Mental Model Tools
A listening workout for your attention. With your eyes closed, you'll settle onto one instrument at a time, hold it steady in the music, then release and move to the next. Picking one voice out of the whole band — and keeping it — is the exact skill that helps push tinnitus out of the center of your attention.
Tinnitus feels loud partly because your attention keeps returning to it, and attention is trainable. When you deliberately lift one instrument out of a full band and hold it there, you're rehearsing the exact move that shifts the ringing from the center of your awareness to its quiet edge. The music is only a friendly training ground; the skill you build here is the one the book teaches you to turn on the sound itself.
Best with headphones, eyes closed, in a quiet spot. There's no score to chase — when your attention wanders, that's normal; just guide it back to the instrument.