Comments on: 3 Reasons not to use NLP to overcome fear of public speaking

By: Olivia Mitchell

Olivia Mitchell — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:23:53 +0000

Hi Norman

I’m with you on taking a pragmatic approach – and different approaches may work for different people. Anchoring is one of the NLP tehcniques which does have some scientific evidence – see this post http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/nervousness/mice-overcome-fear-public-speaking/.

Olivia

By: Norman Wei

Norman Wei — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:10:04 +0000

Olivia,

I read with great interest your blog on NLP. I take a somewhat pragmatic approach to the issue of how to overcome nervousness. If it works, stay with it even if you don’t have “scientific proof”. One of the many NLP methods is “anchoring”. You simply recall from your past experience an incident that gave you great confidence while doing something like crossing your fingers. The next time you feel nervous, you cross your fingers and your past confidence comes back to you. It works for many people even though there are no scientifc proof per se. The smae with religion. There are billions of people who believe that their own branch of organized religion give them comfort. And there are certainly no scientifc proof on that. But it works for them.

Norman

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By: Olivia Mitchell

Olivia Mitchell — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:20:02 +0000

Thank you for your comment Phemey. I agree that NLP can help people with self-development and overcoming the fear of public speaking. But there’s a lot of hype around it too, and it’s helpful for people who are looking for methods to overcome their fear, to let them know what to look out for. Olivia

By: Phemey Pon

Phemey Pon — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:01:57 +0000

Athough I agree with the 3 reasons you say, I think NLP is very very efective to overcome the fear of public speaking. I have been a NLP practioner for more than 10 year now. As mentioned in one of my recent posts,
http://phemeypon.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/my-experience-of-learning-nlp/
NLP have been helping me a lot in terms of achieving personal develelopment, besides helping me to overcome the fear of public speaking.

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By: Olivia Mitchell

Olivia Mitchell — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:41:00 +0000

Thanks Bill for your comments and I also agree that NLP should not be discounted – there is some useful stuff there.

The “7% thing” is a misinterpretation of research by Albert Mehrabian. Here are some useful posts on it:
http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2007/08/truth-about-7-38-55.html
http://extremepresentation.typepad.com/blog/2006/09/93_of_communica.html
Olivia

By: Bill Gladwell

Bill Gladwell — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:18:20 +0000

I have been a hypnotist and NLP practitioner for twenty years; and although I agree with you on the above three points, I do not agree that NLP should be discounted as a modality to help with public speaking.

I have successfully helped many, many people with their difficulties in public speaking.

To your point, most people in my field are a bit “scary” and wwwwwaaaaayyyyy out there.

You can find the good ones if you look.

By the way, the 7% thing always gets me wondering how you find something like that out also.

Successfully,
Bill Gladwell
“The Hypnotist”,
My Wife’s Husband, and
Creator Of The Impossible