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It has recently been brought to my attention (thanks cat, and others) that there might be a Qi Gong practice that could assist with my hearing loss or even repair the damage that has been done. My hearing loss has become a part of my life weather or not I wanted it to be, and I've been growing accustomed to the issues associated with being unable to hear fluidly and consistently in conversation only recently. I lost my (good) hearing when I was about 11 years old when I fell and hit my head and got a concussion. It's been a few short of 20 years now, I can read lips pretty well, but I don't know much sign and I have never known a practice I could implement into my personal cultivation that might assist or even repair my hearing loss. I can hear quite well mind you, but as if someone transposed the frequencies up a few hundred thousand hertz; I cannot hear low frequency sounds such as, but not limited to, my own voice lawn mowers, bass guitar, and Dart Vader, but high frequencies are crystal clear, so much so that the sound of crystals themselves gives the phrase a whole new meaning. I would love to be able to function more normally in conversation and social situations, however, I would miss the frequency gain if I had to sacrifice it to retrieve the frequency loss...

(totally time for taoist tongue twisters?) ...oh, ahem, focus here! back to topic at hand.... I've been browsing around and have found the personal practice boards of interest. Not sure if I want to start my own or not yet, but I thought I'd inquire into how you fine folks have used your own page, what you like about using that forum (or what's stopped you), and if it's actually helped your personal practice. I'm working a writing project and there's really a lot of benefit to social accountability - telling someone else what you're going to do and then reporting on your progress. So I can see that having the PPD is akin to that, but I'm just curious if there's more to it than that. Also, asking this question up front saves me from the time-suck reading EVERYONE'S page would be. Sorry, I guess this counts as research-by-cheating...