Some of the people I see in my hypnotherapy clinic have anxiety because they are constantly worried about what other people are thinking about them. They worry that the strangers they pass on the street are judging them. They are constantly concerned about other people’s views on their looks or behaviour.
And of course, there are clear logical flaws in this line of thinking:
- None of us have any idea what the strangers in the street are thinking. We are not mind-readers. We cannot tell what is going through their heads.
- No-one I have talked to ever looks at all the strangers they pass and judges them. It is highly unlikely that anyone we pass will be casting judgement.
- Even if someone were to judge us as we passed them by, it makes no difference to our lives, or that of our friends and family what a stranger thinks.
Despite this, when someone develops this type of anxiety, this worry about what other people think about them, it is difficult to shift the thought pattern. Worry about other people’s thinking gets embedded into our subconscious. It becomes a pattern that is repeated again and again.
So can you dance like nobody’s watching, or are you too anxious about what other people might think? Or maybe, you are somewhere in between.
Hypnotherapy can help you get over anxiety issues like this. I work with people with anxiety issues in my hypnotherapy clinic in Fleet, Hampshire. If you would like to Contact Me, you are most welcome to find out what hypnotherapy can do for you.
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