WHY Are You Nervous for Presentation?

Another issue that people don’t take care of is eating before the presentation.

If you are nervous and have a meal, your digestion will be off the pace and you are likely to burp, have stomach cramps or even lower blood pressure to the brain.

If I am speaking as an after dinner speaker, I neither eat nor drink (gassy or alcoholic drinks) until I am finished.

Then I am really hungry!!

Shouldn't the topic title be: how to become positive for your presentation.

If you focus at your fear and even find reasons to rationalize fearful behaviour then you think yourself into a negative spiral.

Public speakers should first practice NLP well and become positive thinkers.

For instance if I compare the 2 different titles and the experience it gives you personally.

why are you nervous for presentation

vs.

how to become positive for your presentation.

WHY:

using the word WHY is useless and the answer at a why question is confusing and never the same if you repeat the why-question every 3 months. How, which, what or where are better words to start a question.

ARE:
Are or actually the noun to be is a useless word, think about it. It doesn't offer a process or change attitude, it just describes the way things are. Substitute it always with become.

NERVOUS:
This is the key negative emotion. You only become nervous because you have that word in mind. If you forget and erase the word nervous (and all other negative emotions that exist) and replace it with a positive emotion like happy, fine, optimistic etc. REPEATEDLY than you feel different.

YOUR:
If you do something make it yours. This is a positive association with the things you do. If you use the word your for a noun instead of that or a then you associate it instead of dissociate it.

Words mean something, there is an entire psychology behind it that effects you and the listener. NLP might give you an opportunity to improve it.

Over the years I have tried to conquer my trepidations before speaking to an audience. I have found that a determined effort to think of something pleasant and beautiful just for a few seconds before beginning has tempered a majority of the nervousness.

For me, I get nervous because I feel like I need to impress someone (for example, my professor or my boss). Right before I start presenting, I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of important info lol I find that by focusing on 1 thing that I need to work on in terms of speaking, my speech flows a lot smoother.

@jurplesman

The article which you linked us to tell us nervousness is a sign of hypoglycemia. Nervousness is very general, it doesn't necessarily imply stage fright.

Also, the OP didn't ask you why he has stage fright, he didn't even say that he has stage fright. Just imagine saying what you said in a real life discussion lol.

Stage fright is a sign that one has correctly sensed the hostility of the audience.

just talk and relax dont stress speak up. stand up. talk and then shut up.

On-topic:
I don't suffer from stage fright, or nervousness, or anything of the sort when I have to give a presentation. I rehearse what I'm going to say to the point where I'm absolutely sure it's air-tight; I'm thinking: if anyone can contest me because of something I left out, I failed, and I don't like to fail.

The above is, of course, assuming I'm talking about something I'm competent in. If someone asked me to hold a lecture on astrophysics or something, that'd be a different story.

pantodragon wrote:Stage fright is a sign that one has correctly sensed the hostility of the audience.

This post is a good example of how one's experiences color their perspective on things, but I don't want to go on a tangent here. Suffice it to say that very few audiences are hostile by default.

I'd also love it if this forum had an ignore feature so I don't have to see this hypoglycemia stuff spammed literally everywhere.

I was terrified of even walking on a stage. It would not have been that bad except I am trying to be a singer lol. I thought that maybe I could make it as a studio singer but then I started getting nervous just thinking about singing into the microphone. I can't afford a shrink. My friend told me about this woman in Nashville who used to be a singer but had stage fright and now she is a life coach and helps people. She was dirt cheap. 100 bucks for a week and I used her for like 20 hours.
She was nice and she totally got it. She said she worked with other people besides singers even ministers or just college kids who are afraid to talk in class.

I still get anxious but i'm much better. Her regular prices are higher she does this as a special. her name is Susan Gabriel in Nashville you can check her out.

I think you just got to do the old adage and feel the fear but do it anyway - you have to treat it like your going into battle and your going to win and beat the enemy - triumph!

If make public presentation then you have to practice so many time to do better way to present it in the front of the audience...

Practice before the presentation make more reliable way to get the things in better way to communicate your message towards audience.

If you will think too much about your presentation, your audience, and about stage fear, then you will loose your confidence. As we all know that confidence is the key of every success. So, i would like to suggest you all that don't think too much before any presentation. Just prepare an effective presentation and while delivering that presentation just concentrate how to make your audience interested in you, how to make convey your over all message with the help of your presentation..
Surely, you will no loose your confidence. And your mind will not go here and there for thinking wasteful things that discourages you.