From the course: Creating and Giving Business Presentations
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Calming nerves
From the course: Creating and Giving Business Presentations
Calming nerves
- I like to relate speaking anxiety to performance anxiety in sports. Some of the techniques used by athletes help my students and clients be successful when they speak. They may help you too. Don't let anyone tell you that no stress is a positive. Russian sports psychologist Yuri Hanin's research shows that we all have different tolerances and uses for stress hormones during our peak performance. Being completely calm and serene may work for some before they present and may be disastrous for others. As you try some of these techniques in this course, be sure to maintain a healthy amount of butterflies in your stomach feeling. Use your breath. If being out of breath when you get nervous makes you uncomfortable, use slow breathing. In, two, three, four, and out, two, three, four. Use these cycles to calm and center yourself. Remember to use your breath as you pause between sentences. Nervous speakers tend to speak faster…
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