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.

1. Reassure your audience – they need to know you know your stuff and you are human!

Stealth Tactics in Hypnosis: What Are Stealth Tactics

Conversational Hypnosis is an art of communicating suggestions to other while they are in a state of trance.  The suggestions you are giving to audience should be ones that will help them to live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives.  The question becomes how to get the very suggestions in to a persons mind when they reject them.

Everyone has what we refer to as a critical filter.  This is the mechanism inside your mind that analyzes and criticizes information coming in from outside sources.  The critical filters decide what is safe to allow inside our minds.  They are also responsible for creating resistance for hypnotists.  They look at all the messages being sent to the mind and either reject or accept them.