If this is you and you have a speak to do or perhaps a presentation to make at work then you might like to consider going to a hypnotherapist.

Hypnotherapy taps in to your subconscious and with a few positive suggestions it can help many people to give them the added confidence to make a speech.

An example of a hypnotherapist and this one is based in Bournemouth can be found by clicking here – Dorset Hypnotherapy.

Next to the fear of death – the fear of doing public speaking is top of the list. In fact, more people are more fearful of public speaking than they are of dying, perhaps this is because dying is something that most people cannot really think of happening to them, whereas a speech is must more “REAL”.

It is good to add humour to your speech where you can and if the circumstances are appropriate, but never force it and if you don’t feel up to making jokes then steer clear of trying to become the instant comedian!

Don’t worry about the fact that you will feel nervous just before speaking, as everyone does – even the likes of Elvis Presley did his 1,000 steps before a show to prepare himself and to help calm his nerves! So do whatever it takes to prepare yourself beforehand. Being nervous is natural and is a good thing so use this to your advantage.

Practice your speech beforehand is a good thing and doing so in front of a mirror might help and if you can run through your speech with a loved one so that they can do some “constructive” criticism for you.

Always remember that most people will be feeling for you and will quite understand the feelings you are going through and they will not be expecting a professional speech – so relax and try to enjoy it.

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The way that I have dealt with this in the past is to do lots of positive thinking and to go into a separate room and let out my fears by shouting as loud as I dare depending on the location and who is around.

This does work for me, but it would be good to hear how others control their fear of public speaking, which is a fear that more have higher up than death! Which when you think about it is crazy – speaking in front of people will not kill you and yet we fear it so much.

We have all been to that wedding or business event when someone gets up that just loves the sound of their own voice! When this happens the whole room wants to shoot themselves for the boredom.

We want to hear your funny stories of how you managed to endure one of these speeches, where was it and who was it – was it the best man speech or perhaps the father of the bride? You might have even managed to sneek out.

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