Self-consciousness is one of those things that we all deal with on a lot of

different levels. You know, one might think, I'm not self-conscious at all. I'm

comfortable all the time. I feel, you know, relaxed and at ease in my body. And

that may be true to a degree, but everyone feels a little bit of self-consciousness.

You know, often if you don't think that you're self-conscious, it's because in

the moment that you're feeling it, you're more focused on the symptoms of it

rather than diagnosing the fact that it's happening at all. Some people are

really self-conscious, even a friend of mine, for example, even walking around the

area that he lives to go on a walk. He gets up tired and anxious because he's

concerned that people are looking at him and you know, judging him, resizing

him up or whatever. And it's difficult for him to disconnect his awareness in

that way and just focus. Now, the reason that we feel self-consciousness and that

can even be, you know, if you're walking through a bookstore or something like

that, you can feel self-conscious because there's other people around and it's

human nature for people to kind of steal glances and just check out, you know,

each other. I mean, in a lot of that is a situational awareness. I mean, I do

that all the time. I kind of have an eye wandering and just making sure I know

who's around in any situation, not in the intense way, but just a casual kind of

aware of the space and who's in it. You know, and then also people can get

really, really self-conscious whenever they're in public or if they're going to

some type of a vent or something like that. And so, working with self-consciousness

overcoming it, whether it's intense or not so intense, is a really viable thing

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