Comments on: Use conscious attention to dissolve your nerves http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/presentation-skills/dissolve-your-presentation-nerves/ ideas & techniques for for improving your speaking, presenting and influencing skills Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:34:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lisa Braithwaite http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/presentation-skills/dissolve-your-presentation-nerves/#comment-562 Lisa Braithwaite Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:32:38 +0000 http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/blog/2008/02/05/use-conscious-attention-to-dissolve-your-nerves/#comment-562 Gavin, this is so true. I wrote an article about the power of the mind last year that touched on this issue of focusing on "symptoms" to the point where you are actually creating them: http://www.coachlisab.com/nov06.html#article. If the mind is powerful enough to create these symptoms just by focusing on them (or even focusing on the POSSIBILITY of them), then the mind is also powerful enough to reframe those thoughts. Gavin, this is so true. I wrote an article about the power of the mind last year that touched on this issue of focusing on “symptoms” to the point where you are actually creating them: http://www.coachlisab.com/nov06.html#article.

If the mind is powerful enough to create these symptoms just by focusing on them (or even focusing on the POSSIBILITY of them), then the mind is also powerful enough to reframe those thoughts.

]]> By: Jo Jameson http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/presentation-skills/dissolve-your-presentation-nerves/#comment-559 Jo Jameson Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:26:15 +0000 http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/blog/2008/02/05/use-conscious-attention-to-dissolve-your-nerves/#comment-559 A really simple tip I was given when I started out as a speaker was to focus on something monotonous and outside of myself - counting coffee cups, or pairs of shoes with laces, blue colored ties or numbers of wedding rings - anything that you have to focus on to do (small or numerous things are best) and will really absorb your attention. A really simple tip I was given when I started out as a speaker was to focus on something monotonous and outside of myself – counting coffee cups, or pairs of shoes with laces, blue colored ties or numbers of wedding rings – anything that you have to focus on to do (small or numerous things are best) and will really absorb your attention.

]]> By: Public Speaking Blogs: Week in Review [2008-02-09] http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/presentation-skills/dissolve-your-presentation-nerves/#comment-557 Public Speaking Blogs: Week in Review [2008-02-09] Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:06:22 +0000 http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/blog/2008/02/05/use-conscious-attention-to-dissolve-your-nerves/#comment-557 [...] Meikle suggests that nervousness can be neutralized by focusing on the audience. When you start paying attention to them, you stop paying attention to [...] [...] Meikle suggests that nervousness can be neutralized by focusing on the audience. When you start paying attention to them, you stop paying attention to [...]

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