A tic is an involuntary body movement or exclamation. “Tourettes Syndrome” is an extreme form of tics. The premonitory urge precedes a tic or is a light-form of tic. It’s an urge to do a certain movement. The pressure-feeling is relieved by performing the movement – a muscle contraction, a scratching, a tensing, an eye-twitch, etc. “Premonitory urge” and “tics” are two words for varying intensities of the same thing. The movement can often be stopped by conscious monitoring but the moment one releases monitoring, the default urge and movement return.
Every human being experiences involuntary energies to some extent. Perhaps the smallest version of this is when you feel an itch and want to scratch. The itch is an electricity, an energy, just like all other urges.
In my coaching practice I usually treat tics and premonitory urges as Entities, with some success (see my book “Clearing Entities”). They are related to the type of entities called “fragments” and “elementals”. But I’ve also successfully treated them outside of the entity-paradigm.
Tics are extreme distress signals that were suppressed long ago. They’ve been abandoned instead of integrated and now live a life of their own, still radiating bodily sensations. When you ask a search engine or AI to tell you how to treat it, they give you a list of drugs to take. In my view, this is the wrong path. Drugs suppress it even more!
Some people give off the false appearance of calmness. They block their energy flow, push away what they really feel and ignore nervous tensions instead of releasing them. Years of feeling-suppression can lead to tics because of all the bottled up energy. The person may appear relaxed but is actually walled off from the world.
With tics and urges assume forgotten trauma or years of accumulating an emotional shell.
The general path toward healing is to reduce the hypervigilant, over-focused, never-resting, always-alert self and take some time-outs throughout the day to breathe, to be, to relax without the distraction of cigarettes, social media, food or whatever you use to avoid feeling.
A new attitude toward being, feeling and breathing may not entirely heal tics and premonitory urges, but it will reduce their frequency. If you have tics then your default way of dealing with feelings must change. Hypervigilance comes from your will having been overpowered in a traumatic way. So you do the opposite and apply your will everywhere. But life is meant to be a balance between personal will and letting go, doing and being, giving and receiving.
Where does it come from?
If you suffer from tics or urges, sit at ease and become aware of the urge. Go to it’s center. Ask: Where does it come from? Breathe. Sit. Wait. This is a simple exercise that may reveal a little more of the original cause every time you do it. If you feel a sadness, fear, anger or memory come up, simply flow with it, don’t resist. But if this exercise brings up nothing or becomes too overwhelming, do this instead:
Voluntary Actions
Put attention on the urge. And then perform a deliberate, voluntary action such as taking a deep breathe or stretching. This exercise, repeated over time and indeed hundreds of times, tends to reduce involuntary action (which is what tics are) because you are becoming aware of the urge that you didn’t choose and then doing something you did chose.
Observing without Reacting
Another technique is to observe without reacting. You don’t perform the urge, nor the opposite, nor anything else. You watch for a while, with patience. Breathe with it, let it “ride out” until it fades naturally. It will, in its own time. Sometimes, in meditation, you can trace the urge to a lost or forgotten origin. This is repeated over time to be effective.
Exaggerate the Urge
With this method you intentionally exaggerate, create, intensify or expose yourself to the urge but without performing the movement or tic. Intentionally making it bigger gives you a sense of control over it. This is done for maybe ten seconds before releasing. Then another ten to twenty seconds and then a break. Continue until you feel a release.
Command it to Leave
If you treat it as an entity then you command it to leave in the name of the Most High. Speak firmly. Do it every few days for a week or two.
Either you see a quick effect or it’s not the right approach. If it’s not gone within a few repetitions, then it’s not entities but trauma or suppressed emotions. After you command it to leave, also voice what you’d prefer, such as “I am relaxed” or “I am at peace”.
A combination of these five methods, repeated over time, will give you more relief than pharma-drugs. I cannot tell you which method applies to you or which combinations to use, it’s for you to experiment with.
If you’re serious about releasing tics you need to monitor the situation for some time. For example, you could fill in a chart every day, indicating how strong the tics were on that day on a scale from 1-10 and what factors led to the reduction or increase. You are capable of self-coaching and self-healing but it requires determination.
