Facial Tics – How To Abolish Them Using Hypnotherapy CD’s Facial tics are brief, repetitive, sporadic spasms of the face’s muscles. They are very different, but the most usual ones are eye blinking, facial grimacing, mouth twitches, nose wrinkling, squinting along with grunting and throat clearing.
Such tics are often symptomatic of neurological disorders such as Tourette syndrome. They most often happen during childhood and often fade away within a few weeks, but some can last much longer. The causing factors of facial tics still are not very well understood, but some things are thought to trigger or worsen the symptoms. Tics may be caused by some nutritional deficiencies such as a lack of magnesium, but they are also very often symptoms of other diseases such as Tourette syndrome, whose causes are thought to be neurological, and, to a certain extent, genetic.
Anxiety and stress have also been proven to trigger and considerably aggravate the frequency of facial tics. Facial tics can be hard to deal with everyday especially for a child. Schoolmates, teachers and sometimes even parents, might not understand how tough it is to hold back tics, especially for an extended period of time such as for example a class. People will most often ask the child to "stop 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 children and adults alike. It is also fatiguing to have to try to control them all the time.
This obsession may make you too self-critical and you may thus start to lose self-confidence and to develop some kind of social anxiety. It is nonetheless possible to eliminate this uneasiness and to avoid people’s awkward stares. There are ways to greatly diminish, and sometimes totally cure, facial tics, in order to restore your peace of mind and have a completely normal life. You might never have to worry again about facial grimaces or handling any of these annoying twitches.
Facial tics are usually left untreated or, in some acute cases or if the tics are proven to be caused by Tourette syndrome, patients may be prescribed antipsychotics which are also prescribed to treat diseases such as schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder or obsessive-compulsive behaviors. These drugs were not designed to cure facial tics specifically and may not always work. Furthermore, they are known to have numerous adverse effects both in the short and long run. Insomnia, depression, weight gain, sexual dysfunction and anxiety are only a few of the numerous adverse effects which can be caused by those drugs. Some of them can even aggravate tics over time! But there are however other ways of dealing with facial tics that are completely natural and free of adverse effects.
Methods that use (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis have been designed especially in order to treat facial tics. They can help you reduce them over time. To understand how those methods work it is important to know that tics are not a totally physical condition and are not completely involuntary either. They are a response to an unconscious urge to perform the movement of the tic. This urge unpleasantly increases as you try to hold back from performing the movement. Such urges also grow in both intensity and frequency if the patient is stressed or anxious or if he is placed in a particular situation.
Facial tics are a way to relieve pressure when you are anxious or are in a stressful environment. This unconscious association could be cured using NLP and hypnosis as they are able to alter the sort of behavior your unconscious triggers when facing certain situations. If acute, the therapist will eliminate the facial tic by suggesting the unconscious make you twitch your toe instead. When the toe moves it is not visible or apparent to people around you.
Hypnosis also allows you to become a lot more relaxed overall, so it is a soothing experience. It will help you eliminate both the anxiety and stress that worsen facial tics. Facial tics come in a lot of different forms: eye blinking, nose wrinkling, squinting, mouth twitches, grunting, facial grimacing or throat clearing. If tics have physiological causes, there are very strong emotional factors too. Anxiety and stress are certainly the most considerable of these factors. Tics have their roots in the unconscious mind as a response to states of anxiety and stress; using NLP and self-hypnosis you will be able to change this association. Anxiety and stress can also be effectively fought on the long term with the soothing, stress relieving techniques of hypnotherapy, which will considerably reduce the occurrence of facial tics.
Alan B. Densky, CH offers facial twitches hypnosis programs as well as a large assortment of popular titles for all anxiety related symptoms. For pleasure and education visit his Free video hypnosis library at his Neuro-VISION hypnotherapy website.
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