3 Tips To Overcome The Fear Of Public Speaking

3 Tips to Overcome  the  Fear  of  Public  Speaking Surveys  about our fears commonly  show  fear of  public  speaking  at the  top  of  the list. Our  fear of  public  speaking  is so  great that surveys show that we  fear it more  than death. However, no  matter how  dreaded  public  speaking  is, we  can overcome the  fear of  it. The  fear of  public speaking  arises from 2 primary  sources:
 1. Personality

 2. Uncertainty

To be  candid, there  isn’t  much that we  can do with regards to our  personalities or  genetic predisposition, however,  when it  comes to dealing with uncertainty, we  can  handle that.   They  key  here  is focus; stop focusing  on the unknown,  but the  known. This  implies that the subject that  you’re  going  to  be  presenting  and  the  privilege  you have  to  presenting something  you care  about to people ought to  be  your  entire  focus.   3 Tips  to Succeed  At  Public  Speaking:

1.  Visualization:  The  mind has 2 functions:  
(1)  Memory: To  replay  the past, 
(2) Imagination:  To pre-play  the future.  Imagination  is profound.  If  you’d use  visualization positively,  you’d be  imagining  yourself  succeeding  ever before  you step on  the stage  to talk. And that’s going  to  be  quite  helpful. Seeing  yourself  give the  talk  with passion and  conveying  your thoughts with  clarity,  even before  you  speak  really  helps  you  a  lot.  This is because,  you  remember  what  you see  at least 20  times more  than  what  you  read. Hence, prepare  yourself with visualization.

 2.  Relaxation  technique:  
This focuses on breathing  exercise.  It  works  like  this: First,  take a  deep breath,  and then  slowly  exhale. Do this over  and over till  you’re  able  to notice calmness in  your breathing.  This calmness helps you focus on  your  message,  right before you  get in front of  your audience.

 3.  Ease into eye  contact: 
Sometimes,  people’s  eye  could cause  you to  cringe  a  bit, especially  if they’re  not really  into what  you’re  saying. This could cause them to look at you in  some way  that’ll  be  a  little intimidating. Hence, instead of looking  at  them directly, you can look at their foreheads, or if  they’re  wearing  glasses, look  at the  rim  of  their glasses.  This will create the  impression that  you’re  looking  at them, where  in fact  you’re not.   Finally;  Practice! Practice!!  Practice!!!  You might  want to practice  in front  of  a  mirror, web cam,  group  of  close  friends or  close  family  members.  This is to help  you with being  aware ahead of time  what area  you need to improve  on,  especially, the  introduction  and closing remarks.  Hence,  you’ll  be  better  prepared.