Social Communication - Getting Over Your Approach Anxiety - Realization of the Cause - Part I
Social Communication - Getting Over Your Approach Anxiety - Realization of the Cause - Part IHave you ever felt like walking up to a very attractive w...
Social Communication - Getting Over Your Approach Anxiety - Realization of the Cause - Part I
Have you ever felt like walking up to a very attractive woman is the most difficult thing to do? You are not alone. Most men suffer from an emotional barrier most commonly known as approach anxiety. Symptoms include being unable to speak his mind,
not being able to say hi to her, or feeling as if he has been frozen to the spot.
This is a string of series of ways to get over your fears.
In order to overcome your it, you must first understand what causes it. This article will focus on what causes it.
1. Understand that your Approach Anxiety source is both cognitive and automatic For males, we have automatic responses on having approach anxiety due to a variety of reasons, mostly values which are installed into us. The fears of rejection overpower the belief of the positive outcome.
Remember as a kid your parents used to tell you to not talk to strangers? Unlike females, who especially the outgoing ones, are being approached many times a day, males generally do get approached often and hence we do not build on our social intelligence.
The fact is that 50% of all abductions, values of approach anxiety are caused and instilled into us from relatives and other people who have fears of rejection.
Once you understand that approach anxiety is in fact, an evolutionary defensive mechanism of an emotion, you must now find ways to break it down to overcome it. Acknowledge that you have approach anxiety; you now know what causes it. So how do you overcome it?
There are many ways. The methods and techniques will be explained further in the next few articles of this series.
Towards Your Success, L. Aaron