Part I • THE SOUNDS OF WELLNESS ↑UP↑ Introduction Part II • A LITTLE COURSE ABOUT OUR EARS ↑UP↑ Hearing and Listening The Role of Our Ears The Evolution of the Ear Do Fish have Ears? The Long Road toward Verticality How Do We Hear? The External Ear The Middle ear The Inner Ear Air and Bone Conduction Skin and Hearing The Human Antenna Energy through the Ears? Charging Sounds, Wearing Sounds The eardrum, the vagus nerve, and a sense of wellbeing Toward Human Listening Raising the Antenna Listening posture and sound analysis Selectivity Auditory radar The Three Integrators: a diagnostic tool Conclusion The Ear and the Voice How the Ear and the Voice are Connected Lateralization The Leading Ear The Dominant Mouth We Speak with our Ears Shifting Sides The Body Image Summary Part III • THE LEARNING EAR ↑UP↑ Preliminaries Autism Tuning up the Body First Results The mother’s voice and the Desire to Communicate and to Speak The Course of Therapy Listening and the Therapeutic Process A Look at Dyslexia Listening and Attention Deficit Disorders What is ADD / ADHD? Treatment Options Tom and Jeff: Two Case Studies Conclusion The Gift of Languages Ever heard of an “Ethnic Ear”? The Road to Success
Part IV • THE Listening Test ↑UP↑ Preliminaries The Ideal Listening Curve Administering the Listening Test The Meaning of the Air and Bone Conduction Curves The Three Auditory Zones The Body Zone (Zone 1) The Communication Zone (Zone 2) The Creativity Zone (Zone 3) A Global View Selectivity Selectivity, Logic and Sense of Organization Selectivity and Psychological Development Spacialization Spacialization Errors in the Body Zone Spacialization Errors in the Communication Zone The Chicken and the Egg Lateralization The Present, the Future and the Past Dominance in Disguise Shifting Dominance From Baby Talk to Language Personality and the Listening Test The Airborne Listening Profile The Controlling Listening Profile The Depressive Listening Profile The Flat-Line Listening Profile Listening to the Body The Dialogue between the Ears Symbolic Ears Part V • THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EAR ↑UP↑ Mother Cares for her Unborn Child Listening in Utero The Mother’s Voice Hi-fi in Utero? What does the Fetus exactly Hear? The Sonic Birth Playing back their Mother’s Voice to Adults Music for the Unborn Child A Child is Born The Child grows up The Role of the Father The Voice of the Father The Absent Father Listening to Father’s Voice Refusing to Grow Up Telltale Signs for Parents to Watch for Adults refusing to grow up Recapitulating the Journey Part VI • THE SPIRITUAL EAR ↑UP↑ Evolution and Creation Listening to “the Sound of Life” Letting Go The Listening Posture Making Sounds Sacred Music, Sacred Chants “Our Heart Breathes through the Ear” The Divine Mozart Conclusion Research Results The Listening Posture Humming Sounds
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