Person experiencing pre -peformance jitters.

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Hello ,this is vinita mangyani and i am a person that fits into this topic very well as i was completely stage unfriendly.I remember one time i had to perform a group dance with my cousins at one of my cousins wedding and we did not got much time to rehearse so we came with some steps in one day and i was already a stage freak person,i was terribly frightened and nervous and does not wanted to be the person who spoiled that performance,for sure wanted that blame to be passed on my cousins,haha,so i thought drinking would be a good option to overcome my fear and thought will enjoy performance but ironically i got too much stage friendly that i mixed up all steps and started jumping all over stage like a monkey and started doing dance like snake by lying on floor as it is one of the famous steps in our Indian weddings and started yelling this is my sisters wedding everyone dance ,dance and at one point fell unconscious and rest is a secret which my cousins hide and prefer not to tell and after that i felt very embarrassed than i gave up idea of drinking to overcome fear forever,but i am a person that go crazy after something unless i find a solution and i wanted to overcome stage fear anyhow,so i started reading many positive and motivating books so i came across a book"THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND" in that book they tell that humans are magnet we can attract whatever we want by" universal law of attraction ",based on our dominant thoughts so we should try to keep it positive. whatever we think in our conscious state that goes into our subconscious mind and a very good way is to relax your self in a chair and start thinking and saying so i started saying to myself that i am a very confident girl and i love performing on stage with a confidence and grace and power of my subconscious mind is so great that i can feel love and positive response my audience gives to me and you got to believe me when i had to do anchoring in my college and started doing this exercise of reciting positive stuffs for almost half month and when i did anchoring i was so confident that no negative thoughts came in my mind and i did it with grace and first time in my life i felt so confident and i liked my own performance and was quite satisfied and great part was after my anchoring was over my classmate came to me and said WOW, how could you do that,i would have fainted due to nervousness ,great job buddy and that was the best compliment i have ever got and now i always do this exercise of saying things to myself with lots of positivity and attract the things i want. one more incidence i would love to share its about the time when i was doing aircraft maintenance engineering and that was the time when we were in last semester and in that semester there were no exams but we had to give viva but that was kind of exam which was done in front of whole class as there were different questions asked to everyone prepared by our teachers and there were around forty students in my batch and my roll no. was last and of course i was having that fear of answering questions in front of my whole class but i was feared more about what if i will not be able to answer even the basic questions and my nervousness grew more when before appearing in the examination hall one of my friend started discussing some of the topic of which i have not even heard of before and at the end our discussion she made me believed completely that i have not studied at all and trust me before meeting her i was confident enough of scoring good that is why it is always said not to discuss at the last moment and be confident with your knowledge . Then our examiner started calling us one by one according to our roll no.s and made a seating arrangement according to our roll no.s and i was the last roll no so i was sitting almost next to the door and where i was not having any chance to discuss anything with anyone ,yeah poor me. Then as the viva began first roll no. was of our class topper and yeah we both used to sort of not liking each other as i always end up having an argument with that girl because of her self centered and rude nature so before appearing in the exam i made up my mind that in this semester i will grab the first position just so that i can destroy that girl's attitude and wanted to prove myself and as it was the last semester so you can say kind of last opportunity i had to prove myself but as the viva begin with that girl i was literally amazed with 'her knowledge about aircraft subjects whether it be aerodynamics,aircraft systems,powerplant which basically have information about aircraft engines and that time my confidence went from peak to zero. and i was kind of perspiring even when the room was air conditioned . Then slowly slowly roll no.s were progressing and many of the students were performing good enough and there were two of our teachers that were taking viva so it was like you have to satisfy both of them and both were covering almost every part of aircraft about which an engineer should know . Then almost half of roll no.s had already given their viva with very good performances but deep down inside i came to that viva with a motive of securing first rank as i was looking to it as the last opportunity and as i mentioned before about the excercise of attracting what you want so till then i had got this habit of saying several times a day to myself whatever i wanted and also i used to write about what i want but let me tell you whenever you do so make sure of not using any negative word or saying no try to phrase your sentences with affirmative words , so i was writing about twenty one days before exam that in last semester i am the one who got first rank and i answer almost all questions and teachers were really amazed with my knowledge and i got first rank. This is how i used to boost myself up to study hard so that i answer all questions . so while sitting in class while perspiring i started saying in my mind that this is the last opportunity and i have to make it anyhow and started reminding myself of all the stuffs that i use to write so then till the time of my roll no. i regained my confidence back . Now let me share with you the incredible magic of saying positive stuffs and believing in universal law of attraction and also this is known as "THE SECRET" in many of the books and you tube videos . So when my turn came one of my instructor went out due to some urgent work and till then the other second teacher started asking me some questions and unfortunately i was not able to answer any question completely then one of the teacher who went outside came in and asked one question only that whenever aircraft banks or can say whenever aircraft takes turn what are the forces acting on aircraft ,then i answerd randomly without thinking much centrifugal and centrepetal force and basically this is a class 6th question that applies to all bodies taking turn and thiss answer was not something rocket science but god knows what happened to my teacher that he got too much pleased that he gave me first rank on basis of this answer and advised all students to take aerodynamics class from me and that literally surprised me and make me believe much stonger in law of attraction ,so i would suggest all to believe in this concept and do try.Thank you very much.

July 18, 2020 02:09

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