Self Hypnosis Or NLP Can Easily Erase Facial Tics

Up to 25 percent of all children cope with the painful embarrassment of facial tics. This problem can most accurately be explained as a repeatedly occurring spasm that affects the muscles of both the eyes and the face. The exact cause is often unknown, even though research indicates a strong link between stressors and an increase in severity of symptoms.

Another possible cause of tics is a deficit in essential vitamins or minerals, such as magnesium. In some cases, facial tics are symptoms of disorders of the nervous system, such as Tourette syndrome, a health condition arising from a dysfunction of the nervous system. Tourette syndrome is believed to have a hereditary facet as well.

A few examples of a facial tic include rapid eye movements or eye blinking, squinting, mouth or nose wrinkling, twitching, grunting, mouth twitches, facial grimacing, facial twitches, and throat clearing. The spasm often starts in the early developmental years, and may last for just a few weeks or for several years. At times, the disorder persists into adulthood.

Facial tics can perpetuate and exacerbate anxiety-related behaviors in a child already experiencing significant stress because of the tic itself. Young people often can be extremely cruel, making fun of the child’s problem. Further, educators who do not understand and are unable to aid fellow classmates to empathize and assist the child in managing his difficulty can can create a devastatingly negative effect on a child’s self-esteem.

This issue, however, is not confined to the experience of the afflicted child. Adults who find themselves dealing with a facial tic find this extremely difficult to manage. These persons often struggle with significant social difficulties. In some instances, a person can learn to identify the onset and control the impulse that results in the facial tic. Even this, however, can result in intense emotional and physical energy drains. Such individual often wrestle with self image problems as well.

Adults who experience cessation of the humiliating effects of facial grimaces and other tics are afforded with an opportunity for social rebirth. Their perception of themselves improves, and they no longer fear to experience the fullness of life. Youths who can overcome this problem can be freed from the paralyzing anxiety that hinders their social lives, and encounter with joy rather than psychic pain.

Sometimes, medications, such as mildly sedating drugs, are prescribed to this condition. Although the medications may lessen the frequency or severity of these symptoms, the medications themselves can often cause undesired side effects. For this reason, individuals frequently turn alternative therapies to help them in treating their disorder.

Two treatment methods that have shown exciting potential in helping persons to successfully manage facial tics are hypnosis and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). Both of these therapies take advantages of the strength of the individual’s subconscious to help them manage the repetitive behavior. Since these therapies address the origin of the difficulty by intervening in the unconscious where the problem originates, they are much more useful than traditional therapy methods that just attempt to control eye blinking, mouth twitches, squinting, facial grimacing, facial twitches, grunting, or other types of impulsive behavior.

Hypnotherapy allows the person being treated to reach a restful trancelike state and receive suggestions that allow them to release anxiety. Since tics are a result of built-up tension within a person’s body, expelling this tension allows them to successfully control this behavior. After several sessions, the client ought to be capable of possess the ability to cope with tension successfully.

Those therapists who use NLP assist the client to focus his or her mind to utilize stressful stimuli as triggers for thoughts that will relax them. Additionally, the client is taught to use an unrelated part of the body, like a toe, to expel the tension that would otherwise be manifested by the facial tic. This also allows individuals to manage tension without resorting to the embarrassing behavior.

Another advantage of both these is that the person being treated is not subjected to adverse effects from medication type therapies. For this reason, both hypnosis and NLP are frequently believed to be the ideal treatment for individuals who are afflicted by tics, such as nose wrinkling, or throat clearing, because these interventions do not have undesirable side effects. This avoids significant anguish and distress for the sufferer.

Summary: Facial tics are frequently socially devastating and can have harmful consequences. Male children are most likely to struggle with this difficulty, which can continue into adult life; however female children may also experience difficulties with tics. Although several treatment methods exist, hypnosis and NLP appear to be the most prudent therapies, because they have no problematic side effects and are very efficacious.

Alan B. Densky, CH offers facial twitch hypnosis programs as well as a broad variety of popular titles for all anxiety related symptoms. For pleasure and education visit his Free video hypnosis library at his Neuro-VISION self improvement website.