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Home | Health & Fitness | Beauty Nail biting shares many similarities to smoking. Both are physical, ritualistic habits. Either might be caused by the mechanics of a simple physical routine, or might perhaps be indicative of deeper psychological root causes. In either case the habit itself can be effectively halted with hypnosis. Discovering and treating underlying psychological problems, which are exhibited in nail biting and smoking can be a process that necessitates a series of sessions with a knowledgeable hypnotherapist. Not all hypnotists and hypnotherapists are capable of performing at the deep psychological level. Fortunately, for the purposes of ending a smoking or a nail biting habit, they are not required to work below the most direct physical level. The immediate goal of finding a nail biting cure is much more straightforward. Many of our deeper psychological and emotional states are influenced by our physical state, so in treating physical conditions directly, we can also indirectly impact deeper issues. Additionally, not all negative physical habits have an underlying cause; sometimes it is simply just a physical habit; and it just "feels" good for the person to take part in them. I have seen that the relaxed and focused state of hypnosis can achieve nearly miraculous results when used in achieving simple changes to one's physical state. Whenever I relieve severe burn pain, alleviate nausea, and solve other physical problems for a client in just seconds, it still surprises and amazes me, even though I am supposedly the one with the "power" (as we know, the true power exists within the client's unconscious mind). Our minds have the capacity to block out severe pain and nausea; so the ability to prevent one from biting their nails is a simple goal in comparison. I have found three of the strongest aspects of hypnosis to be anchoring, substitution and association. With association, one can link a negative behavior to something unpleasant; with substitution, one may replace the bad habit with an innocuous one; with anchoring, one may link physical movement triggers with alternative feelings and behaviors. With association, just like the simple hypnosis trick can make a piece of white bread taste like the best New York Cheesecake to a subject, one can make the feeling and taste of nail biting to be extremely distasteful. If your subject is repeatedly conditioned to believe that the taste and feel of nail biting is extremely unpleasant, it will help to cause the habit to cease. There are chemical products that achieve this goal via unpleasant tasting nail polish. However, with a mental association it is easy to end nail biting without relying upon consistently applying a chemical product. This "aversion" type of therapy generally isn't extremely helpful. But it is only reliable when used as an adjunct to eliminating stress that causes one to bite their nails, as well as extinguishing conditioned responses (unconscious associations), which triggers one to bite their nails. With substitution, it can be effective to replace the nail-biting compulsion with a more benign pattern. For example, it is quite effective to place the suggestion that whenever one feels the impulses that lead them towards nail biting, they will instead take a deep breath, and exhale slowly, achieving all the same feelings and resolution that nail biting used to bring. I have found the deep breathing substitute to be effective and relaxing for a wide range of ailments. Anchoring similarly can be used to subvert one action into a different one, and works well with the association and substitution techniques. It is useful to create the suggestion that each time subjects see their fingers coming to their mouth, they vividly remember the bad taste association, and they take a deep breath instead to resolve the tension. In summary, hypnosis has long been recognized as one of the more successful techniques for negative behavior modification. Just as with smoking cessation, the concepts and techniques outlined here prove to be extremely effective as a long-term nail-biting cure. Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
Alan B. Densky, CH has been assisting clients with stress related afflictions for 3 decades. He's developed an all-inclusive seven-session hypnosis stop nail-biting CD based on Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and NLP. Visit his hypnosis site for free hypnosis videos, articles, and advice.
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