Self-Hypnosis Or NLP Can Easily Treat Facial Tics - By: Alan B. Densky, CH

Up to 25 percent of all children experience the embarrassing annoyance of facial tics. This problem can most accurately be described as a repetitive, continual spasm that affects both facial and eye muscles. The exact etiology is frequently unclear, but research shows a significant connection between stressors and an increase in the evidence of symptoms.

Another explanation for the development of tics is deficiencies in essential vitamins or minerals, like magnesium. In some cases, facial tics are symptoms of disorders of the nervous system, such as Tourette syndrome, a disorder resulting from a dysfunction of the nervous system. This health condition is hypothesized to have a hereditary aspect as well.

Some examples of a facial tic are rapid eye movements or eye blinking, squinting, mouth or nose wrinkling, twitching, grunting, mouth twitches, facial grimacing, facial twitches, and throat clearing. A tic often originates at an early stage of physical development, and may last for just weeks, months, or even years. Sometimes, the tic lasts even after a child reaches adulthood.

Facial tics can perpetuate and exacerbate anxiety levels in a child already experiencing significant stress because of the tic itself. Children’s playmates often can be incredibly unkind, making fun of the child’s problem. Worse, educators who do not understand and fail to help fellow classmates to empathize and assist the child in overcoming his condition can can create a devastatingly negative effect on a child’s self-esteem.

The problem, however, is not relevant only to the suffering youth. Adults who find themselves dealing with a facial tic encounter significant challenges in managing this problem. These people frequently struggle with significant social difficulties. In some situations, a person can teach themselves to recognize the onset and supersede the impulse that results in the facial tic. Even this, however, can result in intense emotional and physical energy drains. Low self-esteem is often a major issue with which these people wrestle. Often, these individuals struggle with low self-esteem.

Adults who experience cessation of the humiliating effects of facial grimaces and other tics can experience social rebirth. Their perception of themselves is altered, and they no longer are afraid to experience the fullness of life. Youths who can overcome this problem no longer are burdened by the agonizing emotional pain that hinders their social lives, and live with joy instead of psychic pain.

On occasion, medications, such as mildly sedating drugs, are prescribed to this condition. While the medications may lessen the incidence of these symptoms, the drugs themselves can often cause adverse effects. Therefore, individuals frequently turn alternative methods to help them in treating their problem.

Two alternative therapies that have provided exciting potential in assisting clients to overcome facial tics are hypnosis and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). Both of these therapies capitalize on the strengths of the individual’s subconscious to help them manage the repetitive behavior. Because these methods identify and treat the root of the disorder by intervening in the unconscious where the problem originates, they offer significantly more hope for success than traditional therapy approaches that just attempt to control eye blinking, mouth twitches, squinting, facial grimacing, facial twitches, grunting, or other types of impulsive behavior.

Hypnotherapy allows the client to reach a peaceful altered state and receive suggestions that allow them to release stress. Because tics are caused by built-up anxiety within a person’s body, expelling this tension enables them to successfully manage the tic. After several sessions, the client ought to be capable of demonstrate the ability to cope with tension successfully.

Alternatively, therapists who employ NLP assist the client to focus his or her mind to use thoughts that stress them as triggers for relaxing thoughts. Additionally, the person is taught to use an unrelated part of the body, such as a toe, to release the stress that would in other circumstances be expressed by the facial tic. This technique allows individuals to overcome tension without relying on the embarrassing behavior.

Another benefit of both these is that the client avoids the experience of adverse effects from medication type therapies. Indeed, both hypnosis and NLP are typically viewed as the primary treatment for individuals who cope with tics, such as nose wrinkling, or throat clearing, because these treatment approaches do not have undesirable side effects. This avoids significant pain and distress for the sufferer.

Summary: Facial tics are often socially damaging and can result in harmful consequences. Male children are more likely to experience this disorder, which can last into adult life; however female children may also experience struggles with tics. While several treatment approaches exist, hypnosis and NLP appear to be the safest options, because they do not cause undesirable side effects and are very efficacious.

About the Author

Alan B. Densky, CH offers a large array of popular titles for all anxiety related symptoms, including facial ticks NLP programs. For entertainment and education visit his Free hypnosis article library at his Neuro-VISION self help website.

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