Saturday, September 1, 2012
Relaxing
I touched on this subject a little bit throughout the last post, but I think that the most important part of the reading this week for me was relaxation, visualization, and relabeling. I think that these are very helpful tips for both preparing and presenting a speech. In visualization it talks about seeing what will go right in the speech and being positive. I think anyone that has any anxiety about speeches can relate to thinking the worst. Trying to be positive and seeing the speech in a step-by-step process will hopefully help me to ease my anxiety. Relabeling relates to the visualization in the way that it's rechanneling your anxiety into positives and helping you cope throughout your presentation. This is something that I want to try to focus on because it seems like it will help get me through my speech and stay positive and on track. Finally, there was relaxation. This is something that is so simple, yet so easily forgotten. Simply breathing and calming yourself before and during the speech to help calm your nerves and anxiety. I tend to talk faster when I'm nervous, so taking a moment to think about relaxing will help calm me and keep me focused. While reading these tips, I thought that they would help me to cope with my anxieties. I hope that they are as easily done as it sounds and I am able to remember to just slow down and stay focused.
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I feel the same way about having anxiety when giving speeches. After reading the chapters and watching the video's I just hope that I can apply what I am learning into our upcoming culture speech. Along with the visualization, relabeling and relaxation I feel that I need to do a lot of brainstorming. Once I can get my topic figured out I hope to be able to use the techniques and can start to feel better about the presentation. I dont know about you but the first speech is always the hardest. Part of my anxiety comes from not really knowing what to expect. But from reading our fellow classmates posts I can see that we are not alone. I can not wait to see what everyone comes up with!
ReplyDeleteIt seems that you have some of the same problems I do when giving speeches. (I'm sure lots of us do.) The part of the chapter about relabeling, visualization, and relaxation was something that caught my eye as well. It's surprising how often we forget the simple concept of breathing to relax. I often get up in front of the class and by the time I sit back down I'm not sure I was breathing at all throughout my speech. I hope that I can remember to practice the diaphragmatic breathing beforehand. It sounds like many of us could definitely benefit from practicing relabeling. It seems like it would be helpful to almost trick your brain and your body into believing that the anxiety and butterflies are just enthusiasm and excitement. It will be interesting to see how everyone puts the useful tips and tools we have been learning into use. I'm sure you will do great!
ReplyDeleteYour post about relaxation made sense. I'd like to think that is something we all have an issue with. When I'm speaking in front of a group, I too need to relax. On the outside, I may seem ok but on the inside I'm in a haze of nervousness. When I look out into the audience, I'm lokking but I'm not really seeing very well. My vision seems to literally blur. I'm not sure what's happening but I don't see faces. I see silouettes of people looking back at me. That's probably due to my inability to relax. Being able to rechannel my anxieties into positives sounds easier than reality. I'll work on that for now and keep trying. Thanks for your post.
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