Comments on: Fear of Public Speaking, Please Help! http://www.lifeisnothard.com/education/fear-of-public-speaking-please-help/ Lesson Plans For Life. Money Management, Health and Study Tips you should have learned in school but didn't. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:23:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: fsadamo http://www.lifeisnothard.com/education/fear-of-public-speaking-please-help/comment-page-1/#comment-35 fsadamo Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:35:53 +0000 http://www.lifeisnothard.com/?p=34#comment-35 First, immediately join Toastmasters (www.toastmasters,org, click on the small Find button on the left hand side and enter your zip code after the new page appears. You will get a list of clubs in your area). Choose 2 or 3 and attend them as a guest. Even when someone asks about our club (and we have a great club), I always suggest to attend 1 or 2 others. Second, I teach about transcending one's fear of speaking in front of an audience. I explain that the fear is very positive and natural because without fear, the human race would have been extinct eons ago. Fear protected our primative ancestors from real danger. Now fear is based on the unknown. 1500 years ago, on a bright sunny and balmy day in a small village, if it began to get darker and darker and the villagers looked up and saw the sun disappearing, all the villages would most like huddle together in fear. Today, thousands flock together, but not in fear, but to water a rare experience of a solar eclipse. Likewise, by understanding fear and realizing all your symptoms such as "I sweat, I shake and my voice trembles," is a very natural process of preparing our bodies to defend ourselves. For example, the shakiness and trembling voice happens because oxygen and energy in the form of glucose rushes to the muscles. Thus a simple way to minimize these symptoms is simply shake your legs and arms (off stage) prior to speaking to release the energy. Also, don't eat just prior to speaking because the digestive system shuts down, thus that's why you may feel nauseated. By understanding the process of the fear and by getting used to speaking (by practicing), your fear will lessen. But how do you practice? Join Toastmasters! Having been educated as a chemist, I had to take classes and laboratory. I tell the attendees of my workshops and classes that what they are doing is taking classroom. Toastmasters is the laboratory of communications and leadership where you can practice what you learn in my classes. BTW, Toastmasters has an advanced manual of speeches, "Special Occasions," and one of the objectives is to give a toast. If you are ever in So. Calif. come take my class/workshop, but wherever you may be located, join Toastmasters. FYI, the most it will cost you is $39.00 per ---------- six months and a one time fee of about $20. If you need any assistance, please feel free to contact me. Take care. First, immediately join Toastmasters (www.toastmasters,org, click on the small Find button on the left hand side and enter your zip code after the new page appears. You will get a list of clubs in your area).

Choose 2 or 3 and attend them as a guest. Even when someone asks about our club (and we have a great club), I always suggest to attend 1 or 2 others.

Second, I teach about transcending one’s fear of speaking in front of an audience. I explain that the fear is very positive and natural because without fear, the human race would have been extinct eons ago. Fear protected our primative ancestors from real danger.

Now fear is based on the unknown. 1500 years ago, on a bright sunny and balmy day in a small village, if it began to get darker and darker and the villagers looked up and saw the sun disappearing, all the villages would most like huddle together in fear. Today, thousands flock together, but not in fear, but to water a rare experience of a solar eclipse.

Likewise, by understanding fear and realizing all your symptoms such as “I sweat, I shake and my voice trembles,” is a very natural process of preparing our bodies to defend ourselves. For example, the shakiness and trembling voice happens because oxygen and energy in the form of glucose rushes to the muscles. Thus a simple way to minimize these symptoms is simply shake your legs and arms (off stage) prior to speaking to release the energy. Also, don’t eat just prior to speaking because the digestive system shuts down, thus that’s why you may feel nauseated. By understanding the process of the fear and by getting used to speaking (by practicing), your fear will lessen. But how do you practice? Join Toastmasters!

Having been educated as a chemist, I had to take classes and laboratory. I tell the attendees of my workshops and classes that what they are doing is taking classroom. Toastmasters is the laboratory of communications and leadership where you can practice what you learn in my classes.

BTW, Toastmasters has an advanced manual of speeches, “Special Occasions,” and one of the objectives is to give a toast.

If you are ever in So. Calif. come take my class/workshop, but wherever you may be located, join Toastmasters. FYI, the most it will cost you is $39.00 per ———- six months and a one time fee of about $20.

If you need any assistance, please feel free to contact me. Take care.

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