Healing Metaphors A-Z - Tics

Tics
Tics are spasmodic, repetitive muscular contractions. Tics reflect anxiety, frustration, pushing ourselves, and the idol of hard work, usually because this is a repeating pattern in our life that we haven’t dealt with. Anger about the situation has been turned inward, generating fear and nervousness and so we feel inadequate to handle the situation. We are putting time pressure on ourselves; tic, tic, tic… like a clock. Only stepping forward to a new level would truly relieve this pressure as there would be new levels of ease and organization that come from the next step.

Chuck Spezzano and Janie Ticehurst, Healing the Body Through Mind and Metaphor