Get the Fear out.

Fear is in one place-inside you!

No one is 'laying fear on you.'

You are not a victim of the audience.

You fear exists because you put it there, inside yourself & continue to pay attention to the fear.

Fear is exciting.

Beats the hell out of boredom.

Drives us, creates changes, magical moments, unforgettable times, can send so much adrenalin through our body it unclogs arteries, leaps us to new heights or stops us from breathing, and can leave a speaker in a stupor of idiocy.

Save your speech.
Move your attention to the audience.
Put your attention out!

Be concerned that if we put our attention on the audience, our old friend, often a best friend, our fear, will demand our attention.

How to Save our Speech?

Practice.

Can you remember a time when all your attention was identified with a person or a task.


A time you got lost in a book, a job, or what someone else was saying?
That was your attention,out there, on something other than your self.

There are disciplines that split your attention between inside and outside.
The Gurdjieff works calls it Self -Remembering.

Firesign Theater had a phrase that I remember went something like "How can you be here and there when you are now where at all?"

In public speaking, how can you be in your program and with the audience, when your scared?

You can't!

You can be in your presentation, & with your audience but speaking fearlessl.

For techniques and exercises to master the fear within:

Gary C Smith Public Speaking & Trainings.
510-722-3212

Namaste
gary