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title: "Timidity"
description: "The emotional and spiritual meaning of timidity: the fear of being judged, a retreat into routine, and the things and people you walk past in order to stay unhurt."
canonical_url: "https://www.body-hemisync.com/emotions/timidity"
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## What timidity is

Timidity makes you pass by wonderful things. You avoid people you do not know. Fearing judgement, you renounce what is new, on the pretext that it is not for you. A quiet temperament is not the same thing. Timidity, in this reading, is the retreat that shrinks a life.

The entry does not tie it to one part of the body.

## The emotional meaning of timidity

You drop your arms. You refuse to fight. You tend to make yourself safe in routine. You love yourself little. A low esteem and a thin trust incite you to stay inside a well-established frame, where you feel neither hurt, nor rejected, nor misunderstood.

This flight keeps you in the background. The source is fair about the advantage. Somewhere, it may suit you, because you protect yourself from situations or people who could hurt you. You keep communication to a minimum, with the people from whom you feel no threat.

## A gentler way to hold it

The aim is not to turn you into someone loud. The emotional perspective invites you to see the protection, and then to let one new thing in.

- **Name what you are walking past.** The cost of the retreat is part of the reading.
- **Catch the pretext.** "It is not for me" may be the fear of being judged.
- **Thank the shelter, then leave it by one step.** Routine is keeping you unhurt. It is also keeping you small.
- **Speak to one person who is not already safe.** Calm action is the habit the source asks you to take up.

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