What is Self Consciousness and How to Move Through it/embrace it

[Pat Pagano]

I will randomly become self conscious and get anxious. I have understood more of what it comes from through contemplation but it is still such a powerful force sometimes. I have tried a few techniques to get past this, and will continue to do so, but I'm very curious of your perspectives and insights. It is such a strange phenomena to me right now because it is not always like this, like sometimes I will be a social butterfly, interacting as genuine and authentic as I can, but it'll do quite the switcharoo hahahaha. This ties into a question about seriousness because it feels very serious when its happening, and not taking it seriously works sometimes but not always. My current perspective on seriousness (not contemplated a ton yet) Is that it is basically just the egos tool for surviving in some way(animistic survival, social survival, existential survival). Please open my mind:)

Very much appreciated.  

[Shadowraix]

Do nothing.

When the negatively perceived feelings happen then let it happen.

The more you experience such discomfort the more you can learn to navigate it.

[Pat Pagano]

12 hours ago, Shadowraix said:

Do nothing.

When the negatively perceived feelings happen then let it happen.

The more you experience such discomfort the more you can learn to navigate it.

When I have tired doing nothing my self-consciousness seems to only get worse but I have been trying to bring as much awareness as I can to the anxiety and it definitely helps like it will dissipate or something. I think doing nothing might be the next step after I get proficient at focusing in on the anxiety.

[aurum]

@Pat Pagano 

Part of it is how you perceive yourself in the environment. When you perceive that you have social acceptance, your anxiety turns off and the "social butterfly" can come out. Look at your own experience and you'll see this is accurate.

Part of it is also physical. Someone with chronic anxiety is running on a low level "fight or flight" response all the time. You need to consistently chill out your system with things like meditation, sauna, deep breathing, etc.