By a PARADOXICAL REACTION we mean a nonsensical, illogical, incorrect, counterproductive reaction. That blushing is just such a paradoxical reaction can be derived from the following two facts:
- Turning red only ever occurs if you attempt to prevent, hide, cover up or repress it. Thus you always turn red just when you DON’T WANT TO TURN RED.
- Turning red can never happen if you try hard and CONSCIOUSLY TO TURN RED. Thus you cannot blush when you want to intentionally blush.
The fact that you blush at those times when under no circumstances do you want to turn red is well-known to anyone who blushes from their own experience. The second fact, however, that you cannot turn red when you deliberately and intentionally want to, appears incomprehensible when you first hear it. Despite this, it is and remains a fact.
Interesting insights in this area are provided by the basic principles of autosuggestion (self-influence). Emile Coue, the founder of conscious autosuggestion, drew up the following laws:
- In a conflict between will and the power of imagination, the latter will always win without fail.
- In a conflict between will and the power of imagination, the strength of imagination is directly proportional (maintains the same ratio) to the will exerted.
Taken in relation to turning red, this means that anyone who suffers from blushing and therefore tells themselves that in any given situation they are going to turn red, they are going to turn even more red the more they deliberately try to fight against it. This unnatural pattern of behaviour gives rise over time to social inhibitions such as shyness or feelings of inferiority.
This brings up the question as to whether turning red is nothing more than a fragment of the IMAGINATION.
Perhaps it only represents the personal OPINION of the blushing person who only imagines and supposes that they are going to blush in a certain situation and then, when this situation occurs, they make every conscious effort to prevent, hide, cover up or repress the supposed blushing through their WILLPOWER. The result then is that, as a direct consequence of this conscious effort, blushing is actually triggered. So in effect the person only goes red because they have consciously made an effort to repress it.
How can you put an end to this inopportune behavioural pattern and how can you stop going red?
You can learn all about how to free yourself in just a short space of time from facial blushing with the aid of the EL-METHOD and become a more open, self-assured and self-confident person.
Stop going red with the aid of the EL-METHOD from Tony Gaschler
German language version: Das Erröten verstärkt sich, wenn man willentlich dagegen ankämpft