In this article I will discuss 5 ways that can help you stop the repulsive lip biting habit.
This habit can cause immediate soreness and if it continues it could be seriously harmful to your health.
It is a habit that needs to be stopped for your health, but also for your outer image that people portray to be anxious body language.
5 tips to stopping the lip biting habit 1.
Be conscious When you first want to stop a habit you need to first recognize when you are doing it and stop yourself.
This can break the subconscious cycle.
However, rather than telling yourself to stop lip biting, tell yourself to keep your mouth open or smile.
This is because your mind cannot tell the difference between you wanting to do something and not wanting to do something.
For instance, when you say "don't bite lip" your mind only recognizes "bite lip".
You need to feed your mind with a completely different thought.
Once you stop the mind from thinking about lip biting it will weaken the neural pathway.
The subconscious mind gets rid of things that it doesn't use often.
2.
Chew Gum This is a short term reduction of the habit, but at least it will give something for your mouth to do and teeth to bite on to relieve some stress.
It is better for you than chewing your mouth.
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Weaken the neural pathway for the lip biting habit - Thought Field Therapy (TFT) or Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) This is a technique is similar to Chinese acupuncture.
You use your fingers to tap on your body's pressure points.
This will weaken the neural pathways in the mind that hold the relationship between stress and anxiety.
Create an image in the mind of you lip biting and then tap on the body's pressure points.
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Weaken the neural pathway for stress and anxiety - Thought Field Therapy (TFT) or Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) TFT or EFT can be used to break the relationship between an outer situation creating an automatic reaction of becoming tense in the body.
If you think about the negative thought and tap on the pressure points it will reduce the intensity of the emotional reaction.
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Hypnotherapy or Subliminal Messages This can break the relationship between the feeling of stress or anxiety and the habit of chewing your cheek.
This is because it talks directly to the subconscious mind and reprograms the mind.
It can also be extremely relaxing and stress relieving and will hit the root cause of the lip biting habit.