For many of you, imagining an existence without speaking fear is tough.
By the end of this article, the ability to visualize full capability to command a room with speaking confidence is exactly the skill I am challenging you to do.
By now, the concern of sharing your words aloud has become mostly expected. Everyone has some fear of public speaking. Right? In theory, we are birds of a feather wherein all of us are in the same company of the statistics public speaking.
That is until it’s your turn to speak. The phenomenon that felt so commonplace now feels like you are the only one who cannot manage the experience of presenting yourself favorably in front of people. My clients often describe the speaking fear experience as being contained in a clear bubble where they can see through, but they are unable to get out.
You’ve likely searched widely for solutions to manage, and overcome, your fear of speaking. If you still haven’t found the root of the problem, keep reading.
Unraveling Speaking Fear
You and every other speaker have a makeup of speaking fear generated from nature and nurture. Your profile of speaking fear is a unique neural network composed of specific traits within your personality, temperament, behavior, risk tolerance, life experience, personal values, and beliefs. Viewing speaking fears as a unique container of individual neurological and physical imprints, hopefully, you now understand how your feelings of isolation and loneliness are justified. The struggle is real!
Paths to Overcome Speaking Fear
Understanding and learning about your speaking fear profile, and how to reframe different aspects of your neural and communication system networks, create the paths to a positive experience in any speaking opportunity.
You must understand that your ability to become adept at the public speaking experience requires you to harness your anxiety, self-doubt, vocal tics, and much more all at once. Achieving speaking confidence requires you to overhaul your system to reframe cognitive, physical, and emotional states related to speaking, formulating language, and managing your voice. Adopting new perspectives, or imagining, a new you where all of these aspects are synchronized is a fundamental necessity to boost your public speaking confidence skills.
Overcoming speaking fear, whichever way you approach it is a full mind-body experience where you are sure to break through the public speaking statistics.
It does not matter whether you are a problem-based learner, a systems-based learner, or a combination. Some clients approach each case of problematic speaking with updated critical thinking and problem-solving skills to meet the demands of each speech. Other clients prefer to learn how the totality of their internal/external systems operate in tandem to manage communication breakdowns in any situation when fear strikes.
In Summary
I am your guide into a deep dive to learn and understand how to master your ability to remain internally and externally composed before, during, and after any speaking experience. Check out my coaching website I help you materialize speaking experiences where you replace all of your old thoughts, behaviors, and patterns with newfound traits of confidence and assuredness that become a daily reality in all of your speaking tasks.
