Facial Tics Easily Overcome With NLP or Hypnotherapy

As many as one-fourth of all children cope with the embarrassing annoyance of facial tics. This problem can most accurately be explained as a repetitive, continual spasm that affects both facial and eye muscles. The true cause is frequently unclear, even though research has demonstrated a significant connection between stressful events and an increase in severity of symptoms.

Another explanation for the development of tics is deficiencies in essential vitamins or minerals, including magnesium. In some cases, facial tics are symptoms of disorders of the nervous system, including Tourette syndrome, a health condition arising from a dysfunction of the nervous system. Tourette syndrome is believed to have a hereditary component 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 condition often starts during childhood years, and may last for only a few weeks or for several years. Sometimes, the disorder lasts even after a child reaches adulthood.

Facial tics can persist and exacerbate anxious disorders in a child whose stress levels are already high because of the disorder itself. Children’s playmates are often incredibly unkind, making fun of the child’s problem. Worse, teachers who do not understand and fail to aid fellow classmates to empathize and assist the child in managing his condition can create a devastatingly negative effect on a child’s self-esteem.

This issue, however, is not limited to the suffering child. Adults who must cope with a facial tic encounter significant challenges in managing this problem. These individuals often encounter significant social difficulties. In some instances, a person can develop the ability to identify the onset and master the urge that results in the facial tic. Even this, however, can become emotionally and physiologically draining. Such individual often wrestle with self image problems as well.

Grownups who experience cessation of the agonizing effects of facial grimaces and other tics can experience social rebirth. Their concept of themselves improves, and they no longer are afraid to experience life at its fullest. Youths who overcome the effects of this condition no longer are burdened by the agonizing emotional pain that cripples their social lives, and live with joy instead of psychic pain.

At times, medications, such as mildly sedating drugs, help individuals manage this problem. Even though the medications may lessen the incidence of these symptoms, the drugs themselves can often cause undesired side effects. Because of this, individuals frequently turn alternative treatments to help them in treating their disorder.

Two treatment approaches that have offered exciting potential in assisting individuals to control facial tics are hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). These therapies utilize the power inherent in the individual’s subconscious to assist them redirect the repetitive behavior. Because these treatments are concerned with the origin of the disorder by intervening in the unconscious where the problem originates, they are significantly more beneficial than traditional therapy methods that merely attempt to control eye blinking, mouth twitches, squinting, facial grimacing, facial twitches, grunting, or other types of impulsive behavior.

Hypnosis allows the person being treated to enter a peaceful trancelike state and accept suggestions that assist them to expel tension. Because tics are caused by suppressed anxiety within a person’s body, expelling this tension enables them to successfully manage this behavior. After several sessions, the client ought to be capable of possess the ability to handle tension successfully.

Alternatively, therapists who employ NLP assist the client to train his or her conscious will to use thoughts that stress them as triggers for thoughts that will relax them. Moreover, the person learns to use a non-related part of the body, such as a toe, to redirect the stress that would otherwise be expressed by the facial tic. This also allows individuals to manage tension without relying on the embarrassing impulse.

Another positive effect of both these is that the person being treated is not subjected to adverse effects from medication type therapies. Indeed, both hypnotherapy 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 treatment approaches do not have undesirable side effects. This relieves significant anguish and distress for the sufferer.

Summary: Facial tics are often socially destructive and can result in harmful consequences. Boys are most likely to exhibit this disorder, which can last into adulthood; however girls may also experience difficulties with tics. While several treatment approaches exist, hypnosis and NLP appear to be the most prudent options, because they do not cause undesirable side effects and are very effective.

About The Author:
Alan B. Densky, CH offers facial tic hypnotherapy programs, as well as a wide series of popular titles for all anxiety related symptoms. For pleasure and learning visit his Free hypnotherapy video library at his Neuro-VISION self improvement website.