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I disagree with Plethora on the stone face thing because it can used in certain situations really well - well, if he can keep calm and use that face.
If a girl is qualifying him, then he can keep calm and reframe it. If he's not in that state when a girl's qualifying him and he's FREAKING OUT, then he's fucked.
But I agree that you should stop being inside your head.
No. It is not a bad thing if they're nervous - they're REACTING to your presence. It's much better to have nervousness than to have nothing at all... Then you're an acquaintance, or in the friend zone. What you need to do is to keep calm, get a bit bolder, and put a big smile on your face. Look at them as if they're supposed to be saying something, and that they can't keep up conversations. I love doing this - I intentionally do this to say if the girl will do anything about it. If nothing happens and she's nervous still - then break the silence with something that makes them feel more comfortable, or busts on them for not being able to conversation, and point out what's wrong with the conversation... ie No talking. Say something like, "Wow. You're really talkative.". At this point, I usually have girls laughing, and if I don't, I just keep doing things like this until they do - but sometimes (this has only happened once, and it was over the phone) they're just in a really bad mood and don't want to speak to anybody, they just want to hear your voice.
Nervousness has its own certain energy - and energy is always moving into form, through form, and out of form. What you want to do here is to move completely out of form. If they feel nervous, but you're projecting confidence and comfort then as long as you're making them more comfortable with your presence - your energy will make them move out of nervous energy, into comfortability, and you can choose to take it where you want from there.
I never said that about the stone face. I was talking about the part where he said "I figured I wouldn't meet any girls that way," which implies that he is using an assertive manner of attracting girls (probably by displaying an undertone of neediness and beta behavior). Being non-reactive is powerful, but it can not accomplish the goal by itself. If you can couple that with charm, wit, warmth, physical touch, then it will be farm more effective.
About the nervousness. The OP talked about becoming nervous because the girl was. This displays that she has the dominant frame, and you are not leading her. You aren't going to attract if you can not display dominance and alpha male status. You should retain a calm, relaxed demeanor, and if a girl is nervous at first, then by the strength of your frame (by not wavering/caring about other people's opinion of you) you will suck her into a more pleasant place of comfort. She will subconsciously be very grateful for eliminate that feeling of discomfort and consequently be more open to you.