Stop Nail Biting

Nail biting is one of those difficult habits to stop. Non-nail biters will say, "Just tell yourself you're going to quit." Wish it were that easy.

Since biting one's nails is an unconscious habit, the key to successful change is found in the part of the brain that governs unconscious behavior. The subconscious is the part of the brain that allows us to go about our everyday living without conscious thinking about every thing we do. Think how difficult life would be if we had to remember to tell ourselves to take a breath or to blink our eyes when they get dry.

Our subconscious stores our behaviors as memories or thoughts. That's how we "know" or remember the way home from work. We've memorized or placed the pattern for the drive home into our subconscious.

Not sure of this? How many times have you started driving to a familiar location and then suddenly you were there? Scary when you think how often we go on automatic pilot. We do or follow old patterns without much conscious thought.

Nail biting uses the same automatic pilot process. This is why a successful plan to stop nail biting works with our subconscious mind to change the behavior.

It's all about changing the nail biting habit,
Sunny