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I Feel Anxious Around People — Social Anxiety Meditation
Published 2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Overcoming Social Anxiety: Your 10-Minute Calm Down Switch
Do you ever find yourself standing outside a room, heart racing, rehearsing every possible mistake before you even walk in? In this session of Calming Anxiety, Martin Hewlett (Clinical Hypnotherapist and former Paramedic) guides you through a powerful 10-minute nervous system reset. Learn how to silence the "filter" of social anxiety and reconnect with your true, confident self using vagus nerve stimulation and clinical visualization.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
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Do you ever find yourself standing outside a room, heart racing, rehearsing every possible mistake before you even walk in? In this session of Calming Anxiety, Martin Hewlett (Clinical Hypnotherapist and former Paramedic) guides you through a powerful 10-minute nervous system reset. Learn how to silence the "filter" of social anxiety and reconnect with your true, confident self using vagus nerve stimulation and clinical visualization.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- How to trigger your vagus nerve to stop a panic response instantly.
- Why the "rehearsing mind" is a false filter, not the truth.
- A paramedic’s perspective on high-pressure social environments.
- Practical tools to take up space in any room with confidence.
- 00:00 – Understanding the Social Anxiety Response
- 01:09 – The 4-2-5 Breath: Activating the Vagus Nerve
- 03:00 – Visualization: Finding Your True Self
- 04:50 – The Truth About How Others Perceive You
- 06:00 – Affirmations for Social Confidence
- 08:06 – 3 Daily Caring Tips for Social Situations
- 10:11 – Returning to the Present Moment
- "I am calm in the presence of other people."
- "I do not need to be perfect to be worthy of connection."
- "Other people's opinions of me are none of my business."
- "I am allowed to take up space in any room I enter."
- "My presence is enough."
- The Two-Minute Rule: Arrive two minutes early. Let your nervous system acclimatize to the physical space before the room fills with people.
- Focus on One: Don't try to "work the room." Find one person, one genuine conversation, and let the crowd look after itself.
- The "What Went Right" Catalog: Your mind will naturally list your "failures." Counter this by naming three things that went fine—a smile, eye contact, or a sentence that landed.
- The Library: Access over 2,300 sessions designed to help you find your "perfect coffee break" for the soul.
- The Course: Ready to break the cycle? Join the Anxiety Circuit Breaker Course at calminganxiety.fm for 5 focused clinical hypnotherapy sessions.
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