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Overcome Your Fear of Rejection

By: Royane Real

Do you really want to be totally rejection-proof?

To never, ever suffer the possibility of being rejected again?

Then here's how you do it:

The way you can be totally rejection-proof is if you give up absolutely all interactions with other human beings for the rest of your life!

Is that something you are really willing to do? There are occasionally extreme cases of people who adopt this option. For the great majority of us however, giving up all social connection is too high a price to pay to avoid the occasional pain that sometimes accompanies human interactions.

When we give up interacting with others, not only do we give up some occasional pain and discomfort, but we also miss out on all the potential warmth, comfort, fun and excitement that other human beings can offer us.

If you never put yourself in a situation where someone can say “no” to you, you will also never be in a situation where someone can say “yes” to you.

If a fear of rejection is holding you back from forming new friendships or relationships, there is help available. You can learn to greatly overcome your shyness and your fear of being rejected. Here is a brief summary of steps you can take to overcome your fear of rejection:

- Remind yourself why you want to overcome your fear of rejection. Remind yourself that your goal is to have a happy social life.

- Change what you say to yourself about rejection. Don’t tie your self worth to whether or not you get accepted or rejected by other people.

- Take a series of baby steps when developing new relationships.

- Look for signs of receptiveness in the other person.

- Deliberately set out to collect as many rejections as you can

- When you are out making approaches to other people, tell yourself that it’s just practice, it doesn’t count.

- Make many, many social approaches to other people.

If the other person shows signs of enjoying your company and seems eager to continue your conversations, then he or she will probably be receptive to any overtures you make and any invitations you extend.

If you confront the situations in which you feel anxious, your anxiety may lessen as you become more used to dealing with the feared event. By proving to yourself that you can face up to your fears, they will eventually lose their power over you.

Do you hold back from trying to start new relationships because you are worried that you will be rejected? Are you shy? Does your shyness and fear of getting rejected keep you from having the relationships you want? Are you lonely much of the time? Here's the solution.

This article is by self help author Royane Real, author of the special report "How You Can Overcome Your Fear of Rejection" Do you want to improve your social life? Download it today at http://www.lulu.com/real

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