Do you get nervous when it’s time to give a presentation in a class, lead a meeting in the office or give a speech in your community? Welcome to the club! That means you are just like the majority of the population who gets nervous, anxious, or panic when it comes to public speaking.

This nervous feeling actually affects our performance negatively. When we are nervous, we are more likely to lose touch with ourselves, forget our words, or act nervously around others. As a result, you may forget the most important point of the speech, mumble a lot during your presentation or speak too fast or too slow. Although you may be really good at the subject that you are talking about and really prepared for your speech, you may not perform at your best.

All in all, perfecting your public speaking skills is an important subject to work on not only to improve your performance in public environments but also, to improve your confidence along the way.

Hypnosis can be really helpful for sharpening your public speaking skills because the confidence, memory, and focus that you need are usually triggered from the subconscious mind. By strengthening these areas subconsciously, you may find that you are naturally and effortlessly good at public speaking! Here are five areas that you can work on with hypnosis that will enhance your speech!

1-     Discover your subconscious beliefs during hypnotherapy

They say you are what you believe. Beliefs are one of the most important components of success. After all, belief is what makes a placebo pill effective!

Just the same way, what you believe about yourself subconsciously, will affect your speech and presentation! It’s hard to become aware of the subconscious beliefs in everyday life. One way to become more aware is paying attention to your inner voice. What does that inner voice say at times of presentation or speech? Does it say “no matter what you do, you will not be great”? Or does it say something like “everybody will laugh at you”? These may be the things you subconsciously believe.

You can work on your toxic beliefs with hypnosis. These beliefs may root from criticizing parents, unpleasant childhood experiences, or lack of confidence. Hypnotherapy can help you discover these beliefs and reframe them in a positive way.

2-     Eliminate anticipation anxiety with self-hypnosis

Usually, when someone is nervous about their speech or presentation, anxiety starts building earlier in the morning or maybe even the night before. This accumulating anxiety makes us think more irrationally and become even more nervous than normal. Just by simply eliminating the anticipation anxiety, we can be a lot calmer and in control of the situation.

Self-hypnosis is a great tool to release anticipation anxiety. During self-hypnosis, we have to focus on the steps to guide ourselves into the hypnotic state. This deep focus and physical relaxation will help with releasing the building anxiety in the mind. While you are there, you can also give yourself some positive affirmations to enhance your success!

3-     Increase your confidence with self-hypnosis

We can all tell the difference between the two people who walk in the room with full confidence and no confidence, right? The feeling that makes us say “I got this” is the one that helps us to perform and achieve. So, what you will certainly need for a great presentation or speech is self-confidence.

Confidence is the perfect combination of trust in self, abilities, and inner resources. Once you tap into what’s already within, the magic happens. And hypnosis is one of the best methods to bring the hidden treasures out!

Before your big day, outline your strengths. What are some qualities that make people trust in your knowledge and expertise? Work on enhancing and highlighting these qualities under self-hypnosis. Once you lead yourself into the hypnotic state with self-hypnosis, give yourself positive affirmations about these strengths or recall a time when you used these qualities successfully. Remember, you are just bringing out what’s already inside!

4-     Set your focus on yourself with hypnotherapy 

When presenting to a group, many people feel uncomfortable thinking that the group is judging the way they speak, act, or present. In reality, during the majority of the meetings very few people pay attention to the presenter. Remember, everyone has their own set of problems, worries, and to-do lists (think of your last meeting when you were a listener!).

When we think the audience is judging us, we limit ourselves. We end up focusing on them and lose touch with our natural resources and confidence. However, if we simply pay attention to what we are talking about, why it’s important to present that topic, or the skills that we are sharing with the audience, we can perform so much better.

With the help of hypnotherapy, you can shift your focus within during a presentation. This can be accomplished by training your mind to be focused on yourself during your presentation or using the mind anchor technique to set your focus within.

5-    Hack your mind with hypnosis 

Overall, hypnosis is one of the most powerful tools to enhance mind capacity. Our minds are so much more capable than we use in daily life. What if we could focus on what we are studying a bit more? What if we could memorize every sentence, every word clearly? Wouldn’t that help to perform even better at your presentation?

With the help of hypnosis, we can have more clarity and mental strength. This doesn’t mean that you will be like a robot out of the movies. Rather, you will be able to use all the information that you know and every sentence that you studied.

Conclusion

Our mind is almost like a very complex computer that’s capable of everything that you can imagine. But imagine using a computer without knowing its coolest features. Probably you wouldn’t go any further than opening your online browser, right? The mind works just the same way. If you don’t release daily tensions, if you don’t work on enhancing small things that make a difference such as memory, focus, or confidence, you won’t be benefiting from the coolest things your mind can help you accomplish. Hypnosis simply helps with hacking your own mind!