How To Stop Replaying Conversations In Your Head
Authentic Confidence with Dr. Aziz
Dr. Aziz Gazipura, Psychologist and Author
4.8 • 666 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
After conversations do you repeatedly replay them, looking for awkward moments or social fails? Do you sometimes even cringe with embarrassment at that joke you shouldn't have made, or that risk you shouldn't have taken? If so, you're not alone! This negative confidence habit is extremely common. In this episode, you'll discover exactly why you run this pattern and, more importantly, how to be free of it!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the show for you if you are sick and tired of being held back by fear, self-doubt, |
| 0:10.0 | social anxiety, shyness, anything that's stopping you from you being you. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm going to share the most powerful tools and resources that I've been discovering over the last 15 years on my |
| 0:21.9 | journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in every |
| 0:28.5 | single person that I meet on my journey. You're going to learn these tools and how to apply them |
| 0:33.1 | in your life now so that you can become the most free, powerful, bold, authentic version of you. |
| 0:47.3 | Welcome to today's episode of shrink for the shy guy. I'm your host Dr. Aziz. And do you play |
| 0:54.0 | conversations in your head again and again and |
| 0:57.9 | again after they happen? That's a very specific pattern. And it's different actually than playing |
| 1:06.7 | conversations before they happen. It might seem like, well, that's kind of the same thing, right? |
| 1:11.4 | Before and after? |
| 1:12.0 | No. |
| 1:12.9 | Actually, one, I mean, they're both forms of anxiety. |
| 1:15.9 | So they share that in common. |
| 1:17.3 | But playing conversations before is usually a form of preparation in which you're trying |
| 1:21.9 | to make sure that you impress people, that you come across in the right way, that you |
| 1:27.4 | show up in the way |
| 1:28.3 | that you think is going to be the most desirable and attractive to get whatever it is that you want from that situation. |
| 1:33.3 | It's a form of rehearsal, and that's a strategy to try to overcome anxiety, reduce anxiety, |
| 1:39.3 | and make sure that the threat of disapproval is avoided. |
| 1:43.3 | Replaying conversations afterwards is really different because the moment has already happened. |
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