The Leading Nail Biting Cure Is Hypnotherapy

The underlying causes of the majority physical habits may be quite varied, and rooted at different psychological levels. Although hypnosis has a wide range of applications, the behaviors that are most directly related to physical habits are usually the ones that can be treated with hypnosis most directly and easily. Smoking cessation hypnotherapy is the most commonly recognized of these, and is among the most effective and less invasive techniques for achieving its goal. Another popular area for hypnosis treatment is for weight control. Similarly, hypnosis is also the most effective technique for conquering the nail biting habit.

Nail biting shares many similarities to smoking. It is a physical, ritualistic habit. Either may be caused by the mechanics of a physical routine, or may perhaps be symptomatic of deeper psychological issues. In either case the habit itself can be very effectively halted with hypnosis.

Discovering and treating underlying psychological issues, which manifest themselves in nail biting and smoking can be a process that necessitates several sessions with a skilled hypnotherapist. However, not all hypnotists and hypnotherapists are capable of performing at the deep psychological level. Thankfully, for the purposes of ending a nail biting or a smoking habit, they don't need to work below the most direct physical level.

The more immediate goal of curing nail biting is much more straightforward. Many of our deeper emotional and psychological states are impacted by our physical state, so in solving the physical symptoms directly, we are also able to have an indirect impact on deeper issues. Additionally, not all negative physical habits have an underlying cause; sometimes it is truly just a physical habit; it "feels" good for the individual to take part in them.

In my experience, the relaxed and focused state of hypnosis can achieve nearly miraculous results when it comes to causing simple physical state changes. Whenever I eliminate severe burn pain, alleviate nausea, and solve other physical conditions for a client in just seconds, it still surprises and amazes me, even though I'm supposedly the one with the "power" (although as we know, the true power lies in the client's unconscious mind). Our minds are capable of blocking out severe pain and nausea; so the ability to prevent one from nail biting is a modest goal in comparison.

I've found three of the strongest aspects of hypnosis to be association, substitution and anchoring. With association, one can link the undesirable behavior to something unpleasant; with substitution, one can replace the bad habit with an innocuous one; with anchoring, one can link physical movement triggers with alternative feelings and behaviors.

With association, just like the simple hypnotic phenomenon can make a slice 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 very distasteful. If your subject is consistently and repeatedly conditioned that the taste and feel of nail biting is extremely unpleasant, it will help the habit to disappear.

There are chemical products that achieve this goal via unpleasant tasting nail polish. However, with a mental association it is easy to stop nail biting without depending upon using a chemical product. This "aversion" type of therapy generally is not extremely helpful. But it is reliable only 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.

Substitution can be used to effectively replace the nail biting compulsion with a more benign behavior. For example, it is quite effective to make the suggestion that whenever one feels the urges that lead them towards nail biting, they will take a deep breath instead, and exhale slowly, achieving all the satisfaction and resolution that nail biting used to bring. I have found the deep breathing substitute to be effective and relaxing for a wide variety of issues.

Similarly, anchoring 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 approach 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 established as one of the best techniques for negative behavior modification. Just as with smoking cessation, the techniques and concepts outlined here prove to be extremely effective as a long-term nail-biting cure.

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Alan B. Densky, CH has been assisting clients with stress related symptoms for 3 decades. He offers an all-inclusive seven-session self hypnosis nail biting CD based on NLP and Ericksonian Hypnosis. Visit his self-hypnosis site for free videos on hypnosis, and advice. www.neuro-vision.us/Products/AudioNailBitingHypnosisTapes.htm

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