Chill Skills for the Anxious #4 - Meeting New People (reworking social anxiety response somatically)
Channel: Re-embodying emotional experience
Date: 2022-09-01

Do you ever find yourself saying, "I shouldn't be anxious about this, but I am . . . what's wrong with me?"  Social phobia, generalized anxiety, and surprisingly persistent obsessions and compulsions are common for both trauma survivors and those who aren't aware of any known trauma, but have struggled with long-term anxiety.  When changing how you think, breathe and behave are not enough, the newer, neurodynamically-informed somatic therapies help at a deeper level.  The problem is only partly in how you think and behave - the neural processes within you that keep re-enacting your old patterns dwell below your language and thought machinery.  They're best met in the body.  In ways that quite similar are similar to the EMDR, Brainspotting and other popular therapeutic approaches targeting the mid-brain, the somatic methods being used in this video can help you to access your anxiety at its "neuroceptive" roots.