Overcome Social Anxiety with Emotional Awareness

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In order to overcome social anxiety, we'll start by attacking it at the most basic level, which is the energy of anxiety within you. Emotions, like anxiety, exist primarily as energies within our bodies. You've probably never given much thought to what feelings are at their core. We use words and language to place labels on our emotions such as "happy, sad, nervous, anxious, embarrassed, fearful", but these are just symbols of the actual energies themselves. For the duration of this instruction, I'd like you to think of emotions as the energy underlying feelings. Using labels (words) to symbolize your emotional energy is useful for letting other people know how you feel, but you communicate with yourself by listening directly to the pure label-less energies within you. Learning to observe your inner energies is a major component of my social anxiety treatment, because being able to concentrate awareness on your energies has tremendous ability to expand your emotional tolerance. And when you increase such tolerance, adverse energies lose their power over you - and you regain control over your inner world (of which your outer world is just a reflection).

Don't worry if some of this explanation seems confusing at this point. My first "social anxiety treatment" is really pretty simple, and you don't need to completely understand all this stuff in order benefit from it. Just like you don't need to know how a motor works in order to drive a car, you also don't need to be an expert in these principles in order to overcome social anxiety. Review these concepts later if you wish, but for now let's move on to some practical instruction.

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