Whatever the reason for starting to bite your nails, for many adults the habit continues and can be made worse by stress or anxiety. It is usually an unconscious habit – nail biters often don’t realise that they are doing it.
A hypnotherapist can work with you to create change to this unconscious habit. Very often, by the time nail biting (or other habit) has become a ‘problem’, the habitual behaviour no longer requires a particular trigger. Hypnosis directly influences the part of our mind that deals with these habits.
Sometimes, but not always, nail-biting and similar habits (such as clearing your throat, or coughing without need) are tied up in the way we deal with stress. Anxiety is a normal response to feeling threatened or overwhelmed. People differ in the way stress affects them – their response may be made up of the memory of past experiences, beliefs and attitudes about situations, and what else is going on for them at a particular time.
Hypnotherapy can help you to form positive new alternatives to these habits, to help you cope with anxious situations and stress triggers in a constructive way.
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