Anyone who tells you that the ability to give an amazing speech won't change your life... just doesn't know better. The problem is that most people don't realize that they can actually conquer their fear and get the confidence they need to make amazing, emotional and powerful speeches. Most people have no idea for example that one of the ways to overcome this problem is by using of hypnosis. Read and find interesting ideas that may lead you to think different...

The problem is that most people don't realize that they can actually conquer their fear and get the confidence they need to make amazing, emotional and powerful speeches. Most people have no idea for example that one of the ways to overcome this problem is by using of hypnosis.

There is an old debate in psychology about the "source" of fear and anxiety. Usually the term "fear" is related with a feeling or sensation that can directly be related to some external-source, while the term anxiety refer to the feeling of stress that caches us without the appearance external-source. That is why anxiety was claimed by many psychologist to be irrational.

This is a debate as I say, and many does not agree with the claim that some behavior may occur without a source, that can empirically be revealed. However we will not get deep into this debate.

The fear of public speaking in this term is more tend toward definition of anxiety. Therefore you may also encounter the term "Speaking anxiety" in your searches for this topic.

Well, I heard some story about some office in, some big city in the world, I will not tell you where exactly, that used to electrify by hidden electrodes, those over motivate workers that insist to give a presentation, so they become terrified and developed fear of public speaking. This is of course an extreme case that does not reflect the common cases we are talking about here.

Just kidding...

To those of you that label the term "irrational" as something negative and unwanted – please don't. Despite the fact that humanity know to do things like Genetic engineering and sending spaceships to the moon, many of the facts about our psychic life can't be reduce to the rationality of science. An holistic approach in psychology that give place for both rational and irrational is therefore more balanced and as result has better chances for leveraging humanity science.

An interesting aspect of irrational fear – or anxiety, is that it can be overcome by suggestion. It may sound to you little bit ridicules if you haven't thought about it before, but after hearing what I say give it another chance – you will discover the new matrix of yourself and others. OK then... imagine that your behavior is controlled by kind of internal "program" that generate the same OUTPUT (the symptom - fear of public speaking in this case) when the some present conditions match some primordial condition. In this term some parts of our behavior can be explained in terms similar to hypnotic suggestion. Have you watch a show that someone is hypnotized and then it is instructed to do something for example cry like baby, and he react to that instruction. This is what I am talking about, but much primordial and an integral part of our overall behavior!

Now you may think that I am a loco because what I just actually told you is that you are a kind of puppet operated by some internal, unknown program. Well, my explanation of course is an over simplification, but if you go and check the roots of psychological treatments, up to concurrent and modern approaches, you will find that many approaches are based upon this underlie undercover program that is very frequently also call – unconscious.

You probably heard about therapies that uses the "free association", or analysis of dreams or "slip of the tongue". These are all, in terms of those therapies, an external expression of our "internal program" that make us react on some situation as we were hypnotized. Techniques are different from each other but the very basic assumption of their all is the ability to change the "underlie program" of our external behavior, using some kind of suggestion, or using some kind of a unconscious-mapping technique, to map those external expressions of the unconscious, bring them to conscious (telling them in the session), expose more and more of this internal network of words ideas and concepts,  that at some moment of the treatment, suddenly the "gravity" toward the unknown (too deep to reveal) source of the problem, change, losing its "power", and symptom gone. And that my friends is true, and working.

Lets go back now to fear of public speaking. Overcoming this fear or anxiety, like with any other psychological stress or phobia, does not happen instantly. It requires practice and commitment to the process.

Hypnosis is one of the approaches for solving public speaking anxiety. If we try to realize what happen theoretically that makes it work, then based upon my oversimplified explanation before, a suggestion generated by external hypnosis (use he link below to know more about a specific technique) may work on some internal primordial "suggestions", as explained before, and by doing that "unbind" the internal relation between terms that trigger anxiety, and therefore prevent what we consider as unwanted behavior - fear of public speaking.

Think of a black hole as metaphor for anxiety. Physicians say that black hole is a collapse of a star that create tremendous gravity toward a singularity point, so that even the light pass in the scope of this gravity is swallowed. So all we see is a "noting" that imply gravity on all that is around it. Now you can realize why is black hole a great metaphor of anxiety. There is something unknown to us, that we can't see, that apply its gravity around all the other parts of our behavior, so it completely stretch all of our expressions toward the point of nothingness – or if you like unproductive behavior. In this case – fear of public speaking.