Tips to overcome your social anxiety

Social anxiety is the one of the biggest problem, in many people which prevents them to get success in many fields in their life. Social anxiety is something like when you are required to present a speech or presentation even before small group of people your body and fear inside your mind won't allow you to do that properly.

Social anxiety may harm your career and your relationship and it may not be possible for you to create a bond with people. As a result you might not get what you deserved! While your depression may be one of the reason for your social anxiety there are other reasons and you need to overcome those fears!

It is not impossible or it is not that hard as we think of it always. Many famous peoples and great leaders faced such social anxiety in their initial days but they overcome it and won the world. If you read one of the best leaders of century Mahatma Gandhi's biography "My Experiments With Truth" you will  surprised to see that he had faced the same problem.

Now get ready and do some mind exercise to make yourself comfort and confident.

· Overcome the fear:

Fear is the first and the biggest obstacle which always crosses your way whenever you try to be social. First of all you have to overcome this and only then you can go ahead with your social life with more confidence. You might always think what other people might think about your particular behaviour or action. But believe me no one has time to think about you! Really people are busy with their lives and you are still wasting your time thinking about their thoughts.

No one is always 100% correct and that’s why we are human (otherwise we would be gods!). Everyone does some mistakes and we should learn from our mistakes.

So let people think whatever they want to think about your action or behaviour you just don’t waste your time by thinking about them.

· Breathing exercise:

Breathing problems are very common in those people are suffering from social anxiety. Sometimes you might have observed that whenever you are in the middle of group of people you might find yourself short of breathing. Short of breathing or uneasy breathing during your social interactions is one of the symptoms of social anxiety. The fear of your mind doesn’t allow your body to function properly and causes breathing problem.

To overcome this practising deep and long breathing is very helpful. Once you get normal breathing during your social interactions you will definitely overcome the fear and you will be able to put your thoughts properly and clearly.

· Stop negative thinking:

Your mind is constantly thinking about something, almost all the time; it is mostly impossible to control it but you can make it think only in positive ways.

· Don’t think much about response of other peoples:

People will give you either positive or negative response; depending upon their perspective. At this time you should not give much value or importance to their response. You should focus on only one thing and that what you wanted to achieve and you should make improvements accordingly.

· Listen carefully and ask questions:

While you are in a conversation with other people listen to them carefully. It will help you to understand the issue and they will respect you because you were listening to them properly. It will help when you put your opinions and thoughts about issue before them. Listening carefully, any issue will help you to create some questions and you can ask such questions specifically to boost the conversation.

Any person needs to be active socially and he/she should be able to convey his/her own thoughts clearly. If you fail on this front in life there is very difficult path ahead you. Social phobia can be treated properly but for that you need to give proper attention to yourself/ In some cases you can take the help of therapist.