Nail Biting Anxiety
Posted by admin on March 1st, 2009 filed in Habitual Nail Biting
Changing A Bad Habit
For example take the bad habit of biting fingernails. Many people bite their fingernails when they feel nervous. To them, biting fingernails is actually an outlet to release their nervousness and anxiousness. So that is the function of the habit of biting fingernails.
When you break a habit, but did not replace it with an alternative to perform the old habits function, you will eventually go back to doing the old habit. As in the above example, if you don’t find an alternative way to handle nervousness, if you don’t have a way to release your emotions of anxiousness and uneasiness, you’ll eventually go back to your fingernail biting days.
That is why you need to identify the function and purpose of a particular habit. What did that habit give you on a physical, psychological and emotional level? Which needs did it meet? How is it meeting those needs?
Remember, when you kick a habit, you will be losing the function of that particular habit too. Without having an adequate replacement, you will unconsciously go back to doing that habit sooner or later.
To discover the function of a particular habit, it is often necessary to look deeper into ourselves and our actions. To do this, try to identify a pattern that regularly leads you to doing the habit. Look for indicators to help you find the original purpose which made you develop that habit in the first place.
In identifying the patterns of a habit, you can ask questions such as when do you usually do the habit; what other thing were you doing at the time; where were you; who were you with; what happened before you did the habit; what time of the day was it etc.
After you know what the function of a habit is, you can then brainstorm ways to replace it. Come up with an alternative action that can adequately take the place of the habit. So if you bite fingernails when you’re nervous, a good alternative would be to learn breathing exercises that can relax the body and use it whenever you start to feel nervous.
Look for positive ways to fill that gap and ensure that the replacement is effective and adequate. Only through doing that will we kick a habit for the long term.
By: Ethan Beh
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