I don’t know where this originates from or who first wrote it so I can’t credit to anyone…
An important component of performance anxiety is an acute awareness of one… See more’s own behavior and/or appearance. When experiencing performance anxiety, one focuses one’s attention on the visible appearance of the performance. A possible way of reducing performance anxiety would be to increase one’s awareness of others, without considering them as judges.
In summary, optimal strategies of coping with performance anxiety include focusing on process rather than results, the moment of experience rather than the future, positive approach goals rather than negative avoidance goals, and self-acceptance rather than self doubt.” ……………………
If that fails, large amounts of Vodka usually does the trick!!!
(I found it as a FB comment and thought it was funny so had to steal borrow it, sorry to whoever)
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