Ragged nails can be embarrassing, especially when someone you admire looks down at your hands and wonders at your lack of self-control. Nail-biting can cause physical pain, too, especially if you bite them down to the quick or cause them to bleed.
All of the concern over H1N1 flu and other respiratory problems have also made people much more aware of the importance of hand washing. Hand washing isn’t all that helpful, though, when you’re deliberately putting hundreds of new bacteria into your mouth every time you bite your nails.
That doesn’t sound very healthy, and most people who bite their nails admit it’s something they would rather not do. It’s not easy to just consciously will yourself to stop, though; most of the time, kicking the nail-biting habit means addressing the inclination, or impulse, at the level of the unconscious.
Much of the time, nail-biting is an unconscious way of managing stress. When people become nervous or tense, they bite their nails, relieving some of the tension caused by the stress. One way to help cure this problem is to help decrease stress.
Using an easy, but very effective Neuro-Linguistic Programming technique called the “Flash,” people can learn to relax and cope with stress. Thoughts that previously caused extreme tension or anxiety can be flipped around using the Flash to cause calm and relaxation.
In just seven hours, people can learn to relax, exchange their stressful thoughts for pleasant ones, cope more effectively with stress, and stop biting their nails. They can accomplish all of this without ever leaving their homes.
What’s more, you can too – unless you want your nails to keep looking like that! Learn how to relax, manage stress more effectively, and eliminate the impulse to bite your nails while sitting in your own living room.
Of course, you could go to a counselor or hypnotist and pay hundreds of dollars, but wouldn’t it be easier to do it at home, in seven short sessions, using a short series of audio CDs instead?
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