By: Mark Fagan
Submitted: 2010-06-03 07:32:00 | Word Count: 425
Stop biting your nails has most likely been said to you on many occasions especially if you have been biting them for a long time. Perhaps even way back when you were a child! If this is the case by now you are probably well and truly sick of the biting and you just desperately want to stop. It can happen when you are stressed, bored, distracted, anything can trigger the habit. Here are 3 tips that maybe able to assist you to stop biting your nails.
Hypnosis – Nail biting can be controlled by your subconscious mind as most times you do not even know you are biting your nails. Hypnosis works with your conscious mind and will assist you in overpowering your urges and eventually stopping. Hypnosis is no longer the old style hypnosis where you have to visit a hypnotist and lay on the couch and be swept into another state of thinking. Then you had to pay big dollars on your way out the door. Hypnosis can give you positive results from just listening to CD for 10 minutes at a time in some cases. It is much more user friendly now and it is not be feared as it can really help.
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Polishes with a Bitter Taste – Drawing attention to you biting nails is necessary to help you stop. Polishes with a bitter taste can assist you in this as the taste will alert your mind to the fact your biting your nails. There have also been positive results with pepper or soap on the nails in some cases. Whatever the taste, if it is bad enough it will certainly trigger your taste buds and help you stop biting your nails.
Visualize – Visualizing how your nails should look constantly may help to train your mind to stop doing the one thing that is stopping them looking how you want them to look. Even better visualize all the things that your fingers come in contact with during the day and ask yourself if you want them in your mouth. If you don’t put your fingers in your mouth you will stop biting your nails.
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