Fear of public speaking

This entry was taken from 2knowmyself.com.

Do you fear public speaking? Does your heart shake when you are about to make a presentation? Do you wish that the lights go off or that the presentation gets cancelled so that you don’t have to speak in front of everyone?

You are not alone
If your answers were yes, then don’t worry, because after going through this section you will know how to conquer your fear of public speaking. First of all you should know most people have got fear of public speaking, some people did even rate it the as the number one fear, even before fear of death!! Although this is bit ridicules yet fear of public speaking surely resides in the top five feared situations.

What causes fear of public speaking?
After all you can’t fight an invisible enemy; in order to know how to get over fear of public speaking you should first know what causes it. Usually you will fear public speaking because one of the following reasons:

1. You are afraid to get embarrassed, to forget what are you going to say or that you mispronounce some word.

2. The second reason is just a conclusion that is based on the first one, you are afraid that people will laugh at you, whisper to each other while you are talking or get bored of what are you saying.

3. You are afraid that people may notice that you were afraid and shaky while talking.

4. You are afraid that people will think that you are not a good public speaker, not a confident person or even not a worthy person in case you didn’t perform well.

5. You are afraid that people think that you are less confident than you used to appear.

Off course those are not all the reasons that cause fear of public speaking but we can say that those reasons can be the root cause to most of the other reasons. At the time you are speaking you will find that convincing your self by logic that there is no need to be afraid will never work, simply because your subconscious mind is the one who launches this fear mechanism automatically and it is almost impossible to control it manually.