6 Rules for Addressing Your Fears More Successfully

Mastering Social Anxiety: 6 Rules to Triumph Over Your Fears

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Social anxiety is often the fear of being judged, criticized, rejected and sometimes even humiliated by others. It can range from mild to severe and when it gets bad, agoraphobia can develop. People who suffer from social anxiety are afraid of doing or saying things in public that might embarrass or humiliate them because they are afraid of humiliation and being “looked down upon”.

This article is going to go through 6 rules for addressing your fears more successfully when you have social anxiety.

1. Simply NOTICE your worries, rather than believing they are accurate or needing to respond to them.

When you notice a thought, do you think ‘I’m not good enough for this person’, or ‘I’m not attractive enough for them’? Do you try to talk yourself out of it? When you think of one of these things, notice it and then ask yourself where it came from. Usually this thought is a result of something else that you are experiencing.

2. Simply KNOW that the thoughts you have are not necessarily accurate.