How to Overcome Shyness: 90 Remarkably Fresh Strategies

Note: This post is written by Dan Stelter Terrified in social situations? Feel everyone’s eyes on you? Like they can’t wait for you to screw up so they can criticize you? You may feel it’s impossible to overcome your fear. Will you be reserved to the corner of the room, or maybe your own home, for your entire life? Nope. You can be confident and comfortable in social situations that have haunted you your entire life. Well, you can if you follow these 90 strategies for overcoming shyness: Your anxious thoughts lie to you. They always tell you you’ll mess up and someone will reject you. A rare few people do. Most don’t. Open your mind to interpreting people’s actions differently. Usually, your anxiety looks for visual confirmation you “screwed up.” Your shyness aims to see this in someone’s face. Or words. Or actions. Assign new meanings to the way other people act. Perhaps, they’re equally afraid of you. Ask your friend for their understanding of the situation. People comfortable in social situations have a realistic or optimistic understanding of other’s behavior. Ask someone you trust what they thought of the other person’s actions. Work on accepting their insight as reality. Disrupt the ritual before you enter the anxiety-provoking situation. Your mind starts spinning anxious thoughts well before you enter the feared social situation. Disrupt that process by sharing your fears with someone you trust. Or journal them. Or sit down, relax, and let thos...
Source: Life Optimizer - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Attitude Relationship Source Type: blogs