Caring For Social Anxiety And Shame: Space To Breathe

Discover a bit of spaciousness around social anxiety and shame in this gentle three-minute practice. With steady guidance take the edge of what you’re experiencing and connect with your more resourceful self to access more helpful thoughts, feelings and behaviours. There is nothing to perform here. Return to this practice whenever you need space before, during or after being with other people.

Transcript

Welcome to this brief guided meditation to give yourself some breathing space. To gently ease. Social anxiety or shame that you're experiencing in this moment. You have given yourself this time and space. To check in with yourself. Using gentle breaths. My invitation to you is that you can create a bit of spaciousness. Take the edge off the anxious thoughts. And just bring down a little bit feelings of shame you may be experiencing. Noticing them when we breathe in. We take time to be present with ourselves. And when we breathe out. . . We get sense of that release and ease through the body. So breathing in, Recognizing that this is how you're feeling in this moment. Breathing out, Reminding yourself that you are not your thoughts, You are not your feelings. They are information. And even though you may not have time now. To really get curious about that information. You can be present with what here feels like. And you can start to practice. Feeling okay enough. For now. Drawing on what you already know how. Reminder phrases. Encouragement from others. Checking in with the breath. Giving yourself that access to yourself through the breath. To connect with your more resourceful self that knows. The thoughts, The feelings, And the behavior. That help you. Bring down the intensity of the anxiety and the shame.