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Facial tics are brief, repetitive, sporadic twitches of facial muscles. They are extremely different, but the most common ones are eye blinking, facial grimacing, nose wrinkling, mouth twitches, squinting along with throat clearing and grunting. Such tics are usually symptomatic of nervous disorders like Tourette syndrome. They commonly happen during childhood and often fade away within some weeks, even if some may last indefinitely. The causing factors of facial tics still are poorly understood, but a few 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 thought to be neurological, and, to a certain extent, genetically inherited. Stress and anxiety have also been proven to provoke and considerably increase the frequency of facial tics. Facial tics can be difficult to deal with everyday particularly for a child. Teachers, schoolmates and even sometimes parents, may not understand how tough it is to hold back the tics, particularly for a long time period such as for example a class. People will most often tell the child to "quit it", or may even mock him or her for having tics. From eye blinking to facial grimaces, tics always feel inappropriate and embarrassing for both adults and children. It is also exhausting when one must try to control them constantly. This obsession may cause you to become too self-critical and you may in turn start to lose self-confidence or to develop some type of social anxiety. It is nonetheless possible to get rid of this embarrassment and to avoid other people's awkward looks. There are ways to greatly diminish, and sometimes definitely cure, facial twitches, in order to restore your peace of mind and enjoy a completely normal life. You may never have to be concerned anymore about facial grimaces or holding back any of these irritating twitches. Facial tics are rarely treated or, in some acute cases or if the tics are shown to be caused by Tourette syndrome, patients may be prescribed neuroleptics which are also given to treat conditions like attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia or obsessive-compulsive behaviors. Those drugs were not designed to cure facial tics specifically and might not always be efficient. Furthermore, they are well known for their numerous adverse effects both on the short and long term. Insomnia, depression, sexual dysfunction, weight gain and anxiety are only some of the numerous adverse effects which can be caused by these 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 adverse effects. Methods that use (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis have been designed particularly in order to treat facial tics. They can help you reduce them over time. To understand how these methods work it is useful to know that tics are not a purely physical disease and are not totally involuntary either. They are an answer to an unconscious impulse to do the movement of the tic. This impulse disagreeably increases as you try to avoid performing the movement. These impulses also increase in both intensity and frequency when the patient is stressed or anxious or when placed in certain situations. Facial tics are a way to relieve pressure when you are anxious or are facing a stressful environment. This unconscious association may be cured using hypnosis and NLP, since they make it possible to alter the kind of behavior your unconscious triggers when facing certain situations. If acute, the therapist will get rid of the facial tic by suggesting the unconscious make you move your toe instead. When the toe twitches it is not visible or apparent to other people. Hypnosis also makes you become much more relaxed overall, so it is an appeasing experience. It will help you eliminate both the anxiety and stress 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 without a doubt the most considerable of those factors. Tics have their roots in the unconscious mind as an answer to states of anxiety and stress; using NLP and self-hypnosis you are able to change this association. Stress and anxiety can also be efficaciously fought on the long term with the stress relieving and appeasing techniques of hypnotherapy, which will significantly reduce the occurrence of facial tics.
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Alan B. Densky, CH offers facial twitch hypnosis programs as well as a broad range of popular titles for all anxiety related symptoms. For enjoyment and instruction visit his Free video hypnosis library at his Neuro-VISION hypnotherapy website.
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