Simone Carot Collins' Story

As a child, repeated ear infections saw Simone Carot Collins lose 10% of her hearing during her primary schools years. A keen organist / keyboardist, Simone then sustained noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus by the time she was 14 years old as a result of repeated exposure to loud music. Hearing tests confirmed a loss of hearing in higher frequencies, with some frequencies not registering at all!

Having been told by an ENT specialist that there was nothing that could be done, except to prevent further damage by avoiding loud music, Simone was quite excited when she stumbled across the book "Sound Therapy: Music to recharge your brain" in a bookstore in 2003, at age 26, and read that perhaps her hearing damage and tinnitus weren't permanent after all!

Within days of starting listening to Sound Therapy via the Basic Music Kit, Simone noticed that she didn't need as much sleep anymore - she just didn't feel tired! She also found that if she answered the phone while listening to Sound Therapy (using bud earphones), she could concentrate on the conversation and hear what was being said much better.

Growing a little over-enthusiastic, Simone started listening to Sound Therapy for a good 10 hours a day. Her tinnitus started getting worse, and it became very distracting. On persevering with listening to Sound Therapy, though cutting back on the number of hours per day, she found that her tinnitus finally started improving - it stopped being so much of a distraction, and one day a few months later Simone suddenly realised that there was no noise anymore!

As a result of her own success with Sound Therapy, Simone decided not only to become a Sound Therapy consultant, but to also change her career, and embarked on natural medicine studies in 2004. Simone qualified as a reflexologist in 2005, and is gradually branching out into complementary areas, such as flower essences, as time (and family commitments!) permits.