Coping with Social Anxiety – 3 Keys to Deal with Social Anxiety

by Cure Anxiety
Filed under: Coping and Overcoming Anxiety

Article by: Samuel Sawyer

Coping with social anxiety does not have to be hard. The simpler you make the simpler it will be. The following are “3 Secret Keys” you can use right now to better be able to deal with your social anxiety.

Coping with Social Anxiety Key #1: Hang out with socially successful people.

Do your best to make friends and hang out with people who are ALREADY completely comfortable in ANY social situation.

This will help you re-program your mind at an unconscious level. Your mind tends to help you become like the people you associate with on a day by day basis.

So, associate yourself with confident people if you want to become more confident and less anxious.

Coping with Social Anxiety Key #2: Observe and learn how your OWN MIND works.

If you really get a) what triggers your social anxieties; b) what are the unconscious and destructive habits you keep doing all the time; then it will be much easier to be able to overcome your own social anxiety.

If your anxiety is automatically triggered and you don’t have any clue why then it means that you are still reacting to certain emotional traumas from your past.

“A past emotional trauma is simply a past situation that still affects you emotionally when you think about it.”

Something happened to you in the past, in a similar type of situation, and your mind didn’t completely let go of it. This is why it keeps reacting in the exact same way.

How do you know when you are completely free of an emotional trauma?

You are completely released on a trauma from your past either when a) you feel at peace regarding it; or when b) you are emotionally nonreactive when you recall it.

Coping with Social Anxiety Key #3: Work EACH DAY on releasing your social fears.

Be OK with getting better each day. Yes, there are ways to overcome social anxiety very quickly but you need to be OK with slow progress.

This does not mean that you need to progress slowly. It simply means that it’s a good thing if you are getting better with each day.

This attitude will help you to keep going regardless if you notice instant progress or not. See overcoming your social anxiety as a skill you are constantly getting better at rather than as a goal.

Keep in mind the above 3 keys on coping with social anxiety. They will surely help you overcome your own social anxiety.

Samuel Sawyer is an renowned author who helps people to overcome their social anxiety and become completely confident in any social situation. To learn more about him and his work go right now at the Cure Social Anxiety site.