Post by lonelyone on Jun 3, 2003 17:58:55 GMT -5
ok, after only 13 days pick-free i don't know if i qualify to post a tip but here goes.
now, i'm not a new age touchy-feely type of girl, but on May 21/03 i was lying in bed and i decided to say a mantra out loud. we do this in yoga sometimes, mainly about relaxing and breathing in good health etc. and i thought "even though its goofy, it certainly can't hurt". so then i was thinking about what i was going to say. i stayed away from "i will not pick" because that is a negative message. i initially thought i would say "i will stop picking" but i thought, "no, then I'm allowing myself to put it into the future...that its something i'm going to do one day" so I changed to "i have stopped picking". I made myself say it 3 times out loud, lying there in bed, feeling like a moron. but the next day i didn't pick, and that night i said it again, and the next day, no picking. whenever i go into the bathroom i say it out loud. "i have stopped picking."
so I don't know if it helped, or if this is a phase (altho' i have never stopped for even a day since 1997 when i started), or if it was just my time.
but if you're in a public bathroom one day and the person in the stall next to you is muttering "I have stopped picking" over and over to themselves, well, that would be me.
now, i'm not a new age touchy-feely type of girl, but on May 21/03 i was lying in bed and i decided to say a mantra out loud. we do this in yoga sometimes, mainly about relaxing and breathing in good health etc. and i thought "even though its goofy, it certainly can't hurt". so then i was thinking about what i was going to say. i stayed away from "i will not pick" because that is a negative message. i initially thought i would say "i will stop picking" but i thought, "no, then I'm allowing myself to put it into the future...that its something i'm going to do one day" so I changed to "i have stopped picking". I made myself say it 3 times out loud, lying there in bed, feeling like a moron. but the next day i didn't pick, and that night i said it again, and the next day, no picking. whenever i go into the bathroom i say it out loud. "i have stopped picking."
so I don't know if it helped, or if this is a phase (altho' i have never stopped for even a day since 1997 when i started), or if it was just my time.
but if you're in a public bathroom one day and the person in the stall next to you is muttering "I have stopped picking" over and over to themselves, well, that would be me.
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