Facial Tics Easily Eliminated With NLP Or Hypnosis
As many as one-fourth of all children contend with the embarrassing annoyance of facial tics. This condition can most accurately be described as a repetitive, continual spasm that affects the muscles of both the eyes and the face. The true cause is usually undefined, but research has demonstrated 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 manifestations of nervous system disorders, including Tourette syndrome, a condition caused by a dysfunction of the nervous system. This health condition 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 wrinkeling, twitching, grunting, mouth twitches, facial grimacing, facial twitches, and throat clearing. The condition often begins in childhood, and may last for merely weeks, months, or even years. At times, the disorder lasts even after a child reaches adulthood.
Facial tics can persist and increase anxiety levels in a child already experiencing significant stress because of the disorder itself. Kids are sometimes incredibly unkind, making fun of the child’s problem. Further, teachers who lack understanding and fail to assist fellow classmates to understand and assist the child in overcoming his problem can can create a devastatingly negative impact on a child’s self-esteem.
This issue, however, is not limited to the afflicted child. Adults who must cope with a facial tic find this extremely difficult to manage. These people often encounter significant social difficulties. In some situations, a person can develop the ability to recognize the onset and control the urge that causes 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 painful effects of facial grimaces and other tics can experience social rebirth. Their perception of themselves is altered, and they no longer fear to experience the fullness of life. Youths who successfully this condition experience freedom the agonizing emotional pain that impairs their social lives, and encounter with joy instead of psychic pain.
Often, medications, such as mildly sedating drugs, are prescribed to this problem. Although the medications may decrease the appearance of these symptoms, the drugs themselves can often cause adverse effects. Because of this, individuals frequently turn alternative methods to assist them in treating their problem.
Two treatment methods that have offered exciting potential in helping clients to successfully manage facial tics are hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). These therapies utilize the power inherent in the individual’s subconscious to help them control the spasm. Since these methods identify and treat the origin of the difficulty through intervening in the unconscious where the problem originates, they are significantly more beneficial than traditional therapy methods that only 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 achieve a peaceful dreamlike state and receive suggestions that assist them to release stress. Since tics are caused by built-up stress within a person’s body, releasing this tension enables them to successfully manage the impulse. After several sessions, the client should be capable of demonstrate the ability to cope with tension successfully.
Those therapists who employ NLP assist the client to train his or her conscious will to use thoughts that stress them as triggers for relaxing thoughts. In addition, the client is taught to use an unrelated body part, such as a toe, to redirect the tension that would have previously been manifested by the facial tic. This also allows individuals to overcome tension without resorting to the humiliating impulse.
Another advantage of these two therapies is that the client avoids the experience of adverse effects from medication type therapies. Indeed, both hypnotherapy and NLP are usually perceived as the ideal treatment for individuals who suffer from tics, such as nose wrinkeling, or throat clearing, because these treatment approaches do not have unwanted side effects. This avoids significant anguish and stress for the sufferer.
Summary: Facial tics are often socially devastating and may yield extreme 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. While several treatment approaches are available, hypnosis and NLP appear to be the safest options, because they have no negative side effects and are very efficacious.
Alan B. Densky, CH offers facial ticks hypnotherapy programs as well as a large series of popular titles for all stress related symptoms. For pleasure and education visit his Free video hypnotherapy library at his Neuro-VISION NLP website. http://www.neuro-vision.us/
- Alan B. Densky, CH
