Facial tics are repetitive, short, sporadic spasms of the muscles of the face. They can be extremely different, but the most usual ones are facial grimacing, eye blinking, nose wrinkling, mouth twitches, squinting as well as throat clearing and grunting. Those tics are often symptomatic of neurological disorders like Tourette syndrome. They usually occur during childhood and may fade away within a few weeks, even if some can last indefinitely.

The causing factors of facial tics are still not very well understood, but a few things are thought to trigger or worsen the symptoms. Tics may result from some nutritional deficiencies like a magnesium insufficiency, but they are also very often symptoms of other disorders 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 notably aggravate the frequency of facial tics.

Facial tics are tough to deal with everyday particularly for children. Schoolmates, teachers and sometimes even parents, might not understand how hard it is to try to hold back tics, particularly for a long time period such as for example a class. People will most 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 usually feel embarrassing and inappropriate for both children and adults. It is also toilsome to have to try to control them perpetually. This obsession can cause you to become too self-critical and you can thus start to lose confidence in yourself and to develop some kind of social anxiety.

It is although possible to get rid of this embarrassment and to avoid people's uncomfortable stares. There are ways to significantly diminish, and sometimes completely cure, facial ticks, in order to regain your peace of mind and enjoy a fully normal life. You may never have to worry again about facial grimaces or handling any of those irritating twitches.

Facial tics are rarely treated or, in some severe cases or when the tics are related to Tourette syndrome, patients may be prescribed neuroleptics which are also given to treat disorders like schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder or obsessive-compulsive behaviors. Those drugs were not designed to treat facial tics in particular and can not always be efficient.

Moreover, they are known to have several adverse effects both in the short and long run. Insomnia, depression, sexual dysfunction, weight gain and anxiety are only a few of the several adverse effects which are associated with those drugs. Some of them can even aggravate tics in the long run! But there are however other ways of treating facial tics which are totally natural and void of adverse effects.

Methods which work with hypnosis and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) have been designed specifically in order to treat facial tics. They will help you reduce them over time. In order to understand why such methods work it is useful to remember that tics are not a purely physical disease and are not totally involuntary either. They are an answer to an unconscious impulse to perform the movement of the tic. This desire unpleasantly builds up as you try to avoid performing the movement. These urges also grow in frequency and intensity alike when the patient is stressed or anxious or when he is placed in a particular situation.

Facial tics are a way to relieve pressure when you are feeling anxiety or are coping with stressful conditions. This unconscious association could be cured with hypnosis and NLP, because they make it possible to modify the sort of behavior your unconscious triggers when facing certain situations. In severe cases, the therapist will eliminate the facial tic by suggesting the unconscious have you move your toe instead. When the toe twitches it is not apparent or visible to the people around you. Hypnosis also allows you to become a lot more relaxed overall, so it is an appeasing 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, grunting, facial grimacing or throat clearing. Even though tics have physiological causes, there are very strong psychological factors too. Stress and anxiety are unquestionably the most considerable of these factors. Tics have their roots in the unconscious mind as an answer to states of anxiety and stress; with self-hypnosis and NLP you are able to alter this association. Stress and anxiety may also be effectively fought in the long run with the stress relieving and soothing methods of hypnotherapy, which will considerably reduce the occurrence of facial tics.