BLUSHING PROBLEM? TRY SURGERY!

BLUSHING PROBLEM? TRY SURGERY! As I read this article in disbelief I had to remind myself that I am not reading a horror story but a medical article published in the local newspaper. There are some people who are suffering from acute blushing problem even at the mere mention of their names. This makes them conspicuously self-conscious (like light bulb lighting up in a crowd). It leads to more blushing and eventually social anxiety that makes them want to avoid people. Medical science had come up with a wonderful breakthrough in solving blushing issues by surgically removing the sweat regulating gland and presto no more blushing! Wow, medical science sure knows how to solve man’s most basic problem just ‘cut it off’. Do I sound sarcastic? Well not to the red face victims but to the scalpel happy surgeons who ought to learn to blush. It seems that the cure will have a little side effect like having to change your clothes six times a day because you see the sweat regulating glands had been removed, remember?

Imagine going to office lugging a baggage with you because you have to have six changes of clothes. Your colleagues will envy you as you will look like a fashion model coming out with a new change of clothes at breakfast, tea beak, lunch, coffee break, toilet break and whatever excuse you can find to make a quick change, like superman perhaps until they shake your hands and it feels like you handed them a wet fish. Imagine your boss requesting you to get some documents on the next floor and you come back looking like you got drenched in the rain but that’s okay since you can’t blush anymore. If these does not cause social anxiety what does?

All these make me more certain that complementary and alternative therapies like EFT that does not depend on chemicals and surgeries are the way to better health. Emotional Freedom Techniques gently and effective resolves many issues like blushing issues. My experience with this issue is that they originates from childhood and once I have resolved the root cause the blushing problem is removed or diminished. One of my patients told me how a psychologist told him to get a dark tan to solve his blushing problem because then no one can see him blushing! He had to sit on a chair under the hot sun to get a tan. When he met him the next time he was told off for not achieving a darker tan. Medical science is so good at ‘covering up’ or ‘cutting out ‘to resolve our health issues instead of going into the root cause of the problem. To be fair the article at the end has a caveat that say blushing problems is psychological and should first be resolved with medications or psychotherapy but here are happy patients going around without their sweat regulating glands and with burn out light bulbs. If EFT can resolve it without 'covering up' and 'cutting out' why not try it or better still learn EFT! However do give time as some patients demand to be healed in one or two sessions even though they had been suffering from the problems for 10 to 20 years. Ahem...you are blushing!

Isaac Lim

http://www.eftwonder.com/