Hypnotherapy to Help with Blushing

Hypnosis / Hypnotherapy for Blushing

Everybody blushes from time to time and this is perfectly normal. In fact many people who blush are not bothered by it at all.

However, those who suffer from their blushing finds it a major hindrance in their life. Blushing often impacts their self confidence, their social life, their dating, progress in their work life e.g not speaking up in meetings, or missing out on promotions because of the dread of presentations or staff meetings at a higher level.

When your blushing is stopping you from living and achieving the way you want to then it’s time to address the problem.

Why do we blush?

Generally speaking blushing occurs for two main reasons

1. As part of a ‘flight or fight’ response when you feel threatened. You subconsciously believe you are in danger so your body responds by firing you up; preparing you to fight it out or run away. Blushing is part of that response. It’s an old mechanism in the mind that was useful when we were in danger in the wild, however now a days it’s more likely to occur when we feel psychologically threatened.

   So you might blush when your ideas are threatened or challenged, or you might blush when you are angry, during confrontations with colleagues or friends. You might blush when you feel intimidated by others. You might blush when you feel foolish or embarrassed or somehow feel negatively judged by others (part of social phobia).

2. The second reason you might blush is part of a sexual rush when you are aroused. Many people who blush dread when this happens as they feel it ‘shows their cards’. Also many who blush fear that their blushing is being interpreted this way by others and giving a ‘false signal’, when in fact they are more likely to be blushing due to some embarrassment or intimidation.

Hypnotherapy as a treatment for blushing

Blushing very treatable, and responds very well to a course of 'Pure' Hypnoanalysis.

We go on a journey of your mind and let go of the built up emotion (embarrassment, guilt, fear etc) that is causing your subconscious mind to be unduly stressed or feeling threatened. Once the internal subconscious stress needle goes down to normal levels then you are well able to handle the stresses of everyday life, without ever again going into the alarming range that can trigger the blushing response.

With blushing what I tell people is one of two results occur. Either you:

1. Stop the anxiety driven blushing completely

   Or

2. Continue to blush a little, but it no longer bothers you at all – so the emotional meaning you have attributed to blushing is gone and it is no longer holding you back.

Blushing CAN Be Helped!

Why Hypnoanalysis is so successful at treating blushing

The cause of anxiety based blushing are generally created in a person’s mind in childhood (though the symptoms may not appear for many years). The frequent blushing response is caused by the sufferer bottling up some strong emotions. The only way to resolve the blushing - is to release the bottled up emotions that are causing it.

These bottled up emotions are stored in the person’s subconscious mind so the sufferer has no conscious awareness of them. In our formative years (with only a child’s resourcefulness) bottling the emotions up was the best plan of action for dealing with difficult strong emotion. It was done by our subconscious mind so we weren't overwhelmed by the emotions, and could get on with growing up.

However, now that you are grown up you do have the resourcefulness of an adult and can easily face and resolve those emotions that were too much for the child. Your subconscious mind wants you to do this and will do everything in its power to encourage you to resolve the internal conflict (emotion) - including giving you the symptom! It's as if that symptom is a signal telling you that there's something inside you ready to be resolved. Most other types of therapy cannot gain access to these 'locked away' emotions and experiences, whereas Pure Hypno-Analysis can.

The process of Hypnoanalysis requires a strong bond of trust and rapport being created between the therapist, and the client. Over a period of about eight sessions, we slowly and effortlessly link thoughts and memories back through time (using a process of 'free association') until we come to the bottled up emotions. When we release these emotions, the anxiety based blushing is resolved forever.

Come Along For a Chat

To find out more about it, you can come along and meet with me in my clinic in Rathfarnham for an initial consultation, and we can have a chat about the problems you're having.

It's free of charge and very informal.

Success, joy and wellbeing to you!

Ailish McGrath
Private Clinic - Rathfarnham, Dublin 16
Ph: 01-4954841
info@IChooseToHeal.com