Remind yourself that the nervousness is just a slight excess of the adrenaline you need in order to focus and give your best performance. And also remind yourself that it's not about you, it's about the material you're presenting (reading, poem, song, tune, whatever) - that's what the audience will be paying attention to, and all you have to do is show it to them. If you, too, can concentrate on the words and the sense of your reading, you may find that you forget to be nervous. And even if you are, it doesn't show anything like as much as you feel it. Marje
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