Nail Biting-Let Hypnosis CD's Lend a Hand for Quitting

If you have ever tried to stop your nail biting habit, you know just how hard is. Perhaps you have put on bandages or gloves over your fingernails, or tried bitter-flavored nail polish. Likely they worked for a little while, but ultimately you found yourself with worn nails and torn cuticles once again.

The reason that a surface nail biting cure is not likely to succeed makes sense when the cause of the behavior is examined. The nail biting habit is persistent and similar in nature to other stress-related patterns, like skin picking and hair pulling. Essentially, these behaviors fulfill a natural longing; thus if the urge is not satiated or eliminated, the behavior will restart. No amount of bitter nail polish will curb the need for nail biting or bring about the sense of relaxation you get after chewing on your nails.

In that vein, a person cannot ever cure nail biting, but do not worry: Thankfully, time-tested therapies that can support recovery are available. There is a three-step course of action that can efficiently stop nail biting if you are motivated to do so. The fundamental step involves hypnosis.

For the uninitiated, hypnosis brings to mind pictures of people watching swinging pendulums or barking on stage for others' entertainment. Rest assured that at its source, hypnosis is merely deep relaxation in a trance-like state. Some people wrongly believe that hypnotic trances are like sleep, but you are awake and fully conscious, simply exceedingly relaxed and open to suggestion.

In fact, many of people undergo some kind of self-hypnosis every day, during times when we ignore a lot of the commotion around us to focus on a certain task while remaining fully conscious. It happens naturally while we watch television, daydream or read.

Because nail biting is stress related, the more successfully you can work through and release tension and anxiety, the more triumphant your move to stop nail biting will be. The main aim of hypnotherapy is to show you how to maintain a relaxed state always.

You are encouraged to examine various hypnosis techniques, such as traditional hypnosis, Ericksonian hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques, to improve both the relaxed state and to reach a more complete sense of comfort. A competent hypnotherapist will know which option is ultimately best for you.

The following step to curbing a nail biting inclination is to become sentient of the action since nail biting is executed unconsciously. Hypnotherapy is very helpful for this part of the plan, as connecting with the unconscious mind to elicit the conscious mind's awareness that you are about to bite your nails can help greatly. This allows you to make the assessment to bite your nails. And since hypnotherapy has previously helped relieve the main stress, the powerful impulse to bite your nails has been notably decreased, or even eliminated.

The final action for using hypnotherapy to quit biting nails is to fully eradicate the primary need to bite or chew. There are methods that can literally program you with an urge to refrain from biting your nails, because just as habits can be effectively alleviated because of hypnosis, they can be introduced.

Hypnotherapy CD's are helpful with ending behaviors like biting your nails because, though the session will not miraculously give absolute willpower, it can support your steadfastness and guarantee that options you decide while in a stress-free state will still stay strong when you are under stress. Further, hypnotherapy can help you correspond with your unconscious mind to get it to mirror your conscious mind so both entities support your aim.

It is important to note that some potential hypnosis clients have a concern of having ideas planted or of having "hidden" memories while in a trance. Rest assured that hypnotherapists are properly skilled and accredited and hold to the rigorous professional and ethical rules. The processes used by hypnotherapists to make beneficial suggestions to your unconscious are entirely different than the ones employed or used during memory recall or age regression. So the use of hypnotherapy for effectively stopping the desire to bite your nails will not result in unintended behaviors or memories.

CONCLUSION: Nail biting is a compulsion like any other, and willpower by itself is typically not enough to quit 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.

About The Author
Alan B. Densky, CH has spent years helping thousands of clients with a nail biting habit. His hypnotherapy website offers lots of Free help including Free self hypnosis videos, a hypnosis research index, and a NLP blog where you can get questions answered.