Some Help to Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking

The fear of public speaking is a common one. It's often said that we fear speaking in public even more than we fear death. Trouble is, we often have to speak in public whether we like the idea or not. Whether it's a report at work, a speech at school or college, a Powerpoint presentation or simply standing up in front of a few people and talking, there's some niggle that creeps in to our subconscious which grows until it becomes a full blown phobia about speaking in public.

So, what can you do to conquer this fear?

You need to work on two levels - your rational, conscious, mind and your less rational, subconscious, mind.

The conscious mind is fairly easy. Just tell it that you're only speaking to a handful of people. More than a one-on-one conversation but not many more. You can likely rationalize this quite easily.

It's the subconscious mind that brings up more issues. The worry of making a mistake - don't panic about this, most of your audience will just be glad it's not them speaking. The worry of drying up mid way through your speech. All sorts of different visions race through our minds at the thought of this. Actors call it stage fright.

One of the best ways to confront your problem is to do as the saying says: "Feel your fear but do it anyway".

Yeah, right.

Back to the real world...

Start small. Move up from single conversations to a couple of people. Then three, and so on.

And train your subconscious mind to be less afraid, maybe by using a hypnosis MP3 to conquer public speaking fears.

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