Hearing Joy

Friday, June 7, 2013

Hallelujah! I won a blog contest!

After few months of not showing myself in this blog, I learnt many things that bring my life back from awakening state to something profound ancient wisdom that is not found any books. Now I am trying to think of ways on how to survive and thrive in this world. I need to polish my rare skills including my not-so-good English skills that I want to manifest which I hide them for many years.

I suppose to revise my message which I wrote "My Instant Happiness Tool" because I understood everything what's going on in a deeper sense of life and to correct some wrong info but I am unable to do so as I didn't expect that I declared as a winner in Happiness Rockstar Blogger Contest and was edited by my favorite author.

Here is my winner post published on April 10, 2013 at Karen Salmansohn's blog: http://notsalmon.com/2013/04/10/the-power-of-faith-by-joy-ty/

Karen Salmansohn's Quote for me! ;)

But hooray, I am so happy of my first achievement in this contest. This is my first time that I joined any contest and won unexpectedly. I usually complain about not achieving anything after all my hardwork but seeing this as a blog winner makes my heart melt...

Oh my... It makes me want to push harder on following my heart and dream.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

My “Instant Happy” Happiness Tool

Karen Salmansohn is one of my favorite authors. I read most of her books, gives me a huge laugh, and teaches me timeless wisdoms. Love it!

She shared some of her happiness tools that come from her bestselling book - "Instant Happy". All her messages in the book reminded me of my journey to my difficult years in the past from the beginning life of my hearing-impaired at the age of 10- a slow learner, unresolved distorted and mumbled sounds from hearing aids for many years, unable to speak until the age of 10 and has difficulty in comprehending words , the sudden death of my father at age 17, the verbal abuse from some of my family members, relatives, classmates, teachers, and others. In short, I was unhappy childhood life. But only one quote from the INSTANT HAPPY book that changes my life throughout the years which becomes my "Instant Happy" Happiness tool. I'll tell you in a while. hehe

One day, I grew tired dependent on them, to being slaves to them, and to please them. That was when I was 19 years old. I said to myself in a "movie" mind that I wanted to understand words. I didn't care if I didn't hear them. I didn’t care too if my hearing aids didn't work for me. All I want is to learn the English language and how to use those words to communicate with people in order to fight the right, to tell the truth, and to stand my feet on the ground! That's all I want and nothing else.

Then, I pray to God to help me to achieve my impossible dream. Suddenly, my inner voice spoke to me in typewritten words inside my mind and said- "YOU CAN DO IT! YOU GOTTA FAITH IT TO MAKE IT!" For me, at that time, those words were too aliens to me. I felt like it came from other planets. However, I follow my intuition to work for me heartily. At the age of 24, I started hiring different English teachers, practicing trials and errors in writing, forcing myself to read at least 70 books, and many more. I have achieved my dream today at the age of 28.5 but I still keep improving writing everyday through self-studying.

Now, I understand that word "faith" and is the most important powerful word above all else. Faith is a full package of “believe yourself”, “trust the power within”, and “love all your imperfections”. Because of that, you gotta faith it to make it work! Better than the word “fight”. Make sense!

This poster below is worth to keep it as my greatest “instant” happiness tool. Look, it is color green which means, GO, GO, GO!!! My dear, have faith and keep going!

From Karen Salmansohn's "Instant Happy" book

Hope you enjoy reading! :)

If you like it and want to inspire with powerful quotes/messages, I suggest you to have a look for "Instant Happy" book at www.notsalmon.com/instant-happy-book

xoxo :)

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Take a Deep Breath

We are overwhelmed of our problems that lead to emotional depression and anxiety. Most of the time we disconnected to the normal hearing society because of our insecurities in our hearing-impairment that haven't met their standards and expectations as well as labelling us as "disabilities". So, we stop what we are doing and take our power away and follow what they want us to do just to please them.

Don't you think we act like a puppet and robot? Don't you think we feel slaves?

If so, it's time to stop to ACT AND FEEL like one!

It's time to change!

We are ordinary people just like them but doing extraordinary things.

Really!!! We are!!!

We just missed one thing- hearing problem... So, that's not a big problem unless you let it be...

I'm sure you might be asking, "How can I start from scratch all over again? or Is it too late to start over again?"

But before you start doing anything, first you need to

TAKE A DEEP BREATH! .Inhale .... and.. Exhale.... Inhale... Exhale...

FEEL the breath... that you are ALIVE!

Again, INHALE all the good and positive vibes that enter inside our body

and

EXHALE all our toxins from our body.

Just do a simple breathing and you're on the way to master a very simple technique of breathing and meditation. Yey!!!

Who knows, it will turn a good tree and a flower as an added bonus and makes our world beautiful - Look at this :

From Google Image

Is it lovely? So take a deep breath.. :)

You can do that while working, driving, cooking, or anything you do.

It helps me to do it. Now, I'm happy, very happy!!! :) Even on the crisis time, I'm so happy too!!! :)

If you don't believe me, you can read my previous posts about my emotional traumas, depressions, etc due to too much bully and abuse from my hearing-impairment and naive. It might not a good read to you but I tell anyway so I have a proof to tell you that I'm an ordinary person too just like any humans but willing to do extraordinary things that makes me feel unique inspite of being hearing- impairment.

just keep breathing to connect with yourself, and you're on the way to feel heaven.

Hope this inspires you.

Monday, February 25, 2013

No Class Today, Happy or Not Happy?

How many of you hear of these message, -"No Class Today, Yey!!!!" ? Almost all, right? What did they do if they don't have classes? They go to sleep, hang out with friends, buzzing through facebook, watch TV and other entertainment activities.

Hearing this, my reaction is, "Sad, very sad". Because young people know what they want in life, but they just don't know how to do it. Schools don't provide those things on how to manifest their greatest desires in life. That's a big problem here in all schools around the world. But I'm happy that they have the enjoyments they want such as going to party, enjoy bonding with people, etc. In my case, my struggle with difficulty in understanding words and not be able to hear well blocks the social happiness of my young life. Kinda lonely, though.

Back then, in my school days, I had problems with understanding with words, no matter how hard I tried to find ways to just get the meaning of those words, it didn't seep into my mind the clear detail of the words. What I did was picturing all those words from the textbooks inside my mind without understanding the meaning. So, I was happy if there were no classes because I was very busy memorizing everything- sometimes I wrote them everything from the book for easier memorization. That's how I survived in my school days, u can pass the exams just memorizing even if you didn't understand everything. Since, I didn't listen to teachers because I didn't understand anything! All I hear was mumbling and I stare their lip movements. Words were pretty confusing and aliens to me!

To be honest with you, it's not easy to live in hearing-impaired life here....there are plenty of things needed to get some training, learning, and so on just to get improving on hearing, listening, and communicating in order to survive in the real world. So, if there are no classes, you know where they are going...

See, why I tell this, because if you are normal hearing and able to study in school, take the chance and keep learning. As parents pay for your education so you can study all you want like yoga, belly dancing, painting, calligraphy,.. etc.. You have plenty of time during school days.... Take advantage of youth...

I myself gave up all creative sides such as piano and drawing just to commit myself to go into the world of understanding English words even if it is impossible to accomplish.

So, if you come around no class again, think of what you do to make you happy that makes your life worth for. :)

From Google Image. Busy jotting down! :)

Hope you enjoy your day! :)

xoxo

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Hey, I'm Still Alive!

Oh no, I just notice that I didn't post for a long time. I'm sorry that it didn't excite you anymore. I didn't feel that I'm away for almost three months. Maybe it's time to break my rules to tell you the truth.

First, I want to tell you that I'M STILL ALIVE and KICKING! hehe:)

Second, I am busy to look for answers to my problems mainly for emotional depressions, on and off switch creative blocks, communication problems, and passion- oriented career problem. Wait, did I ask for help? Yes, I did but none can help me to solve my problems. Soooo, I have to learn on my own... That's why I'm very busy doing research and experiment about life exploration. :) So, pardon for my being nerdy. hehe

Lastly, Of course, I really won't forget you. I am just busy experimenting here and there for my Exsilent QLEAFPRO hearing aids and how to apply in my life aspects. There are many things I discovered that I never experienced in my 17 years of my life! Wahoo! Hope you all are patiently waiting for my review. Give me more time. Since I need to expose different kinds of sound environment to check it out. :)

There are so many changes going on here but I'm happy with what I found which I yearned for! :)

I'll let you know. Just stay tuned.

Monday, November 19, 2012

First Time Event

I'm trying hard to get back on my creative juices in writing. It loses my creativity due to my "time-consuming" emotional crisis which I blogged about it in my previous post. This is one of the things that I don't like to happen again because it's difficult to get back on track.

So, my remedy is that I went to the Nuffnang Blogopolis PH 2012 event on November 18, 2012 at Makati Shangri-la Hotel. It's my first time to attend the blog event after having the Exsilent hearing aids. I was surprised to see that I can hear everything with no extra effort. I didn't need a recorder anymore. I learnt a lot from the event and was able to grasp important lessons from different speakers. I also engaged with other fellow guests. I hope that these event can help me to establish this blog. :)

So, these Exsilent hearing aids are helping me to cope with my listening skills. The only downside of these hearing aids is that sound programs automatically switch programming mode due to the loud pounding rocky music background coming from that event. But that's okay for me since I never go to the noisy environment.

But for those who love listening to the pub music or any noisy music, I suggest to have your hearing aids fine tuning for that noisy environment.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

My Long Absence

I'm back in the world. Sorry for letting you wait for so long. I'll share with you for some latest news which I found interesting in my next succeeding blog posts. But for now, I'm sharing my story.

I suffered a long severe emotional depression along with hidden anger. It's a shame for me to tell you this because I'd been studying and learning in a broad range of topics about mind-body-spirit (MBS) development for many years but it didn't heal my own emotional crisis. I held it for more than four months after continuous series of harassing and accusing me of something I didn't commit as well as using other deception methods to bring me down. What shocked me more is that those people are my mentors and close friends for many years and now they are revealing their true colors. I thought they were my true friends for life but I realized I was wrong. They are not... I'm so blinded...

It's a coincidence that it all happened at the same time.

I understood that it was all because of underestimating me due to my hearing disability. But what's wrong with having a hearing disability? Why are they so hardworking in fooling, scaring, and deceiving hearing impaired people?

One by one, everyone is going to leave me until I'm back to being alone.

Then one by one, I'm going to clean all the messes that brought to me.

Even though the problems are solved but my hidden anger and emotional depression are still stuck inside myself. And I couldn't get out of the bad memories that lingered inside my mind either.

I realized one day that there is no point of holding grudges for so long as it never brings me joy and happiness. So, what's the solution?

On the spur of the moment, I am able to find the LIFE LESSON after these happenings through silent meditation and self-reflection . Then my emotional crisis disappears instantly. Wow! I never thought I can heal my own crisis! :) So, I'm pretty sure it will not happen again ever... Life must go on, you know...

Here is my work and my own design! Hope it helps you too as well. :)

Enjoy!:)

Monday, June 25, 2012

First Time Pub Story

I have a fear in social life as I don't know how to mingle with people. I don't have much confident in my life especially having hearing aids. It didn't give me the full benefits I need to hear better in a difficult noisy situation until one day...

One day, I went to the (non-smoking) gastropub birthday party for the first time. My long-time friend succeeded in persuading me to go after several times of my refusal. You never know that before I went there, I had butterflies in my gut and almost wanted to vomit. These were due to my extreme fears of people and social life.

Inside the gastropub, I was very surprised that I didn't feel any disturbing noisy environment. I almost forgot that I was wearing a new brand of hearing aids- Exsilent QleafPro. There is one thing I didn't aware of it. I almost laughed out loud.

When my two lady friends wanted to share an order with me and asked me the choice of food. I told them that you girls could choose the food you wanted as long as there was no beef. I told them many times regarding that. I was astonished to see the order coming in front of us- BEEF BURGER. Oops, I told them; " I thought there is no beef?!?!?" They thought that I want any beef. And they apologized me for not hearing correctly because of too noisy in the pub. They hardly heard me. Ohhh, but I hear them loud and clear. lolx! I never stop giggling. (They didn't know I am wearing new hearing aids XD) I didn't know too that they were tired in the pub because of the noise.

I never thought that Exsilent QleafPro really works very well in an extremely noisy environment. It is my first time to enjoy this kind of event although my social communication is not pretty good but at least it solves the basic foundation of my hearing. The only disadvantage of QleafPro in this gastropub is that it keeps switching the listening programs on its own without my tapping. I am not sure if this is the result of the sound of high-tone low frequency in drumming music coming from a rock band.

Friday, June 22, 2012

Rejection By Vocal Teacher

I never knew how hard to live in a hearing-impaired life. I thought that my speaking-listening-writing dilemma is over, apparently it is not. There are many many things need to improve; however, there is one thing I never notice. Here is what I found out.

One day, when I record my voice to test out my microphone on my laptop. I realized I don't like my voice. The sound is pretty cracking, distorted, airy, childish, and not feminine! No wonder why some are irritated my voice. In addition, I suffer swollen vocal chords. My vocal chords easily worn out. I think I need help.

Unfortunately, when I search for a vocal teacher to solve my vocal issues. I never thought that all vocal teachers turn down their services to me because of my hearing-impaired. I find it very unreasonable. Oh well.. Shall I cry? hehe...

Anyway, it's not a big deal if I have vocal issues. What's important for me is to keep learning to expand my English vocabulary for better communication. Of course, I never give up on my voice problem by studying the voice development. I am a pretty greenhorn in this area.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Hearing Aids Centers in the Philippines

I know some of you are asking me about the lists of hearing aids center available in the Philippines. I cannot advise you which one is the right for you since I only try few centers and I may have different preferences with yours. Don't worry, I'll share my tips on buying hearing aids on my future posts.

Always remember this: each brand are exclusively (only owned) to that hearing aids center. Not all brands have the same sound quality and performance. Happy Hunting! :)

Hearing Aids Centers Philippines Directory Lists: (in alphabetical order)

1) American Hearing Center (AMEARCO)

Hearing Aids Brand: Resound