Is There A Cure for Social Anxiety?

People looking for a cure for social anxiety are typically suffering from a well defined set of symptoms. Can you relate to any of the following?

• Persistent, intense and chronic fear of being watched and judged by others.
• A similar intense fear of being embarrassed of humiliated by your own actions.

This fear may be so severe that it is interfering with work or school, and other ordinary activities. Physical symptoms often accompany the intense anxiety. These symptoms include:

• Blushing,
• Profuse sweating
• Trembling
• Nausea, and
• Difficulty talking

In short, social anxiety is defined as being overwhelmingly anxious and excessively self-conscious in everyday social situations.

Unable to Overcome Social Anxiety

Many people have these kinds of worries about being with people. Some are able to dismiss them.  For others the worries are excessive or unreasonable and they feel unable to overcome them. Even if they manage to confront their fears and be around others, they are usually very anxious beforehand.  They are also intensely uncomfortable throughout the encounter, and worry about how they were judged for hours afterward.

Being anxious can be limited to one type of social situation (such as talking to people, eating or drinking, or writing on a blackboard in front of others).  It can also be so broad that the person experiences anxious feelings around almost anyone other than the family.

Social anxiety fear affects about 15 million adults in America alone. Women and men are equally likely to develop the disorder, which usually begins in childhood or early adolescence.

Cure for Social Anxiety

Using hypnosis can be a powerful and effective way to coach yourself to freedom from social anxiety. Through hypnosis you can allow your subconscious mind to let go of old, unhelpful socializing patterns and adopt new and fruitful patterns which will make your social life immensely more enjoyable and rewarding.

Using hypnosis, shyness can melt away, creating new patterns which will enable you to experience real social ease and go beyond just putting on a good performance.

What to Expect

Using hypnosis you can expect to start:

• Surprising yourself with your spontaneity with other people
• Feel so much more relaxed in all kinds of social situations,
• Notice that your old anxiety just doesn't seem to happen any more,
• Really start to enjoy socializing.

Start Now

You can experience hypnosis right now to start overcoming your social anxiety by downloading my free hypnosis mp3 session that manages your stress and teaches you self hypnosis. Discover more about it here.

Here's to your success (and your new enjoyable social life!)

Stephen Gruber MA
Consulting Hypnotist 
Montreal

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