How to Stop Hair Pulling Using your Pavlok

Do you pull your hair out? Do you notice when you’re doing it? Or do you do it subconciously?

Wear the Pavlok on your wrist and zap if you start to do the undesired action. As you have a craving or do the habit, zap yourself at each step. The more often you zap yourself while craving or doing it, the faster you’ll see the cravings reduce.

It can also be helpful to turn on hand detection, so that your Pavlok can alert you when you are unconciously raising your hand to pull your hair.  It is important not to rely on this feature, as part of Pavlok is performing the zap yourself to become aware of your thoughts and actions.

The 3 Step Process

1. Set aside 5 minutes a day for 5-10 days to touch your hair purposely and zap.  Wear your Pavlok throughout the day. Notice when you start to do the undesired action.

2. Zap yourself when you notice that you are having the impulse to pull.  And of course zap yourself several times if you catch yourself pulling your hair.

3. Do this as often as you can to keep the cravings and the actions low. If it starts to increase, add more zaps.

After 5 days, check in with yourself and determine your progress. You should notice a significant reduction or elimination of the need to pull your hair. Continue using this process until you feel an aversion towards the urges – and you no longer pull your hair.

How to Stop a Custom Habit Using your Pavlok

Pavlok’s most powerful use case is to break bad habits. To break a habit, you should force yourself to perform that action repeatedly for at least 5 days (but ideally 10). Set aside 5 minutes each day and force yourself to do the action – even when you feel like stopping! If you push through for the full 5-10 days, the habit will usually stay broken.

Breaking a Bad Habit

Determine the bad habit that you want to eliminate. Set aside 5 minutes a day for 5-10 days.

For those 5 minutes, force yourself to do the bad habit 2 or undesired actions. Zap yourself at each step of the habit. Force yourself to complete the full 5 minutes and at least 5 days, even if you think the habit is

After 5 days, check in with yourself and determine your progress. You should notice a signi cant reduction or elimination of the habit. Continue using this process until you feel an aversion towards the habit – and you no longer desire to do it.

 

How to Be More Productive Using your Pavlok

We never plan to procrastinate. We simply nd ourselves doing it. Why? Because we slip out of a state of awareness, and into automatic mode.

Use Pavlok to bring yourself back into a state of awareness and focus. When you catch yourself procrastinating, simply press the zap button. Then ask yourself what you should be doing instead.

Get Productive

Whenever you realize you are being unproductive, press the zap button.

Focus on the zap and ask yourself: ‘What would a productive version of me be doing right now?’

Get to work and do it. We recommend only working on a single task at a time – set a timer for 15-25 minutes, and don’t switch tasks until the timer is complete.

 

How to Wake Up Using your Pavlok

When we wake up, most of us are at our groggiest. It’s often easier to repeatedly hit the snooze button over and over (and over) until we nally have to get out of bed.

One of the reasons this happens is because we get woken up in the middle of deep sleep. At that stage, it’s incredibly dif cult to control ourselves or our actions. Pavlok helps kick you out of that state with adrenaline.

Quit Snoozing

Wear your Pavlok to bed.  Before going to sleep, set your Pavlok alarm. Choose the stimuli you’d like to wake you. Would you like a chance to wake up without a zap? Choose stimuli with a vibration or beep first as a warning, and then only receive a zap if you don’t wake up and turn off the alarm. Know that won’t work? Start off with a zap to wake you up and get you moving!

When you wake up, if you’ve given yourself a warning stimuli before the zap, get up! If you don’t get up, or start with a zap right out of the gate, the zap will kick you out of the automatic mode of trying to sleep in.

Jump out of bed – with adrenaline. Turn off your alarm clock and start your morning routine.