* Do Your Voice or Hands Get the 'Shakes' (or both)

* Do You Feel Thoughts of Panic, or Forget What You were Going to Say?

Relax! I used to have the same problem - and later I found that most people feel incredibly nervous before any speech to a group of people.

In fact, several surveys have shown the fear of public speaking is often rated even higher than people's fear of death!

The good news is that it fear of public speaking can be easily overcome.

I am a clinical hypnotherapist and former corporate speaker - and I have worked with a vast array of clients over the years, to help them overcome their personal challenges and improve their results.

So what causes all these horrible feelings and symptoms when we speak in public? Purely and simply, the feeling that we will not be good enough.

This means that the symptoms of 'fear of public speaking' involve our levels of confidence and self esteem, as well as our knowledge and confidence in the subject we are speaking about.

These doubts and fears reside within the subconscious mind, which automatically means that hypnosis is a very powerful and effective method of dealing with these symptoms. (for those wishing to order the hypnosis recording, click here - otherwise please continue on for more information about how to deal with the symptoms).

Methods of Improving Your Speeches

However, there are various other ways you can also try, in order to to help deal with these symptoms - and to hopefully prevent them occuring at all.

For instance, regularly visualizing yourself (ie. mentally imagining yourself) performing a seamless speech can greatly improve speaking confidence, as this mentally rehearses the successful speech and helps to re-program the subconscious for a positive and successful performance.

This needs to be done regularly however, in order to overcome the existing 'program' that is already running, which is causing the current symptoms of fear during the performance.

Positive self-talk, also known as an affirmation or mantra, can also be very useful - both as a preventative measure, and also to help deal with the symptoms before you are about to give a speech.

This is where you mentally repeat a positive-reinforcing statement in your mind, over and over again until the subconscious mind accepts it and acts upon it.

You can create your own statements, keeping them short, present-tense and positively-worded, and simply repeat them over and over again in your mind.

For instance, some possible affirmations might include: "everyone loves to hear me speak", "perfect, relaxed talk", "easy and effortless speech", "I'm calm and relaxed", etc.

Repeating affirmations in front of the mirror can also make them doubly effective, as you look yourself in the eye while you recite them - this is essentially "yourself speaking to your own subconscious"

De-sensitization can also be helpful for overcoming fear of speaking to groups and public speaking - which basically means to give as many talks to small organized groups of friends or family as you can, to de-sensitize yourself to speaking in front of groups before you have to give the 'big' speech to your audience.

Meditation, relaxation exercises or vigorous exercise on the actual day of your talk, as well as some deep breathing exercises before the speech, can also help to alleviate some of the major symptoms of public speaking nerves.

When All Else Fails - Try the Solution

But if you give public speeches fairly regularly, or if you need to ensure that you remove the symptoms from returning once and for all, then hypnosis is the most foolproof way of dealing with public speaking nervousness.

Fear of public speaking is basically a type of mental 'program' running on our internal software.

As your mind basically runs very much like a computer, this program is running the same way a computer runs software - giving the same result, again and again.

This hypnosis recording works at the very source of the problem and makes the necessary 'software' changes in order to steadily decrease, and even cease altogether, the symptoms of nervousness.

It uses powerful tailor-made hypnotic suggestions and visualization to re-program your subconscious to make public speeches easier, more pleasureable and with more emotional control, as time goes on.

This recording can be used any time of the day, in the convenience of your own home, and can also be used on an ongoing basis for as long as you require it - saving you the cost of private consultations which can often cost several thousand dollars.

This 20 minute relaxation recording is used on a regular basis until you symptoms of nervousness have abated and your public speeches feel more relaxed, natural and confident.