SpeakerAre you very shy when it comes to new surroundings, such as starting a new class or moving to a new area? Sometimes, it is necessary to overcome your shyness and speak confidently. By doing this, it can help you not only to share your ideas properly to others, but also to learn communicating with others. Here are a few steps to consider when speaking with confidence.

 

Steps

  1. Learn how to have conversations with people. Your ideas or opinions may not always be accepted by others, but this is nothing unusual. Open your mouth, express your beliefs! This will improve your courage.
  2. Don’t be afraid and speak loudly. If you speak in a low voice, not only will others not be able to hear what you say, but you will also portray a submissive demeanor, which suggests the opposite of a confident one.
  3. Make eye contact when you speak. For one thing, it is polite for others. Also, eye contact will help others to listen to your thinking carefully.
  4. Praise yourself everyday! This will promote your own confidence, which is important when you speak. With more confidence, people will take your thinking more seriously.

Tips

  • Don’t be nervous when you make mistakes. Human error is far from being a new concept — nobody is perfect! It is normal for everyone to make mistakes. Just calm down and keep speaking bravely.
  • Try and try again! This may be difficult for a shy person at first, but you need to force yourself to speak, and not seclude your thoughts. If you have some ideas, then try to speak out! Don’t just keep them in your head.
  • If you have self confidence issues, try to think that you are the only one who has sound knowledge about the topic. Then go ahead and impart your knowledge to the audience in an effective way.
  • Remember that there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance. Don’t portray an exaggerated amount of confidence, or you will come off as arrogant, believing that your ideas are better than the ideas of everyone else.

Also see : 10 Tips to Improve your Speaking Voice


                      

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    “Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.” - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

     

    One of the most important components of public speaking is the sound of your voice. It influences the impact of your message, and might even make or break the success of your speech. Fortunately, for many people, good voice quality can be learned.

    Instructions :
    1. Breathe from your diaphragm - Practice long and controlled exhales. When you speak, use breath to punctuate your point. For example, take a breath at the end of each phrase whether you need to or not. Use that opportunity to pause and let the listeners absorb what you say.
    2. Use pitch - Lower pitches generally are more soothing to hear. However, modulating your pitch for emphasis will keep your listeners engaged. Develop your pitch by practicing humming.
    3.  Moderate your volume - Find out if you speak too loudly or too softly. When you begin speaking, ask your audience how your volume is (each situation is different). Try to stay at the appropriate volume throughout your speech.
    4. Moderate your pace - This one is also closely related to breath. If you speak too quickly, people can’t keep up. If you speak too slowly, people will lose interest. Record your speech to determine if you need to change your pace. Get feedback from others.
    5. Articulate - Try exaggerating your lip movement to reduce mumbling. Practice articulating tongue twisters and extending and exaggerating vowel sounds. Become an expert at articulating tongue twisters as quickly and crisply as possible. Focus on the ones you find difficult.
    6. Practice your speech in advance and determine where you want to pause for a breath. For more emphasis, pause for more than one breath. Mark your breathing points in your notes.
    7. Loosen up before you begin. Look side to side. Roll your head in half-circles and roll your shoulders back. Shift your rib cage from side to side. Yawn. Stretch. Touch your toes while completely relaxing your upper body, then slowly stand up, one vertebra at a time, raising your head last. Repeat as needed.
    8. Posture - Stand up straight and tall to allow full lung capacity and airflow.
    9. Record your voice repeatedly using different ways of speaking. Determine which one is most pleasing.
    10. Practice breath control - Take a deep breath, and while you exhale, count to 10 (or recite the months or days of the week). Try gradually increasing your volume as you count, using your abdominal muscles—not your throat—for volume. Don’t let your larynx tense up.
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    DRINK WATER IN EMPTY STOMACH !!

    It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking
    up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven a its
    value. We publish below a description of use of water for our
    readers. For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses
    the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese medical
    society as a 100% cure for the following diseases:
  • Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat,
    epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney
    and urine diseases, vomiting, gastritis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes,
    constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and menstrual
    disorders, ear nose and throat diseases.
  • METHOD OF TREATMENT
  • 1. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink 4 x
    160ml glasses of water( dont forget to rinse your mouth )
  • 2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for
    45 minutes
  • 3. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.
  • 4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or
    drink anything for 2 hours
  • 5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink 4 glasses of
    water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and
    gradually increase it to 4 glasses per day.
  • 6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and
    others can enjoy a healthy life.
  • The following list gives the number of days of treatment required to
    cure/control/ reduce main diseases:
  • 1. High Blood Pressure - 30 days
  • 2. Gastric - 10 days
  • 3. Diabetes - 30 days
  • 4. Constipation - 10 days
  • 5. Cancer - 180 days
  • 6. TB - 90 days
  • 7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3
    days in the 1st week, and from 2nd week onwards - daily.
  • This treatment method has no side effects, however at the
    commencement of treatment you may have to urinate a few times.
  • It is better if we continue this and make this procedure as a
    routine work in our life.
  • Drink Water and Stay healthy and Active. This makes sense .... the
    Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals ..not cold
    water. maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while
    eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain...
  • For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable
    to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal.
    However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have
    just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge"
    reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the
    intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine.
    Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best
    to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
  • A serious note about heart attacks: Women should know that not
    every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be
    aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first
    chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense
    sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart
    attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can
    wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more
    we know, the better chance we could survive...
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  • Humans Have Astonishing Memories, Study Finds
  • If human memory were truly digital, it would have just received an upgrade from something like the capacity of a floppy disk to that of a flash drive. A new study found the brain can remember a lot more than previously believed.
  • In a recent experiment, people who viewed pictures of thousands of objects over five hours were able to remember astonishing details afterward about most of the objects.
  • Though previous studies have never measured such astounding feats of memory, it may be simply because no one really tried.
  • "People had never tested whether people could remember this much detail about this many objects," said researcher Timothy Brady, a cognitive neuroscientist at MIT. "Nobody actually pushed it this far."
  • When they did push the human brain to its limits, the scientists found that under the right circumstances, it can store minute visual details far beyond what had been imagined.
  • Those circumstances include looking at images of objects that are familiar, such as remote controls, dollar bills and loaves of bread, as opposed to abstract artworks.
  • Another factor that seemed to help was motivation to do well: The participant who scored highest won a small prize of money (the researchers refused to say exactly how much).
  • "You have to try," said MIT co-author Talia Konkle. "You have to want to do it."
  • The study, funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, and a National Research Service Award, was detailed in the Sept. 8 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • In the experiment, 14 people ranging from age 18 to 40 viewed nearly 3,000 images, one at a time, for three seconds each. Afterwards, they were shown pairs of images and asked to select the exact image they had seen earlier.
  • The test pairs fell into three categories: two completely different objects, an object and a different example of the same type of object (such as two different remote controls), and an object along with a slightly altered version of the same object (such as a cup full and another cup half-full).
  • Stunningly, participants on average chose the correct image 92 percent, 88 percent and 87 percent of the time, in each of the three pairing categories respectively. Though 14 subjects may not sound like a huge sample, the fact that they each recalled the objects with very similar rates of success suggests the results are not a fluke.
  • "To give just one example, this means that after having seen thousands of objects, subjects didn’t just remember which cabinet they had seen, but also that the cabinet door was slightly open," Brady said.
  • Even the researchers didn't expect quite such high recall rates.
  • "We had the intuition that it might be possible, but we were surprised by the magnitude of the effect," said study leader Aude Oliva, also of MIT. "These numbers, higher than 85 and 90 percent, impressed us and also impressed a lot of people who heard about the work."
  • So now that we know the brain's memory is so fantastic, are we all out of excuses for forgetting friends' birthdays?
  • Luckily not, Brady said.
  • "To some extent it's about attention, actively encoding specific details into memory," he told LiveScience. "If we tried really hard we actually could remember when someone's birthday was: if you say to yourself, 'The birthday is on this day and that relates to these other things that I remember.'"
  • Basically, he said, we can remember most things we put our minds to, if we invest enough attention and effort into trying to store them in the first place. 

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