Any advice on how to ease fears of public speaking..?

Go to the following article, ';Outstanding Presentations Start in the Mind: Five Presentation Skills Secrets for Overcoming Public Speaking Anxiety,'; at the following link:





http://www.thesykesgrp.com/PresentationSkillsPublicSpeakingArticle02.htmAny advice on how to ease fears of public speaking..?
Prepare, Prepare and prepare some more, good speakers ooooz confidence it is because they have prepared. Write it down, I talk a lot and last week had to thank a speaker in front of a group, I was lazy hadn't taken notes and mucked it up which distorys confidence.Any advice on how to ease fears of public speaking..?
Easy. And I'll do it with NLP, (Neuro Logistic Programming) It's called The Circle Of Excellence





1. Identify the external triggers for unresourceful state. These could be visual, auditory, tactile or smell or taste stimuli.





2. Build a powerful resource state using the circle of excellence technique. To create a circle of excellence, draw an imaginary circle on the floor or mark a circle in chalk large enough to step into.





3. Remember experiences where you felt powerful, creative, composed, or any resourceful state where you felt balanced and centred.





4. Step into the circle only as quickly or slowly as you remember and re-access the resourceful state through your inner senses. ie. See what you saw through your own eyes within the actual experience, hear the sounds and language used, and get in touch with your posture, breathing and emotions when inside the desirable resource memory. Note that an observer would see changes in your physiology such as better posture, deeper breathing, and skin colour changes. If there is no noticeable change in your physiology the resource state is either poorly accessed or low intensity. If it is low intensity, choose another resource state that is more powerful.





5. Repeat step 4. with an additional resource state, continuing to add resource states one at a time. When you have enough resources, you step automatically into a very powerful state on entering the circle which is truly now a circle of excellence.





6. Recall a trigger for the unresourceful state as you step into the circle of excellence. Repeat process with each old trigger. Or ask your partner to play role the various triggers (gestures, words, voice tones etc) as you step into the circle of excellence.
Know what you're talking about, because being familiar with the subject makes thigs a bit easier, look over peoples heads, and f you're brave enough make eye contact with a few.





honestly if t his is for a class there are going to be a lot of peole who don't care or are going to zone out anyway. Not that what you're going to be talking about isn't important, but being forced to listen to something doesn't exactly inspire enthusiasm.. ^_^





and what I always tell myself is that im not going to see these people again later anyway so just get it over with and move on.
I hated public speaking, so I joined the mock trial club at my school. There weren't many people in it, but I learned how to do it. If a club isn't available, try finding times to talk, at meetings, at home to your family. I find my biggest fear is that I don't to say my opinions out loud for everyone to judge, so once you can do that, the hardest part is over!
dont speak in public...
Practice, be confident in yourselve because it will be over with soon. Never focus on one place when you're talking, look around. Ignore the people who are watching you and wiggle your toes. :)