Overcoming Nerves – In Public Speaking And Entertaining – Part

Overcoming Nerves – In Public Speaking And Entertaining – Part 1

Many people often assume that those of us who stand up to perform or take part in any form of public speaking are not troubled by nerves and that their own attempts would only be doomed to failure because of their feelings of nervousness and fear.

These thoughts only exacerbate the feelings. When they do attempt to speak, their mouth goes dry, the hands begin to sweat, the stomach churns and a feeling of nausea takes over. Very often they begin to tremble and the brain seems to stop working.

In this confused state they just freeze and yet another negative experience is added to their memory banks, with the certain declaration of Never Again.

First of all, we need to understand why we feel this nervousness. Let’s face it, – we know we can speak; weve rehearsed and practiced well, the family thought the act or the tricks were great, or the speech was amusing, so there’s really nothing to be afraid of there.

We’ve checked our ‘flies’, – so nothing to worry about in that respect. If you have prepared what you want to say and...