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Selective hearing or: Just hear the noise away

Selective hearing or: Just hear the noise away

16.10.2024



We can't block out street noise, footsteps in the hallway, building work in the courtyard or the neighbor's long phone calls. Or can we? Design your home with sounds offers precisely these fascinating advantages. By surrounding ourselves with soothing sounds, we concentrate on what is good for us. This is called selective listening. You can find out how it works here.

 

Do you know the cocktail party effect? It's not the inspiring effect of alcohol, but an acoustic phenomenon that helps us to understand each other. Imagine you are at a party, the room is bursting, the music is too loud and the conversations are overlapping. Despite the confusion of noises, we can still understand the other person (sometimes more, sometimes less). This is made possible by our ability to listen selectively. By focussing on the other person's words, we block out all other noises. A real feat of our senses!

 

Essential for survival: selective hearing

 

Without our ability to concentrate on individual sounds in a fraction of a second, we would probably not even exist. Our ancestors in the jungle would not have heard the tiger sneaking up behind us and only giving itself away with the crack of a small branch. This tried and tested survival mode is still vital today, for example so that we can orient ourselves in the jungle of the big city. The ringing of a bicycle approaching from the right makes us jump to the side so that we don't get run over. The great thing is that you can use this amazing ability to relax even better at home. All it takes is a little practice.

 

How to use selective hearing in everyday life

 

Simply filter out the stimuli that rob your energy. With the following small exercises, you can train your perception so that you can easily avoid annoying noise. So the next time a noise disturbs you, concentrate on something that pleases your senses.

 

Distinguish sounds

Close your eyes and listen to a pleasant noise in the background: where do the individual sounds come from? For example: If you listen to the chirping of birds with the window open, you will notice more and more details over time. Fine things that you simply ignored before.  

 

Use natural sounds

You can use sound boxes with natural sounds to set acoustic accents in your home; they simply relax you as you walk by. Stroll around the room and listen to how the sounds change, look around with your ears: just like a walk in the forest. 

 

Go for a walk

Even if an acoustic walk with sound boxes can relax you well: If you have time, take a few steps in the fresh air. Exercise works wonders, it stimulates blood circulation in the inner ear. And you train your hearing simply by walking.

 

 

Enjoy beauty in a noisy world

 

Now you know about the advantages of selective listening and how you can utilise them. Okay, it takes a little practice. The beauty of sound boxes with natural sounds is that they relax you without you having to do anything. The relaxing sounds are simply activated by a motion sensor. You trigger them as you walk past and relax your senses naturally. You don't have to switch anything on and can simply recharge your batteries. This simple but effective principle is what makes the Original Relaxound sound boxes so successful. Especially in an increasingly complex world, they provide peace and quiet in hectic everyday life. With these sounds, you simply hear the noise away.

 

Fancy setting yourself up with sound? Discover the selective listening benefits with Relaxound boxes!