Taking blushing as an example, we want to put it all together in a clear, more easy-to-understand way:
If a person has an emotional blockage in their brain through the repeated repression and avoidance of expression of one and the same emotion, and if the person experiences the same emotion once again in this or that situation or in front of this or that person, then through this the upper intensity limit of this emotion blockage will be exceeded.
Overstepping the upper intensity level for this emotion will now be perceived by the brain as a protection and safety mechanism (an automatic regulating system) and this will then become operative and will discharge the emotional blockage by means of blushing or turning red so that the emotional intensity does not gain further in strength and as a result become a danger to the person’s health. This discharge takes place via the autonomous nervous system. However, by nature this is closely linked to the endocrine gland system. The effect of an automatic emotional discharge therefore makes itself apparent by a simultaneous effect on the nerves and glands.
The effect on the nerves becomes obvious in that the person feels self-conscious and insecure. The effect on the glands is such that hormones enter the bloodstream. The properties of these hormones cause the blood vessels of the face to relax and expand. The blood vessels in the face can then take up more blood, which manifests itself by a feeling of warmth in the face and the face taking on a red colour (becoming red). The emotional blockage is discharged and calmed down in this way. In other words, it is EXPRESSED.
In this way different emotions have different effects once they are discharged from their blocked state. There are emotions (especially those of affection or love, but also those of shame and guilt) whose discharge is the phenomenon of blushing. Other emotions merely discharge as a more or less strong feeling of insecurity or self-consciousness. Whereas there are emotions that cause a sudden outbreak of sweating if they are automatically discharged, and yet others that cause the speech system to fail and cause stammering and stuttering. However, upon the automatic discharge of emotional blockages some form of inhibition phenomena appears, which over time leads to an inferiority complex.
Yet inhibition phenomena are nothing other than a safety valve for blocked emotions, which make sure that emotional blockages cannot become too strong.
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German language version: Wie und warum kommt es zum Erröten – Ist es ein Schutzmechanismus?