Help Clients Develop Greater Command over Their Symptoms with the Tourette's Treatment Hypnosis Script

Tourette's syndrome is a neurological condition characterized by certain tics, both vocal and motor. For some people it's an inescapable compulsion to shout out a particular word, for others its an inability to stop blinking, and for others still it's uncontrollable head movements. For many, it's a combination of many different compulsions that simply won't disappear until they are acted out.

No matter what the specific symptoms, tics can be embarrassing and isolating for people with Tourette's. And while most cases are mild and improve with age, the psychological effects of other people's judgment and mockery can linger on.

The Tourette's Treatment Hypnosis Script from The Script Collection was put together to help people with Tourette's manage and control their symptoms.

The pre-talk sympathizes with the fact that the symptoms of Tourette's syndrome are often outside the direct control of the client. However, it explores ways that people with Tourette's can and do reduce the frequency and severity of their symptoms, thereby opening the client's mind to the possibility of change. It also runs through a study that proves the effectiveness of self-hypnosis in treating Tourette's in children.

As the induction begins, the client is eased into a state of relaxation gently and gradually, with the reassurance that they need not make any effort, but can simply allow themselves to relax a little deeper with every breath, effortlessly entering a dreamlike state and feeling a sense of release in all their individual body parts.

A beautiful lake is used as an analogy for the mind, with ripples on the surface representing compulsions and tics, but a profound and growing stillness and calm the deeper you go. Now the client is guided to connect with that stillness, and to hypnotically rehearse accessing that inner place of calm and wellbeing through a process of counting down.

The client is now asked to envisage their future self enacting this process, returning to that personal, private place of calm. They are further encouraged to experience how it will feel when they have learned to retreat into this space regularly, so that they can easily and naturally let go of any tensions that might be exacerbating their symptoms.

Now that any stress or tension has melted away, the client is gently guided to experience the thoughts and feelings that arise just before a tic, and to observe and notice how that sense of pressure or compulsion arises and spreads. Embedded commands direct the client to start to actively change this process by calmly stopping and redirecting or transforming that energy.

Finally, the client accesses their observing self once more to watch themselves managing that energy in a new way, actually exerting control over a process that used to feel so completely out of control, and appearing calm and in command while doing so. And with future pacing, they can experience the benefits of influencing their symptoms in this way over the long term.

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Tourette's Treatment is also available as an MP3 download.