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Abolish Facial Tics With Hypnosis |
Written by Alan B. Densky, CH
Wednesday, 03 October 2007
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Facial tics are brief, repetitive, irregular twitches of the face's muscles. They are very different, but the most commonly seen are eye blinking, facial grimacing, mouth twitches, nose wrinkling, squinting along with throat clearing and grunting. Those tics are usually symptomatic of nervous disorders such as Tourette syndrome. They commonly happen during childhood and often fade away within some weeks, even if some may last indefinitely. The causes of facial tics still are not very well understood, but some 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 diseases such as Tourette syndrome, whose causes are most likely neurological, and, to a certain degree, genetic. Anxiety and stress have also been shown to provoke and notably aggravate the tics' frequency. Facial tics are tough to deal with everyday especially for children. Schoolmates, teachers and even sometimes parents, might not be able to understand how hard it is to try to hold back the tics, especially for a long time period such as for instance a class. People will very often tell the child to "quit it", or might even make fun of him or her for having tics. From eye blinking to facial grimaces, tics almost always feel embarrassing and inappropriate for children and adults alike. It is also toilsome when one must try to control them all the time. This obsession can cause you to become excessively self-critical and you can in turn start to lose self-confidence and to develop some type of social anxiety. It is nonetheless possible to eliminate this embarrassment and to avoid people's awkward stares. There are ways to significantly reduce, and even sometimes totally cure, facial tics, in order to regain your peace of mind and have a completely regular life. You may never have to worry again about facial grimaces or controlling any 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 given neuroleptics which are also prescribed to treat diseases such as attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia or obsessive-compulsive disorders. Such drugs were not developed to cure facial tics specifically and can not always work. Furthermore, they are well known for their numerous adverse effects both in the short and long run. Depression, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, weight gain and anxiety are only some of the several adverse effects which are associated with these drugs. Some of them can even aggravate tics over time! But there are however other ways of treating facial tics that are fully natural and void of adverse effects. Methods that use (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis have been developed specifically for the purpose of treating 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 totally physical condition and are not totally involuntary either. They are a response to an unconscious urge to do the movement of the tic. This desire uncomfortably increases as you try to avoid performing the movement. These impulses also increase 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 diminish pressure when you are feeling anxiety or are placed in stressful conditions. Such an unconscious association could be treated with hypnosis and NLP, as they are able to change the type of behavior your unconscious triggers when you are placed in certain situations. In severe cases, the therapist will suppress the facial tic by suggesting the unconscious make you twitch your toe instead. When the toe twitches it is not apparent or visible to 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 eliminate both the anxiety and stress that worsen facial tics. Facial tics come in many different forms: eye blinking, nose wrinkling, squinting, mouth twitches, facial grimacing, grunting or throat clearing. Even though tics have physical causes, there are also as we have seen, very strong psychological factors. Anxiety and stress are certainly the most important of these factors. Tics have their roots in the unconscious mind as a response to states of anxiety and stress; with NLP and self-hypnosis you can alter this association. Anxiety and stress might also be efficiently fought on the long term with the stress relieving and relaxing methods of hypnotherapy, which will significantly decrease the occurrence of facial tics. Article Source: http://www.ArticleBlast.com |
About The Author:
Alan B. Densky, CH offers facial twitches hypnosis programs as well as a large array of popular titles for all stress related symptoms. For delight and education visit his Free video hypnosis library at his Neuro-VISION NLP website.
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