How To Have No Social Anxiety / Shyness – An Example – At The Hairdressers
Old Social Anxiety Thinking
Here is my thinking of the past if I would be to go to the Hairdressers to get my hair cut:
- I’m the lowest human on the planet
- The girls/women at the hairdressers are better than me
- I’m such a lowly person that the girls/women at the hairdressers won’t respect or care about my human rights
- I’m an unlikable person
- I’m an ugly person
- I’m the biggest looser in the whole world
- I’m the most uncoolest person in the whole world
- People enjoy not caring about me
- I don’t know what to say
- They hate me
- They think there is something wrong with me
- The girls/women at the hairdressers are so high above me
- I have the most repulsive sounding voice in the world
- No one cares about me
- I’m all alone
- I’m a bad person
- I’m an unacceptable person
- I’m a worthless, hate-able person
The Results of this thinking are that I suffer emotionally when around people, in this case at the hairdressers, the girls/women at the hairdressers are uncomfortable around me, I will be in a state of fear or panic at the hairdressers, I will speak to the girls/women in a fake way maybe desperately lieing to them about myself to “appear as a good enough person”, and I may be on the verge of tears or may uncontrollably start crying when I leave the hairdressers.
New More Effective No Social Anxiety / No Shyness Ways Of Thinking
- Of course I matter just as much as anyone else!
- Ha, ha I am rebelling against that old way of thinking and anyone in my life that may have wanted me to think that
- Ha, ha I am being a free, normal, healthy, assertive person just because I can!!!
- I am highly worthy, just like every person
- What matters is what I know to be good, free, and right, not what ANY person thinks
- I am free so ha, ha, take that!
- I can do anything I want, go anywhere, speak to anyone, engage in anything in the whole world
- I love myself very much just the way I am
- Other people can be wrong or questionable in their words or behavior - I always have full normal human rights
- It is funny and laughable to believe these girls/women are higher than me or superior to me just because of features of their appearance
- I like myself and want myself even though I am extremely imperfect!
- I like these people even though they may be imperfect! I care about them anyway
- I will protect myself
- Being “adventurous” is fun
- If people don’t like me or reject me, it is just a fun adventure anyway, I can do whatever I want
- I’m going to spoil myself and care about what *I* really want
- It fills me with happiness when I connect with people by even just smiling at them or saying something nice or chatty because connecting with people gives them positive energy and makes them happier
- Wow, these people have many good, fascinating, talented, interesting, significant, or wonderful things about them and their life, even though it may be hidden from me, I know it’s true, so I know how important/humbling other people are.




