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Nail Biting-Let Hypnotherapy Offer a Hand for Quitting |
Written by Alan B. Densky, CH
Thursday, 11 October 2007
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If you have ever tried to quit your nail biting habit, you understand just how trying it can be. Perhaps you have put on bandages or gloves over your fingertips, or tried bitter nail polish. Perhaps they worked for a little while, but ultimately you found yourself with chewed-up nails and bloody cuticles yet again. The reason that a surface nail biting cure is unlikely to get results makes sense when the underlying cause for the behavior is looked at. The nail biting habit is persistent and related in nature to other stress-related mannerisms, such as skin picking and hair pulling. Fundamentally, these actions fill an inherent inclination; thus if the urge is not satiated or eliminated, the behavior will return. No amount of bitter nail polish will curb the need for nail biting or give the sense of relaxation you have after chewing on your nails. In that vein, someone cannot ever cure nail biting, but do not fret: Happily, time-tested treatments that can help with recovery are available. There is a three-step plan that can successfully stop nail biting if you are committed to do so. The fundamental step entails hypnosis. For those unfamiliar, hypnosis brings to mind pictures of people watching swinging pendulums or barking on stage for others' entertainment. Rest assured that at its root, hypnosis is only deep relaxation in a trance-like state. Many mistakenly think that hypnotic trances are like sleep, but you are awake and fully conscious, simply very relaxed and amenable to suggestion. In fact, a lot of us go through some type of self-hypnosis every day, during periods when we disregard most of the disruptions around us to focus on special task while remaining fully conscious. It occurs readily while we read, daydream or watch television. Because nail biting is stress related, the more successfully you can work through and release tension and anxiety, the more successful your hard work to stop nail biting will be. The top goal of hypnotherapy is to afford you a way to sustain a relaxed state continuously. You are encouraged to try many different hypnosis methods, such as traditional hypnosis, Ericksonian hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques, to enhance both the relaxed state and to realize a better sense of well-being. A trained hypnotherapist can tell which choice is ultimately best. The following step to curbing a nail biting addiction is to become aware of the behavior since nail biting is executed unconsciously. Hypnotherapy is helpful for this stage, as connecting with the unconscious mind to elicit the conscious mind's knowledge that you are going to bite your nails can help significantly. This allows you to make the decision to bite your nails. And since hypnotherapy has already worked to ease the related stress, the significant desire to bite your nails has been notably minimized, or even eliminated. The final action for using hypnotherapy to cease biting nails is to entirely get rid of the original desire to bite or chew. There are practices that can literally program you with a craving to refrain from biting your nails, because just as behaviors can be curbed due to hypnosis, they can be introduced. Hypnotherapy CD's are effectual for curbing behaviors such as biting your nails because, though the session will not suddenly give complete willpower, it can reinforce your resolve and make certain that decisions you decide while in a stress-free state will still carry over when you are under stress. Further, hypnotherapy can help you communicate with your unconscious mind to get it to mirror your conscious mind so both entities support your goal. It is noteworthy that some potential hypnosis clients hold a fear of having suggestions planted or of experiencing "hidden" memories while in a trance. Rest assured that hypnotherapists are officially educated and accredited and follow the most stringent professional and ethical rules. The systems used by hypnotherapists to make constructive suggestions to your unconscious are entirely distinct from the ones employed or used during memory recall or age regression. So the use of hypnotherapy for successfully stopping the impulse to bite your nails will not result in unintended behaviors or memories. CONCLUSION: Nail biting is a compulsion like any other, and self-control by itself is generally not enough to stop the behavior. Using hypnotherapy or hypnosis CDs and all other resources available will more likely result in a comfortable, successful end to your nail biting. Article Source: http://www.ArticleBlast.com |
About The Author:
Alan B. Densky, CH has spent years helping thousands of clients to stop nail biting. His NLP & Hypnosis website offers lots of Free aid including Free hypnosis videos, a hypnosis research index, and a hypnosis blog where you can get questions answered.
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