I gotta crow! Last night after Transform Stage Fright into Natural Presence class, one of my students, Ashwini, exclaimed how this class is transforming her life! She recalled how as a young person in India, she had been an excellent dancer; so much so that her teacher had wanted her to dance at center stage…
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On February 19th 2008, I watched the opening of American Idol’s twelve male singers. Every man had a great voice and strong energy. What I found interesting was the reaction and feedback from judge Simon Cowell. Of the twelve performers, Simon liked two of them. Simon has a nose for authenticity in singers! If you…
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The opposite of stage fright and performance anxiety is presence. Presence is a state of being present in the moment. It is an experience of being saturated with awareness of yourself. It is a state of integration, where physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of yourself are aligned and working together. In a state of…
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Let me describe what happens in performance anxiety, fear of speaking in public and in stage fright. Perhaps you will recognize some of this from your own experience. As human beings, we have a very sensitive central nervous system, especially along the spinal column where we have several energy centers where nerves bundle together to…
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Stage fright and fear of speaking in public are triggered by two things – expectation of perfection and fear of judgment. We are expecting ourselves to be perfect (and we know we can’t be) so we think we are not good because we aren’t perfect. We are also afraid that otfers will judge us harshly…
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Those of us who have the most stage fright and fear of speaking in public have the potential to be among the most compelling and impacting speakers, communicators and performers of all! That is because we have the feelings. Our feelings are up to the surface where they can be used to create a genuine…
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