One of the most common and debilitating disorders afflicting modern man is stage fright. In fact, of all the anxieties we may fall prey to, stage fright is probably one of the worst, insofar as the generated fear response is the most out of scale to any actual danger.
Let’s imagine that you’re afraid of flying. It’s easy to argue that there is some logic behind this. The plane could suffer a malfunction, or pilot error resulting in a crash. That probability may be small, but it is undeniable and poses a real threat to your safety. But when it comes to stage performances, there is no real danger associated to the activity.
Regardless, the strange thing about anxieties is that no level of rational discussion helps you to diffuse the strong negative emotions and the gut-level response that you feel, as the sufferer of the anxiety. This is because your response is kinaesthetic rather than based on logic. This results in a very unpleasant, yet powerful, physiological shift driven by stress chemicals flooding your bloodstream. These chemicals include epinephrine and cortisol.
The unfortunate sole dealing with anxiety experiences a wide range of awful symptoms and feelings such as shaky hands, a parched mouth, weak knees, a pounding of the heart, and even panic.
The good news is that it doesn’t matter how strong your response to these situations is today. It’s entirely possible to greatly reduce or completely eliminate the terror and the stress that you go through when performing in front of a crowd. You can replace your prior feelings of fear with new feelings of empowerment and elation. This is true even if you consider yourself highly anxious and extremely reluctant to make group presentations. You can become a stronger, more confident presenter.
How does this improvement happen? There are many effective therapies in the modern psychotherapeutic toolbox, and these tools have excellent success rates against stage fright and all kinds of performance-related anxieties.
In my own practice, I made extensive use of the old discipline of hypnosis, and the newer power therapies, such as NLP New Code, as well as energy psychologies, including EFT, Be Set Free Fast, and others.
Hypnosis is one of the best tools available, and something I’ve been using for over 35 years. Its effectiveness lies in the ability of a skilled hypnotist to guide a subject into trance and re-write the negative past while installing new resourceful states. Using hypnosis, we can transform problematic emotional states and in many cases the changes are permanent.
Energy psychology is much newer, and very different from hypnosis. It involves erasing negative associations and feelings that hold you back from delivering your best performances. After the negatives are erased, the process is completed by installing new, more empowering beliefs and resourceful states. This helps to transform a prior problem into a future success. Often subjects are rid of their problems in a single session.
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