How to get rid of the habit of nibble your nails
How to get rid of the habit of nibble your nails
When and why does it become a habit to gnaw nails or the skin around them? How to stop doing this?
The habit of gnawing nails is acquired, most often, in childhood. At first, it is simply copying the child's action seen from someone close to him and important to him, then repeatedly repeated.
At an early age, habits are developedalmost instantly, the brain is maximally active and flexible to learn new experiences. The kid does not yet recognize harmful and useful habits, he learns, repeating after others.
If you catch the child in timeself-learning gnawing fingers, correctly and easily explain the undesirability of this action, then there is a greater share of the likelihood that it will be spared from the problem with the beauty of nails in adulthood.
You can not forbid children to gnaw the marigolds, and, moreover, to beat them for it on the hands and other parts of the body. Bans are the fastest way to form a stable habit based on fear.
Since the habit has already become stronger, it is extremely difficult to destroy it. A habit is a program written in the subconscious. It starts in certain situations, like an unconscious reflex.
Trigger hook is the one on the basis of which the reflex was created. When the foundation became fear, in any more or less "nervous" conditions, reflex behavior will start automatically.
Stop biting nails is a difficult task, butfeasible. If you can completely break the relationship of action and cause, then the habit will disappear by itself. Otherwise, you will need a strong desire to get rid of the habit of biting your nails and constant self-control:
- Find the root cause and remove it. If it's a scare - to remember the first moment of its appearance and to play anew without negative emotions. Forgive those who originated the fear, and myself for having linked it to a specific pattern of behavior. Let go of the situation with love.
- Create a vivid picture of the addictions of the habit of thrusting your fingers into your mouth: dirt on your hands, ugly fingernails.
- To connect the evoked image with negative emotions: pain in the fingers, abscesses, abscesses.
- Develop a state of disgust for this emotional picture.
- Form another habit with the use of hands. Take them harmless.
