How To Stop Trichotillomania

Hello, I'm Ben Huss. I'm a certified hypnotherapist and I'm going to show you tools and techniques to help you unlock your potential. I'm going to show you how you can stop trichotillomania or more commonly called hair pulling.

Make sure you're somewhere relaxed and comfortable and are not going to be disturbed for the next couple of minutes. Let's begin. What do you see, feel, and hear just before you get that urge to pull your hair? Maybe even bring your hands to your head to trigger those feelings.

Now, pretend your eyes are cameras and take a snapshot that picture. We're going to call this your cue picture. Now, close your eyes and we're going to create a new picture this time with yourself in it.

How are you going to look when you've made the changes you desire? Put this in the picture. Notice how you feel, what you can see, and what you can hear. Let's add some positive qualities to this, like confidence and inner strength and anything else you desire.

Anything else desirable, just chuck it in. We're going to call this your desired outcome photo. Now, take this picture and make it bigger, double its size, make it brighter, make it even brighter.

Amplify that brightness. That's right, make it fill the whole of your mind's eye. Good.

Now, send it off all the way off in the distance. Now, clear your mind, make it blank again. We're going to bring back that cue picture, the first picture.

Bring back that snapshot. Now, I want you to make this big again, make it really big and really clear but in the bottom left hand corner, I want you to put the desired outcome picture but it's going to be very dim. In a moment, I'm going to say the word 'swish' and when I do, I want you to shrink down the cue picture and make really bright and really big, so that covers the whole of the cue picture, that desirable outcome picture.

And we're going to do this quickly in the time it takes me to say swish. So, are you ready? Let's go. Swish! Good.

Open your eyes. We're going to try that again, so close your eyes get that original - get the cue picture up. Make sure it's filling the whole screen, it's bright and clear and in the bottom left hand corner, we have the desired outcome photo.

We're going to make that desired outcome photo really big and bright so that it covers the cue picture. Are you ready? And, swish! Good, we're going to do it a couple more times. Open your eyes, close them again.

Swish! One more time, open your eyes, close your eyes, and swish! Excellent. Take a break for ten minutes and when you come back, think about that old habit and notice how you think about it differently. And when you think about it, the new desired outcome comes to mind.

You may find that no matter how hard you try, this new desirable outcome comes straight to you mind. And that's how you stop hair pulling. .