So scared I'll freeze up. But we'll see. Come by the chat room or call in. The topic is daydream characters.

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Comment by greyartist on September 29, 2012 at 11:49am

thanks, I'll try to concentrate on my breathing. 10 min til show and I already feel my breathing getting shallow.

Comment by John K on September 28, 2012 at 11:51am

That freezing up happens as a result of "fight or flight" response which causes your frontal lobe to shut down (disabling your analytic abilities so that you rely more on primal instinct), the actual freeze is from the indecisiveness ("Should I just quit and get out of here? Should I keep going? I am going to fail, I need to go! No wait... wait, I need to keep going! But what if I fail!?")

It all happens because you start to get nervous, the nervousness causes you to breathe more restrained which throws your breathing out of rhythm, your breathing out of rhythm throws your heartbeat out of rhythm, and when the heartbeat out of rhythm that tells your body you are in some kind of danger and it triggers the frontal lobe shutdown (the "fight or flight" response). So the key is controlling the rhythm of your breathing.

One way to do this inconspicuously is to pause after your statements (which you should do anyways, it gives your listener time to reflect on it), during those pauses you can get your breathing back on track (you want to breath in your nose and out your mouth in a consistent rhythm, maybe 2 seconds in and 3 seconds out or something comfortable).

I find spiritual gurus are often really good at interweaving their breathing with their speaking, it is what gives them that kind of appearance of a supernatural calm. Because they are maintaining their breathing rhythm their heart rate stays stable and they never appear to get excitable.

Watch this for an example of what I mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESVoQzOhZNQ If you watch and listen carefully you can see and hear him breathing in a very controlled manner after things he's saying, but when he lapses in that breathing he starts stuttering and juggling his thoughts.

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