This is a method I dubbed "Smile Therapy"

The name came from a discussion I had with a friend where we talked about Rejection Therapy and I disagreed with its effectiveness in getting over Approach Anxiety. The basic premise of rejection therapy is to purposefully create situations where you would be rejected so that you get to see that it isn't so bad and you will be desensitized to it or like one guy on Seddit said, "fail so many times that you don’t care".

Here's the problem, you may numb yourself to the effects of rejection but you also teach your subconscious to associate the act of you approaching with getting rejected. Your subconscious is very simplistic, it doesn't understand the intricate thoughts your conscious mind has, it simply makes basic connections like food = mouth feels good/full belly, sex = good feeling in dick and other parts, loud noises = scary/danger, etc. So you want it to think "approach = people happy to see me" because your subconscious is where your AA is coming from in the first place.

I called my approach Smile Therapy pretty much as a middle finger to Rejection Therapy. The way you do it is you purposefully set up situations so that when you approach someone they smile. You can do things like this.

If you don't want to buy and give away a bunch of chocolates then another way to do it is by simply giving away compliments for free. That means you approach someone, give them a compliment and leave. Its very important that you leave because its the fact that you're giving away something nice and not expecting anything in return that gets the other person to smile and be happy that you approached them.

Notice the people that give away the chocolate walk away immediately too.

You will find that even if you just make 5 people smile in a single day it'll feel like you no longer have approach anxiety. You should take advantage of that by making real attempts to pick girls up. The thing is, you'll also notice that by the next day approach anxiety will be back. That's because approach anxiety has developed in you for a very long time so it will take time to reverse that completely. Don't worry about it, just keep doing the smile therapy until one day you wake up just ready to talk to absolutely anybody.

I literally had that. When I lived in a dorm, the window of my room was facing the sidewalk so when I woke up one day I saw a really hot girl outside and sprinted downstairs to get to her and approach her. I didn't change or anything, I even admitted to her that I hadn't even showered and we ended up going on an instant date by having breakfast together.

For everyone here who is still struggling with approach anxiety, I hope this helps you out a lot so you can post about your experiences of getting girls without showering.