Use Hypnosis To Break The Nail Biting Habit

October 22nd, 2010 Posted in Nail-biting Hypnosis
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Nail biting is related to skin picking and hair pulling. These behaviors are labeled as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders or OCD. Nail biters often keep their hands in their pockets. Nail biters often feel shame and experience out-of-control feelings at times. At times they may wonder why they are not able to stop and they often question whether or not they are sane.

Biting generally happens when nail biters are in one of two modes. Some nail biters do it in an automatic way, as if they are in some kind of a trance and not thinking about what they are doing. It is often when they are immersed in some other activity at the same time such as talking or working at the computer, etc. For others, the deliberate picking or biting is their main activity at the time, and they will usually interrupt other activities to engage in it.

There is a strong commonality seen in the various purposes behind these three problems (nail biting, skin picking and hair pulling). At the most basic level, they satisfy an urge. Many report an almost uncontrollable urge to do them. Pulling, picking or biting also seems to deliver a pleasurable or relaxed sensation.

When sufferers feel stressed, pulling, picking or biting has a kind of soothing effect on their nervous systems and reduces levels of stimulation. On the other hand, when they are bored or inactive, they seem to provide a needed level of stimulation to the nervous system. This may account for why so many people who suffer from these habits find it so hard to stop. It simply “feels good” at the time no matter what the consequences.

Even if you have more than one of these behaviors, don’t despair. These compulsive behaviors can be overcome if you have a sufficient amount of motivation. More important is learning to “de-stigmatize” yourself. You are not crazy, helpless, morally weak or totally out of control, even though you may feel like you are at times. Once you become aware of the fact that you are just a person who simply happens to have a problem, you can make some serious progress.

Skin picking and nail biting are chronic problems, so there is not currently a “cure” but you can find relief if you are willing to work at it. Hypnosis for nail biting consists of three parts.

Therapy For Nail Biting

To start with, nail biting is a nervous habit. So the first part of the hypnotic therapy is to teach the biter how to be more relaxed at all times. To that end, I have found that hypnosis, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) destressing techniques are usually quite effective. That’s because the very essence of hypnosis is relaxation. The biter can learn to apply several different methods to increase both the relaxed state, as well as his/her overall feeling of well-being.

The second part teaches the biter to become aware of this unconscious habit. Suggestions are given to the subconscious mind to make the conscious mind aware that you are about to bite your nails. Then you get to consciously decide whether or not you are actually going to bite them.

There are also several other much more effective hypnosis and NLP techniques. For example, we can help the client to set up an “Anchor” or trigger so that he/she can momentarily disassociate. This is an excellent technique that will effectively relieve the urge to bite.

The third part of the therapy is to eliminate the compulsion to bite the nails. There are hypnotic and NLP techniques that actually program the client with a compulsion to not bite his/her nails.

With this particular behavior, being realistic is very important. In the first place, you have probably rehearsed the unwanted behavior hundreds or even thousands of times. You must accept that this behavior will not be overcome in a few days.

Secondly, you are fighting the fact that biting your nails feels good, and it provides much short-range satisfaction and either stimulation or soothing feelings. It can take a little time to master, but I believe it is well worth the effort. My experience has shown a number of techniques to be extremely effective!

Alan B. Densky, CH is a certified hypnotist specializing in stress related symptoms. He offers nail-biting NLP MP3 downloads which eradicate the nail-biting habit. Visit the Self Hypnosis MP3 Downloads website. Visit his FREE hypnosis article collection.

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How To Give Up Smoking

October 11th, 2010 Posted in Stop Smoking
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Breaking the smoking addiction really is a necessity today, because smoking has been banned from restaurants and other public places. And in fact, it is the intelligent thing to do for more reasons than health alone. This article explores the very best NLP methodologies that can be employed to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to cigarettes and tobacco.

There are three separate parts to a smoking addiction. Two of the components are mental, and only one part is physical.

Part A: You Smoke For Relaxation And Pleasure.

When you were a child and you got cranky, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to distract you from that upset. You would get distracted, become calmer, and often fall asleep. That scenario was repeated dozens of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.

Now that you are mature, if you feel agitated, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure – a cigarette!

Part B: Smoking Is A Conditioned Response.

Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, he could just ring the bell, and that would make the dogs salivate.

When you connect smoking a cigarette with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a feeling of urgency that makes you feel compelled to light up a cigarette. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you smoke when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to light-up a cigarette each time you drive your car.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your subconscious: If a person smokes and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a picture of the cigarette in the hand, and associates it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person has a cup of coffee, his unconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of a cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for a cigarette.

You may not be consciously aware of the mental image of the cigarette, because it may only be at the subconscious level of mind. Just as you are not consciously aware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until someone draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a cigarette.

Part C: There Is A Physical Addiction To Nicotine, But . . .

I’ve worked face-to-face with several thousand people for smoke cessation and I guarantee you that the physical addiction is the weakest part of the habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction. I believe that 90% of the smoking addiction are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).

Here Is What This Means To A Smoker Who Wants To Quit.

As soon as you eliminate the anxiety that makes a smoker put cigarettes into the mouth for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling cravings for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up cigarettes without requiring willpower, and without having to experience withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

Self Hypnosis can help motivate a smoker to quit. Self-hypnosis will make it easy to give up cigarettes because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where smokers light-up for relaxation and pleasure. It’s your thoughts which create feelings of tension. More specifically, people persistently create mental movies in their mind’s eye. If the movie is negative, it brings on a feeling of tension.

We can use different NLP techniques to program the unconscious to automatically take those stress producing mental pictures, and instantly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This creates relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the stress that creates the oral compulsions for a cigarette.

Because of the elimination of anxiety, the smoker who is quitting does not experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible.

Part B is where smokers smoke because smoking becomes a conditioned response to many different activities and locations. Remember in the earlier example how smoking became unconsciously associated with other activities and environments so that each time you get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette creates an urge to light-up a cigarette?

There are quit smoking hypnosis, and quit smoking NLP techniques that can quickly eliminate those conditioned responses so that a person’s unconscious mind will lose the cravings for cigarettes, and the compulsion to smoke. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject the cigarettes.

In Summary.

To summarize, when we use certain NLP techniques, it can be very easy to quit smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these methodologies don’t even depend on post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the subconscious to use the same thought processes that the unconscious mind is using to create the smoking habit, to eliminate the mental addiction.

Alan B. Densky, CH created his practice in 1978. If you’ve wondered how to give up smoking he offers effective video and audio hypnosis for stop smoking. Visit BestHypnosisDownloads for quit smoking hypnotism today.

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