Reduce Speaking Fear and Anxiety by Watching TV

Recently I was watching my favorite football team on TV. As I watched them lose, my mind drifted to a powerful technique for reducing speech anxiety and fear.

I realized this powerful technique is just like watching TV.

Let me explain.

A regular TV set can only be tuned to one station at a time. I could watch either football or racing, but not both at the same time.

In the same way our minds are like a TV set. We can only be tuned to one station at a time. What station our mind is on will determine how we feel. There are two stations we can tune to:

Fear Channel: Focus on how scary the audience is, the possibility of failure, and how nervous I feel.

Confidence Channel: Focus on the needs and problems of the audience, expect to do well, and focus on delivering with confidence.

Our mind can only focus on one of these channels. If we tune to the fear channel our anxiety, fear, and nervousness will increase!

If we tune to the confidence channel, our confidence will increase but our fear will reduce.

Why? What we focus on and think about affect how we feel. When you start thinking confident thoughts and focusing on the audience in the right way, your fear will reduce and confidence will increase.

It may take a few moments for the feelings to switch, but they will.

Next time you get ready to speak, tune into the confidence channel and you will reduce your anxiety and increase your confidence.

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