This document provides tips and strategies for managing social anxiety and maintaining positive relationships. It recommends practicing gratitude, spending time alone to de-clutter the mind, focusing on positives rather than negatives, and thinking of things you appreciate about yourself to improve mood. Additional tips include maintaining eye contact, asking questions to learn about others, showing generosity, and practicing casual and comfortable body language and facial expressions. Ethics of self-care, avoiding harming others, and not sharing private information without consent are also covered.

1. BEATING
SOCIAL ANXIETY
Dr. Suparna Sengupta,
Psychotherapist and Life Coach

2. HOLDING
POSITIVE MINDSET
 Breathing Happiness
 Practice Gratitude
 Exclusive Me Time
 Getting Mind Clutter Free
 Compare Differently
 Friends with Smiles

3. AVOID
NEGATIVITY
 Confront and Distract
 Avoid Unpleasant Consequences
 Accept Yourself as You Are
 Holding positives and Negatives at the same
time

4. FIXING YOUR MOOD
 Think of three things you appreciate about yourself
 Think of three things you feel blessed to have
 Think of things you are going to accomplish in near future
How are you feeling? This is the real you. Hold
that mood. Repeat process if needed.

5. STAYING IN COMFORT ZONE
 Make sure you are smiling with your eyes. Check mirror
 Think, you know that person since a ling time
 Think, that person likes you and vice versa

6. BACK POCKET HANDY TIPS
 Make a list of questions you can ask anyone
 For a meaningful conversation focus on the facts regarding particular person,
his current situation, the place you are in, and common points that both you
and that person share
 Maintain eye contact, smiley eyes, when they are talking, don’t interrupt.
 Ask further questions related to the first one or anther suitable one from your
list
 Pay full attention with your eyes
 Finally say bye mentioning an urgent work.

7. MAINTAINING GOOD RELATION
 Maintain a ‘CCSS’ (Casual, Comfortable, Smart, Stylish) look/ personality
 Keep practicing of face watching, and naming the feelings you see through others’
expression (home work). Name it like happiness, sadness, contempt, disgust, anger,
surprise, fear; and develop your interpretation
 Respect feelings, both yours and others
 Generously show prosocial behaviour such as helping, comforting, sharing and
cooperation towards others
 Offer generosity when it does not cost much, and a real help when you are asked for
 Response smoothly to a ‘thank you’, by telling “its all right /its my pleasure /I know you
would do the same for me etc, with a good eye contact and a hand shake or friendly
hug”
 Keep smiling with your eyes

8. CODE OF ETHICS
 Self care, don’t do anything that hurts you physically or mentally
 Don’t hurt anyone emotionally or physically
 Don’t ask any personal question to anyone unless you have close relation
with that person
 Never share any personal facts or information that you don’t want to get
spread out
 Avoid gossip
 No foolish commitment, always gauze time and situation
 Be useful, but don’t get abused