The Girl Who Bites Her Nails And The Man Who Is Always Late - What Our Habits Reveal About Us (Paperback)

Do you constantly loose your keys, procrastinate, bite your nails, battle to be punctual, snore, play with your hair, drink too much coffee or smoke 20 cigarettes a day...? Most of us reading the above list would have identified with at least one of the examples, if not most of them! All these habits, together with many hundreds not listed, may be irritating or even detrimental to our health in the long term, but seem to ease our tension in the short term. Even the threat of loosing a job, a close relationship, our health or the respect of others, seldom persuades us to change. Why is habitual behavior so intrinsic to our existence? Until now, we have largely overlooked, denied or ignored our habits, yet as the mind-body connection becomes more understood, we have to acknowledge that there must be a connection between what we do physically and what we feel emotionally. "The Girl Who Signs And The Man Who Is Always Late" offers unique insights into the reasons behind why we behave as we do. In looking at a whole range of quite common habits, involving the breathing system, the mouth, speech, sex, manipulating and harming habits, habits of children and of the elderly etc. it becomes;Through their very repetition, habits are a great way of understanding how we are limiting ourselves from being happy, healthier human beings. In this book, the author shows us ways to change and release the issues causing our habitual behaviours.