MY COMMENTS:

If it freaks you out too much to approach women in
public, then figure out how to meet them in other ways.

Get online and start instant messaging women...

Go to a pottery or yoga class (if those things interest
you)...

Get a part-time job as a bartender.

Take dance lessons.

There are all kinds of great ways to meet women...

By the way, one of the best things you can do is get
together with a friend, and go out for a day and
meet 50 women. Just approach every single woman you
see and use one of the techniques you've learned.

Then go do it again.