Treat Facial Tics With Hypnotherapy and NLP

Facial tics are short, repetitive, sporadic twitches of the face's muscles. They are very different, but the most common ones are eye blinking, facial grimacing, nose wrinkling, mouth twitches, squinting along with throat clearing and grunting. Those tics are often symptomatic of neurological conditions like Tourette syndrome. They commonly happen during childhood and can disappear within a few weeks, but some can last much longer.

The causing factors of facial tics are still poorly understood, but some things are suspected of triggering or worsening the symptoms. Tics may result from some nutritional deficiencies like a lack of magnesium, but they are also very often symptoms of other conditions such as Tourette syndrome, whose causes are thought to be neurological, and, to a certain extent, genetically inherited. Stress and anxiety have also been proven to provoke and notably aggravate the tics' frequency.

Facial tics can be tough to live with particularly for children. Schoolmates, teachers and even sometimes parents, may not understand how difficult it is to hold back the tics, particularly for an extended period of time such as for instance a class. People will most often tell the child to "stop it", or may even mock him or her for having tics. From eye blinking to facial grimaces, tics always feel embarrassing and inappropriate for both adults and children. It is also exhausting to have to try to control them all the time. This obsession may make you excessively self-critical and you may in turn start to lose self-confidence or to develop some kind of social anxiety. It is although possible to get rid of this uneasiness and to avoid other people's uncomfortable stares.

There are ways to considerably diminish, and sometimes completely cure, facial ticks, in order to regain your peace of mind and enjoy a completely regular life. You would never have to be concerned anymore about facial grimaces or controlling any annoying twitches. Facial tics are usually not treated or, in some severe cases or when the tics are symptoms of Tourette syndrome, patients may be given neuroleptics which are also used to treat conditions like schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder or obsessive-compulsive behaviors. Those drugs were not developed to cure facial tics in particular and can not always be efficient. Moreover, they are known to have several negative side effects both in the short and long run.

Insomnia, depression, weight gain, sexual dysfunction and anxiety are only a few of the numerous negative side effects which are associated with such drugs. Some of them can even aggravate tics over time! But there are however other ways of treating facial tics that are completely natural and free of negative side effects. Methods that utilize hypnosis and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) have been developed specifically for the purpose of treating facial tics. They can help you reduce them over time.

In order to understand why these methods work it is useful to remember that tics are not a totally physical condition and are not totally involuntary either. They are an answer to an unconscious impulse to do the movement of the tic. This urge disagreeably increases as you try to avoid performing the movement. Such impulses also increase in frequency and intensity alike when the patient is stressed or anxious or when placed in certain situations.

Facial tics are a way to relieve pressure when you are feeling anxious or are facing a stressful environment. Such an unconscious association may be cured with hypnosis and NLP, since they make it possible 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 the toe moves it is not visible or apparent to other people. Hypnosis also makes you become much more relaxed in general, so it is a soothing experience. It will help you eliminate both the stress and anxiety that aggravate facial tics.

There are all types of facial tics: nose wrinkling, eye blinking, mouth twitches, squinting, facial grimacing, grunting or throat clearing. Although tics have physical causes, there are very strong emotional factors too. Stress and anxiety are certainly the most considerable of those factors.

Tics have their roots in the unconscious mind as an answer to states of stress or anxiety; with self-hypnosis and NLP you are able to change this association. Stress and anxiety may also be effectively fought in the long run with the appeasing, stress relieving techniques of hypnotherapy, which will significantly diminish the occurrence of facial tics.

Alan B. Densky, CH offers facial ticks hypnotherapy CD's as well as a broad variety of popular titles for all anxiety related symptoms. For entertainment and instruction visit his Free hypnotherapy video library at his Neuro-VISION hypnotherapy website.