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Many people who suffer with excessive blushing also have a problem with anxiety. It is common for excessive blushers to associate their anxiety as something that is caused by their problem blushing. In many cases, however, it is likely that anxiety is the trigger for excessive blushing. When it comes to excessive blushing and social anxiety, as with the classic "chicken or the egg" question, it's hard to know which comes first.
The truth of the matter is likely that in some cases blushing triggers anxiety, and in others, anxiety triggers blushing. Many people with excessive blushing assume that if they could stop blushing, their anxiety problems would go away. It's important to realize that the anxiety itself may be the cause of some excessive blushing problems. If anxiety is causing some or all of the blushing, it only makes sense to work on controlling anxiety as a means of controlling excessive blushing.
Tips for Reducing Anxiety
By practicing the techniques presented here, you can play a proactive role in reducing your anxiety, which can also help reduce the occurrence of excessive blushing.
1. Stop Stress Before It Starts
Each person has the ability to exert control over his or her responses to stressful situations. By definition, stress is simply a reaction to a stimulus. When you feel stressed out, you are reacting to some sort of internal or external stimulus.
Feeling stressed out does not have to be an automatic response to a stress-inducing stimulus. People can train themselves to pause in between experiencing a trigger for a stress response, and actually keep the reaction from occurring. Taking this pause enables you to choose to react to the trigger in a more productive manner. By training yourself to avoid letting stress be your immediate response to stimuli, you are able to reduce anxiety and stress in your daily life.
2. Breathing Exercises
The best breathing exercise for overcoming anxiety simply involves paying attention to how you breathe when you are not feeling anxious or stressed out. Focus on your breath, so you know what normal breathing feels like. When you start to feel stressed out, remind yourself to concentrate on your breathing. This will help you return to normal breathing patterns, and help you remove your focus from the situation that is triggering your anxiety.
3. Exercise Regularly
Exercise can relax you physically and mentally. Spending even a few minutes each day engages in an enjoyable physical activity can play an important role in reducing your anxiety levels.
While these three techniques aren't an overnight cure to a lifetime of problem blushing, they can have a positive impact on your overall anxiety levels. The less anxiety you experience, the less of an issue problem blushing is likely to be for you. Instead of stressing out over how to stop blushing so much, focus on reducing some of the stress in your life. Getting your stress reactions to anxiety-inducing situations under control is a key to reducing the impact of excessive blushing on your life.
Our perception constantly strives to find order in random patterns. Sometimes this may lead us to results which are not what we expect. For example, if you look at your television screen when transmission has ended, your senses and your mind may lead you to the conclusion that the random flickering of the spots look like a swarm of bees.
There are disturbances everywhere and unless you are living in a cave on the top of a mountain, disturbances are quite unavoidable. Sources of disturbances in our everyday lives include the telephone, passing traffic, a barking dog or kids playing nearby. Here are some tips on how to cope.
Most of us have encountered this scenario before. You are about to solve a difficult problem when the telephone rings. You feel flustered but somehow compelled to answer the phone. After you put the phone down, you find that you can’t remember your solution. There are ways to shield yourself from being disturbed. If possible, in the office you can let your colleagues know that at certain times you do not want to be disturbed. If necessary, put a sign on your door. If that does not work, move your workstation.
When it comes to concentration however, we are often to be blamed. Not having enough enthusiasm, and difficulties with concentration can be an indication that our work patterns or habits need correction. You need to take short breaks while you work, and reward yourself when the job is done. Or if the task at hand will take you several hours, reward yourself when you reach a certain milestone. For example, after writing certain number of pages of a document or presentation. Maybe you need sleep, make sure you get enough sleep and talk to a spouse about your need for sleep so that he or she can make the necessary adjustments. Maybe you are carrying too many burdens on your shoulders. In that case, you need to take up a sport or some relaxing activity or hobby.
Our senses can be overloaded in some situations. For example in a lively party, where the music is loud and there are many people talking or even shouting to be heard. How do you react when all of a sudden, in the middle of all that noise, laughter, voices, you hear your name? Automatically, you try to determine who is calling or mentioning your name. Psychologists are not exactly clear why we can pick out essential bits of information in the midst of the deafening noise and chaos of a party. Yet, it is the harnessing of this interesting fact about how the subconscious can filter out background noise to zero in on what is vital that is the core of brain training and memory enhancement.
Our minds seem to possess a variety of filters for blocking out irrelevant information, while at the same time allowing certain sounds or words to enter our consciousness. Anyone who is a parent knows how useful these filters can be. The cry of a baby – even if in another part of the house will alert the mother or father of it’s distress. Training our mind to focus on the task at hand or prioritising what is important will ensure less stress and freeing up more time for a more productive you.
When you have enough sleep and exercise, you will be in a better mental and physical shape to cope. Your concentration, your memory and your capacity for learning will increase.