Mastering public speaking is simple with this five minute exercise August 21, 2009
Posted by janey in : self esteem , trackbackIf I claimed you could be mastering public speaking and improve your public speaking confidence with a 5-minute exercise, would you think me?
I do not suppose you would because I know how frightening public speaking can be.
I’ve been there on the sidelines waiting to go onto the stage, sweating, dry mouth and nervous as hell!
Then some years back, I attended a course run by Dr Richard Bandler ( co-creator of Nuro-Linguestic Programming NLP as it is widely known ). It was a self-discovery course with just a few of us attending so we got real hands-on attention from Richard. Among the many lessons from the course, I remember one of the delegates saying to Richard Iam just not an assured person. Richard said in return Are you sure? Do you know what the person said? Naturally I bloody well am. They certainly did not lack confidence!
Richard went on to elucidate that most are assured it is just they are assured about the wrong things. This delegate was super-confident about their idea that they have no confidence.
How would you feel if you might turn yourself into the most confident person you could be, whenever you needed to?
Imagine going onto stage to present feeling just as confident when you were promoted or simply finished a ten mile run or asked someone out on a date and they said ‘yes’. Well you can and all it takes is practice.
This was an exercise from Dr Richard Bandler, which all super successful individuals use. Know ituse itand you could be like them.
Try this 5-minute exercise:
Imagine a time when you were super-confident
Remind yourself what happened
What were people saying to you?
How did you feel?
What did you see?
Was there any specific sounds or smells?
Are you painting the image of when you felt super-confident?
Make the picture really bright and enormous
How do you feel right now?
More assured then you probably did five mins ago?
Mostdefinitely.
By remembering past experiences and permitting the feelings to spread all over you, you are telling your cortex that the experience is occurring at the moment in this moment.
This is a straightforward exercise to raise your self-esteem.
Try completing the exercise each morning and evening and feel that confidence wash all over you. Permit the exercise to evolved into one of your new habits.
Complete the exercise next time you are on the point of going onto the stage and publicly speak and need a confidence boost.
I haven’t any doubt you will be on the way to mastering public speaking and your public speaking confidence will soar.
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