Treat Facial Tics With Ericksonian Hypnosis CD's

Facial tics are brief, repetitive, sporadic spasms of the face's muscles. They can be extremely diverse, but the most usual ones are facial grimacing, eye blinking, mouth twitches, nose wrinkling, squinting along with throat clearing and grunting. Those tics are often symptomatic of neurological conditions such as Tourette syndrome. They traditionally happen during childhood and often disappear within some weeks, but some may last much longer.

The causes of facial tics are still not very well understood, but a few things are suspected of triggering or worsening the symptoms. Tics can be caused by some nutritional deficiencies such as a magnesium insufficiency, but they are also very often symptoms of other disorders such as Tourette syndrome, whose causes are thought to be neurological, and, to a certain degree, genetically inherited. Anxiety and stress have also been shown to trigger and significantly increase the tics' frequency.

Facial tics are tough to deal with everyday especially for a child. Teachers, schoolmates and even sometimes parents, may not understand how tough it is to hold back the tics, especially for a long period of time such as for example a class. People will most often ask the child to "stop it", or may even make fun of him or her for having tics.

From facial grimaces to eye blinking, tics almost always feel inappropriate and embarrassing for both children and adults. It is also toilsome when one must try to control them all the time. This obsession could make you excessively self-critical and you could in turn start to lose confidence in yourself or to develop some kind of social anxiety.

It is although possible to eliminate this uneasiness and to avoid other people's uncomfortable looks. There are ways to greatly reduce, and sometimes totally cure, facial twitches, in order to find your peace of mind and enjoy a completely regular life. You might never have to worry again about facial grimaces or handling any of these annoying twitches.

Facial tics are rarely treated or, in some severe cases or when the tics are shown to be caused by Tourette syndrome, patients might be given antipsychotics which are also used to treat disorders such as schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder or obsessive-compulsive behaviors. Such drugs were not designed to treat facial tics specifically and can not always work.

Furthermore, they are known to have numerous undesirable side effects both on the short and long term. Depression, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, weight gain and anxiety are only some of the several undesirable side effects which can be caused by those drugs. Some of them can even aggravate tics over time! But there are however other ways of treating facial tics which are entirely natural and free of undesirable side effects.

Methods which utilize (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis have been designed especially in order to treat facial tics. They will help you reduce them over time. In order to understand how those methods work it is useful to remember that tics are not a purely physiological disease and are not entirely involuntary either. They are a response to an unconscious impulse to do the movement of the tic. This urge unpleasantly increases as you try to hold back from performing the movement. These impulses also increase in both frequency and intensity when the patient is stressed or anxious or when placed in a particular situation.

Facial tics are a way to diminish pressure when you are anxious or are coping with stressful conditions. Such an unconscious association can be treated with hypnosis and NLP, since they make it possible to alter the sort 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 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 in general, so it is a soothing experience. It will help you suppress both the anxiety and stress which make facial tics worse.

Facial tics come in a lot of different types: eye blinking, nose wrinkling, squinting, mouth twitches, 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 a response to states of stress or anxiety; with NLP and self-hypnosis you can alter this association. Anxiety and stress may also be effectively fought in the long run with the stress relieving and soothing methods of hypnotherapy, which will greatly diminish the occurrence of facial tics.

Alan B. Densky, CH offers facial tick hypnotherapy CD's as well as a broad series of popular titles for all stress related symptoms. For delight and education visit his Free hypnotherapy video library at his Neuro-VISION hypnosis website.