TLP Certification

With all the noise, toxins and clutter and confusion in ‘normal’ lives in the US, we need all the good help available to us! With all the experiences I have had listening to TLP, I have many questions myself and comments, but I’ll attempt to stick to answering some questions you may have.

If you have the background to become certified, the training for The Listening Program will probably be the most enjoyable course you have ever taken! It is how I became certified and I have also taken the live training and both have their benefits. Both do cover the exact same information and give you the same certification. I found training fascinating, informative and very interesting. Here is the link to the training choices: http://www.advancedbrain.com/the-listening-program/training-and-registration-options.html . Same training, just different methods of getting it!

Your training will cover all the ABT solutions and how and why they are used. When you are ready to order you have many choices. The best thing to do is call for help 888-228-1798 in the US, 801-622-5676 outside the US. We are all certified providers with various backgrounds to help you implement TLP in your practices.

There are a few things I’ve learned that are universal:

Everyone is different.

Everything is normal.

Nothing is the same.

I am very wise.

The auditory system effects everything, body, mind and I believe spirit. Listening to music-based frequencies the way TLP is done change the brain for good in so many ways. This isn’t just my training talking. I am finishing week 20 of listening myself and have benefitted in ways I didn’t expect. I blog about my experiences here at www.roxysjourney.blogspot.com and am fairly transparent but not entirely…

Tegan Elizabeth Cross

When my 6th child was born they told me it was a girl and I thought they were cruel to tease me. After 5 boys I did not believe I got a girl! This pretty little blonde baldy headed creature was a new adventure right from the start! Me, being the athletic/dancer chick, told everyone I would never put my daughter in frilly girlie things and lied like crazy! Because when I got a little girl, everything I put on her had lace and ruffles and it was so much fun! I even made mother-daughter outfits for us and it was pretty pathetic probably!
By the time she was a headstrong 6 year old, her father said to me, what are you going to do with her when she is 14? I said, 'what do you mean, what am I going to do with her?' not realizing by the time Tegan was 10 I would be raising her on my own. Everytime her strong will, stubborn and pushy side came out, I told myself, there must be a reason she is like this. Having no idea what life would do to her, I believed she would have to be strong for some reason.
I had no idea.
Tegan Elizabeth Cross, the divorced mother of Matthew will be 22 years old this Monday. She is a warm-hearted woman who does not see color or gender. She generously welcomes all into her circle. I cannot believe all the things she has been through in her short life, especially in the last month or so. She was in a car wreck that was not her fault at all, which involved at least 3 head injuries and required stitches, since her vehicle was totalled, being hit by 2 other drivers. That incident started a stream of some of the worst things that can happen to a person.
Tegan is strong for a reason; lots of reasons. I am so proud of her and how she is making good decisions for herself and others. My hope is that her life will calm down and give her a moment to recouperate. She is an inspiration to all who know her.

Families of Origin and stuffed emotions

I'm nearly at the end of my first TLP listening cycle of 20 weeks and am looking back at the things I have learned and the benefits and gains I have seen. There is a great book I've never read called, 'Feeling Buried Alive Never Die.' I've been told to read this by all kinds of people in the last 10 years and haven't. I did finally buy it 6 months ago, but have not gotten into it. I totally agree that you shouldn't stuff your feelings and that people probably get cancer and heart disease and other stress related things, like wrinkles, hair loss and bad breath from holding back what they are really thinking, but I still haven't read the book.

One of the most impactful results from my listening to a frequency basic music listening program is the repressed memories that have bubbled up to the surface for me to deal with. Doesn't 'bubbled up' sound lovely?! In the 5th and 6th weeks of listening I was flooded with memories of my childhood; some I remembered and some I definitely did not.

I grew up in an over achieving household full of religious, bigots, beyond their thresholds of comfort, with perfected abilities to act like nothing was awry. People at church thought we were the perfect family. We looked good, sounded good and smelled good, but behind the front door of our house, things were not good. Dad ruled the house with an iron fist, literally.

He had been an only child with parents who did not want him. As a child he was bounced around from his grandparents to an orphanage to a sweet family in his town growing up. His mother was a concert pianist and had several husbands at a time when that wasn't done. Dad worked hard to be a perfect student with perfect grades who sang, played trombone and danced like nobody's business.

Mom grew up on a farm in Missouri, the show me state, went to college in MO, then to design school at Ray Vogue Art Schools in Chicago, where my parents first met. Mom had a vision of becoming the next Edith Head and designing fabulous gowns for glamorous women and modeled for extra money while going through school. She was one term from her degree when she got married and Dad told her to quit as no wife of his was going to work.

It was a time when women did what their husbands told them to do. It is also how I was raised. Both my parents are gone now and I appreciate, ,so much, how hard they worked to take care of their large family as best as they knew how. Neither of them had been around babies and yet eventually, they had 11 of them. I was the oldest and the smallest of the bunch. There was a lot of trouble inside our home, but I always loved my family and did my best to take care of them.

The frequencies effecting speech and language also effect memory. Memories are tied to emotions and when emotions get stuffed; say when things happen to a child or in the field of vision of a child, and said child cannot handle them, they do hunker down inside causing damage. This is the type of thing that 'bubbled up' to the surface and is why, going into TLP, my provider asked me point blank, 'Do you have a therapist or someone you can talk to?' And I can tell you I surely do and I had to as even at my age, I could not have handled the emotional devastation this could have caused. Between TLP and therapy, I am very glad I am going through this as those feelings I buried so long ago can be free to leave. I'm grateful for the process where I can deal, grieve and heal from these invisible wounds.

TLP Providers

The optimal method for The Listening Program to work maximum benefit, is to listen 30 minutes/day, 5 days/week, 2 days off, 1 album/week, in order, 1-10 and 10-1. The 30 minutes can be split into 2-15 minute segments, too. From there you can do 15 minutes/day in the same pattern which takes the entire cycle from 20 weeks to 40 weeks. This is the most gentle, yet effective, method of listening.

TLP Providers should be certified in bone conduction so they can provide all the products Advanced Brain Technologies has to offer or will offer in the near future.

From my experience, listening to providers all over the world, TLP should be used as directed. Even when someone is having difficulty in one area, that could be the area of greatest need. If left out, how will they retrain their brains on their own? There are ways to slow down the process, augment the process and give it the time needed for the brain to learn to filter and process.

It is very important for providers to listen to TLP themselves. Everyone gets gain and they deserve to do this for themselves! Then they will also understand better, what others go through listening, and realize listening to music, can be difficult. So difficult, and a big enough challenge, it requires a trained professional to monitor. Then providers have their own experience to draw from and stories to share.

For instance, I am in week 18 of listening to TLP myself. In weeks 5 and 6 I had all kinds of emotional upheaval as Speech and Language frequencies effect memory and therefore emotions. I’m older. I have a lot of memories; some cause distress. As I went through that experience I can understand why kids act out in those weeks, especially if they don’t have clear language skills!

In weeks 7 and 8 I thought I would hurt people; I was so irritated! The high frequency sounds activated my tinnitus to the point it was so loud and never shut off, even when sleeping! I looked ahead to 6 more weeks of it and thought I didn’t know how I would survive 8 weeks of torture. But in week 9 it stopped and I was fine for the rest of the high spectrum listening. Now I definitely understand how simply listening to music can really upset people. I also know by experience, if people will stick with it, their brains will learn, adapt and filter and process better. I have more stories but you get the point.

It really is important for TLP providers to do their own consistent listening to TLP, to do an excellent job, with this frequency based program for those they help.

Bye Mom...

My mother was a beautiful, classy, gracious lady, who was also a model and award-winning fashion designer, was married to my physician father, who was very well known internationally, in his field, and she happened to have 11 children. I am the oldest and smallest of the bunch and prone to run-on sentences. Since Mom had so many kids and I was the oldest, I was there beside her taking care of my sibs until I left home for college, got married and had my own family.

From then on my relationship with my mom was spotty. My husband moved a lot and I went with him caring for our kids. She didn't like my lifestyle and I did the best with what I had. She wanted my life to be nicer and not hard like she remembered her grandmother's life.

You see I've lived in places you have to drive through the river 3 times to get to our place. And our place consisted of 2 camp trailers and a wall tent. Or tents and a house that was condemned after we moved out because the electrical was original, when electricity, was first invented. Wires ran across the ceilings and down the walls. I've taken care of my family with no running water, or only running cold water I had to heat for everything; cleaning, laundry, bathing, washing my waist length hair, etc.

Then at times of extreme camping, we used a two seater outhouse, or the like, as we didn't have indoor plumbing. Then we lived, at times, 7 to 30 miles from the closest traffic light and even paved road.

I always acted like it was a big adventure, but it was hard.

I came from money and prestige and a well-educated background, full of talent and opportunity. Thinking I married the same, for all time and eternity, I might add, the gypsy life, of living under the poverty level, was nothing I was prepared for. It took the intelligence to learn new skills, and the perseverance to keep going, and the constant check on my attitude to keep my shifting household positive.

I have never owned my own home and only this last year was I able to own a vehicle free and clear.

I'll get back to the part where we were at least, finally able to stay in one spot for 5 years. When my husband wanted to move once again, after 60 moves I said, 'No, ' and sunk roots down in eastern Utah.

So he left and I began my own adventure of raising 7, then 6, then 5, then 4 kids. It gets creative at this point as my older kids came and went with and without their families, friends and pets. In 2007 I supported 17 people, mostly related. Now I have my 2 youngest, of 9 children, at home.

Fairly soon life could be easier. Danica starts sophomore year of high school next fall, Adam graduates in a year, Josh just finished his 2nd year at Westminster College with a 3.92 GPA. And all my other grown children are in 3 states working and following passions and have interesting interpersonal relationships with each other.

So why this post?

Mom died before I came anywhere near getting my life in any kind of even occasional peace and she knew it. I was still married when she left and struggling greatly. She said things to me like, 'a child who was never loved, will grow up to be an adult with no capacity to love,' to explain my loveless marriage. She said in an abusive marriage, the better of a wife I was, the more I would be punished. That people who hate themselves, despise those who love them, or at least will disrespect them.

I thought I could love my husband enough and surround him with amazing loving children, and it would melt his chilled heart, and open it to love us back. To their credit, my kids are loving and reach out to others, which is a huge gift to me to watch. But the marriage ended and badly and it has been a long road to regain self esteem and some modicum of periods of feeling safe.

But Mom left 12 years ago today and I miss her. I go to call her and she isn't on the other end of the phone, and I need her and she isn't there. I have never in all these years, had the time to mourn her passing. I didn't even get to go to her funeral. My own mother's funeral. I never got to say goodbye. I still don't have the life she wanted for me; living in my own home, with a loving husband, kids and grandkids gathered around and actively participating in the church she loved so dearly.

What I do have today is, I am surrounded by my kids and their kids, even through social media and phones. And I have amazing women friends of all ages all over the country. I've reconnected with my school chums who remember me fondly and I have a great love for things that flower fabulously and growing food plants in hanging baskets with food. (See www.youtube.com/roxycrossdesigns)

I also have a burgeoning ability to process things that bubble up to the surface. It may take a bit, but things do resolve better for me now. I am able to sort info and handle crisis at the time. And I really hope this continues to improve because it doesn't look like my life will be difficulty free just yet. I will keep listening to The Listening Program as it is helping and I've added weekly therapy sessions for professional guidance to sort through all these years of stuffed stress, trauma and emotions.