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Write on a sheet all that makes you uncomfortable, which creates anxiety and puts you in a stress situation. After writing everything on a sheet, analyze your fears more closely. Ask yourself if they are really motivated: you will most probably find that the answer is “not at all!” Being prey to your emotions can make us lose sight of the general situation and lead us to overestimate dangers and complexity. Also remember that the results do not define who you are: only you can decide who you want to be. Let's move on to the next tip. This is the classic "Carpe diem": seize the moment, take advantage of the opportunities that pop up, do not say no to mere fear, accept opportunities. Another advice concerns clothing. Do not strive to appear who you are not: of course, choose clothes suitable for the environment, that make you feel at ease. So If so you have to participate in a video conference, you certainly don't choose an overall but not even a pinstripe suit. To best deal with situations of stress and anxious states, therefore, you can adopt some strategies that will soon allow you to overcome your fears. As we said, practice speaking in public, opposite a mirror or, if you prefer, with help from someone. We also said that a good strategy is to observe our fears more closely, so as to resize them, giving each one the weight it deserves. Another useful advice to deal with anxiety and stress is to do breathing exercises, detailed in the previous unit. In short, check that during these breathing exercises, the diaphragm is properly used, placing a hand on the belly and one on the chest. To deepen these breathing exercises, we advise you to attend yoga courses, even online, or martial arts, such as Tai-Chi. Proper breathing techniques will allow you to relax, sleep better and feel less discomfort and stress. Finally, a last tip is as follows: Do view exercises. Train to imagine situations in which you receive consent and approval. Imagine feeling satisfied. Concentrate on the emotions tested during these exercises. Thanks to the strength of imagination, in fact, your emotions can improve and as a consequence they will also improve in actual fact. Thus remember that following these simple exercises you can finally overcome fear and anxiety that often afflict you. Thanks to these exercises you will also learn to master your voice, which conveys our emotional state by communicating it to our listeners. Summary We have described some exercises that will allow you to face anxiety and stress, and that will help you manage your emotions to the fullest. We said a valid aid to face an interview or a video-conference motive for anxiety and stress is to prepare in advance, rehearsing in front of the mirror or alternatively having someone listen. A good advice is then to make a detailed list of our fears and all the things that cause us stress, so as to observe them closely and resize the causes of our anxiety. It is also important to feel good with ourselves: we must never hide who we are or pretend to be who we are not. Finally, breathing and visualization exercises will allow us to better manage emotions and then also use our voice. It is therefore good at this point, to make some clarifications regarding voice. In cases of more serious and unpleasant anxiety and stress, beside these exercises it may be useful to ask advice to a speech therapist expert. How can we define speech therapy? «Speech therapy is that medical branch that deals with the prevention and treatment of voice diseases and disorders, language, words, communication, swallowing and related cognitive disorders, related, for example, to memory and to learning». Speech therapist is a specialist affecting voice and communication. In the most serious cases, exercises involving self-esteem, as well as breathing exercises, are not enough. The speech therapist is therefore the only one who can conscientiously assess whether the communication problem is pathological or not. It will therefore be the speech therapist to direct you towards a neuropsychiatrist or a neurologist, so as to better understand if it is a pathological disorder or if instead you need to follow a suitable path to deal with these possible problems. We have arrived at the end of this unit. We have talked about non-pathological anxiety, or the condition of fear that captures most of us in many situations, such as video-conferences or interviews. Thanks to this unit, you have discovered what are some of the main exercises that will allow you to face and overcome anxiety. Thanks to these exercises, in fact, you will also learn to better govern your voice, which channels and unintentionally communicates our deepest emotional states to our listeners.