Hypnosis for fear of public speaking in Sheffield
Our skilled hypnotherapists are here to guide you in overcoming the dread of public speaking, by addressing the underlying causes and instilling empowering techniques for your success. Through personalized hypnotherapy sessions, we'll assist you in achieving your speaking goals and enhancing your overall confidence.
What is glossophobia?
You may experience fear of public speaking even in smaller settings, such as in meetings, classrooms, or at family engagements.
The fear of public speaking is considered a social phobia or social anxiety disorder. It can be particularly debilitating because compromised social skills can negatively impact your relationships, occupation, and education.
Therefore, if you have glossophobia, you must seek help so that you can tackle your fears and seize control of your life.
What can people experience when they have a fear of public speaking?
If you have glossophobia, you will often experience persistent and intense anxiety when you have to speak in public or even at the prospect of delivering a speech. You may also experience anticipatory anxiety, which is when you feel overwhelmed or stressed long before you’re due to speak publicly. Additionally, you may feel apprehensive, irritable, overly emotional, overwhelmed, embarrassed, humiliated, or stressed, and you may feel like you want to escape. However, glossophobia can also manifest with physical symptoms, including:
- Crying
- Selective mutism, or feeling as if you cannot speak
- Chills
- Chest pain, Feeling tight chested, choking sensations, or shortness of breath
- Hyperventilating
- Difficulty concentrating, clouded thinking or disorientation
- Muscle spasms or muscle tension
- Flushed skin, or feeling overly hot
- Feeling nauseous or vomiting
- Diarrhoea or constipation
- Increased heart rate or heart palpitations
- Increased blood pressure
- Trembling or shaking
- Sweating
- In extreme cases, you may experience a panic attack, which is a sudden episode of intense fear that triggers physical and psychological symptoms, such as heart palpitations, feeling like you’re hallucinating, having a heart attack, or even dying
Why use hypnotherapy for fear of public speaking?
At Focused Hypnosis, your hypnotherapist will use guided relaxation techniques to help you achieve hypnosis, where you will become totally relaxed and usually more susceptible to suggestion.
Your hypnotherapist will work with you to disassociate public speaking with emotional distress and anxiety and help you deconstruct it so that it becomes more tolerable. Visit our other pages to discover how you can use hypnotherapy for phobias.
What are the benefits of using hypnotherapy to overcome a fear of public speaking?
- Hypnotherapy sends you into a deeply relaxed state of mind and body, which will equip you with a calm mindset that will help you tackle your glossophobia
- Hypnotherapy for fear of public speaking empowers you to take control of your life, as it offers you the tools to deconstruct your fear and think about it more positively so that it becomes more tolerable when you meet it in real life
- Unlike many other forms of psychological treatment, hypnotherapy is self-led, as you can control the methods that your hypnotherapist will use, and you can bring yourself out of the hypnotic state whenever you want to
- By learning how to control your public speaking phobia, your self-confidence and self-esteem could improve as you assert yourself when giving a presentation
- Hypnotherapy allows you to directly influence your future, as it delves into your unconscious to treat the root cause of your public speaking phobia so that it does not re-emerge later in life
- Hypnotherapy is all-natural and has little side-effects or complications
- Hypnotherapy is cost-effective and a cheaper option for psychological treatment, as it only requires around six sessions
- Hypnotherapy teaches you self-sufficient methods that can be practised and have effects that last for the rest of your life
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What causes fear of public speaking?
Numerous factors contribute to the fear of public speaking and may arise before, during, or even at the mere thought of addressing an audience.
A past negative experience of public speaking
Brain physiology
Sometimes, the cause of your phobia can be explained by your brain physiology. There is a part of the brain called the amygdala, which manages your fear response. If this part of the brain goes into overdrive, your anxiety will be heightened.
Parental influence
If your parents have a phobia of public speaking and display high anxiety levels when speaking, you may develop the phobia, too, as your exposure level will be extremely low. This is a prevalent cause in children, but it can affect many adults as well.
Temperament
Do you consider yourself to be more of an introvert? Well, you may be more prone to glossophobia because your nature is quiet, reserved, and tentative, and you can find social engagements particularly exhausting.
Specific situational triggers
Additionally, your fear of public speaking could be triggered by certain other phobias and anxiety disorders, such as:
Underlying fear
Sometimes, your public speaking anxiety could be triggered by a strong underlying fear, such as the fear of being judged, embarrassed, or rejected. Additionally, many people feel nauseous when preparing for or during a public speech. Therefore, if you have emetophobia, otherwise known as the fear of vomiting, watching other people vomit, or feeling sick, you may simultaneously develop the fear of public speaking.
Social anxiety disorder
Many people who have social anxiety disorder will find public speaking particularly stressful because they must confidently and eloquently speak to an audience.
What to expect from a public speaking hypnotherapy session?
Hypnotherapy is particularly effective at treating phobias because they exist in our subconscious; hypnosis directly accesses and influences this region.
At Focused Hypnosis, your first public speaking session will begin with your hypnotherapist explaining how hypnotherapy for phobias works. After that, you’ll agree on the methods that your hypnotherapist will use.
When tackling phobias, some therapists use exposure therapy, which brings the thing or object that the patient fears into the room. However, many people find this anxiety-inducing, so if you believe that you would not benefit from this form of treatment, we will not use it.
Then, the hypnotherapist may:
- Use guided relaxation techniques to help you achieve hypnosis
- Use your agreed method to achieve your goal
- To conclude the session, your hypnotherapist will gradually bring you out of your trance-like state
Will hypnotherapy cure my fear of public speaking?
Hypnosis can be an effective, efficient, and accessible form of treatment if you need help tackling glossophobia. However, hypnosis is not the right form of treatment for everyone. For example, if you are not open to hypnosis, you will not achieve a trance-like state. Also, for some serious mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, hypnosis can have detrimental effects as it can create false memories.
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Frequently asked questions
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