Hyper-intention
Hyper-intention is an excessive, forced striving for a goal that by its nature can only be a by-product - e.g. sleep, sexual pleasure, happiness, spontaneity. The harder someone tries to fall asleep, the harder it becomes.
Hyper-reflection
Hyper-reflection is excessive self-observation: of one's symptoms, reactions, performance. For example, someone closely monitors their heartbeat and precisely because of that falls into anxiety.
Anticipatory anxiety
Both spirals are driven by anticipatory anxiety - fear of a symptom that itself produces the symptom. Whoever fears blushing blushes more often.
The logotherapeutic answer
- to hyper-intention - paradoxical intention,
- to hyper-reflection - dereflection.
Sources
Wikipedia: Logotherapy; V. E. Frankl, Theory and Therapy of Neuroses.