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Tips For Keeping Your Cool Before Your Presentation
Stretch to relax. Rise on your toes and reach for the ceiling, with your head back. Tighten your muscles from legs up through abdomen, and then release. Relax the neck and shoulder muscles, letting your head loll on your neck in different directions. Breathe to relax. Stand erect, but relaxed and balanced. Inhale while silently counting to five. Hold the breath for five counts, then exhale for five - all breathing is through the mouth. Your diaphragm should move, but your chest should not expand. You can gradually increase the number of counts for each breath to 10. Relax your Jaw. Let your head loll forward. As you raise it, keep your jaw relaxed. Let it hang open, and smile to yourself at how silly it feels. Relax your throat. Yawn ?. This is how your throat needs to be to speak well - open, and relaxed. Keep relaxing the muscles throughout your body, your jaw, neck and throat until you walk to the presentation area. Then smile! and begin. ай 2005 Written by Bronwyn Ritchie for International Training in Communication All rights reserved. If you would like to use this article, you have permission to use it only in full, and only with the following Resource box attached. To learn more about writing and presenting your speeches, register for our teleseminars http://www.itclogancity.org/Teleseminar(write speech).htm to learn more about writing and presenting your speeches. ITC is an international self development organisation that produces guaranteed results. For Public Speaking confidence, Leadership training and organisation skills visit Mt Gravatt Communicators http://www.itcmtgravatt.org/
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