{"id":408,"date":"2009-09-15T20:25:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T19:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2009-09-15T20:25:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T19:25:43","slug":"taking-a-big-breath-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/taking-a-big-breath-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a big breath, and&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This brief article was originally run in an online &#8220;newspaper&#8221; based in my part of the UK &#8211; hence the rather choppy style &#8211; and I&#8217;ve posted it here because it&#8217;s good advice, even though it reads badly&#8230;. :)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check for a moment, how you breathe and see if there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pattern. A pattern other than the obvious one of in, then out, and then in again! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking about a pattern to how quickly you breathe or if you occasionally take a breath of a different length or depth.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us are conditioned to think-and-speak almost as one and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s related to the question of how you breathe \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the pattern of how you speak is very largely built into the pattern of how you breathe. Without meaning to \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or even realising it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll convert your sentences or phrases to the length of time you can talk for without taking a breath.<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Over the length of a presentation, however, that can become the kind of pattern which begins to irritate your audience \u00e2\u20ac\u201c particularly if it means you have to sometimes (or even often!) break up something that-should-be-kept-together into smaller parts. Because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how you breathe. And you find yourself. Always having sentences of. About the same length which. Can become very annoying. For anyone listening.<\/p>\n<p>A bit of variety is crucial to being interesting \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the key to being able to have that variety lies in making sure you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re breathing with your diaphragm, not your chest.<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easier said than done, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible with practice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brief article was originally run in an online &#8220;newspaper&#8221; based in my part of the UK &#8211; hence the rather choppy style &#8211; and I&#8217;ve posted it here because it&#8217;s good advice, even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-presentation-tips","category-voice-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}