Social Anxiety

A judgment is made in the first couple seconds of a meeting between two people. This can be an interesting social phenomenon especially when a new hiring prospect goes for an interview. The first couple seconds can make or break a person’s chances for a job. This is also true when if the potential new employee enters the office. He or she is once again entering into a new group and is once again being accepted or rejected in the first couple seconds. This series of social judgments I think is an evolutionary defense mechanism. This is so the group doesn’t put itself in a dangerous situation. This social gauntlet that a person has to run through can be unnerving. This is why you get the emergence of the social phobias. So how can we prepare our selves for this? Well here is one way. Take deep breaths. Increased breathing is a natural bodily occurrence when we feel anxiety. Decreasing breathing will reduce other body reactions that are associated with anxiety, the mind over matter technique. There many other techniques that I address in my blog and there are many other recourses all over the internet.