Make Peace With Your Critical Self and Heal Nervous, Habitual, Obsessive, Compulsive Skin Picking
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RESOLUTION: SLIPPING INTO DARKNESSRelapses and GoalsOne of the final things I want to discuss is the ability of habitual pickers to live in the future. We live in a chronic state of worrying about the ‘what ifs’ and ‘if onlys’.There are a lot of suggestions in this book for changing your life. It is always tempting to go out and try to do them all at once. I suggest setting up small goals which you can accomplish. If you are a cold turkey kind of person, then by all means go for Zero Tolerance of your habit. But if you're like so many others of us, let reducing the picking be your first goal. Don't set yourself up for failure so you have to beat yourself up. Set up a schedule for yourself, and be flexible when you do not meet the demands you set up for yourself. I love the quote by John Lennon, “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.” Go ahead and make your plans for change, but don’t forget to live in the present moment reaching them. If you are so focused on that faraway goal - that is exactly what it will always be: a faraway goal. I am not telling you to forget about long-range goals like, “My skin, hands, or body will be free from the results of picking,” but keep some immediate goals simple and right in front of your face. “Today I will try to drink more water that I usually do.” Set the long range goals and then forget about them and practice working on whatever is right under your nose. Just for today, you may not have that dreamy complexion you’ve coveted for so long, but you CAN drink more water or whatever you simple goal is. Practice setting these simple goals and attaining them over a period of several days until they become a habit. It takes time doing something religiously before it becomes a new habit. But now, I do know that when I am drinking more water on a regular basis, I find myself craving it when I forget to drink. By making the goals simple and small you can accomplish them more easily and feel more in control of your recovery. If you don’t meet the goal, you don’t have to beat yourself up over it, because it was a small goal and it’s easier to forgive yourself for small things than huge faraway things. If you fail to meet your immediate goal just resolve to meet it tomorrow or even in the next minute. Oh, so you forgot to drink water today - go pour yourself a glass right now. Get it?
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