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It is delivered by a trained provider rather than downloaded and run at home, usually in small doses with a pause if things stir up. If you have noticed that people's voices turn into noise when you are stressed, this is the intervention built for that. Ask about the provider's training, and ask what happens if it unsettles you.
'He who endowed you with hearing, sight, and understanding' (Quran 67:23). Hearing is listed among the first gifts, which makes it a reasonable place to work.
الملك
قُلۡ هُوَ ٱلَّذِيٓ أَنشَأَكُمۡ وَجَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلسَّمۡعَ وَٱلۡأَبۡصَٰرَ وَٱلۡأَفۡـِٔدَةَۚ قَلِيلࣰ ا مَّا تَشۡكُرُونَ
Say [Prophet], ‘It is He who brought you into being, He who endowed you with hearing, sight, and understanding- what small thanks you give!’
Qur’an 67:23read it in the library
Translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur'an, Oxford University Press, 2004.
This particular protocol does not yet have a strong evidence base, and the citations available here do not cover it. What the field does have is work like a randomised mechanistic trial in a hundred and two combat veterans with PTSD, which separated mindfulness from slow breathing and found the two engage somewhat different pathways. That is the kind of study needed before anyone can say which ingredient of a listening programme does what. Promising and unproven is the fair description.
Wahbeh H, Goodrich E, Goy E, Oken BS. (2016). Mechanistic Pathways of Mindfulness Meditation in Combat Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.. Journal of clinical psychology doi
Strength of evidence: one line of research. A single study, or a theoretical account.
It gives the middle ear practice at picking out the frequencies human speech sits in.
This needs a trained provider and it can stir things up, so it is not one to improvise from the internet.
Neurofeedback usually starts with an assessment, then a block of sessions, then a review, and it is mostly paid for privately. Ask about all of that before you begin.
Reaching for another person when you are wound up is not a distraction from coping. Contact can turn the alarm down at the source.
If you try to call up a good feeling and nothing arrives, you are in ordinary company. That blankness is common after a long stretch of hard years, and it is workable.