3 Tips for Social Anxiety

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Do you get uncomfortable around other people? Do you feel anxious in conversations? Would you like to be more grounded, confident, and calm when in groups? In this episode, I'll share my 3 best suggestions for working with social anxiety.

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0:00.0	Hello and in today's
0:01.0	welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little
0:06.0	better at life.
0:07.5	I'm your host, Kory Muscarra, and in today's episode I'm going to talk about three tips to help with social anxiety.
0:17.0	More to come on that in a moment.
0:19.0	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. So an increasingly common question I'm receiving from people is how to work with social anxiety.
0:48.0	The first thing I want to acknowledge is that I'm not a psychologist and I don't know the extent to which
0:55.4	social anxiety disorder can manifest and so there might be some more extreme
1:01.7	versions of this that are outside my area of expertise and what
1:06.6	I might be able to contribute to.
1:08.9	So when I'm talking about social anxiety, I'm going to be referring more to those moments where we feel
1:15.4	uncomfortable with other people. Maybe we feel a bit fidgety in conversation. We get anxious
1:21.6	around other people and of course that can be a continuum and have
1:25.7	more extreme expressions or more mild expressions.
1:28.8	So I'll share the three tips that I think can be useful and then you can try them out and see if they work for you.
1:36.2	The first suggestion is to soften and relax the belly and abdominal region.
1:43.0	Typically with most forms of anxiety,
1:46.0	including social anxiety,
1:48.0	there will be a more shallow breathing
1:51.0	that follows from the anxiety.
1:54.0	And then as the breathing gets more shallow,
1:56.5	the triggers to the brain that we're anxious,
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