Shatter Bad Habits Away!
~ By Jan Tincher
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© Jan Tincher - All Rights reserved
http://www.tameyourbrain.com
NOTE: Shatter Technique.
When your brain is drawn to a picture, a picture you shatter
again and again, it will have the same effect as a fingernail
scratching a chalkboard. Your brain will not like it,
and will not want to bring that picture back up. If you
can't bring the picture up, you won't have it to draw
you to the old habit. Especially when you put feeling
in it...
"Shatter" is a
technique you can use for bad habits. Today we will concentrate
on the bad habit of biting your fingernails.
Make a picture in your mind
of you biting your fingernails.
Make sure it is not a mirror
image. (We don't want your face in the picture, because
we don't want to shatter your face.) It's a picture of
what you see when you are putting your fingernail between
your teeth, getting ready to chew on it. You can see your
finger coming up, you can feel your mouth open, you know
you are going to bite your fingernail, etc.
Now, what you're going to
accomplish here is shatter the feeling, the experience,
not the person. So don't put the person -- "you"
as you see yourself in a mirror -- in the picture. Your
hands are OK, or any part of your body that you can see
without looking at your reflection, just not the total
YOU.
Now, in your mind, feel how
you feel when you bite your fingernails. Put everything
in that picture that evokes negative feelings. You can
feel people staring at you, looking at your weird fingernails,
maybe you can feel the insecurity of biting your fingernails,
or the shame. Whatever negative feelings you have, "feel"
them as you look at the picture that causes them.
Pick out a picture of the
worst thing you can think of happening. Like now your
fingers look atrocious and you have to be in the receiving
line of a wedding or something and everyone is noticing
your fingernails. Or you are going to meet your new in-laws
and you reach to shake their hand. When you see that picture,
do you have thoughts of "I knew this would happen",
self-recrimination, etc.? Are you thinking "I am
so dorky, I'll always have terrible looking fingers."
Or "I wish I could stop biting my fingernails."
Or, "I don't have any self-control." Etc.?
Now that you feel really
terrible, put that picture on a piece of glass "in
your mind," because that's what you're going to put
your picture on and shatter. If you don't feel really
terrible, you need to put more feeling, more action, into
the picture. Because if you use all of your senses --
you hear, feel, smell, taste, see everything that pertains
to that picture you have in your mind that says you ALWAYS
bite your fingernails, your brain will be drawn to it.
And we want your brain drawn to it, with feeling, before
we shatter it.
OK, now look at the picture
you've made and put on the piece of glass. Watch as it
evokes all those feelings mentioned above and you are
REALLY feeling out of control -- in other words, you know
you are going to bite your fingernails forever, then .
. . SHATTER it!
Now, bring the picture back
up, then SHATTER it! Bring it back up again, and shatter
it 6 more times.
Now after all those times
of shattering it, when you try to bring the picture back
up, CAN YOU?
Most people can't. Or if they do, it shatters automatically!
Or if they do, there is no feeling. Like the picture doesn't
mean anything to them.
Believe me, this works. So
if the old feelings come back the next day, just SHATTER
the picture 6 more times. Pretty soon your brain will
get the idea for good.
Thanks
for reading Shatter Bad Habits Away.
