I have to make a call I don't want to make to a person who I don't get along with. How can I stop myself from being emotional and sounding nervous?
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Carmella
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make sure you stand up while you're on the phone, it raises your diaphragm and you speak more clearly. As for emotional, just focus on the message you're trying to convey? i hope this helps
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Meditation can ease emotional and nervous problems. Yoga will strengthen self confidence.
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Meditation is usually understood as concentrating on a sacred word and repeating it again and again. But Transcendental Meditation (TM) teaches not to concentrate. These two methods appear to be contradictory but they are not. "Our two minds .... One is an act of the emotional mind, the other of the rational mind. In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels" (Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 1996, page 8). Meditation with concentration helps to ease the rational mind, and meditation without concentration helps to ease the emotional mind - both are necessary. Select some four sacred words. Om and Swasthi are Hindu words, but you can select your own. Do not allow any part of your body to touch the floor during meditation - use some slippers. Use two types of chairs for sitting - a steel chair and a wooden chair. Sit on one chair and do meditation with concentration for five minutes. Then sit on the other chair and do meditation without concentration for the next five minutes. I found this method to be useful to me. I hope that it will be useful to you also.
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When I have to do this, I write out the points I want to address in order. A rough outline will do. Then I may try to anticipate any questions that they may ask and do the same think, write it out in rough outline form. I keep this in front of me while I am having the conversation. Simply seeing it keeps me calm and focused on the subject and not my emotions.
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If your overly emotional and nervous you shouldnt' attempt making the call. Being in that state of mind puts the person your talking to in control of the conversation. The best thing you can do is rehearse what your going to say, and learn to assert your words and say them with presense and confidence, once you can do that and sound convincing enough to yourself give it a go.
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