Latest Post: 15 Ways to Overcome Social Anxiety & Develop Relaxed Confidence in  Social Situations15 Ways to Overcome Social Anxiety & Develop Relaxed Confidence in  Social SituationsJanuary 2nd, 2012 by RyanHave you ever been in a public place and felt like everyone was looking at you?Have you ever had to give a speech, in work or in school, and were overwhelmed by feelings of nervousness and anxiety, so much so that it was hard to speak?Maybe you were on a date and you knew it was time to take things to the next level sexually…yet it felt like a psychological wall shot up and literally stopped your brain from working properly so you just did nothing, or worse, panicked and messed things up.  It's safe to say we've all experience these at one time or another in our life; it's part of growing up.For some of us though, these moments of social awkwardness and inhibitions don't leave us so easily. In fact, for some these experiences only intensify and growing stronger over time – severely limiting our ability to have fun with our friends, succeed in work, and enjoy our life.  How do we escape this debilitating social anxiety?How do we breakthrough this shyness and social phobia and instead develop relaxed confidence and authentic self-expression in social situations?How do we let go and have fun? Through the past 5 years of graduating college, going through lots of personal growth, and mainly working from home, I've come to realize there are specific activities that literally wire our brain for social anxiety (and specific ways to re-wire it for social confidence).What is social anxiety?From Wikipedia:Social anxiety is anxiety (emotional discomfort, fear, apprehension, or worry) about social situations, interactions with others, and being evaluated or scrutinized by other people. The difference between social anxiety and normal apprehension of social situations is that social anxiety involves an intense feeling of fear in social situations and especially situations that are unfamiliar or in which you will be watched or evaluated by others.From SocialPhobia.org:Social anxiety is the fear of social situations that involve interaction with other people. Put another way, social anxiety is the fear and anxiety of being judged and evaluated by other people. If a person usually becomes anxious in social situations, but seems fine when they are alone, then "social anxiety" may be the problem.I would agree in these definitions of social anxiety, yet I would add to it that social anxiety is being uncomfortable in one's own body.Anxiety contains the word "any exit", so when we get into social interactions we often look for any exit to get the hell out of there.  What we're really doing in these moments is leaving our self (we disconnect or disassociate from the experience). We leave our body since we're not comfortable being in it.  Social interactions force our awareness into the body;