"Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
The function of your mind is to create coherence between your beliefs and the world around you. Therefore, your experience of the world will generally reinforce your beliefs because your experience of the world is based on how your mind interprets all the information coming in through your senses, and it is using your beliefs as the basis for the interpretation. Our minds are constantly trying to find ways to make our world reflect our beliefs. Therefore, if we can change our beliefs, then we can change our world.
The mind can be broken down into two basic parts: the conscious mind where all of our "thinking" takes place, and the subconscious mind where all of our memories, habits, and beliefs dwell. The subconscious mind also controls all of the automatic functions of the body.
Because the inherent function of the conscious mind is to seek coherence between the world we perceive and the beliefs of the subconscious, we cannot change our subconscious mind with our conscious mind. Essentially we cannot "think" ourselves into being different. This is why we often find ourselves running up against an invisible wall even when we consciously "know" what it is we are trying to change about ourselves.
Even if one were exceptionally good at controlling one's own thoughts, science has shown us that the conscious thought makes up at most 5% of the activity of our minds. This means that our subconscious mind is running the show at least 95% of the time.
When our subconscious beliefs are in opposition to our conscious desires we are forced to use will power in an attempt to overcome that internal lack of alignment. Will power is the awareness, determination and energy required to behave in a way that is contradictory to our own beliefs. To put it another way, when we put our energy into will power we are putting energy into battling ourselves. Battling ourselves via sheer force of will power is a very difficult approach that often does not succeed.
But there is an alternative to "sheer will power" and determination! When we change our underlying, subconscious beliefs to be aligned with the changes that we consciously desire, then we no longer need to rely on "will power." In fact, the desired changes occur naturally.
So now the question is, how do we change our true beliefs, the ones in our subconscious?
Believe it or not, it is simple. We can change our underlying beliefs quickly and easily by using hypnosis to bypass our conscious mind and affect profound change in the subconscious. Once a change has been made in a subconscious belief, our conscious mind will seek to make our experience reflect this new reality and the outward manifestation of the change will flow naturally into existence.
With the exception of hypnosis, all of the methods and techniques people use to quit biting their nails require will power because they only attempt to stop the act of nail biting, not to remove the underlying desire to bite the nails. Those methods are really only treating the symptom, not the cause. As long as the desire is still present discipline and will power will be required and the only real option is to replace one habit with another more desirable one, like replacing biting with filing.
On the other hand, when we use hypnosis to actually change our beliefs we don't need will power because the actual desire to bite the nails is removed. When the desire is gone, there is simply no reason to bite the nails. There is also no need to replace one habit with another one. Instead, we replace one set of beliefs (I am a nail biter, I can't stop biting my nails, I enjoy biting my nails, biting my nails calms me, etc.) with a new set of beliefs (I am a non-nail biter, I have already stopped biting my nails, I don't bite my nails, biting my nails does nothing for me, biting my nails is undesirable, etc.).
The really great part is that we do not even need to know what the existing beliefs are or where they came from in order to replace them. When the desired beliefs are planted in the subconscious mind, any contradictory beliefs are automatically bumped out.
The result is that the habit is broken without the need for will power, and the urge to bite the nails is gone forever.
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