The nail biting affliction can be solved with hypnotherapy techniques.
Typically people believe that nail biting is truly an unattractive and uncomfortable habit. Lots of people bite their nails in their school years then stop during the later years of growing up. An unfortunate few maintain this habit into adulthood causing actual injury to their fingers: using it as a crutch to manage anxiety attacks or other underlying problems. Hypnotherapy techniques are typically used to help people recover from this destructive behavioural pattern.
So what exactly is a problem behaviour?
A habit is defined as being a pattern of behaviour which is chronic and customarily subconscious. It’s something we gain by regularly repeating a certain behaviour. The very nature of a habit is that it is effortless to get into but very hard to escape. What makes a habit a bad one is whenever it’s mentally or psychologically detrimental to us for some reason.
Comfort eating, drinking and cigarette smoking are activities people undertake. It is when these actions are performed without you consciously doing them, without you experiencing the conscious thoughts leading to the action that you know it is a habit. For instance, you may only realise you put your fingertips in your mouth afterwards – you didn’t think about it first.
What makes nail biting a negative habit?
In general, those suffering from tension and anxiety build the behavioural pattern of fingernail biting, though quite a few people do it for purely physical reasons. A primary reason nail biting is so bad for you is that it injures your body. For the most part, you may endure red fingers and cuticles that are shredded and damaged. This makes them simple to catch on things and in addition they can be sore when exposed to certain substances like acid in food for instance. On occasion, fingers could become disfigured as the nail is completely lost.
The habit also affects your mouth – the dental problems relating to nail biting are not rare. Gingival injury is injury to the soft tissue in the mouth (the gingival tissue) due to incessant fingernail biting. As well as the dental damage, bacteria buried deeply from the nail bed can be transferred to your mouth and result in nasty infections.
Inwardly, nail biters often feel embarrassed about the problem but are in a position to stop the compulsion to do it. It can be very awkward being asked to stop nail biting when you didn’t realise you were doing it. It is also embarrassing whenever people see your ruined nails and fingers.
The most useful thing to realise is that nail biting is in most cases a coping technique for something deeper that requires identifying and struggling with.
Hypnotherapy strategies for biting nails is fantastic at taking care of this behaviour. Quite a few clients achieve excellent results inside a couple of sessions.
Sally Moore, a qualified professional hypnotherapist from Hypnotherapy Lincolnshire based in Woodhall Spa and Lincoln, Lincolnshire has helped numerous clients to stop nail biting. For a free, no obligation, consultation please feel free to contact Sally on:- 01526 351153.
