You feel the colour in your face changing and the heat building, your initial response is probably along the lines of “stop blushing” or “don’t blush now”. The more you try to quenc the heat and colour of the blush – the stronger and more intense it becomes. Your voice weakens, you may even lose it, your throat is dry, hands wet and clammy. How can you stop it?
Hypnosis will and can help you but before I explain how it is important to understand how your subconscious mind operates.
The subconscious mind does not recognise negative words like “stop” or “not” or “don’t”. So let’s take the above sentence you might say to yourself “stop blushing” – what the subconscious mind hears is “blushing”. So it goes through it’s inner dictionary (just a computer, it has programmes and files within it – but more on this another day).
In the dictionary it finds “blushing = red face, throat dry, hands clammy, nervousness in stomach (and whatever else you feel”. Hey presto, your subconscious mind gives you what you asked!
So you need to re-programme, delete and make a new file: “my face is pale and cool, my hands are dry …. the opposite of the previous symptoms. It does take practice and like any new skill, the more you practice the better you get. You can apply this to any situation that previously made you feel uncomfortable.
Have I done myself out of work?!
Hypnosis can help you practice these techniques. No matter how logical we are about things, it doesn’t really seem to make much of a difference so we need to access the subconscious mind and this happens with hypnosis.
Hypnosis is a concentrated relaxation (we are concentrating on the face being cool and pale) – (did you notice my phrasing). Using various aids including visualisation techniques you can overcome the blushing.
