0913 – Know Your Nervous Triggers

2023.07.02 – 0913 – Know Your Nervous Triggers OVERCOMING MIC FRIGHT BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER YOUR STUDIO SESSION BEFORE Pre-performance routines the weeks and days beforehand Those ‘butterflies’ in your stomach? They’re normal. But you have to teach them to fly in formation, like a squadron of drones, and harness their combined energies to give you wings and allow you to fly! Here’s how to do just that. Know Your Nervous Triggers First realise what it is that you are feeling. Go back to the previous episodes from 888 because it may not be nerves at all, but something quite different – something you need to approach from another more clinical or psychological direction. And of course, I can’t help you with that as I’m not your doctor (indeed, I’m not anyone’s doctor!). All I have here are some general tips and advice. It may be useful to have a think about what triggers your anxiety (there were lots of possible causes we listed previously from episode 898). What is the practical basis for your belief of potential failure? It may be the technical issues of a livestream or studio setting, it may be awkward words in a script or running out of things to say. Once you have an idea of what’s bringing you down, then you can unpack it, deal with it, set it aside and build yourself back up. Don’t ignore it, but deal with the underlying cause of the situation, not just your reaction to it. So, create a list, work your way through it and you’ll find that most of them are quite easily overcome. Then do what you need to, to complete each task to reduce the self-sabotaging behaviour. Become a task-master to become a past master.