Nick Kemp - Treating Blushing - seeing/feeling red

My first case of working with a "blusher" was a number of years ago and at that time I considered this to be a rare condition. These days I see a wide range of men and women of all ages and backgrounds with this problem on a weekly basis.

"Blushers" often describe this problem as feeling extremely self conscious with changes in body temperature, and "going red" Often this sense of "going red" is a feeling of this occurring, rather than actually seeing a change in skin pigmentation. NLP is excellent in changing the old response, as, like all phobias this is created at an emotional level and once the "emotional charge" that creates this behaviour is changed, the individual finds welcome relief!

The difficulty with this condition is that the more the person thinks about it, the more it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy with the "blusher" creating the exact same thoughts and feelings that maintain the problem. Often the "blusher" has a number of ongoing thoughts about this problem that are not useful.

A common example of this includes, perhaps not surprisingly:

"I am going to go red" (said or thought in an anxious tone of voice!)

I usually allocate two sessions to deal with this condition and have had considerable success in working with clients, many of whom have tried numerous other approaches without previous success.

I am part of the international "Just Be Well" network of NLP practitioners which correctly describes treating this condition in the following way:

"We will work with you to literally reprogram the response ahead of time. A crucial difference between someone who suffers from excessive blushing and someone who does not, is that the person who blushes excessively, imagines, or worries in advance, that they will be blushing when they are in certain situations. The person who doesn't worry, or imagine, they are going to blush in these situations, tends to do so far less often"