She Left Her Old Identity Behind – and Healed Her Hearing

Summary

At age 3, Maria had meningitis and lost hearing on the left side, becoming single-sided deaf when her auditory nerve died, along with balance problems. Her whole reality functioned around hearing only on one side—she was nearly put in special ed but refused because she never wanted to be different, learning to lip read and strategically always sitting on the right side, inventing reasons not to sit in the middle. She hid this disability her entire life, lying on applications saying she had no hidden disabilities, overachieving to prove she was "good enough." In open offices she couldn't tell where sound was coming from, would pick up phones saying "hello, hello" when no one was there, and when people spoke from her left side she would invent her own conversation with them while they had a completely different one. After attending Marco Island and hearing about others healing, a friend suggested she try to heal her ear, but she thought "I'm single-sided deaf, the nerve is dead, there's nothing you can do—punto, that's it." At the third event, after seeing someone cure cancer, something clicked—"if people are doing all these great things, why can't I recreate my nerve? I'm a mother, I gave birth, I have a lot of energy in this body." She decided she wanted to hear her daughter's voice from both sides and to experience stereo sound. For a year before her next event, she reconstructed her auditory nerve in meditation over and over, researching how hearing works. After her second coherence healing at the AFU in Marco Island, during the walking meditation she put on headphones and started feeling vibrations and sensations in her left ear for the first time in 40 years. In her final healing, her body turned into a garden, her heart became a lotus flower, a baby clove came out of her ear, and a being told her "now you have to water your garden." She continued reconstructing her nerve for one month, then went to the best ear doctor in Panama who tested her—5 out of 11 tones tested positive (before it was completely flat/zero for 40 years). The doctor was flabbergasted, saying the nerve is definitely not dead and active, though he claimed her brain had been "repurposed" for 40 years and wouldn't know how to hear. She said "I'm going to teach my brain myself," and now she can hear from both sides and finally understands what stereo is.