Relax Your Way To Public Speaking
Believe it or not, fear of death is actually second to the one
greatest fear that the majority of humanity seems tensely afraid
of: fear of speaking in public.
If fear is all that you are thinking, then forget about that
presentation that could earn your company and you the necessary
sales. Presentation and public speaking is one of the most
efficient as well as effective manner in making your products
and services known. Why deny your product or service the chance
to be heard? If you are still afraid, try your very best to
focus on the various positive after effects of making that
presentation. Create in your mind the numerous clients,
customers and contact persons you might not get to see or be
involved with if you let that unnecessary and irrelevant anxiety
take hold of you. Your presentation may only take thirty minutes
but the long term effects of your pitch or presentation might go
a long way.
If the fear is still gripping you, try to do the following
exercises to help your body relax and warm up to whatever it is
you plan to do in your presentation. Turn that negative energy
into a positive one and see who benefits best from it.
Warm up your body
Are you wearing high heeled shoes now? If you are, please take
them off now. Then go and stand up. Try to stand on only one
leg. Then shake the leg that is off the floor. Switch legs and
do the same thing again. What you are doing is taking the
negative energy of anxiety towards the floor and out of your
body. Though this may appear and sound so out of this world, it
actually works. For your information, actors use this as a
warm-up exercise prior to attacking any scene.
Hold out your hands, shake them, fast. Put your hands over your
head and bring them to your sides. Repeat the same process.
Doing this continually will take the tension off your hands and
arms so any movements you make with them during your
presentation gets to appear natural.
Ease the tension present in the muscles of your face. In order
to do this what you could do is chew in a manner that is
exaggerated.
These exercises are done for the purpose of warming any part of
your body that is edgy, uptight or taut from being too nervous
thinking about how you will do in your presentation. Do not
think too much though as it only adds unnecessary stress. Relax
and your audience will relax along with you.