I want to relate a story of a presentation I gave recently to an audience of over 200 people.

The night before the presentation I had the thought that I should at least have the bare bones of my talk down so that I wouldn't feel like I would stumble once I got into it.

The more I pondered this however I began to feel a strange sense of discomfort inside. As I reflected on the feelings I realized that the outline I had drafted for myself felt too rigid and constraining.

Now let me make something perfectly clear. It's not as if I had a complicated outline to follow. All I had written down were 6 main points and how I thought I would present them.

So why was I feeling this way? Well it was largely because I couldn't possibly know what the flow of the presentation would be until I was right in the middle of it. I knew that if I was too married to something that I "needed" to follow i.e. my outline I would run the risk of appearing too rigid and disconnected from the audience whose attention and participation I wanted to enlist.

So many presentations I have been to over the last 25 years have left me feeling bored, tired and sleepy. This was largely because the presenters were working from such a rigid outline and needed it more to assuage their own anxieties than to energize the audience to the message.

So rather than work on my outline I decided to have a nice relaxed evening and to get up early then next morning and go for a brisk walk. As I did so I allowed myself to reflect on how I wanted to feel as I was presenting my material to the audience.

I saw myself appearing energized, passionate, joyful relaxed and focused. As I did this I began to get myself into what some call "The Zone". Throughout all of this I wasn't focusing much on "what" I was going to say.

When I later arrived at the room where I was to present I just relaxed and got a feel of the energy in the room. As I did so I was flooded with the same positive feelings as well as preliminary thoughts of how I would begin my talk.

As I started I allowed myself to relax and feel the flow of the audience's interest as well as the opening up of my heart as it guided me through the right channels.

It was only by allowing myself to relax into this experience that was emerging from within and added to by the people around me that I was able to know how to proceed.

You see, there was absolutely no way I could have predicted or prepared for that moment until I was in it.

The trick was "being in the moment" so that I could intuitively, and I must emphasize, effortlessly convey what was to be conveyed.

After the talk I realized that it had come off extremely well as I was held over for more than an hour for questions afterwards.

So what I'm trying to say is that a speech is more than simply about preparation it's about being in the moment with you heart, your intuition, and the audience.

Unfortunately the anxiety that most public speakers experience makes it impossible for all this to occur.

What's more, some public speaking coaches advocate that preparation will diminish the anxiety. In my view it only gives the speaker a false sense of security. They may feel secure as they "hang on to" their outline while they are losing the audience along the way.

In the last 10 years I have perfected a new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) (MRP) that allows individuals to tune into and surrender themselves to this immense intuitive inner wisdom.

MRP has allowed hundreds of individuals express their views in successful presentations in ways they could only have dreamed of before.

If you would like to unleash this ability in yourself then kindly visit the web link below and join one of my public speaking teleclasses or arrange an introductory consultation.

Dr. Nick Arrizza is trained in Chemical Engineering, Business Management & Leadership, Medicine and Psychiatry. He is an Energy Psychiatrist, Healer, Key Note Speaker,Editor of a New Ezine Called "Spirituality And Science" (which is requesting high quality article submissions) Author of "Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation" (available in ebook format on his web site), Stress Management Coach, Peak Performance Coach & Energy Medicine Researcher, Specializes in Life and Executive Performance Coaching, is the Developer of a powerful new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) that helps build physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being by helping to permanently release negative beliefs, emotions, perceptions and memories. He holds live workshops, international telephone coaching sessions and international teleconference workshops on Physical. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Well Being.

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