7 Public Speaking Survival Tips
I used to be terrified of public speaking – now it’s natural and fun.
Dry mouth, fast heart, sweaty palms, blank mind – yeah I’ve been there! It’s easy to fear public speaking. But I was never just content with overcoming fear. I wanted to be a great speaker. What I needed was a way of calming down and applying simple techniques and strategies to talk like a pro.
When I’d learned to relax (more of that later) I learned and applied the following four steps.
- Reassure your audience – they need to know you know your stuff and you are human!
- Hook them by being interesting and relevant. Tell them why what you are saying is relevant to them.
- Inspire them by giving them information and ways of seeing that are new and applicable.
- Leave them on a high by telling a story them encapsulates your central message.
How do you become confident enough to apply the four steps?
Here’s some tips some of which are practical some of which are to do with the way you think about your public presentations and also how you can start to change the way you feel about them.
Tip One
Breath your way to calm. When you breath out you relax that’s why people sigh when they’re stressed.
Breathing in without breathing out causes hyperventilation and worsens anxiety. Just before your speech take five minutes breathing in to the count of seven and out to the count of eleven (quick count-not seconds!). On the out breath hold it a second before breathing in again. This will produce quick and lasting calm. Remember extending the out breath calms you down.
Tip Two
You have a responsibility as the presenter but relax you don’t carry all the responsibility. Presenting is a team effort. Audiences are responsible for politeness, extending their attention and attempting to learn. It’s not all you-it’s a meeting of two halves. Never mind how they judge you. How do you judge them?
Tip Three
Use metaphor and stories. We all experience life metaphorically. The most technical logical person spends at least two hours a night dreaming! Talk detail if necessary but present patterns with metaphors. Folk from 4 to 104 love stories. Use em.
Tip four
Captivate attention by using words that evoke all the senses. Describe how things look, sound, feel, smell and taste. Paint pictures and sensations in their minds with your words.
Tip Five
Vary your voice tonality and speed of delivery. Keep them alert and engaged. Convey energy when need be and slow down when you need to ‘draw them in close.’ You are the conductor to their orchestra. And pepper your talk with humour. Your willingness to be funny shows personal confidence and confidence is contagious.
Tip Six
Tell them what they are going to get. What they are currently getting and then what they have got from you. Sell your sizzle!
Tip Seven
Watch and learn from other great speakers until compelling, relaxed speaking is a part of you.
Rehearse positively. You need to rehearse how your going to feel as well as what you are going to present. Don’t think about your forthcoming presentation whilst feeling nervous as this creates an instinctive association between fear and presenting. This natural negative self-hypnosis is very common with nervous speakers.
Hypnotically rehearse your speech whilst feeling relaxed. This produces the right ‘blueprint’ in your mind. In fact when you do this enough times it actually becomes hard to be nervous!
All great speakers know how to use great self-hypnotic rehearsal. Hypnosis changes attitudes and can bring emotion under control. I used hypnosis, to change my instincts around public speaking. Now I just can’t get nervous whether it’s 50 or 500 people. The world needs great communicators. Go for it!
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Article by Mark Tyrrell of Hypnosis Downloads.com.
7 Ways to Avoid Obesity
Why do some people eat that little bit more even when they‘re not hungry? In many cases the causes are emotional. The pleasure that eating brings can temporarily take their minds away from the dissatisfaction that they feel inside .
Sadly that extra helping is contributing to the obesity numbers in the West. In the US obesity increased by around 15% from 1971 to 1999. Portion sizes have grown accordingly.
The devastating effects of overeating are both physical (lethargy, poor digestion, gas and weight gain) and emotional (guilt, remorse, anger, etc).
Let’s be clear. A little weight gain tends to be natural with age. The big issues are staying fit, healthy, and content with our bodies.
To add to the ever climbing obesity levels portion sizes have changed and so have the perceptions of what constitutes a normal portion. In one study young adults chose items for each meal. Compared to a similar study 20 years ago some portions were up to 40% larger.
Eating ‘just enough’ contributes to good health. Studies show that nutrient dense food in smaller portions actually contributes to longevity.
Here are the 10 best ways that you can moderate portion size and guarantee that you won’t become a part of the sky rocketing obesity statistics:
- Free yourself of the emotional needs to eat. Eating should only be a physical need. I would personally suggest either EFT or hypnotherapy to change how you think about food. I suggest these two methods because both are quicker than most therapies and neither require drugs of any kind.
- Sit down at the table when you eat. Trying to eat on the run or sitting down in front of the television are two ways to guarantee over-eating
-Serve yourself in the kitchen. This will allow you to feel the right amount to put on your plate and stop the potential for unnecessary seconds.
- Use slightly smaller plates. Though this will make a tremendous difference in portion sizes, it will not change the satisfaction level at all.
- Drink a pint of water prior to eating. It is easy to mistake dehydration as part of your hunger.
- Chew slowly and really enjoy the taste of your food. When you eat quickly it takes longer for your body’s full signal to reach the brain, so you may continue eating with the belief that you are still hungry.
- Eat with gratitude. When you are thankful you are happy, and when you are happy you are naturally supporting healthy digestion.
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In my private practice in Hampshire I work with hundreds of ladies every year who are in this cycle. By teaching them both self-hypnosis and EFT, I help them to literally become their own therapist with enough skills and confidence to control their weight.
Along with these powerful techniques I teach them three essential actions that are necessary to weight loss regardless of which path you choose to take as well as one very powerful optional one. It’s these actions I wish to share with you today:
Eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables in-between and even after your meals- In doing this you both eliminate the need for unhealthy snacks and feel more full of energy and vitality.
Pick specific times to eat- Find three specific times in your schedule when you have time to sit down and truly enjoy your meal. I know this is difficult with all the demands in your life, but it needn’t be more than twenty minutes each break. By sticking to these specific times, you will be teaching your body to process the food at a time that is convenient for you.
Walk daily- It is absolutely incredible all the benefits that this gentle exercise can give you even if you walk only fifteen minutes a day. I suggest to all my clients that they start here and work up to an hour and a half for maximum benefits.
(Optional) Consider using EFT for the cravings even if you do not use it for any other part of your plan- There is a quick tapping technique that can fully eliminate your immediate cravings and allow you to make a more positive choice.
Though these steps alone may not be enough to get full results you want, they will increase the benefits you get from your chosen program by at least 100%
If you are suffering from either long-term weight gain or obesity I would highly encourage you to work with both your GP and a qualified therapist to get your body back into shape.
Reassuring Reasons Why Hypnosis is Your Friend
Reassuring Reasons why Hypnosis is your Friend
Believe the hype or think for yourself
For too long hypnosis has had a bad or ‘difficult’ press. If a person doesn’t understand something they have 3 options open to them.
1) They might be sceptical and therefore save the trouble of looking further and possibly benefiting.
2) They may conclude it is dangerous and to be avoided at all costs.
3) They may spend time discovering the truth behind the hype.
If you don’t know much about a topic it’s easy to be suspicious. Some people assume hypnosis is akin to a carnival side show, others consider it mystic mumbo jumbo or ‘mind control.’ For those who look beyond the hype the truth is far more illuminating.
The most powerful tool you possess
There are potentially huge benefits for those who use hypnosis as part of everyday life. When you understand hypnosis you start to see its potential to improve human performance in the physical, emotional and intellectual realms. For me, rumour, gossip and suspicion weren’t good enough.
I determined to learn all I could about hypnosis – I learned every fact and practised every technique under the sun. I took several training courses – some good, some terrible. I invested thousands of hours of devoted study to hypnosis and discovered just what is possible. I hypnotised friends, neighbours and work colleagues. Hypnosis greatly changed things for me on a personal level
How hypnosis helped me
I used to be shy. Thanks to hypnosis I can now talk to thousands at a time and can approach anybody calmly and confidently.
I used to have poor concentration and procrastinate; thanks to hypnosis I can instantly motivate myself.
I used to find physical work outs and exercise exhausting but because of hypnosis I am now in the best shape of my life.
Incidentally I also stopped myself blushing with hypnosis. Now if ever I have a difficult call or conversation coming up, something I may naturally feel reluctant to do (you know the kind of thing) I spontaneously self hypnotise and rehearse the upcoming situation feeling good, with myself remaining calm. In this way I habitually set my own emotional ‘blue prints’ for up coming situations. Having said that it’s naturally that some people have concerns or half digested ‘hand me down’ ideas regarding hypnosis. A common one is the one about ‘mind control.’ However what does this really mean?
Why you are more in control of yourself in hypnosis
If someone expresses concerns about being ‘controlled’ in hypnosis what they mean is they don’t want to be like a robot, an automaton that is forced to obey the every whim of the hypnotist. We can’t help but influence others but we don’t control them. To understand why you need to understand hypnosis better.
So what is hypnosis like?
Hypnosis isn’t like a coma. It’s not unconsciousness – more a subtle shifting of consciousness. In hypnosis, you can still think logically but you also have access to the ’software’ of your mind so that you can update instinctive emotional and physical responses. In fact the hypnotised subject (not the hypnotist) calls the shots. When I hypnotise someone I need to go at their speed and respond to their needs and expectations. Hypnosis will give you more control in your own life because of what it enables you to do.
How can I be so sure?
Because over the decades I’ve seen all kinds of people, all ages and from all backgrounds turn their lives around thanks to hypnosis. When you use hypnosis for yourself it improves confidence in all kinds of ways. When you use it to change other’s lives it just blows you away. This is what I mean.
When I first hypnotised someone to feel no sensation in a painful arthritic arm it was an incredible feeling. When I first cured life long phobias quickly and comfortably I was astounded. When I stopped hardened alcoholics from drinking and even got a heroin addict off the stuff and back into mainstream life again I started to feel angry that people could just associate hypnosis with entertainment.
With the aid of hypnosis I (and many people I have trained and worked with) have helped severely depressed people feel strong and positive again. The rewards and satisfactions are hard to describe. I’m going to take a stand against ignorance and short sightedness around hypnosis and here’s why.
Why you need to reclaim hypnosis for yourself
Hypnosis is your birthright. It’s nature’s optimum learning tool. In fact to learn and perform anything well you need to experience a natural focussing of attention, a natural kind of hypnosis. To be successful hypnosis needs to be your companion and friend.
Successful people use it naturally all the time because hypnosis is natural. It’s the way we learn new responses. Unlike medications its side effects are purely positive – one expectant mother I worked with to feel relaxed during child birth later reported that she was also more relaxed when flying!
Hypnosis is easy to learn and every body can benefit. Hypnosis is a safe environment to ‘try out’ new behaviours and emotional patterns before you experience them for real. So the young man can ask a woman out for a date many times in calm relaxed hypnosis so that by the time he does it for real it feels real and natural and relaxed. Sports people who use hypnosis learn new quicker and more accurately. So hypnosis gives you more control of yourself and your life, it’s natural and gives you instant benefits and it’s a way of ‘trying on’ and establishing new patterns of emotional response and behaviour, Hypnosis enables you to develop yourself as a human being.
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Article by Mark Tyrrell of Hypnosis Downloads.com.
Hypno-Therapy the Latest Solution to Your Weight Loss Problem
In this article Franchis looks at how hypnotherapy can help re-train the brain to make losing weight easier and more enjoyable.
Enjoy,
Paul Thurman
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Hypno-Therapy the Latest Solution to Your Weight Loss Problem by Franchis Adam
Many a times if we fail in one weight reduction diet plan we start off with another one and if we do succeed to lose the required weight, we start eating junk food etc and then we gain back all those lost pounds. The thing that we should learn is that there are no quick ways to lose weight be it fad diets, pills etc as they are just not meant for long term gains.
Losing weight is not just the overall physical aspect of your body it is in fact your mental attitude towards the whole issue of weight loss. That is the reason why more and more people are turning towards hypnosis as the solution for losing weight.
Does hypnosis really work?
Yes, hypnosis does help you to reduce your weight as it helps you to get down to the root cause of your problem and helps you to get over all your bad eating habits. Hypnosis helps you to subconsciously accept those eating habits which will keep you healthy and fit.
You could always seek the help of a good hypno-therapist, who will help you to control your brain by rejecting unhealthy junk food. This hypno-therapist can actually motivate your mind to start eating healthy food.
With the help of the hypno-therapist you can overcome your emotional and stress related problems, making you confident and believing in your self that you can really lose weight.
Hypno-therapy helps you to tackle the inner most problems of your mind thus helping you achieve your goals right within the walls of your own house.
Now that you know that you can lose weight with the help of hypnosis you can start a new life altogether. With the right attitude towards life you can lose those extra pounds and live a happy, healthy and a balanced life.
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