In my quest to eliminate all the horrible habits that I have (such as biting my fingernails, eating anything sweet in sight and automatically having a sarcastic response on my tongue), I started looking into ways to quell my desire to do these things.
I will not put nasty tasting stuff on my fingers to keep me from biting them. Ew.
I have no willpower so avoiding sweets altogether is about as detrimental as eating all I want. Moderation is what I'm going for here.
And sarcasm is my sixth love language but not necessarily the love people want. How the heck do I manage that one?
After some research, I came up with Aversion Therapy. The premise is that in order to stop unwanted behavior, the behavior must be associated with something unpleasant.
Think of the invisible dog fence. The dog gets to close to somewhere he's not supposed to be and ZAP! He gets a jolt. Same thing. Except I'm not using electricity.
I have a rubber band.
Supposedly you wear the rubber band around your wrist and whenever you feel the urge to do a behavior that you don't want, you snap it against your wrist.
It hurts.
Not like crazy pain but enough to make me stop and go, don't do it.
I have been successful thus far. I have not eaten any of the leftover wedding cake someone brought in this morning. I have not bitten my fingernails once.
And the sarcastic comments - well, we're still working on that.
Needless to say, my wrist is quite red.
1 comment:
Sarcasm? You aren't mean spritied in your sarcasm. Don't end the sarcasm...
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