Here are some useful ways to calm your racing heart when you start to feel the butterflies in your stomach: Warming up Mental exercises, on the other hand, can help calm the mind and nerves. What goes on in the inside, shows on the outside.вЂќ вЂ“ Bob ProctorД®xercising lightly before a presentation helps get your blood circulating and sends oxygen to the brain. вЂњYour outside world is a reflection of your inside world. Hence, itвЂ™s important to prepare yourself before the big show so that you arrive on stage confident, collected and ready. If your body and mind are anxious, your audience will notice. Prepare yourself mentally and physicallyДЄccording to experts, weвЂ™re built to display anxiety and to recognize it in others. HereвЂ™s a step-by-step guide to help you overcome your fear of public speaking: 1. Your bodyвЂ™s defence mechanism responds by causing a part of your brain to release adrenaline into your blood вЂ“ the same chemical that gets released as if you were being chased by a lion. Sometimes, the anxiety happens long before you even stand on stage. A familiar thump echoes throughout your body вЂ“ your heartbeat has gone off the charts.ДonвЂ™t worry, youвЂ™re not the only one with glossophobia(also known as speech anxiety or the fear of speaking to large crowds). As you move towards the spotlight, your body starts to feel heavier with each step. YouвЂ™re standing behind the curtain, just about to make your way on stage to face the many faces half-shrouded in darkness in front of you. And I think that a lot of the people who are вЂњsuccessfulвЂќ, by whatever standard you want to use, have as much вЂњwrongвЂќ with them as a lot of the ones who arenвЂ™tВ successful. I think a lot of times the world puts obstacles in our way, and no amount of positive thinking makes them go away. I donвЂ™t think that, ultimately, God or the Spirits or the Universe or the world вЂњprovidesвЂќ. вЂњThere must still be something wrong with you.вЂќ вЂњYou must not have wanted it badly enough,вЂќ the authors of these philosophies seem to be saying. I think it causes a lot of hurt and disappointment in people who invest their time, effort, and of course, money into these systems and find themselves, one or two or five years down the line, exactly where they were before.

One of the things I dislike most about вЂњpower of positive thinkingвЂќ-style personal development philosophies (such as вЂњThe SecretвЂќ) is the implication that if you just have the right attitude and the right state of mind, the rest will just fall into place. Some of the most worthwhile things in life arenвЂ™t easy. Are you satisfied with the life youвЂ™re living? вЂ“В Bob Marley

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