Overcome Public Speaking Anxiety Part 2: Be the Gift

As I explained in my last post, public speaking anxiety is just a symptom of a chronic limiting belief(s) that is expired and ready to be deleted from your subconscious mind. That post details a few specific limiting patterns that may be holding you back. In this post, we’ll discuss a few more.

A number of my clients have deleted the following belief patterns to stop anxiety (and even panic) from playing a role in their speaking engagements:

• I’m afraid I don’t deserve to be in the spotlight. I’m not good enough.
• I have a fear of being seen as arrogant and having others feel jealous and envy me. If I want to be liked, I can’t stand out to much. Others will feel bad if I shine.
• If I’m having fun, I’m not being helpful or productive.

There’s an underlying cultural belief that to be valuable and valued, you have to be special and to feel the “grind” (joy-kill). And, to be special, you have to be superior to others. There’s another belief that contradicts this: If you stand out too much and are “superior,” then others will feel inferior, and you’re responsible and guilty for that. So, the mental struggle that most people face without realizing it is: How does one stay between the two, avoiding inferiority and superiority at the same time? Click here to keep reading.