Tuesday, August 28, 2012
My nightmare of public speaking
Reading through the chapters I realize not only do I have almost every single speech anxiety listed; such as my voice quivers, my whole body shakes not just one part, I talk fast, and my hands get sweaty, but I am also scared that I will not be able to organize my speech correctly. There are so many steps to fallow and so many different out looks. We have Cicero's view as the five arts, but then there are different ways to organize your invention, and then you have to take into consideration the different elements to public speaking. Reading the different uncertainties and all the ways of organization made me a little more scared for speech day. As the book states the anxiety just makes me want to put my speech together now and start practicing. Trying to figure out how I am going to get through this class without feeling like I am falling into a nightmare I read through the building confidence and to be honest I do not know that it will work; however I am willing to give it a shot, so over the next week it looks like I will be doing a lot of visualization and relabeling my anxiety as excitement.
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I totally agree with you. Reading the book made me even more nervous than I was before. The chapters revealed a whole other anxiety issue with me. I am more scared about organizing my speech now than I was about being in front of the class. I am one of those people that turns bright red on my way to the front, so when I turn around, I am already having a symptom. I can feel the heat in my face which triggers more symptoms. I am such a mess with this class. I am only really taking it because it is required for my major and transfer. I hope we can overcome our fear and achieve a good grade.
ReplyDeleteI think that everyone suffers with some of these symptoms, I know I definitely do! I don't know of anyone that really looks forward to public speaking, I think some people just are much better coping with the anxieties and nervousness. I think that practicing will really help, but I have a problem with procrastination. That problem is even worse when it's doing something that I don't enjoy. But I'm hoping that this class will help us to conquer these fears and be better speakers. So good luck to you in this class, I know I'll be right there with you!
ReplyDeleteI agree that seeing how many different approaches you can take to public speaking made the task at hand seem even more daunting. I'm not sure how well the relabeling idea will work for me, but I decided I am going to give it a shot anyway. To be able to trick yourself into believing that what you're feeling isn't gut-wrenching nerves and that it is in fact enthusiasm over getting in front of strangers and speaking is going to be hard for me. I have heard of other people trying this tool and it seems the key to making it work is repetition. You have to tell yourself over and over again that the butterflies in your stomach are just excitement at what you are about to do. It's good to hear someone is as nervous as I am. I'm sure we'll do great, but until the time comes I'm going to have to really battle my nervousness.
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