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Every so often, fear of public speaking comes out as the ‘number one fear’ on different public polls. Fear of death comes somewhat lower down! This may be hard to believe but fear of public speaking is a huge problem for many.

I have worked with hundreds of people all afraid to present and all seeking public speaking confidence. I now feel at my most relaxed and ‘in flow’ when speaking in public, but can well recall the horrible anxiety and fearful breathlessness that accompanied my initial forays into the field of public speaking. Our public speaking confidence session on hypnosisdownloads.com has helped hundreds of people over the years feel relaxed and in control when public speaking. I feel really good about that.

Many people ask me why they should feel so terrified of speaking in public and I think the reasons aren’t hard to find.

Fear of public speaking is natural – we’re tribal!

In times gone by, when we lived in simple tribal communities, being faced with large numbers of people and having to ‘confront’ them may have been a high risk strategy (unless we happened to be an omnipotent king or queen). If the rest of the tribe didn’t like what you said they might a) spear, stone or boo you to death or b) eject you from the tribe – which, because there has always been safety in numbers, would almost certainly have meant personal extinction!

Nowadays, if the group you are speaking to don’t like what you say, they are not likely to attack you with spears, or eject you to a life of abject loneliness away from the tribe, but the feelings of fear still rise in us as if these threats still persist in the same form.

Of course, your personal public speaking history will shape whether you now respond to public speaking as a fearful threat or a rewarding challenge. If you had a hard time speaking in class at school, or have had horribly anxious public speaking experiences that you are constantly reminded of when even the very thought of speaking publicly comes up, then the reason for current public speaking fear isn’t hard to find. This is why the public speaking confidence session deals directly with calming down memories of past public speaking experiences when unhooking the fear association from the act of public speaking.

Overcoming fear of public speaking by taking command

When people become anxious public speaking they sometimes talk in terms of ‘dying up there’. Of course they don’t actually die. But it’s interesting that at one time fear of rejection by the rest of the tribe would have meant precisely this. When you are presenting to a group of people you need to ‘be the leader’, at least for the duration of the presentation. Leaders are confident and certain. Social confidence transmits to your audience and inspires confidence in you. This in turn makes you feel more confident when public speaking.

Fear of public speaking may be on the increase as we all become more hooked into electronic communication and have less opportunity to actually practise talking face to face. Yet at the same time more and more of us are being called upon to speak publicly as trainers at work as new information and developments demand that the whole workforce be kept up to date. Knowing you can be confident speaking in front of 10, 20 or a 1000 people adds to your general sense of confidence and self-esteem, which is one of the reasons public speaking confidence is such a popular download session.

Mark