From the course: Communicating with Confidence (2015)
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Breathing properly
From the course: Communicating with Confidence (2015)
Breathing properly
- Do you ever stop to recognize that often in stressful situations, especially when your confidence is low, that your breathing goes haywire? In moments of nervousness, during meetings, presentations, or difficult conversations, people can lose touch with themselves. Sometimes they stop breathing or engage in shallow gasps forcing their chest to pump and heart to beat fast. Often they're not breathing at all, instead holding their breath, and that leaves us more tense and less natural. When we engage in high-chested breathing or hold our breath we cut our oxygen supply, making it difficult for us to think or concentrate. Now within the context of communicating we stop breathing when we lose our place, forget what we want to say, or when someone asks a tough question. That's why breathing is especially important when you're listening to a question. I even advise people to write the word breathe on every page of their notes to give them reminders not to seize up. The reason we seize up…
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