As the importance of reducing the risk of contracting CVID-19 (a form of Coronavirus) is stressed by public health officials, memes are popping up showing these same officials touching their face while warning people not to. This irony demonstrates just how hard it is to be conscious of this habit we all have. Hypnosis can help you become more aware of when you’re about to touch your face, so you can make a decision to stop if your hands aren’t clean.
Face touching is as much a habit as the rest of our body language. It can be a telltale sign of how you’re feeling. A person might touch their ear or eye when experiencing information they don’t want to think about, or touch their mouth when they’re avoiding saying something or are uncomfortable with what they are saying. Even a slight, subconscious feeling of insecurity about what others think about what you’re saying can cause your to touch your mouth. It’s one of those things that help NLP practitioners know what’s going on with your inner self, even when you’re unaware yourself.
Face touching is something we do without thinking about it. In fact, thinking about it usually makes it worse, hence the reason so many people talking about it on TV touch their own face multiple times in a short segment. It’s like someone telling you not to think of a pink elephant. Suddenly, all you can do is think of that pink elephant. This is where hypnosis can come in.
Rather than telling people to stop, which may make them do it even more, hypnosis interrupts those subconscious impulses without trying to consciously force you to stop. I utilize a sensation-based process that includes seeing your fingers getting huge as they near your face while also triggering a feeling of vibration in your hand. This is just enough to trigger a conscious noticing of when your hand is nearing your face. That way, you can pause a moment and stop yourself without obsessively thinking about not doing it.
Don’t worry, listening to hypnosis to stop touching your face will not make it so that you can never touch your face; it simply increases your conscious awareness. That way you have a moment of pause when you can make a decision to stop if you’re in public and may not have clean hands. If you have an itch and you’re home with clean hands, scratch away. You’ll have not trouble doing so.
Listen to my free YouTube hypnosis session each morning to reinforce your awareness and break the habit of touching your face.