The Centre for Trauma Studies and Healing: August 2017

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Free Voice Rebalancing Sessions for Volunteer Listening Improvements Study in London

Free Voice Rebalancing Sessions

for Deaf and Speaking Volunteers for

Listening Improvements Study in London

with Sigrid Countess von Galen

This Voice Rebalancing study is looking into listening improvements via vibrations and various non-invasive approaches for both, deaf and speaking or speaking participants, and for those with cochlear implants.

If you are interested, please, send an e-mail either to countessvongalen@gmail.com, or DM me, or on twitter at @CTraumastudies

for more information.

Voice Rebalancing is a multi-disciplinary and holistic way of using the voice and muscles effortlessly and thus to speak, move and sing to one's full individual creative expression and voice potential.

For professional and student singers, actors, presenters, it is about building up, expanding, maintaining and refining their instrument and exploring their creativity via tailored approaches.

For those, who suffer from anxiety, tension and/or speech impediments it is finding the balance between breathing, movements, posture and the voice.

It is a great way also for deaf singers and actors to find their voice in the vibrations of their body.

Voice Rebalancing was developed in decades of teaching and multi-disciplinary research by Sigrid Countess von Galen. She incorporates methods from various fields and cultures, as well as latest research findings from medicine, neuro-science, linguistics, voice and speech therapy, movement, breathing and music therapy.

Sigrid Countess von Galen
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A Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration: Voice Rebalancing and Forensic Analysis: How a Healing Art makes itself useful in the proactive fight against organised criminality and terror, by Sigrid Countess von Galen

A Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration:

Voice Rebalancing and Forensic Analysis:

How a Healing Art makes itself useful in the proactive fight against organised criminality and terror,

by Sigrid Countess von Galen

In a world and time of orchestrated violence and secret spiderwebs of organised criminality and mercenary terror that make films like James Bond films and Spooks simply look like whistleblowing on screen, the high financed and technologically advanced criminal shadow networks often employ sophisticated and expensive voice recognition and manipulation tools.

Every instrument and tool used in crime prevention and forensic voice analysis and for artistic purposes, including the voice and acting and impersonating, is used by criminals and white collar paymasters on a big scale to facilitate organised crime and to frame anybody, who stands in their way. How?

For a start: The voice has a unique individual physical constellation. In forensic analysis and specialist crime troubleshooting I apply my multi-disciplinary expert skills and Voice Rebalancing healing and diagnostic tools to the analysis of the voice in recordings and interviews. I compare, for example, samples of a person's voice against a voice in an interview or recording. I listen to the voice and identify a host of parameters: Breathing patterns, silence, pauses, accent, vowel and consonant production, rhythm, intonation, language use, language flow, voice range, emotional expressions, utterance. I also look at the posture, movements, body language and eyes in interviews or on film samples.

Sadly, the shadow world of organised criminality is these days more than ever disguising itself and helped by corrupt employees and strategically placed infiltrators, who sabotage and hire terminators, and by leaders in white collars in all economic areas, scientific fields, in charities and organisations. A lot of organised crime is facilitated and covered up under abuse of diplomatic immunity or via plausible deniability.

These spiderwebs usually have at least one decision maker in Human Resources at their disposal, who make sure that a mercenary is fast tracked into the right position to sabotage and commit fraud and to frame strategically innocent and unassuming or without their knowledge coerced colleagues. In one case, several such placed HSBC employees laundered money and made illegal transactions and framed colleagues for it.

More and more often a voice identification system is abused to hijack and steal a voice, which is then put on a micro chip worn by an imposter in compromising scenarios, where the mercenaries use film productions that cater for underworld needs, and provide make up artists, who can fit silicone masks, too. Real actors are recruited amongst freemasons and Templars or from crime gangs or even officially hired from a casting agency under the pretence of an extra appearance or small role for a trailer.

Criminal and greedy lobbies go to great length and invest extensively in their spiderwebs these days to push their hidden agenda via blackmail in this way. Film shorts with a double are produced to bully a politician or leader of an organisation into submission. If the target refuses, s/he is being framed with the release of the fake evidence, which will then be spread by select members of the spiderwebs that stretch from corrupt media keyfigures to insiders in all areas involved in making or breaking a person strategically.

Bishops, priests, politicians, judges, officers, whistleblowers and victims of organised crime have been seen framed, when they tried to testify. Where technology is abused like that, the forensic interview and the above analysis skills and expertise are crucial in order to confront the suspect in person.

Very often, the suspect has control over their facade and hides behind a studied poise but if the conversation is suddenly disrupted and the real person emerges they can no longer keep their true self in check. That is the breaking point of the confession.

And there has yet to be a criminal, even one, who accepts prison as an occupational hazard, who does not sooner or later to somebody boast about their 'genius' and who dwells in the delusion of superiority towards those, who caught them out.

Even the best copycats will never reach the truth of the original, as they are missing the vital ingredient: Originality, authenticity and the integrity of the truth.

Cochlear Implants or Sign Language - an informed choice and decision that can and should only be made by those, who live with it, By Sigrid Countess von Galen

Cochlear Implants or Sign Language - an informed choice and decision that can and should only be made by those, who live with it,

By Sigrid Countess von Galen

I am one of those people, who hatdly watch television, as I am to busy with life itself but recently, during the holidays, I was glad that I did, as I came across a series called 'Switched at birth' that spans over a few years. Two teenage girls, one deaf - after meningitis at the age of three, the other hearing, find out that they had been switched at birth by mistake.

Of course, the programme works with clichees, too, but also captures the teenage and parent realities of different social backgrounds, now patched together in this series.

I was captivated by the openness of the various approaches, where in various stages, one deaf parent decided to have a cochlear implant but the mother and her son saw it as a betrayal of their culture as deaf people with their own language and ways of life.

There are many ways to communicate with each other rather than to coexist and it was good to see that many scenarios were taken into account and acted out, including to swap roles.

In my work with speaking people and deaf people, who speak I have come across many new approaches that came through every single unique human being's own way of living and communicating. Hearing people often have even in normal acoustic conditions and scenarios problems adjusting to others, never mind to listen and slow down, when they speak, so that even hearing people can digest, what they say.

A life in inner ear silence and sign language is for the deaf community largely a purposeful decision, simply recognising and accepting gracefully their otherness. Deaf speakers can have amazing capacities also to not just speak but also to sing in the range of frequencies that the singer picks up from the vibrations in the body.

There is low to moderate quality evidence that when CIs are implanted in both ears at the same time, they improve hearing in noisy places for people with severe loss of hearing. There is some evidence that implanting CIs to improve hearing, may also improve tinnitus but there is some risk that it may cause people who never had tinnitus to get it.

There is also controversy around the devices; the strongest objection to cochlear implants has come from the Deaf community itself, as to many in the deaf community, cochlear implants are a threat to their culture, which as some view it, is a minority with its own language threatened by the hearing majority.

More and more hearing people enrol in sign language or pick it up in the situation or from the internet, and thus become part of a new community that was long negelcted and ignored by the hearing community. It is time to change attitudes!

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The first cochlear implant was invented by Dr. William House in 1961. In 1964, Blair Simmons and Robert J. White implanted a six channel electrode in a patient's cochlea at Stanford University.

The modern multichannel cochlear implant was independently developed and commercialized by Graeme Clark from Australia and Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair's first implanted in a person in December 1977 and Clark's in August 1978.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Animation: How does Hearing work?

Animation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMXoHKwWmU8&feature=share

Hearing Damage or Loss after Noise Trauma and other Conditions: When the Ear can't connect and Voice and Nerve Cells from Command defect - Voice Rebalancing Mini Lecture Series By Sigrid Countess von Galen

Hearing Damage or Loss after Noise Trauma and other Conditions: When the Ear can't connect and Voice and Nerve Cells from Command defect -

Voice Rebalancing Mini Lecture Series

By Sigrid Countess von Galen

Hearing Loss can have many causes: Next to infection and ear wax, which are easily diagnosed and treated by a GP, noise trauma and some drug treatments, over-stimulation or damage of the auditory nerve can also lead to loss of hearing.

The auditory nerve consists of a group of nerve cells called spiral ganglion neurons. These neurons rely on glial cells for their survival.

The glial cells make sure that the auditory nerve can function properly by removing harmful substances and by supplying essential nutrients.

The glial cell group communicates between its own cells and with the nerve cells. Conditions like chronic pain, migraine, some types of tinnitus and auditory neuropathy are caused by failures in this communication through trauma or disease.

Voice Rebalancing has an impact on the chemical balance and can help to lessen, prevent ot to aud recovery from trauma and variety of dis-eases. It can also help to refine the design of cochlear implants.

When the Ear can't connect and noise, silence or tinnitus take over, it's not just hard for a singer, actor, and bard but for any human being for that matter, hard to be over voice and sounds the Boss and specific signals or voices to detect! We all might know situations ourselves, where we are in a crowd and are surprised by a sudden voice standing out from behind, having approached without us noticing. There are numerous anecdotes and commercials drawing their humour or demonstration on this phenomenon.

There is also a hidden hearing loss in absence of any damage to the inner ear or wider auditory system. A considerable degree of hearing loss is often not even picked up by standard tests but which substantially affects how well someone can hear.

Noise exposure, often a big problem with singers and musicians but also with emergency services staff, and aging can lead to significant proportions of auditory nerve cells losing the connection to the sensory hair cells in the cochlea.

If these connections are lost, the nerve cells stop sending information to the brain. Hearing levels and thresholds might remain normal, as some connections are still present and pass on a selection of information. Loss of information from the damaged nerve cells makes it harder for the brain to ignore background noise.

We might know the effects of fire alarms, and in some darker context, noise trauma is also been used in torture.

The ability to ignore a noisy background and to detect a specific signal or voice is strongly diminished. Recent studies on mice on potential long-term effects of hearing damage have shown that if nerve cells are spontaneously active in the auditory part of the brain, this can indicate tinnitus.

Voice Rebalancing is a non-invasive approach to stimulate communication between cells and nerves and rebalance the chemical responses in the body to regain a balance also between the muscles, posture, movements, the ear and the voice. Deep breathing is an important natural tool as are the vibrations of sound produced and felt in all parts of the body.

Hear to Help, Hear to Heal, Hear to Sing - Study on Listening Improvements after Noise Trauma, Dis-ease, and some Drug Treatments, by Sigrid Countess von Galen

Hear to Help, Hear to Heal, Hear to Sing - Study on Listening Improvements after Noise Trauma, Dis-ease, and some Drug Treatments,

by Sigrid Countess von Galen

I am doing a lot of extensive research, writing and teaching on the impact of the ear on the voice, both in healthy conditions and in case of disease and trauma.

My work with professional singers, actors, musicians, performing artists and presenters but also with deaf but speaking people on their voice and movements has led me to many new insights and approaches. Some of the latter group were able even to move on far beyond normal performing arts or teaching careers, sharing with other deaf people, how to use their voice via the vibrations of the voice.

I am starting a new research project on listening improvements after trauma, disease or in cases of past noise trauma and after certain drug treatments with healthy volunteers and participants, who have been experiencing hearing loss and, thirdly, with both,users with cochlear implants and deaf clients without.

The study involves a series of free voice rebalancing sessions and filling in a questionnaire. It is a completely non-invasive approach.

The results will be published next year.

At the Centre for Trauma Studies and Healing we also offer very low cost voice, speech, movement, vibration, listening, arts and music therapy to those on low income.

Contact: Sigrid Countess von Galen

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

From my archives: Endocrinological Voice Disorders/Endokrinologische Stimmstoerungen, Münster, 1986, by Sigrid Countess von Galen

From my archives: Endocrinological Voice Disorders/Endokrinologische Stimmstoerungen, Münster, 1986,

by Sigrid Countess von Galen

This paper goes way back to my last student year in 1986. I had always been fascinated by the voice and how it works. My teachers all had very holistic approaches and methodologies but knowledge about endocrinological voice disorders was extremely scarce. It was the time before the internet and there was only one library in Germany, that held all the international and national research publications in medicine, voice and speech therapy and endocrinology.

But almost none of the publications in these fields had anything published on endocrinological voice disorders. I was particularly interested in those, as I had miraculously survived a prolactinome, which disappeared by itself without any operation. But the outcome, had it grown, could have been fatal and on the way, possibly also claimed my voice.

That is, how my interest got started and when I survived all the gruesome predictions of the doctors, who told my parents I would be dead within a year (that was in 1986!), I decided that the topic for my final paper at university had found me!

I made my way to Munich, to the Staatsbibliothek (the National Library), and began my research. The few publications I found were actually written as by-product findings by scientists from various non-medical fields like space technology, as they noticed that potential astronauts had changes in their voices after certain medication.

Another story I was told by Prof. Bauer in at the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic in the university in Münster, who had advised the pharmaceutical companies in the Sixties on the side effects of the then version of the new anti-baby pill. He warned them that the female telephone operators could experience irreversible male voice changes and so it was in a certain pharmaceutical company that ignored his warnings...

I find it extremely interesting that in 1986 and even in the 1990ies, when I updated my results, there were hardly any transsexual patients presented in the medical publications. I personally have helped quite a few singers in the UK after sex changes to find and stabilise their new voice range. But even in the late Nineties the numbers were only a few.

I find it quite worrying, especially in the context of so much illegal experimentation on human beings and unlawful laboratories run secretly by certain lobbies, who are also involved in human trafficking, grooming, enforced adoption, disappearing of children, CSA, sex slavery and gene experimentation and who operate worldwide even via established spiderwebs of rogue officials in churches, schools and universities under abuse of immunity that suddenly the figures have multiplied.

I have always followed the developments in endocrinology from those early days in 1986.

The pages below show the index and foreword of my paper in Sprecherziehung/Sprechwissenschaft.

I would be very interested in hearing from anybody, who has had permanent voice changes, and what path they chose or were guided towards. If you have been maltreated or misinformed and have not found your voice yet, I would also be grateful to hear from you, as there is help available.

Contact: Sigrid Countess von Galen, countessvongalen@gmail.com

Sigrid Countess von Galen NEC LAUDIBUS NEC TIMORE http://voicerebalancing.blogspot.co.uk, http://thecentrefortraumastudiesandhealing.blogspot.co.uk, http://clemensaugustvongaleninstitute.tumblr.com http://sigridvongalen.tumblr.com (James John Westcott House) http://clemensaugustvongaleninstitute.blogspot.com http://thepeacegallery.tumblr.com http://sigridvongalendiary.tumblr.com http://theinstituteforcriminologyandjustice.wordpress.com @instcrimjust @CTraumastudies @sigridvongalen

Sigrid Countess von Galen NEC LAUDIBUS NEC TIMORE http://clemensaugustvongaleninstitute.tumblr.com http://sigridvongalen.tumblr.com (James John Westcott House) http://clemensaugustvongaleninstitute.blogspot.com http://thepeacegallery.tumblr.com http://sigridvongalendiary.tumblr.com http://theinstituteforcriminologyandjustice.wordpress.com @instcrimjust @CTraumastudies @sigridvongalen

Friday, August 18, 2017

The Willow Arts Therapy and Healing Arts Project at the Centre for Trauma Studies, by Sigrid Countess von Galen

The Willow Arts Therapy and Healing Arts Project,

by Sigrid Countess von Galen

The Willow is often praised for its healing capacity. In this project we chose it as a symbol for moving in the creative nurturing flow of the elements to deal with and heal from whatever sorrows and pain makes a heart heavy. The willow's swaying living soothing energy and its comforting shelter is even alive, when we are working with its branches in our hands. We are forming and creating something new within its limits by stretching, twisting, intertwining and using it as a bond between parts but we also bend it only as far as it allows us to. The branches transform into a new object that lives on with all our emotions and thoughts in it. There is a thought: We better focus on something life-affirming and good, when we shape the branches. Never underestimate the power of truth in what we do, and of sincerity, as when we pass on our finished product to a friend, it will go a long way not just in our memory of it but also in our and the friend's heart.

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Thursday, August 17, 2017

International Association for Performing Arts Medicine: Changing Voices, effortless Muscles, Deep Breathing - serving the PA community, by Sigrid Countess von Galen

International Association for Performing Arts Medicine: Changing Voices, effortless Muscles, Deep Breathing - serving the PA community,

by Sigrid Countess von Galen

The International Association for Performing Arts Medicine is providing exemplary services to the musicians and performers community, including dancers, singers, actors, and semi-professional and student performers.

IAPAM offer free assessments by professional therapists, doctors and coaches, who have teamed up for shared research, training and consultancies in their multi-disciplinary fields.

Many people are under the impression that the music and performing arts/film industry is one of glamour and, for a minority, it might be true.

For most, and even the most famous performers and musicians, every day challenges are often unspoken, and pressures are especially high in times of hardship or in the haunting and crowded days and nights on tour buses.

Sore thorats, beginning of vocal nodules, tension, spasms, back aches, sleep dprivation and and overused ligaments are a reality for many, often left undiagnosed and taking away the quality not just of the performance but of life in general.

Musicians and performers who have a physical or psychological problem that is affecting his or her work can contact the IAPAM via the Centre for Trauma Studies: centretraumastudies@gmail.com

After the initial free assessment, which is naturally confidential, further treatment, therapies and/or coaching can be recommended and wherever possible facilitated.

Membership is free.

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

When Trauma Research opens up pathways to Healing: From PTSD Support to Voiceworks, CSA Survivor Pathways and Osteopathy, by Sigrid Countess von Galen

When Trauma Research opens up pathways to Healing: From PTSD Support to Voiceworks, CSA and M/FMG Survivor Pathways and Osteopathy,

by Sigrid Countess von Galen

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The Centre for Traumastudies Research and Healing is a Research and Holistic Healing Approaches collaboration of teachers, therapists, practitioners, GPs and medical and other multi-disciplinary experts, such as arts, music, movement, breathing and voice therapy.

The members all have a shared vision and holistic out-of-the-box approaches to a whole host of trauma and health issues. Often, one approach is not sufficient to identify, address and help heal a variety of trauma factors that are all contributing to distress and dilemmas that affect every aspect of
a survivor's life and their real life choices.

We work individually, with couples, families and in self-help groups. More recently, we have facilitated a range of sessions and meetings with survivors of organised crimes like CSA, human trafficking, organ harvesting, and also of heinous crimes that have been committed and silenced by church hierarchies.

Our latest group and couple sessions include programmes for former and present priests and their wives, who have ben threatened and tortured by arch/bishops and persecuted for the truth and reality of their marriages by the accomplices and instruments of evil of the churches, and of other religions, for that matter.

Another dark area of abuse and crime is female and male genital mutilation. There are many more almost unspeakable traumas, which we deal with and try to prevent and of which we try to ease the survivors' pain and suffering and to try to give them a chance to heal.

We are called as society to open our eyes, not to shut them, so that we can bear witness and be a pillar of support to those, who have survived such trauma.

All members of The Centre for Traumastudies collaboration team are dedicated and devoted to reach out to the public, too, to fight proactively organised crime like Child Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking. We also build bridges between survivors with the law enforcement authorities and to the law communities.

Our Truth Outreach Programme (T.O.P.) offers a range of sessions and talks in various formats. As we are dealing with extremely sensitive issues, our sessions take place under great security care and in places of trust and respect nurturing the whole person.

We make participation affordable, and whenever necessary and possible, also freely available, so that those, who are most vulnerable are especially being cared for!

If you have a voice, lend it to the voiceless victims! If you need to find it yourself, you have arrived home!

Welcome to the Centre for Trauma Studies!

Sigrid Countess von Galen

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Twitter:@CTraumastudies

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