This has been a real topic of conversation lately, so I’m thinking, why not address it in this issue? I find a client may worry about excessive blinking for one of two reasons:

1. While I must acknowledge the possibility of a physical root cause for excessive blinking, when someone does not blink excessively in daily conversations, and increases this movement while on camera, it is most likely an outward display of nerves, much like the tapping of a foot, or shaking of a knee. More grounding work has to be done, and eventually, the preoccupation of the mind with the eyelid movement will be eliminated when the energy is focused completely in the moment and the purpose of the moment (the client’s motivation).

2. The most common cause of worry over blinking is no real cause at all; Quite often, when we are inexperienced at watching ourselves on camera, we tend to focus on what we might fretfully see as physical oddities. For instance: When I first watched myself speaking, I was horrified at the way I moved my lips… really! I thought that I held my jaw in an awkward way, and there was no way that everyone didn’t see that! In reality, absolutely no one saw anything out of the ordinary. I was attempting to manifest a reason to avoid the process of learning (this was a pattern particular to me). With me, and in almost all cases, a few more sessions in front of the camera, and a helpful unbiased eye to guide your focus to bettering your on-camera skills, and your “blinking” or head bobbing, or funny lip movement will most likely become a non-issue. After all, it really didn’t exist in the first place!