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3 Finding Your Professional Voice Confidence and Impact - Coggle Diagram
3 Finding Your Professional Voice
Confidence and Impact
Confidence is a feeling and Skill both
Confidence is Physical and Psychological
Physical pov
Make sure our body is arranged in a way that it's sending really positive messages back to the brain that we feel safe. That we feel grounded, that we feel calm and in control.
Psychological pov
Think about the messages that our brain is sending to our body.
I'm going to be really good at this, I'm really excited and ready to do this
Techniques for Confidence
Tip 1:
don't try and ignore feelings that come up.
Take a moment to experience the feeling and then breathe through it. Most feelings and emotions will only hang around for about 90 seconds if we let them travel through the body. If we hold onto them maybe with some tension which we'll come onto in another video. Actually we end up trapping that emotion in the body and the body starts to respond. So next time you feel nervous before something, take a moment, maybe name that feeling. Maybe think of it as saying, I'm feeling nervous rather than I am nervous to put that experience outside of yourself, sit with it, breathe, and then reframe.
Change the thought, I'm excited, I'm really looking forward to doing this.
Prepare for success. Make sure you use those 5, 10 minutes before that big meeting / presentation, before you walk up to someone at a networking event to
a) check in, am I feeling nervous, am my feeling tense?
b) clear strategies for how you want to spend those minutes.
Do positive affirmations, getting in touch with what's happening in the body, some quiet, gentle, calm breathing.
bit of energizing to get you feeling that energy coming out of the body and into the room.
You start to realize you're nervous. Maybe you can feel your voice running away from you, maybe your voice has got a little bit quiet or a little bit high. Come back to the body in those moments, come back to the breath, take a moment, let the breath come into the body and carry on. Often when we're nervous the breath is the first thing that we really trap. So in that moment if you can let your breath release and you can let the body release and let that breath in, it will often calm you down really quickly
if you're feeling nervous, don't try and block that feeling, sit with it, breathe and you'll notice that the feeling starts to pass.
Prepare for success. Take those moments beforehand to know what's happening in the body, what's happening in the brain.
if you're in that moment and find that you've got nervous, come back to the breath, let the breath in and it will calm down the body.
Steady your Breath => Mind will become steady
Confidence - ‘a feeling of having (little) no doubt about yourself or abilities’
Build new thought patterns around confidence
identify what your current thought patterns are
Vocal warm-up
Sweaty palms, heart rate, Adrenaline rush, feel frozen to the spot
External sense of our place on the earth
Concentrate being grounded,
Really think about your feet on ground
soft ankles
shin bones going up
soft unlocked knees
free pelvis in order to get the breath as deep as possible
soft belly
soft breastbone (chest)
Shoulders framing light ribcage
head floating up and free
Dealing with Performance Anxiety: Vocal Warm-up series
Excellent video
Think about taking up more space
Beyond the realm of your physical entity
Lateral space (sideways space, Left to Right)
Front and back space (Shoulder space going backward, Breathe forward)
Up and down movement of the diaphragm taking up more space internally
Sense that you are bigger than you ever thought you were
Reaching out into the auditorium
Find out your own horizon which is congruent with your posture alignment
be in your own center
Entwine your fingers, Backwards circle, Breathing that horizon
Down with a sigh of relief
https://www.cssd.ac.uk/blog/10-easy-ways-appear-more-confident
Unlock tension
Breathe
Make eye contact
Slow down
Own your mistakes
Improvise
Mix it up
Cut down on Visual aids
Rehearse
Increase awareness
We feel nervous
sympathetic nervous system
Flight-or-Fight
Flight => heart races, voice gets really tight, Knees wooble a bit
Knee tense
Abdominal tense
Jaw tense
Awareness
Mindful Body scan