Facial Tics – How To Eliminate Them Using Hypnosis and NLP

Facial tics are brief, repetitive, irregular spasms of facial muscles. They are extremely varied, but the most usually seen are facial grimacing, eye blinking, mouth twitches, nose wrinkling, squinting as well as throat clearing and grunting. These tics are often symptomatic of neurological conditions like Tourette syndrome. They traditionally happen during childhood and can fade away within a few weeks, even if some can last much longer.

The causing factors of facial tics are still not very well understood, but some things are thought to trigger or worsen the symptoms. Tics can be caused by some nutritional deficiencies like a lack of magnesium, but they can also very often be symptoms of other conditions such as Tourette syndrome, whose causes are most likely neurological, and, to a certain extent, genetically inherited. Stress and anxiety have also been shown to provoke and considerably aggravate the frequency of facial tics.

Facial tics are hard to deal with everyday particularly for children. Schoolmates, teachers and sometimes even parents, might not be able to understand how tough it is to try to hold back tics, particularly for a long time period such as for example a class. People will very often tell the child to "stop it", or might even make fun of him or her for having tics.

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

It is although possible to eliminate this embarrassment and to avoid people's awkward looks. There are ways to considerably reduce, and sometimes totally cure, facial twitches, in order to regain your peace of mind and have a fully regular life. You might never have to worry again about facial grimaces or handling any of these irritating twitches.

Facial tics are usually not treated or, in some acute cases or when the tics are symptoms of Tourette syndrome, patients might be prescribed antipsychotics which are also prescribed to treat conditions like schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder or obsessive-compulsive behaviors. Such drugs were not developed to cure facial tics particularly and might not always be efficient.

Furthermore, they are known to have several undesirable side effects both on the short and long term. Depression, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, weight gain and anxiety are only a few of the many undesirable side effects which can be caused by such drugs. Some of them can even worsen tics in the long run! But there are however other ways of dealing with facial tics that are totally natural and void of undesirable side effects.

Methods that work with (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis have been developed particularly for the purpose of treating facial tics. They can help you reduce them over time. To understand why these methods work it is important to know that tics are not a purely physical disorder and are not totally involuntary either. They are a response to an unconscious impulse to perform the movement of the tic. This impulse unpleasantly increases as you try to hold back from performing the movement. Such urges also grow in intensity and frequency alike if the patient feels stress or anxiety 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. Such an unconscious association may be cured using NLP and hypnosis because they make it possible to change the sort of behavior your unconscious provokes when you are placed in certain situations.  If acute, the therapist will suppress the facial tic by suggesting the unconscious make you move your toe instead. When the toe twitches it is not visible or apparent to the people around you. Hypnosis also makes you become a lot more relaxed overall, so it is a soothing experience. It will help you get rid of both the stress and anxiety that make facial tics worse.

Facial tics come in a lot of different types: eye blinking, nose wrinkling, mouth twitches, squinting, facial grimacing, grunting or throat clearing. Although tics have physiological causes, there are also as we have seen, very strong psychological factors. Stress and anxiety are certainly the most important of those factors. Tics have their roots in the unconscious mind as a response to states of anxiety and stress; using self-hypnosis and NLP you will be able to change this association. Stress and anxiety can also be efficiently fought in the long run with the stress relieving and relaxing techniques of hypnotherapy, which will considerably decrease the occurrence of facial tics.