How do you eliminate self-conciousness?

Question

I guess I've always been self-concious, but I signed up for a dance class that runs during the school year......and I have to wear a leotard and tights (but thank the Lord above you can wear pants over those) but how can you not be self-concious in a leotard? How can I just lose being self-concious altogether?

Answer 1

Through meditation. Ask yourself why and what you are self- concious about. Write them all down. And do some serious thinking about these matters. Do this for a suitable length of time, a week perhaps. When you know yourself, you will have most of the answers. You may decide to change some things about yourself or ignor/accept the way others may perceive you. It is all up to you! The AA prayer is a good meditation for this problem. Get a copy of this and recite to yourself each morning and night!

Answer 2

It's like anything else, practice. The more you put yourself in the kinds of situations that would presently make you feel self-conscious, the more you'll grow comfortable doing them.

The first time an aspiring actor goes up on stage to perform, they're likely extremely nervous and worried about making mistakes or how they'll be perceived, but a few years later when they've done it many times, it's not even an issue anymore.

There's no quick, magic fix for these kinds of things. It's just a process.

Answer 3

This is an off-topic question for me to answer, but i think I can help.
First off try to realize your body isnt anything to be ashamed of. It is what it is, and thats the way its meant to be. I know thats easy to say but tough to realize, but you need to start somehwere.
Secondly, get used to your outfit. Wear it at home. Do a dance routine at home and then just leave it on and watch television or something. Walk around, make sure to see yourself in the mirror quite often. The reason your uncomfortable is that you just arent used to seeing yourself like that. When it becomes normal, you wont think its odd anymore. The more you wear it the quicker it will become normal.

Answer 4

True Self-ishness always leads to joy, because it is motivated always by
the desire to feel as good as possible. It is only when we are Self-ish
enough to be, do and act in accordance with our desires (not someone
else’s) that it is possible to stay balanced. Energetically speaking, a
desire is a rush of life force energy, a connection to the divine inner
self, which can never result in actions that are harmful. It is only
when true desires are blocked that they become twisted and ugly. This
statement goes against the common wisdom that human nature is greedy,
violent and primitive. Human nature is precisely the opposite: we are
born knowing ourselves as powerful, eternal, spiritual beings. Petty,
competitive, churlish and violent behavior must be
overcome with suitable practice. Observe your family, friends
and coworkers. Almost all of them are good people, trying to do the best
they can. It would simply not be possible to build a sophisticated
society if human nature was so base. All successful societies are based
upon cooperation, not competition. Competition works not because it is
adversarial, but because it inspires teamwork. Ask two angry guys to get
something constructive done, it is not going to happen. All
success is based upon cooperation. That is because we live in an
attraction based universe.

These natural impulses are supposed to be dangerous because they stem
from a primitive survival instinct. But human being has a bette mind
than animals. Just look around at the mess the world is in! But that is
a delusional assertion, a denial of the basic nature of consciousness
itself. The natural impulses of human nature stem from a connection to
life force, and it is resistance to this divine impulse which causes the
selfish behavior people object to.

If you observe people you will quickly see that those persons who are
most alive are full of desire, and those who look lifeless have little
or no desire. Desire = life force. Shut off desire = selfish behavior.
It's ironic that selfish behavior actually results from self-denial.

Human nature is not a primitive, biological instinct based on survival
of the fittest, it’s a pure connection to source energy. It is divine.
It's only when that connection is closed off that selfish behavior is
demonstrated. Every one of your desires is, in its non-resisted state,
joyful and balanced, because that is an inherent property of
consciousness itself. True selfishness is allowance of desire, without
resistance, and results in the impulse to give freely to others. But it
is first necessary to allow that impulse within yourself.

http://kjmaclean.com/Selfishness.html

Answer 5

You may never lose your self-consciousness completely but as you do more & more things in different settings you should become more confident.

When you do things look around at others around you & I think that in more & more situations you will find that you do fit in.

Answer 6

work out!!!