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Hypnotically Eliminate Facial Tics And Social Embarrassment

Written by Alan B. Densky, CH

Thursday, 20 December 2007

Facial tics are characterized by impulsive, apparently reflex muscle contractions of entire muscle groups in the face and neck region. These contractions are habitually recurring in nature, and appear to have no real point. Most tics are overstated eye blinking, squinting, nose wrinkling, facial grimacing or even vocalizations such as throat clearing or grunting. Tics often show up during childhood, and usually resolve as a child ages. This is not always the case, though, and many people continue to experience tics as they enter adulthood.

Tics often increase in rate as a person feels stress or discomfort. Victims who suffer from tics tell us that they are able to sense a tic as it approaches. It's often described as an overwhelming feeling of tension and the urge to perform the tic to break the tension; somewhat akin to the approaching urge to yawn or sneeze which relieves the victim. Trying to control a tic can trigger stress, which can lead to the beginning of another tic. Tics are often described as being uncontrolled but research and reports from sufferers indicates they are indeed voluntary motions that can be controlled by the sufferer.

A tic can manifest itself as a simple tic, as in grunting, mouth twitches or facial grimaces or can be more complex such as is seen very often in Tourette syndrome. Simple tics are more commonly seen than complex tics, but they can be just as upsetting to the sufferer; while a facial tic does not cause physical pain to the sufferer, it often triggers mental distress or social problems.

Children, in particular, can have a difficult time living with a tic due to mocking from other students, or teachers who don't fully appreciate the hard situation the child is in. While tics are often described as not being totally involuntary, control of a tic is difficult to establish, especially for children. Children often do not establish the skills to become aware of a tic onset as well as an adult.

Adults can also face grave trouble in their lives when living with a facial tic. Social problems are very common, and even when tics are generally controlled the adult can become quite exhausted by the frequent need to identify the onset of and control the tic impulse. Adults and children alike may suffer from self-confidence issues due to their continuous suffering from a disease that often causes them to become social outcasts.

Relieving a victim of the distress of a facial tic can change that person's life. Self-confidence often improves, and social anxiety is no longer a power holding an individual back from experiencing a meaningful life. In children, relieving a tic may allow the child to develop with less tension while he/she has a happier childhood.

Over the years, many treatments for tics have been applied with varying degrees of achievement. Counseling or psychotherapy can help reveal the emotional causes of a tic, and may help a person understand better how to thwart the urge to give in to their tic. Mild sedatives and other forms of medication sometimes do well in cases of simple tics. These meds often come saddled with unwanted side effects, so many people look for alternative treatments.

Hypnosis and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) methods have been created specifically for the purpose of dealing with facial tics. Since facial tics are not firmly involuntary in nature, these treatments aim to change the sufferer's unconscious response to the onset of a tic episode such as throat clearing or facial grimacing. In most cases this can be accomplished by allowing the unconscious mind to prevent the tic's onset. In some extreme cases, however, the victim's response will be redirected to some innocuous portion of the body such as twitching a toe instead of facial muscles.

Facial tics can be an awkward life-affecting woe. Children and adults alike can suffer greatly from the occurrence of a facial tic such as grunting, nose wrinkling, facial grimaces, mouth twitches, squinting or eye blinking. Eliminating a facial tic can prove very useful to the sufferer on an emotional level.

Although many treatments have been created to thwart facial tics, NLP and self-hypnosis aim to utilize natural unconscious methods of redirecting the tic response. This type of help has great benefit over other methods such as counseling, which may not help the tic behavior at all, or attempt to modify the conscious feeling about tic behavior.

NLP and self-hypnosis also do not experience the unwanted side effects of drugs. This beneficial method of treatment can also reduce tension and worry in the victim's life, thereby both reducing the impulse to form a tic and proving an advantage in everyday life. Due to these factors, NLP and self-hypnosis are often the safest, most preferred methods of treatment for tic sufferers.

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Alan B. Densky, CH offers facial tic hypnosis programs as well as a large series of popular titles for all stress related problems. For enjoyment and instruction visit his Free video hypnosis library at his Neuro-VISION self-hypnosis website.

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