Ears? 43 The Long Road toward Verticality 44 How Do We Hear? 46 The External Ear 47 The Middle ear 47 The Inner Ear 51 Air and Bone Conduction 56 Skin and Hearing 57 The Human Antenna 58 Energy through the Ears? 61 Charging Sounds, Wearing Sounds 64 The eardrum, the vagus nerve, and a sense of wellbeing 69 Toward Human Listening 74 Raising the Antenna 75 Listening posture and sound analysis 80 Selectivity 83 Auditory radar 86 The Three Integrators: a diagnostic tool 91 Conclusion 99 The Ear and the Voice 100 How the Ear and the Voice are Connected 102 Lateralization 105 The Leading Ear 106 The Dominant Mouth 108 We Speak with our Ears 111 Shifting Sides 114 The Body Image 116 Summary 123 Part III • THE LEARNING EAR ↑UP↑ Preliminaries 127 Autism 129 Tuning up the Body 130 First Results 133 The mother’s voice and the Desire to Communicate and to Speak 135 The Course of Therapy 140 Listening and the Therapeutic Process 142 A Look at Dyslexia 145 Listening and Attention Deficit Disorders 155 What is ADD / ADHD? 155 Treatment Options 160 Tom and Jeff: Two Case Studies 165 Conclusion 168 The Gift of Languages 170 Ever heard of an “Ethnic Ear”? 171 The Road to Success 177
Part IV • THE Listening Test ↑UP↑ Preliminaries 183 The Ideal Listening Curve 189 Administering the Listening Test 193 The Meaning of the Air and Bone Conduction Curves 195 The Three Auditory Zones 197 The Body Zone (Zone 1) 200 The Communication Zone (Zone 2) 203 The Creativity Zone (Zone 3) 207 A Global View 209 Selectivity 210 Selectivity, Logic and Sense of Organization 210 Selectivity and Psychological Development 212 Spacialization 220 Spacialization Errors in the Body Zone 220 Spacialization Errors in the Communication Zone 221 The Chicken and the Egg 222 Lateralization 224 The Present, the Future and the Past 225 Dominance in Disguise 227 Shifting Dominance 229 From Baby Talk to Language 231 Personality and the Listening Test 236 The Airborne Listening Profile 237 The Controlling Listening Profile 243 The Depressive Listening Profile 248 The Flat-Line Listening Profile 253 Listening to the Body 256 The Dialogue between the Ears 258 Symbolic Ears 265 Part V • THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EAR ↑UP↑ Mother Cares for her Unborn Child 269 Listening in Utero 269 The Mother’s Voice 272 Hi-fi in Utero? What does the Fetus exactly Hear? 274 The Sonic Birth 278 Playing back their Mother’s Voice to Adults 284 Music for the Unborn Child 290 A Child is Born 295 The Child grows up 297 The Role of the Father 304 The Voice of the Father 304 The Absent Father 316 Listening to Father’s Voice 324 Refusing to Grow Up 328 Telltale Signs for Parents to Watch for 328 Adults refusing to grow up 334 Recapitulating the Journey 337 Part VI • THE SPIRITUAL EAR ↑UP↑ Evolution and Creation 343 Listening to “the Sound of Life” 346 Letting Go 349 The Listening Posture 352 Making Sounds 356 Sacred Music, Sacred Chants 360 “Our Heart Breathes through the Ear” 364 The Divine Mozart 366 Conclusion 371 Research Results 379 The Listening Posture 384 Humming Sounds 388
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