Coaching practices for How to Get Over Presentation Anxiety

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• Right before I walk into the presentation I’m jittery and small, and I want a quiet minute on my own to physically settle into feeling steady and grounded, so all the prep I did actually shows up instead of getting swallowed by nerves.
• I’m so wound up about nailing this presentation that the pressure to be good is exactly what makes me freeze
• I’ve got the big presentation (or the hard conversation) in a few minutes and I can feel my heart already pounding
• The hardest moments are the joins and the exits
• Every time I face the same kind of high-stakes moment my nerves hit me cold and unpredictable, and I want some small repeatable thing I do beforehand

Practices that may help

1. Set your posture before high-stakes moments
   Take a private moment to settle into a confident posture before a presentation or hard talk.
   Posture and Confidence, Honestly Explained
2. Use paradoxical intention for performance anxiety
   Before a performance, commit to performing as badly as possible — notice what happens to the anxiety.
   Logotherapy: Paradoxical Intention
3. Pre-performance heart-focused breathing
   Use 2–5 minutes of slow, heart-centered breathing before high-stakes moments to enter them calmer and sharper.
   Heart Rate Variability Training, Made Practical
4. Build scripts for situation entry and transitions
   Prepare simple, natural openers and transitions so you’re not improvising from scratch under pressure.
   Overcoming Shyness: Philip Zimbardo’s Framework
5. Create a pre-performance ritual that includes posture
   A consistent pre-performance ritual — including posture — reduces anxiety and improves performance more reliably than any single element.
   Power Posing Revisited
6. Write about your worries before a high-stakes performance
   Offload performance anxiety by writing it out in full immediately before the event.
   Choking Under Pressure, Made Practical
7. Debrief after performance without letting relief collapse the strategy
   After a successful performance, acknowledge the outcome honestly without abandoning the preparation habit that produced it.
   Defensive Pessimism, Made Practical
8. Protect the strategy from well-meaning optimism
   Recognize that others’ "positive thinking" attempts before your performance will disrupt your preparation — and manage that proactively.
   Defensive Pessimism, Made Practical
9. Apply EFT to specific performance anxiety triggers
   EFT has the strongest self-guided evidence for test anxiety, public speaking, and sports performance stress.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
10. Set realistic expectations before each exposure
    Before you enter the situation, write down your feared prediction — then check it against reality afterward.
    The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical

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