Public speaking anxiety: how to deal with it

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Do you shudder at the thought of being asked to take part in a presentation at work or college? When you speak in public, do you feel that you want the floor to open up and swallow you? Are you more worried about getting the jitters rather than delivering great content in your presentations? Well if so then you may be a victim of one of the most common and most horrid phobias. The fear of public speaking is widely thought of as the worst fear that a person can suffer! In fact on a survey the fear of death was at number seven and the fear of public speak was at number one ““ this just goes to show how severe it can be for the sufferer.

As a hypnotherapist, emotional freedom technique and neuro-linguistic programming practitioner, i am regularly asked by clients to rid them of their fear of public speaking. In most cases i will use a combination of all of my expertise to help them overcome this most irrational but very terrifying phobia. I really like to work with clients on this as it is something that i can empathize with them on, as i too once suffered at the hands of this phobia.

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