Facial Tic Treatment – How To Reduce Them With The Help Of Hypnosis CD's

Facial tics are repetitive, short, sporadic spasms of facial muscles. They can be extremely diverse, but the most usual ones are eye blinking, facial grimacing, nose wrinkling, mouth twitches, squinting along with throat clearing and grunting. Those tics are often symptomatic of neurological disorders like Tourette syndrome. They most often occur during childhood and often disappear within some weeks, even though some can last indefinitely.

The causing factors of facial tics are still poorly understood, but a few things are thought to trigger or worsen the symptoms. Tics may result from some nutritional deficiencies like a lack of magnesium, but they may also very often be symptoms of other conditions such as Tourette's syndrome, whose causes are most likely neurological, and, to a certain extent, genetic. Anxiety and stress have also been shown to trigger and significantly aggravate the tics' frequency.

Facial tics can be hard to deal with everyday especially for a child. Teachers, schoolmates and even sometimes parents, might not be able to understand how difficult it is to try to hold back the tics, especially for an extended period of time such as for example a class. People will very often ask the child to "quit it", or might even mock him or her because of the tics. From eye blinking to facial grimaces, tics almost always feel inappropriate and embarrassing for both adults and children. It is also fatiguing when one must try to control them perpetually.

This obsession could make you too self-critical and you could thus start to lose self-confidence or to develop some sort of social anxiety. It is however possible to get rid of this uneasiness and to avoid people's uncomfortable stares.

There are ways to greatly diminish, and sometimes completely cure, facial twitches, in order to find your peace of mind and enjoy a fully regular life. You may never have to be concerned anymore about facial grimaces or controlling any of these annoying twitches.

Facial tics are usually left untreated or, in some acute cases or when the tics are related to Tourette's syndrome, patients might be given antipsychotics which are also given to treat conditions like schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder or obsessive-compulsive behaviors. These drugs were not designed to cure facial tics in particular and may not always be efficient. Moreover, they are well known for their numerous adverse effects both on the short and long term.

Insomnia, depression, sexual dysfunction, weight gain and anxiety are only some of the several adverse effects which are associated with those drugs. Some of them can even aggravate tics over time!

But there are however other ways of treating facial tics which are totally natural and void of adverse effects. Methods which use (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis have been designed particularly for the purpose of treating facial tics. They can help you reduce them over time. To understand why those methods work it is useful to know that tics are not an entirely physical condition and are not fully involuntary either. They are an answer to an unconscious impulse to do the movement of the tic. This urge disagreeably builds up as you try to hold back from performing the movement. Such impulses also grow in both frequency and intensity when the patient feels stress or anxiety or when placed in a particular situation.

Facial tics are a way to diminish pressure when you are anxious or are in stressful conditions. This unconscious association can be treated using hypnosis and NLP, as they are able to modify the sort of behavior your unconscious triggers when facing certain situations. In severe cases, the therapist will suppress the facial tic by suggesting the unconscious make you twitch your toe instead. When you twitch your toe it is not visible or apparent to the people around you.

Hypnosis also allows you to become a lot more relaxed overall, so it is an appeasing experience. It will help you suppress both the anxiety and stress which worsen facial tics. There are all types of facial tics: eye blinking, nose wrinkling, mouth twitches, squinting, facial grimacing, grunting or throat clearing. Even though tics have physiological causes, there are also as we have seen, very strong psychological factors. Anxiety and stress are doubtlessly the most important of those factors. Tics have their roots in the unconscious mind as an answer to states of anxiety and stress; using NLP and self-hypnosis you can change this association.

Anxiety and stress may also be efficiently fought on the long term with the soothing, stress relieving techniques of hypnotherapy, which will significantly diminish the occurrence of facial tics.

Alan B. Densky, CH offers facial ticks hypnosis CD's as well as a large range of popular titles for all anxiety related symptoms. For delight and learning visit his Free hypnosis video library at his Neuro-VISION self-hypnosis website.