Promo-Chiro knowhow

Encountering the media

Overcoming nerves

If you suffer from attacks of nervousness, reserve about 10 minutes in advance of an interview to calm down and relax yourself. To ensure that you get all the oxygen you need, practice slow stomach breathing for approximately five minutes before your interview:

• Expand your stomach as you breathe in.
• Flatten your stomach as you breathe out.

Stomach breathing helps to expand your lungs fully when you inhale, and to exhaust them completely when you exhale. Your body calms itself because it’s getting all the oxygen it needs – and is ridding itself of unwanted carbon dioxide.

Physical relaxation

• As you work on your breathing, deliberately relax your body :
• Drop your shoulders (a lot of unconscious tension is trapped in raised shoulders);
• Gently massage areas of tension around your eyes, forehead and neck;
• Stamp your feet (to aid circulation and to give you a “grounded” feeling);
• Let your arms hang by your sides and shake them loosely.