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13Apr

Reduce Stress with these Simple Quick Techniques

I'm always on the lookout for techniques to help clients reduce stress and anxiety levels. And I've been talking to a lot of my private clients recently about how going through stress in their lives can make their public speaking anxiety worse - which makes total sense. Reduce Stress with Simple Quick Techniques In fact for a few clients, stress was the trigger which set off their speaking anxiety in the first place. One had been fine about speaking in public until his mother died, when he just stopped coping with the pressure. For me too: my original debilitating performance anxiety was...

By Sarah DenholmMindset, Overcoming Nerves, Public Speaking and Presentation Skills BlogBill Rielly, breathing, controlling public speaking anxiety, Essentialism, Greg McKeown, performance anxiety, public speaking anxiety, stress and anxiety levels0 CommentsRead more...

11Feb

Using Peripheral Vision Impacts your Public Speaking

plotting your imaginary graph Using your peripheral vision - opening out your vision field to its very edges - is a helpful tool to feel more relaxed, open and ‘spacious’ in front of a group (or indeed whenever you want to feel that way). How often do you do the opposite? This is pretty much the opposite of what we commonly do during the day: think about how often we might focus in on the computer screen, T.V., piece of paper, or even when we’re talking to someone. Why you need to practise It’s important to practise expanding our vision field, because it’s not an obvious...

By Sarah DenholmOvercoming Nerves, Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Bloganxiety research, eye contact, performance anxiety, peripheral vision nerves, public speaking stress, Scientific American, Wray Herbert3 CommentsRead more...

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