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I Feel Anxious Around People — Social Anxiety Meditation

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:

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.

Episode Chapters

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

Affirmations for ConnectionRepeat these internally to retrain your brain for any social setting:

"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."

3 Daily Caring Tips for Social Anxiety

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.

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