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The Fear of Public Speaking – How to Overcome It

Public speaking is an activity, which can help you to improve your speaking and communication skills greatly. It increases your confidence and self-esteem.

However, does just the thought of actually getting up in front of a group of unfamiliar people send terror down your spine? If so, the following tips will help you deal with your fear of public speaking:

Just do it

Although public speaking might seem particularly scary, it’s just like any other activity you might be unfamiliar with, which could make you feel anxious. In order to ultimately get over public speaking phobia, you need to do it.

Sign up to a local public speaking group and take the first step.

Continue making baby steps

The great thing about joining a public speaking group is you don’t have to speak the first time you attend a class – unless you want to. If you feel it’s too much for you, then just sit and observe other speakers getting up to speak and get comfortable with the whole set up.

Next week or month (depending on the frequency of the classes), be a little braver and get up and say a few words.

Prepare well

A great way to deal with the fear of public speaking is to prepare well. When you’ve decided on the topic of your speech, write out the script in full, and then rewrite it again in note form. After this, rehearse your speech, again and again until you begin to feel confident.

By knowing the content of your speech well, you’re setting yourself up for a successful delivery of it.

Visualise yourself

Not only can you help yourself by saying your speech out loud through rehearsing, you can also take this further by vividly visualising yourself giving your speech in just the way you want to.

See yourself giving a successful speech on the screen of your mind, and you will send out the right messages to your body to act out your visualisation for real when you give your speech.

Imagine you’re speaking to friends

A huge factor which can put you off public speaking is worry about what the audience will think. You think they might judge you or that you will make a mistake and look stupid.

The reality is that no one will really judge you, and making a mistake doesn’t mean you’re stupid. It means you’re human. Nevertheless, you can still be concerned about others.

One technique you can use to deal with this is to imagine the audience you’re going to be speaking to are friends. Even if you’ve never spoken with any of them, still assume they’re friends.

By assuming their friends, you’re helping yourself to feel more comfortable.

Welcome the nerves

Before you give a speech, you will feel nervous. You’re not alone. Everyone does. Even the most seasoned public speaker will feel some butterflies in his/her stomach before giving a speech.

Nerves are not a sign that you should not speak. Nerves are a sign that you that you have the opportunity to make your speech fresh and slightly spontaneous. Such qualities will only enhance your delivery.

My friends, it’s over to you:

• What other approaches and techniques can we use to overcome the fear of public speaking?

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How to Tell If You Are Destined For Success

Success can mean different things to different people. For instance, one person might define success as passing a difficult exam. Another person might define success as running a profitable company. Yet another individual might define it as overcoming a particular fear. Similarly, you too define success in your unique ways.

Are you currently finding it difficult to succeed in an aspect of life?

Below are a list of certain traits, attitudes and views that are universal to people who are destined for success. You might already have these, in which case you need to remind yourself of your strengths and continue with your life goals and plans.

You have strong persistence

Do you ever do an activity and have a strong desire to get it done, no matter what? Do you enjoy breaking down barriers that come your way, so that get your jobs done? If so, you have a strong sense of persistence, which is a very powerful trait to have.

Don’t forget you have the ability to persist and use it to overcome any challenge you are currently facing.

You can easily connect with people

People skills are vital for various types of success. When you work collaboratively with others, you not only increase the chances of your success; in the process you help other people do the same – this is a win-win situation.

If you can easily create rapport with most people you come into contact with, whatever their background, you have a great skill at your disposal.

How can your people skills help you to increase your ability to succeed?

You have a desire for a better world

Another sign you have the ability to be successful, is if you look around the environments and situations you find yourself in, and have visions for a better world.

Not only do you imagine a better world, you also have a strong urge to act and do something about it.

What piece of action can you take today that will contribute to making a difference in your life and in the lives of others?

You are optimistic by default

If you continuously are able to see the good in what you do and can quickly get over setbacks by thinking positively again, then you have the ability to be optimistic.

Being able to be optimistic in times of adversity means you can quickly get back onto the path that will ultimately result in success for you.

Are you currently thinking negatively? If so, turn on your ability now to switch to optimism.

You are unafraid to walk the extra mile

If you love working hard, and have no issue with working extra hours then you have a strong work ethic. A strong work ethic means you gain satisfaction from doing a good job and understand that the benefits of work will enhance your skills and character.

How can you use your ability to take the initiative, so that you bring yourself closer to success?

My friends, it’s over to you:

• What other characteristics and abilities do, we as humans already have, which we might not always remember, yet can use when we want to raise our chances of success?

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How to Get Your Week Off to a Super Start

Do you find yourself becoming nervous on a Sunday evening as you know Monday is just around the corner, which means back to work? Do you dread the sound of your alarm going off on a Monday morning, because it signals the start of a new week?

If so, the following tips will help you get the new week off to a great start:

Sleep well

One of joys of the weekend is being able to stay up late on Friday and Saturday night. However, ensure you get to bed at a decent hour on Sunday night. A good night’s sleep will help to ensure your mind-body is well relaxed for the new week.

Exercise or meditate

If you can wake up a little earlier on Monday morning and exercise, doing so will help you get into a positive mood. This doesn’t have to a full blown workout either. Just a 15 minutes power walk can be enough.

Alternatively, you can meditate for 10 minutes to help you get balanced and calm, ready for the week ahead.

Think opportunities

Rather than choosing to feel dread at the prospect of a new week, think opportunities. A new week is full of possibilities with plenty of opportunities for learning, and growth.

What one activity will you do this week that will help you develop as a person?

Start again

If your previous week was particularly stressful or bad, then a new week gives you the opportunity to start afresh. You can leave the past firmly where it should be, which is in the past and focus on creating a better future.

Tell yourself

Rather than engaging in negative self-talk about how you can’t face the week, tell yourself “I’m going to have a terrific week” or that “I’m going to really enjoy and have a productive Monday”.

Eat breakfast

You can help yourself get your week off to a decent start by ensuring your stomach is full.  Eat a decent breakfast before you leave your front door in the morning.

Be present

Worry about the working week only really happens if you allow it. If you get up on Monday and find your mind wandering into thinking too much about all you have to do at work, bring your attention back to the present moment and observe your breathing.

Leave early

If you drive to work then Monday mornings are the busiest of the week. By leaving a little earlier, you give yourself more time to get into work with less stress.

Listen to music

During your drive into work, or on your bus or train ride, put on some music that will uplift you. This will help to get you into a good state before you start your work.

Start early

If possible, get to your office, or sit at your home office around 20-30 minutes before you officially start your working week. Use this time to write down all the key tasks you need to get done during the week.

This will help you get focused and help to increase your productivity as you get into your work.

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• In what other ways can we get off to a really good start to the week?

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How to Deal with Self-Doubt

One of the biggest factors that will hamper your progress in life is self-doubt. It can eat away at your confidence and make you believe you can’t achieve what you want to. If you’re finding you’re doubting your abilities, the following tips will help you:

Be kind on yourself

Self-doubt is an emotion that doesn’t feel good. With such emotions your natural reaction can be to want those to go away, so that you feel balanced again. In order to deal with self-doubt though, you need to accept first of all that it is there.

Next, rather than be hard on yourself, show compassion. Understand that the doubt is trying to protect you. It could from an unfamiliar environment or an activity you might never have done before, or have not carried out many times.

Ignore it

You can deal with self-doubt by ignoring it. Whenever you experience doubt, acknowledge that it is there and continue with the activity you’re doing, anyway. This may sound easier said than done. However, it can be achieved.

Remember, doubt is a normal human emotion and you don’t need to pay attention to any emotion you experience, unless you want to.

Have faith in yourself

Faith is a powerful emotion to counter doubt. What do you have faith in? Maybe it’s your faith in God, or the Universe, your family; perhaps it’s your pet. Think of what you have faith in and notice how this faith feels throughout your body. Once you experience this faith use it to do what you have doubts about.

Doubt the self-doubt

Ok, so you’re experiencing self-doubt, right? It feels strong and its making you worry. How about if you experience the same level of doubt about the self-doubt you’re having?

When you doubt that your self-doubt even exists, notice how it helps you to actually believe more in yourself.

Sleep on it

If you’ve come to the end of the day, and have been struggling to solve a problem, you might begin to doubt if you can solve it. If this happens, then stop what you’re doing, take your attention to something else, and get a good night’s sleep.

Come back to the problem the next morning refreshed, and see how the answer to the problem will magically appear.

Allow yourself

Self-doubt usually has corresponding internal thoughts and language. You might tell yourself things like “I can’t do it”, or “I’m not good enough”. Remember, that not only can you tell yourself negative statements that further your doubt; you can also tell yourself positive words that allow you to see possibilities.

Tell yourself that “I give myself permission to try this and see what happens.” If you listen to self-doubt and allow it to prevent you from taking action, you lose.

If on the other hand you give yourself permission to try out something new, then you always win, no matter the outcome. This is because you’re allowing yourself to have a new experience and positive experiences which are unfamiliar means your growth will further.

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• What other ways can we use to deal with self-doubt?

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How to Communicate Properly To Prevent Misunderstandings

Do you find yourself often being misunderstood either at work, or at home and feel you’re not being heard? When someone says things to you, have you really heard what the person has said? Or do you hear what you want to hear?

Below are some tips to make your communication cleaner, so that you reduce the likelihood of being misunderstood and also increase the chances of really understanding what other people are communicating to you.

Say it in person

E-mail is a standard form of communication these days. You use it at work. You’ve most likely got an e-mail app installed on your smartphone. E-mail communication is great. It’s easy and quick. However, e-mails also lack clarity. The contents of e-mails also require contexts exist and to be understood. They also miss real, face-to-face interaction.

If what you want to tell a colleague or friend is very important, go and speak with the person face-to-face, or at least over the phone. It will do wonders to improve your chances of being heard properly the first time.

Ask people if they’ve understood you

When you’ve conveyed a message to a person, don’t hesitate to ask the individual whether he/she has understood you. If a person replies “yes”, then take stock of their non-verbal communication. If they look like they’ve really understood you, you’ll be able to tell.

If you have any doubt the person isn’t getting you, explain it one more time.

Ask people if you’ve understood them

When a person is telling you things, let the individual say what they want to until he/she has finished. After this, say something on the lines of “let me ensure I’ve understood you correctly” and repeat back your understanding of what the person has said.

This type of checking on your part will increase the likelihood you have understood completely what the person has told you, and you can respond accordingly.

Get specific

If someone is asking you for help, it’s important to ask questions which are specific about the issue the person is talking about. Remember to use questions beginning with ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘how’.

Why are these types of questions important? We’ll, humans have a tendency to talk at the surface level at times, and also get caught up in how they’re feeling.

Getting to the facts will enable you to respond in ways than can help a person solve a problem he/she is facing, rather than remaining stuck in the emotions of it.

Get other people to help you

This point is particularly important in a work context. If you’re having an important meeting, and you’re unsure about the topic areas, which the meeting will cover, then get another colleague or a team to back you up.

This will help to ensure your colleagues capture anything you might not understand.

Also, if you know a person in the meeting is a gregarious and dominant person, and you’re the opposite, invite a colleague who shares similar traits as the individual to support you in the session.

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• In what other ways can we communicate properly to avoid misunderstandings?

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How to Avoid Negativity

Negatively comes in all different varieties. It can manifest from behaviours you might see in others, and the words they say. It could be actions you do yourself.

You see, there’s a key thing about negative vibes – they have a habit of travelling around.

If you’re feeling negative, then when you come into contact with other people, your negativity will pass onto them. Likewise, when people around you are harbouring ill will, it can potentially affect you and others. If you’re finding yourself always being negative or seeing negativity in others and want to figure out how to deal with this, the following tips will help you:

Don’t let other’s negativity spread to you

If you’re finding other people in your daily environments are bringing down your energy levels, then make a conscious decision to not allow them to change the way you’re feeling.

Sometimes this can be difficult, especially if you’re constantly in contact with a person who is negative. However, you can still choose not to allow that person’s emotions project onto you. Say a big “no” to allowing that individual’s vibes to enter into your personal space.

Engage in positive activities

Take positive action in your life. This could involve working on your confidence, helping other people improve their lives and abilities, reading inspirational books and news stories, and having cheerful and positive interactions with others.

Keep away from negativity

Where possible, stay away from negativity altogether. This could involve keeping away from bad crowds, or even refraining from particular types of music, or watching certain types of TV programs and movies.

Think of answers

You will always face problems in your life. A particular problem might be in your personal or professional setting. However, rather than dwelling on a problem for too long, which can lead to you feeling negative, focus instead on answers and solutions.

Change Your Attitude

If you are unhappy with your life, and the environments you’re in, change your attitude to the way you see the world. Focus on all the good things in your life. Even if you have one positive thing going for you in your life, then this is something. Look for the positives in others.

Expand the horizon of your thinking. If you find yourself constantly focusing on the negative aspects of your life, give yourself permission to at least consider what might be good beyond the problem that is currently taking up your attention.

Smile

You don’t just have to find something funny in order to smile. You can engineer good feelings inside you by just smiling, anyway! If you don’t smile often, then get into the habit of doing so. Give a smile when you see and greet people. Not only will you feel cheerful, but your positive vibes will transmit to others too.

Expect the good times and bad times

Although there is a lot you can do to ensure you have lot more positive experiences, there will always be difficult times. By expecting that with a happy experience, there might an unhappy one not too far away, you expect that challenges will occur, and you can become more dissociated from any negativity that might emerge through the unpleasant experience.

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• What other ways/techniques can we use to avoid negativity in our lives?

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How to Live a Joyful Life

Each of us has been given a life to live. And this life is meant to be enjoyed. Perhaps you might be thinking this is easier said than done, and are struggling to find any sense of joy in your life. If so, the following tips will help you:

Make a conscious decision to see the best in what you do

When you wake up in the morning, make a conscious choice to see the best in what you do during your day. If you’re doing work activities, and are finding them challenging for instance, focus on what you are learning in the process and how you’re constantly enhancing your skills and competence.

See the best in everyone

You encounter all kinds of people in your daily life. Some will behave in ways you like and other may not do so. Every single person has their own background and is dealing with their own individual issues.

Rather than looking for faults in others because people aren’t behaving the way you want, look for what is good in them. Even that difficult individual who makes you frustrated has good qualities. How can you help evoke these qualities?

Spend time in nature

There are marvellous things in this world, such as birds, insects, animals, woods, forests, seas, oceans, hills and mountains. Take time to be with nature, and notice how everything in your surroundings is operating just the way it is meant to be.

You don’t need to go far either. It could involve becoming tuned with what is happening as you step out of your front door, or when you step into your garden.

Be active

When you spend increasing amounts of time alone and not being active, you can end up feeling depressed. Instead, get involved in activities. Try foods you haven’t eaten before or a drink you’ve never had before. Travel and learn about different cultures. Learn how to dance, or take a language class.

Doing new and interesting activities will help you to really ensure you’re making the most of your life. Also, when you try something new and perhaps a little scary, the rewarding feelings of achievement you get at the end will be wonderful.

Be of service

Where you can help others, do so. There are many people who are less fortunate than you in the world and who would benefit from some time you could devote to them. Get involved in a charity that interests you, or be proactive at work and arrange a workshop on an area, which you’re competent in, and that could benefit your colleagues.

Indeed, you might be feeling less fortunate yourself. In this case, helping others will instantly help you to feel good. You will feel better because that is what happens when we help others. You will also get joy from seeing the happiness you bring to another person.

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Classical Music and Stress

I’m delighted to be able to introduce my good friend, Shalu Sharma who has written this very special guest post. Please join me in giving Shalu a very warm welcome.

Classical music has many benefits including the ability to improve the quality of one’s life, induce health benefits and prolong life. In addition, there have been suggestions that listening to classical music has the ability to reduce stress.  I have been an avid listener of classical music particularly Indian classical music and I have to say that music is a highly effective and an inexpensive means of reducing anxiety and stress.

Music has been shown to also reduce cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH, a hormone secreted by the pituitary in response to stress) levels. In addition, studies have found that music may enhance a variety of cognitive functions such as attention, learning, communication and even memory.

In recent years, many hospitals around the world have taken up classical music for their patients. For instance, the benefits in stress reduction of patients in intensive care departments have been observed when playing classical music, particularly music by Bach, Mozart or Italian composers along with meditational music. In contrast music such as heavy metal do not show any signs of stress reduction but in some cases it has been shown to be dangerous leading to stress and even life threatening situations.

Here are some interesting studies on the effect of music on the health of patients including its effect on theatre staff:

In a study conducted by Moris and Linos (2013) at the School of Medicine, University of Athens showed that music in the operating room had beneficial effects on 162 respondents (aged 25 to 75 years) by decreasing stress, anxiety, and the use for analgesic and anesthetic drugs. They even showed that the best music was of the classical type. They concluded that classical music in the operating theatre has effects such as reduced distraction, annoyance, and most importantly reduced stress and anxiety of not just the patients but also staff.

In another interesting study conducted by Laohawattanakun et al (2011), they showed that music reduced examination-dependent corticosteroid stress response, a physiological indicator of stress in Thai adolescents taking math exams.

These studies show that music can be used in certain medical situations that tend to induce psychological stress and anxiety. However, more research on classical music-induced relaxation in medically situations would be welcomed. Music can also be used in personal life as a medium to reduce anxiety and stress and reduce discomfort.

Personally, I have taken up listening to Indian classical music especially music composed by classical musicians such as Ravi Shankar and Hariprasad Chaurasi and it has helped me to reduce anxiety, anger, negative emotional stress and increase relaxation.

So, if you’re feeling stressed or finding a particular situation overwhelming then take a break from things and try listening to classical music. Some of the best classical music includes Tchaikovsky (Piano Concerto), Beethoven (Symphony Number 5 and 9), Mozart (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik), Vivaldi (Four Seasons) and George F. Handel (Hallelujah Chorus). There is some excellent Indian classical music and my favourites include the ‘Jugalbandi Series’ of Pandit Jasraj and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, ‘Music of the desert’ by Zakir Hussain and ‘Raag Basant’ of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. You can also try listening to vibrations of nature such as sounds of the ocean or similar nature music which will have similar effects.

References

• Trappe HJ. 2012. Role of music in intensive care medicine. Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci. 2:27-31

• Moris DN, Linos D. 2013. Music meets surgery: two sides to the art of “healing”. Surg Endosc. 27: 719-23

• Laohawattanakun J, Chearskul S, et al. 2011. Influence of music training on academic examination-induced stress in Thai adolescents. Neurosci Lett. 487: 310-2

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About the author

Shalu Sharma is the founder of YouBihar, the social networking site for Bihar and a travel blogger on India. She is also the author of the book “India Travel Survival Guide For Women”. She is fond of Indian classical music and practices yoga for stress and to calm the mind.

 

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6 Mind Tricks to Help You Change How You Feel

Unhelpful thoughts only have as much power as you give them. If you give them too much importance, you reduce the chances of being the best you can be in certain situations and contexts.

There are a number of tricks from the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), which you can play in your mind to overcome niggling doubts, or worries or to help ensure you’re in the best states possible in your daily life. Below are 6 tricks you can begin to use today:

Push that problem away

Problems exist in your mind because of negative thoughts you have about yourself and the world you live in. You can experience doubts, fears, frustration and anger, which keep eating away at you.

Rather than holding onto such thoughts in your mind, use your cognitive ability to push them away on the screen of you mind, so that the power they hold over you diminishes.

Just observe that negative thought as it moves further, so that you can no long see it.

Has the thought come back again? Then keep pushing it away into the distance.

Make the problem a small dot

If a thought is overbearing and you feel like it is a heavy weight on you, make it a small and little black or white dot, so that you can’t even see it.

When you make it this small, how does the significance of the thought change?

Make yourself bigger

Sometimes in your thoughts, you can see yourself. This is almost like being an actor inside a movie. If you’re looking and feeling unconfident in a thought, then make yourself taller and bigger.

Just observe how you feel when you’re now 40 foot tall and towering above everything and everyone in the thought. Now smile as you look down at your surroundings.

How does doing this make you feel?

Add the quality you want to the thought

You can change the way you feel for the better, by adding a quality (or resource) to a thought that is holding you back.

For instance, are you feeling unassertive in a thought you’re having, and feel like you need to boost your assertiveness?

Remember a time when you were assertive. Do it now, vividly as if you’re having the assertive experience again, right this minute. When those feelings of assertiveness are super strong, now apply this assertiveness to the thought you’re having.

Keep pouring the assertiveness onto the thought, until previous negative feelings about you have now been replaced with assertiveness.

Model someone else

You’re already improvising and playing different characters every day, depending on the activity you’re doing at a particular moment.

If you’re harbouring an unhelpful thought in your mind that is making you worried or leaving you feeling inadequate, then adopt the position of someone you know who can handle the situation you’re concerned about, without any problem.

Look at the world through that person’s eyes. Adopt the body language, words and behaviours of that person.

Notice how your confidence levels change and how what you do changes when you’ve modelled another person.

Create a New You

If a particular thought is causing you problems, then become the complete opposite of who you are and what you’re doing in that thought.

You can do this by creating an image in your mind of the perfect you, who wouldn’t have any issue with dealing with the problem you’re facing.

Once you have created a really juicy image of you, keep bringing this image to the fore of your mind, so that you what you do is from the position of this new you.

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• In what other ways can we use our ability to imagine and think to change the way we feel?

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How Improv Helps You to Be a Child Again

Improvisational Comedy (or improv) involves developing scenes with other players, totally unscripted. As the scenes progress, comedy naturally emerges from them. I’ve written about how improv can help increase your confidence in another post.

In this post, we’ll look at how improv can help you be like a child again. Why would you want to be like a child again? Well children know how to have fun! Unfortunately, as adults, the joys of childhood can often seem like long distant memories. Read below, to find out how improv can help do deal with this:

Just say

Kids have the ability to say what they think and feel. They will be inquisitive and ask questions without worrying about being judged.

The beauty of improvisation is that you just say whatever comes to your mind. You re-learn the ability to speak your mind, rather than constantly worrying whether what you say will be liked and accepted by others.

Just do

Youngsters are masters at creating experiments. For instance an adult will use a straw to drink from a glass. A kid on the other will blow into the straw and be fascinated at the bubbles that form.

When you improvise, you’re proactive and use your words, body and your physiology to build upon what another player has just said and/or done with his/her body. By taking action, you’re allowing new insights to emerge, which help to continue a scene.

Just observe

Have you ever had a child observe you do something and then repeat what you’ve done, exactly? I certainly have. Kids are brilliant observers and modellers.

In improv, you develop the ability to be a highly skilled observer, watching carefully the words and actions that your fellow players are presenting. This is critical as it will enable you to make your contributions to a scene.

Increased adaptability

It is often said that a child’s brain is like a sponge. It just absorbs new information and ideas constantly and makes connections with existing ideas to assimilate new knowledge. Kids therefore, are highly adaptable to new ideas.

When you improvise, you never know what words or actions your fellow players will put your way. By taking in new ideas and thoughts from your partners, you learn to adapt to new situations and circumstances.

Its play

Kids love to play. They play with their toys and with their friends. When a youngster smiles and laughs after an activity, you know he/she has enjoyed it.

When you create scenes on the spot, and build upon words and statements that your fellow improvisers have presented to you, it is fun. Humour will naturally arise and your spirits will, too!

Embrace what is new

When kids learn, they welcome in new ideas and approaches. Initially, there is no right or no wrong for them.

In improv, you learn to accept new thoughts and ideas without fear, because it is an opportunity for you to practice improv in its purest form, as new perspectives will help to enhance your scene and make it even more spontaneous.

My friends, it’s over to you:

• In what other ways can improv help us to be childlike?

• What other activities do you do those are not related to improv, and help you to be like a joyful child?

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