Saturday, February 6, 2010

Overcoming fear in public speaking

Are you preparing yourself for a public speaking? Perhaps you were nervous of that coming day. Since you do not want to be booed in front of the public as what you are expecting to happen when you could not deliver your message well, you are making your best to make it perfect. We cannot deny the fact that speaking in front of the many audiences is a dilemma, no matter how hard we do on our practice if we are already in the middle of the stage we cannot stop our knees from trembling, we suddenly lost from what we are about to speak because we have been blinded with the anxiety and nervous we feel. Many of us want to escape from this problem, to overcome the fear of public speaking, the tips below is one of the great ways.


Prepare optimistically

Be positive about your subject. Avoid worrying of yourself, instead get excited about the subject you are about to tackle. Think of the fact that you are delivering something significant to your audience that could help enhance their personality or their perspective in life. Choose the topic that you are expert with, though you are sharing a monotonous type of subject but putting life through your speech could give great impressions.

Stop thinking to be perfect

As much as possible, avoid thinking of yourself to be perfect. Most of the first time public speakers want to be perfect in front of the audience because they were afraid of mistakes and embarrassments. Remember, these are the factors that would feel you anxious and the more anxious you feel the more mistakes you will get. Just be yourself, all of us can take mistakes because nobody is perfect. If you get mistakes during your public speaking presentation, do not take it as a major consequence to your success, instead accept it positively and take it as a challenge. For your next time public appearance learn from your mistakes and develop some skills to recover through it quickly.

Stop thinking of your past experience

One of the reasons why most people are afraid of public speaking is due to the bad past experiences that they had. In their recent time those experiences could remain as a traumatizing event that they hardly forget. If you think this is one of the reasons of your fear in speaking in front of the public, visiting a therapist or counselor who focuses in trauma and phobias would help.

Avoid hassles and relax

Before your presentation, relax yourself and avoid from any hassles. If your presentation would already be in the next day and you have troubled falling asleep drinking one glass of warm milk will work. Thinking some relaxing and pleasant thoughts could also help. Listening to a relaxing music or reading could push you to sleep. Above all, just be yourself during your presentation think of your audience as the people who were craving of information from you.

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