From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V3 #166 Reply-To: mad-mission@smoe.org Sender: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * mad-mission-digest-request@smoe.org * with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Patty's tour dates, go to: * http://www.spectra.net/~ducksoup/pattyg/patttyg.htm * OR * go to http://www.amrecords.com * then click "tour" and fill in the blanks :) * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: mad-mission-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. mad-mission-digest Thursday, June 3 1999 Volume 03 : Number 166 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: NPC: See your name in print!!! [Wendy J ] MM: NPC (tinnitus reply) [David Lewis ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 04:49:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Wendy J Subject: MM: NPC: See your name in print!!! hey kids! this is totally un-patty related (unless she's ever had a tampon mishap! read on....) does anyone know anyone who has ever had toxic shock syndrome? a good friend of mine is writing a magazine article and needs anecdotes. please email me privately if you know of someone who'd be willing to be interviewed. thanks! ~ w j _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 19:06:17 -0300 From: David Lewis Subject: MM: NPC (tinnitus reply) Hi all, Someone recently posted that they read a study in which 80% of people found relief from tinnitus (chronic ringing in the ears) from meditaion. I have not seen that study, but I have done a ton of research in the past 3 months and I highly suspect that those in the study found relief from the stress, anxiety and other problems caused by tinnitus, but not from the tinnitus itself. Unfortunatly, this is an extremely complex problem that the mdeical community knows next to nothing about and you cannot simply meditate it away. Let me give you a breif diescription of what the inner ear does to give you some idea of what we are dealing with. The inner ear is an intricate micromechanical system with more than a million moving parts. The 50 to 200 mechanically sensitive hairs of each sensory cell work in concert with those of more than 10,000 sensory cells in each ear to detect motions of the eardrum as small as the diameter of a hydrogen atom (less than a billionth of a meter). All of these tens of thousands of cells are packed into a snail shaped structure about the size of a pea and 90% of that volume is actually fluid. Tinnitus is almost always thought to originate in the inner ear. We don't have any instruments accurate enough to see what the heck is actually going on inside that pea size structure. MRI doesn't even come close. While meditation may help a great deal with the stress and other related symptoms, I have never heard of it actually relieing the tinnitus itself. I would very much like to thank the person who posted about mediation and I would be very interested to actually see that study, but I just thought it was important that you all understand that tinnitus is not an easily dealt with problem. Meditation, relaxation exercises, physical exercise etc. all help you feel better, but they don't actually get rid of the tinnitus itself. In other words... wear ear plugs if you go to gigs. p.s.... yes I *am* a Patty Griffin fan :) I just posed about Tinnitus a while back to let everyone know how important it is to protect your hearing. Sorry for the off-topic post. - ---------------------------- David Lewis Digital & Print Media Design dlewis@hfx.andara.com - ---------------------------- ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V3 #166 *********************************