Stage Fright is
the fear or nervousness which is faced by every single person while performing
in front of audience. When you face something challenging or threatening your
body reacts differently it is called fight-or-flight
response. One corporate speech consultant Dianna Booher says that if
someone is saying that he or she is not nervous before speech then he or she either
lying or a boring speaker. There are many sensations which are created by
threatening situations before giving a speech or before going in front of
audience i.e. (about stage fright, 2014)
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Dry Mouth
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Sweaty Hands
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Faster Heartbeat
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Stomach Butterfly
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Shaky Voice and many other sensations
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Many times the body begin to shake in places such as hands
and legs and a feeling of cold fingers, toes, ears. Sometimes blood pressure increases
it causes the body to overheat and sweat. While facing the audience you cannot speak
properly in front of them. Many famous people also face this problem. The symptoms
of stage fright are essentially a stress reaction. The fear strongly affects an
individual’s professional life and prospects for career advancement. (UNI home,
2005)
So what are your views or techniques
to reduce these effects?
References:
UNI home. (2005, 03 01).
Retrieved 06 05, 2014, from business uni:
http://business.uni.edu/buscomm/Presentations/stagefright.html
about stage
fright. (2014, 04 05). Retrieved 06 05, 2014, from performance anxiety:
https://www.performanceanxiety.com/about_stagefright.htm
Hi Ravi,
ReplyDeleteI agree with your views, no one in this world is born as a good or a confident speaker. Sometimes, people may go blank before audience as a result of excessive stage fear. This is what has happened to me during my first speech in school days, when I understood overcoming my stage fright is very necessary. According to me, some of the ways of overcoming our stage fright are: we need to enrich our confidence level, practice as much as we can before friends, family etc before actually presenting ourselves on stage, we need to clam down and cheer up by listening music, take deep breaths etc. It is very important for each one of us to get out of fears and face the competitive world. You have done a great job in giving out the details of stage fright.
Regards!