The Primary Nail Biting Solution Is A Hypnotherapy CD

The underlying causes of most physical habits may be quite varied, and rooted at different psychological levels. While hypnotherapy has a wide range of uses, the problems that are most directly related to physical habits are usually the ones that can be treated with hypnotherapy most easily and directly. Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is the most well known of these, and is among the more successful and least invasive techniques for reaching its goal. Another popular area for hypnotherapy treatment is for weight control. Similarly, hypnotherapy is also the most effective technique for conquering a nail biting habit.

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 can be indicative of deeper psychological issues. In either case the habit itself can be very effectively halted with hypnotherapy.

Discovering and resolving underlying psychological problems, which are exhibited in nail biting or smoking can be a process that requires multiple 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 immediate goal of finding a nail biting cure is much more straightforward. Many of our deeper emotional and psychological states are influenced by our physical state, so in treating the physical conditions directly, we are also able to indirectly impact deeper issues. Furthermore, not all negative physical behaviors 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 focused and relaxed state of hypnosis can achieve extraordinary results when it comes to causing simple physical state changes. Whenever I eliminate severe burn pain, alleviate nausea, and relieve other physical symptoms for a client in mere seconds, it still surprises and amazes me, even though I am supposedly the one with the "power" (although 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 nail biting is a simple goal in comparison.

I have found three of the most powerful hypnotic techniques to be anchoring, substitution and association. With association, one can link a negative behavior to something aversive; with substitution, one can replace the bad habit with a harmless 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 piece of white bread taste like the best New York Cheesecake to a subject, one can make the taste and feeling of nail biting to be extremely distasteful. If your subject is consistently and repeatedly conditioned to feel that the taste and feel of nail biting is very unpleasant, it will help the habit to disappear.

There are chemical products that achieve this goal via foul tasting nail polish. However, with a mental association they can stop nail biting without relying on applying a chemical product. This "aversion" type of therapy generally isn't very 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.

Using substitution, it can be effective to replace the nail biting habit with a more benign affliction. For instance, 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 slowly exhale, 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 variety of ailments.

Anchoring similarly can be used to subvert one action into another, and works well in combination with the association and substitution. It is useful in creating the suggestion that each time subjects see their fingers approach their mouth, they vividly remember the unpleasant taste association, and they take a deep breath instead to resolve the tension.

In summary, hypnotherapy has been recognized as one of the more successful methods for negative behavior modification. Just as with smoking cessation, the concepts and techniques discussed here prove to be very successful as a long-term nail-biting cure.

It might surprise you that nail biting shares many similarities to smoking. It is a physical, ritualistic habit. Either may be caused by the mechanics of a straightforward physical routine, or may be symptomatic of deeper emotional troubles. And in either case, the habit can be successfully stopped with hypnosis.

Alan B. Densky, CH has been helping clients with stress related problems since 1978. He's developed a wide-ranging 7-session self-hypnosis stop nail biting CD based on Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and NLP. Visit his hypnotherapy site for free hypnosis downloads, and advice.

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