So what natural steps can you take to treat panicky feelings so you don’t get signs of anxiety and suffer from attacks (all without spending a fortune)? There’s three things: dietary changes, mind techniques, and good communication skills.

The dietary changes to make to naturally cure social anxiety is to cut out alcohol. Booze does not help you socialize in the long run. It’s instant gratification. Also cut out caffeine as it can make you jittery. Lastly, eat more fruit and vegetables because the body digests these foods well.

Mind techniques to help you overcome social anxiety include visualizations, positive thinking, and my favorite one: challenging beliefs. If you’re afraid of meeting an attractive women, visualize her liking you. Challenge your belief that she won’t like you by acknowledging you’re an interesting person because you’ve worked on yourself. (You must really believe this.)

If you just change your diet and use the given mind techniques to deal with your anxiety and shyness, you will not completely cure the problem. Why? Because you need the third step: improving your communication skills.

Without good communication skills, it doesn’t matter if you take drugs, improve your diet, or use the given mind techniques to cure your social anxiety – you’ll still lack the skill to become unstoppably confident. Pure self-confidence where you feel no fear comes from knowing without a doubt that you can handle the situation.

I encourage you to follow this simple and cheap three-step process to treat your social anxiety. Especially adhere to the last step: develop your communication skills to build self-confidence in social situations.