Press "Enter" to skip to content

How To Handle Social Anxiety


peace infinite waters diving deep once
again we out here we’re in nature how to
deal with social anxiety breathing in
that beautiful prana baby can I get a
hello there so that’s the question that
came in let me share with you what’s
helped me along my journey I got a story
for you okay there are two couples two
couples now the first couple they have
just gotten into a relationship and
guess what they want to show to the
world how perfect their relationship is
going now we all do that
I certainly do right and because of that
they put all of this pressure on
themselves to post the perfect selfie
so they take hours and hours trying to
get the perfect shot and they finally
put it out there on social media and
they realize they don’t get the response
they want so it makes this couple feel
really bad now there’s a second couple
who do exactly the same thing right they
try to get the perfect pose with each
other like I love you no you don’t you
just wanted me to be in that picture
where you’re going like that right and
they put it out there they put it out
there and they too don’t get the same
response they want so one time the
second couple are eating and they find
whoa they made a mistake because they
took a picture when the woman had a
piece of lettuce in her mouth right in
between her teeth and you know what they
said
screw it f it we’ll put it out there
anyway who cares because this is real
life and you know what well it turned
out perfect can I get a Hello
why because they didn’t care what other
people thought they just accepted
themselves now when we talk of social
media this is how it works and also how
when we talk of social anxiety right
because it’s the same thing social media
now is turning into social anxiety okay
the first step you got to look at is
what I call forget about the cover story
what’s that
okay the start of the week do you know
when people have the most heart attacks
you guessed it Monday morning I don’t
want to go to work I don’t blame you
don’t worry about it right because we
try so hard to be accepted that it leads
to even more social anxiety nothing
holds you back more than your own
insecurities so the cover story we all
have for instance on a Monday or a
Tuesday right it right at the beginning
of the week people always love to ask oh
what are you doing what have you got
going on and you know what I tell them
oh not much I’m just going skating today
oh I’m just breathing in that good ass
prana today I don’t tell the wall I’m a
psychologist I’m a criminologist right I
haven’t got time for that and most
people just alike oh really because you
see most people aren’t really concerned
with what you’re doing it’s all about
competition getting the one-up on
someone else so going to the second step
you don’t have to prove yourself to
anybody have you ever wondered and
realized why the people that try the
least get the most accomplished
the people that try the hardest always
end up with even more anxiety never
feeling good enough why because you’re
playing the competition game so I
realized that wait a minute I don’t have
to prove anything to anybody I gotta
prove it to my damn self
can I get a hello there look I was
making videos for a long time with my
hair all over the place wearing all
kinds of different funky clothes
I loved it though and to get out of
social anxiety got to start owning your
weirdness then you got to start proving
your weirdness to yourself not to other
people you got to take what I call the
lesser fair approach which is really the
effing approach right I’m gonna do this
for me for a change I’m not just gonna
take a selfie or tell people I work here
and there just to make them happy no
make yourself happy first and then see
what happens
right and also what helped me along my
journey was realizing this when it comes
to social anxiety this is where a lot of
people mess up right big time because
we’re all about fitting in we want to
fit in to be accepted and I realized
that actually made me more insecure
right it makes us more insecure because
we feel that whatever we’re trying to
fit into we still don’t feel comfortable
right so might as well stand out it
makes sense that way right so stand out
screw fitting in stand out and then see
what happens
create your own league right connect
with people who accept your shabby ways
who don’t really care about what you’re
wearing how you look you see we’re
always trying to fit in to be accepted
by people who really don’t care about us
right unless unless you’re wearing the
perfect suit oh oh
got the perfect got the perfect haircut
oh my goodness you’re wearing the
perfect shoes whoa come and be my best
friend but what about if you just wake
up right there’s always that friend that
doesn’t really care about how you look
now you develop more confidence when you
start to realize how many people there
are out there now will actually fall in
love with you
just the way you are now when it comes
to social anxiety I always say all
anxiety emanates from the desire all
anxiety emanates from the desire to
escape the present moment so many times
we might be in an environment look at it
like this I’ve worked in so many
different jobs now when I was just 16
years old a very very very long time ago
right what happened I was working in a
retail shop not at the front but at the
back I was actually picking up the
litter right and sometimes people I
would go past them and they would would
start laughing at me not laughing now
are they can I get a hello there in fact
I’m giving them cat I’m giving them
consultations actually right what goes
around comes around baby no just kidding
listen what I did was I was ashamed of
what I was doing I thought gosh I’m not
up to their level then I said wait a
minute
I’m a son I just graduated hey I had got
so much going for me but at the same
time because once again
I had fallen in the trap of social
status
and we we’ve got what we call in
psychology status anxiety now looking
back in hindsight what I should have
done was just say yeah I pick up litter
and I’m happy with that
right it doesn’t matter what you do
right you’ve got to own it whatever you
do you see that’s where confidence grows
oh whatever you do don’t apologize for
it because some of the most insecure
people in the world have the most some
of them some of the most secure people
have nothing but you wouldn’t know
because how they carry themselves they
look people right in the eye they look
at their body language right and they
don’t care what you think of them no
because they are gonna do them right and
also what’s helped me along my journey
in a nutshell you got to realize find
your tribe it’s that simple find your
tribe your vibe attracts your tribe and
instead of trying to look my old mindset
was just make the shoe fit squeeze your
foot into the shoe so it fits but it’s
not working it’s not happening so what
helped me along my journey in a nutshell
was realizing look you don’t have to put
your foot into the shoe
take it out there’s a reason why it’s
not going in there because it’s the
wrong shoe size a lot of us wearing
these jobs which aren’t serving us we’re
suppressing our emotions acting like
we’re really happy there no you’re not
that’s even causing more anxiety look
don’t compete compliment oh oh can I get
a hello there now when we talk of
competition a lot of us were very
competitive when we’re in an environment
which promotes that so you’re at a job
you need that promotion so you feel
you’ve got to compete with the next
person which in turn makes you more
anxious
so what really helped me along my
journey was realizing to give people
compliments
and be able to receive compliments now
guess what most of us we can only give
compliments and we’re not competing with
someone else and that’s what I found
along my journey right so when I started
to do what I loved I became a pioneer I
created my own blueprint there is nobody
doing this that’s the mindset you’ve got
to have to let go of social anxiety and
then you got to realize relaxation is
what you are stress is what you think
you should be hmm
right eco therapy coming into nature
does so much just to chillax can we take
a moment of silence please okay that’s
better look more relaxed you are in your
body
I love breathing for for total for
release or for that wasn’t quite for
kiss right but pay attention to your
breathing pay attention to how tense you
are during the day surround yourself
with people who make you believe in your
own power not with people who are trying
to always show how much better than not
with people who are trying to show how
much how better they are than you right
we can do that but it won’t really help
us because once again you start
competing you want to move from
competition to compliments right where
you can admire someone’s great artwork
and they can also admire your great
artwork and then you both get happily
married and the cat down the road well
is your first guess so there you have it
have fun remind yourself anxiety
disappears when you start having fun we
breathing in that good ass prana baby
infinite waters diving deep once again stay well stay healthy

Please follow and like us: