How to Over Come the Fear of Public Speaking

How to over come the fear of public speaking


What is your biggest fear? Spiders? Snakes? Public Speaking? If you chose public speaking you are not alone. Public speaking is one of man’s greatest fears. One of the greatest abilities is to be able to communicate with people, especially large groups of people. This paper will give some very helpful ways to overcome the fear of public speaking and help develop this skill.

To start, there needs to be some background on a few things to make everything fall together. The mind has two parts, the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious mind is the recorder and the selector. The subconscious mind however remembers everything and is responsible for everything a person does. In order to over come one’s fear of public speaking, the subconscious mind must be used. One of the biggest myths about getting rid of a fear is that a person has to use his or her will power to get rid of the fear. Will power is like a rubber band. A person ...