Facial Tics Treatment Using Hypnotherapy CD's

Facial tics are short, repetitive, irregular spasms of the muscles of the face. They are extremely diverse, but the most common ones are facial grimacing, eye blinking, mouth twitches, nose wrinkling, squinting along with throat clearing and grunting. Such tics are usually symptomatic of nervous conditions such as Tourette syndrome. They usually occur during childhood and often fade away within some weeks, even if some may last indefinitely.

The causing factors of facial tics are still poorly understood, but some things are thought to trigger or worsen the symptoms. Tics can result from some nutritional deficiencies such as a magnesium insufficiency, but they can also very often be symptoms of other diseases such as Tourette syndrome, whose causes are thought to be neurological, and, to a certain degree, genetically inherited. Stress and anxiety have also been shown to provoke and significantly aggravate the frequency of facial tics.

Facial tics are tough to live with especially for a child. Teachers, schoolmates and sometimes even parents, may not understand how difficult it is to try to hold back tics, especially for an extended period of time such as for instance a class. People will very often ask the child to "quit it", or may even mock him or her because of the tics.

From eye blinking to facial grimaces, tics usually feel embarrassing and inappropriate for both adults and children. It is also tiring when one must try to control them perpetually. This obsession can cause you to become excessively self-critical and you can in turn start to lose confidence in yourself or to develop some kind of social anxiety.

It is nonetheless possible to get rid of this uneasiness and to avoid other people's uncomfortable stares. There are ways to significantly reduce, and even sometimes definitely cure, facial tics, in order to restore your peace of mind and have a completely regular life. You would never have to worry again about facial grimaces or holding back any of those annoying twitches.

Facial tics are rarely treated or, in some severe cases or if the tics are shown to be caused by Tourette syndrome, patients may be prescribed neuroleptics which are also used to treat diseases such as schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorders. These drugs were not developed to cure facial tics specifically and may not always be efficient.

Furthermore, they are known to have many undesirable side effects both in the short and long run. Insomnia, depression, weight gain, sexual dysfunction and anxiety are only some of the numerous undesirable side effects which can be caused by those drugs. Some of them can even aggravate tics in the long run! But there are however other ways of treating facial tics that are completely natural and void of undesirable side effects.

Methods that use (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis have been developed particularly in order to treat facial tics. They can help you reduce them over time. In order to understand why such methods work it is important to know that tics are not a totally physiological disorder and are not entirely involuntary either. They are an answer to an unconscious impulse to perform the movement of the tic. This impulse disagreeably builds up as you try to hold back from performing the movement. Such impulses also grow in both intensity and frequency when the patient is stressed or anxious or when he is placed in certain situations.

Facial tics are a way to diminish pressure when you are anxious or are in stressful conditions. This unconscious association can be treated using NLP and hypnosis because they are able to modify the type of behavior your unconscious provokes when you are placed in certain situations. If acute, the therapist will eliminate the facial tic by suggesting the unconscious have you move your toe instead. When the toe twitches it is not visible or apparent to other people. Hypnosis also allows you to become a lot more relaxed overall, so it is a stress relieving experience. It will help you suppress both the anxiety and stress that worsen facial tics.

There are all types of facial tics: eye blinking, nose wrinkling, mouth twitches, squinting, facial grimacing, grunting or throat clearing. Although tics have physiological causes, there are very strong psychological factors too. Stress and anxiety 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 self-hypnosis and NLP you can change this association. Stress and anxiety might also be efficiently fought in the long run with the stress relieving and soothing techniques of hypnotherapy, which will considerably decrease the occurrence of facial tics.

About The Author
Alan B. Densky, CH offers facial ticks hypnosis CD's as well as a large series of popular titles for all stress related symptoms. For enjoyment and learning visit his Free video hypnosis library at his Neuro-VISION hypnosis website.