we forget to focus on the basics. To reduce stress, just make sure that you are breathing properly. Just observe the breathing pattern, don’t breathe from your upper lungs and breathe from your lower lungs. Yes, there is a difference when you do that. Most people don’t breathe properly during public speaking. This lack of oxygen increases stress. Try to take a deep breath whenever you find that your anxiet
Understand one thing that if you just watch any
great speaker, right from Tony Robbins to Les Brown or any great public speaker, just pick up any of their speech, I want you to go and watch his speech again. And just concentrate on the words. And try to find mistakes in the speech. You would be amazed as well as shocked to see that they made a lot of mistakes, yes you heard me right, mistakes! And my dear friend, you believed that great speakers don’t make mistakes! They do make mistakes, but what is different is that they don’t panic about it. They act normally, that is the reason you didn’t observe it. Under, it is human to make mistakes, but if you draw attention to your own mistakes while delivering a speech, it is noticeable. So make mistakes, learn from them, have continuous improvement and you would improve your skill set of public speaking.