Power of the Mind and Body

Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia

2008-06-12T17:38:00.003-04:00

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A natural treatment for social anxiety

There are a lot of people looking for a natural treatments for social anxiety. The big problem with using drugs for treating anxiety disorder is that there can be serious side effects and a growing dependancy. Don't get me wrong, drugs are sometimes necessary, and can be helpful to break the cycle of anxiety, but they're not the best treatment for general anxiety disorder.

Drugs for anxiety reduce the symptoms, but they don't address the underlying cause. It's necessary to follow a proven, guaranteed program to get rid of stress and anxiety completely and naturally. Panic & Anxiety Gone! actually makes reducing and eliminating social anxiety into a pleasant game instead of a difficult ordeal. Even if you take medication you need to get to the root of the problem if you want to eliminate it altogether.

The problem may have an underlying medical cause. Hypothyroidism is one such medical cause of anxiety and stress. Manic or bipolar disorder is another. Recreational drug use or even caffeine can be contributing factors as well, and should be avoided. Poor eating habits, such as consumption of processed sugar can cause anxiety and stress. Any treatment for general anxiety disorder will be hampered by these factors.

Even if the cause is medical or one that can be addressed by diet, a person suffering from social anxiety will still have to get a handle on the anxiety trait they've developed and reinforced. It happens in the brain. Neural pathways have formed that trigger an anxiety response, and those pathways have to be weakened and new pathways of confidence and self assurance need to be formed. No drug will do that for you. You can only do that with a program of specific anxiety reducing techniques. One of the best programs for that purpose is Panic & Anxiety Gone!. So get with the program. You deserve a life free of crippling social anxiety and stress.

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Building Self Esteem

2008-05-13T17:50:00.012-04:00

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In order to learn how to manage stress or get rid of anxiety and feel more confident and self assured, it's helpful to know what causes these emotional states.

You know how people will say, often disparagingly, "It's all in your head!" Well, that's true, but it does not diminish the experience of social anxiety or shyness, or make it any easier to deal with. Quite the contrary.

Everything is all in your head. Every experience you have is interpreted by your brain. For example, two people stand before a group to deliver a speech. One feels fear and anxiety, the other exhilaration and confidence. Why? They are interpreting the situation differently. That's all. How a given experience is interpreted has to do with how you've trained your brain to interpret similar experiences.

Training your brain is usually done unconsciously, without thought or design. It just happens. A stress management program, or one that helps you learn to overcome anxiety or eliminate phobias and become more confident and self assured is simply applying methods to retrain your brain. It's been conditioned to respond to certain situations in undesirable ways and now you want to retrain your brain to respond in better ways.

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How does this brain training happen? Every experience you have either creates or reinforces a neural pathway. Babies are born with a hundred billion neurons. Trillions of connections are created in the first decade of life, forming an immensely complex network. That elaborate network is you. It's your personality and behavior and emotional makeup. It's your experience of life. It's what you are. It determines how you feel about and respond to situations.

A person who suffers from anxiety or feels a lack of self confidence has simply formed and reinforced certain neural pathways, and every time a person responds to a situation with anxiety or a low level of confidence, they reinforce those pathways. So the task of a person who wants to get rid of anxiety and become more self confident is to stop reinforcing those negative pathways, and create and reinforce better, more positive neural pathways. This is precisely the process that happens when a person uses systematic desensitization therapy to overcome, for instance, a fear of flying or a phobia of spiders.

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There are, in fact, many powerful strategies for dealing with anxiety and building self esteem. This site is here to help you learn these strategies and create a dynamic, confident, and joyful experience of life.

Get rid of social anxiety with Panic & Anxiety Gone!
A natural treatment for social anxiety.

You Have The Power

2008-05-13T04:03:00.004-04:00

Get rid of social anxiety with Panic & Anxiety Gone!
A natural treatment for social anxiety.

You have the power to create lasting, positive change in your life. This site is here to help you unleash that power with tested and proven techniques for self improvement.

Positive change won't be effortless, and it won't happen overnight. Sometimes negative thoughts and ideas and behaviors have been reinforced by years of practice. But positive change will come with persistence, and as your life improves it will come faster and faster, gaining momentum like a freight train.

If you don't like where you are or where you're going, choose a new path. Self improvement techniques are just a map showing you how to get to a better place. The further you've strayed from the path of joyfulness and confidence and serenity, the more work it will take to get back on track. But you'll get closer every day, and every day will be a little better than the one before, a little closer to the goal. Don't worry how far off the goal is. Just make your way there, and enjoy the journey. It keeps getting better as you go along.

Get rid of social anxiety with Panic & Anxiety Gone!
A natural treatment for social anxiety.