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Fear and anxiety are a part of life. Whether it’s heights, flying, scary movies, or being alone, everyone lives with some sort of fear. According to a study by the University of Florida, 75% of people have glossophobia, a fancy word for fear of public speaking. That probably doesn’t come as a surprise. Standing up in front of a group of people in a silent room with all eyes and ears on you feels a bit intimidating. Even some of the biggest stars on stage and screen will say that after all these years, public speaking still makes them nervous. Shania Twain Still Gets Butterflies In Her Stomach Shania Twain has performed worldwide and won Grammys, American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, and Billboard Awards, just to name a few. Even so, she told Taste of Country she was anxious about hosting the People’s Choice Country Awards on September 26. “I’m not the greatest reader,” she admitted. “I’m a very spontaneous speaker and thinker, so if I get rambling, they might have to take the hook out and get me off the stage.” The Canadian country music star also told CTV Canada that in 2019, she’d forced herself to get over her fears. “I’ve always had terrible stage fright. So, I think the only way to deal with it would be for me to just forget about what I was doing and jump right into ‘We’re all in this together’ to not feel isolated.” Sometimes, she still feels like a little girl backstage, and her nerves go crazy. But, “As soon as I’m embraced by the audience, then I don’t feel like I’m standing alone.”  The source of this story’s featured image is by Jason Davis/WireImage. The post Shania Twain Shares How She Embraces Her Stage Fright appeared first on InspireMore.

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I have never worked in an office. I have always worked for myself. I have always set my own schedule and determined the rhythm of my day. Back in early 2020, when COVID hit, everyone’s work changed. All of a sudden, people were working from home. Almost everyone I knew was asking me for advice. How to adjust. How to deal with it. How not to lose your mind. How to stay productive. There was one thing I told everyone: Dress decently for work from home. When no one is there to make you dress decently, will you still dress decently? When no one is there to stop you from being a slob, will you turn into a slob? Working from home can be great. You don’t have to battle endless traffic every morning. You can work from the comfort of the nook in your kitchen. You don’t have to be on guard constantly, always trying to stealthily dodge cultural land mine after cultural land mine. You are free to get your work done when you want to get it done. You are also free to look like a slob. You don’t need to wear a jacket or a tie. You don’t need to wear a shirt with a collar. Honestly, you don’t even need to wear a shirt at all. You can, theoretically, just lie in your bed naked and get all your work done. You can skip the grocery store and start ordering all your food in. You can end up living your life in pajamas. Hour after hour, day after day. It’s all the same. Slowly, ever so slowly, you become a shut-in. You leave your house less and less because everything is so easy at your house. Your work is there. Your food can be delivered there. Your bed is there. And life is so much more comfortable in pajamas. Oh, isn’t it so easy when you don’t have to put anything on? “I’m just not in the mood to get dressed today.” And while these details of this trajectory are extreme, this is generally how it happens. One thing leads to another, and then another, and then another. It can happen to anyone, but it happens most often to those who are thrown headfirst into WFH. For the person who is used to a certain life working at an office with expectations thrust upon him from the outside, the freedom of work from home can have disastrous consequences. Dressing decently for WFH is a simple act that helps stop many potential problems dead in their tracks. A great deal of the degeneration that occurs when working from home hinges on being homebound. If you look like trash, you don’t want to leave your house, so you won’t leave your house. It’s a vicious cycle. While if you look nice, you want to leave your house, so you will leave your house. It’s a positive cycle. Dressing decently for WFH helps tremendously with productivity. In theory, you might be able to get all your work done from your bed. Practically, it’s not going to happen. You are not going to be that productive in pajamas. You are not going to be that sharp in your bed, in a hoodie, unshowered and unkempt. It’s just not going to happen. All of that makes your mind dull — and if not your observable mind, then certainly your spirit. You might be doing fine on paper, but really you are operating, at best, at 75%. That just happens to be enough to make it. You are simply less capable when you are working from your bed while looking like a street urchin. Your mind is sharper when you are dressed with intention. You might not be dressing up for anyone else; you are working from home, after all, but you are dressing up for work. You are also dressing up for yourself, and that’s important. It’s good for you. When you work from home for an extended period of time, you run the risk of having your life blend together into one indistinguishable mass. Your personal life blends with your professional life. Your work day turns into your personal day. You lose all distinction and end up feeling like you are always working and never resting. Or it could be that it feels like you are never working. Or maybe you are just perpetually stuck in this strange no-man’s-land. Whatever it is, you don’t feel right. You lose distinction and slink down into a worse version of what you want to be. Dressing decently for WFH helps correct this problem. Since you are not able to segregate your personal life from your professional life in space, you need to segregate them aesthetically. With your clothing, you can make a distinction between work hours and personal hours. Dressing up for work, even when you don’t have to leave, makes work into something distinct that also, in turn, makes your life outside work into something distinct. Wear loafers when you are working and camp mocs when you aren’t. Wear a sport coat when you are working and a sweater when you aren’t. Wear an OCBD when you are working and a polo shirt when you aren’t. Wear a tie when you are working and take it off when you aren’t. Make some distinction. It doesn’t mean that you have to wear a suit or anything overboard. Just some addition of something that makes work feel like work. It doesn’t have to be grand, but it has to be something. That little something, when repeated over and over again, helps separate your day. It helps to prevent everything from blending together into an amorphous mass. It helps you stay sane and the best version of yourself. WFH is about freedom. And freedom is a revealing thing. It’s a doubled-edged sword. When we are free, we are allowed to rise and we are allowed to fall. It’s up to us. No one is making us do anything. We are in control. No one is going to make you dress decently for WFH. No one is going to make you care. In a deeper way, WFH reveals who aspires to something higher and who sinks to something lower. When no one is there to make you dress decently, will you still dress decently? When no one is there to stop you from being a slob, will you turn into a slob? At first it might be uncomfortable to wrestle with these questions, but ultimately, it is emboldening and energizing. WFH gives us an opportunity to dress decently not because someone made us, but because we want to. In an era of ultimate freedom, choosing to dress intentionally is about choosing sanity, doing something better for ourselves because we care about ourselves. That is what dressing decently for WFH does. It keeps us sane and keeps us better.

If a chat between writers goes long enough, someone will ask: “Do you listen to music while you’re writing?” Most writers do, including me, most of the time. I’ve written about my love of ambient music. I work from home and have two toddlers, so music is practically a necessity, along with, just as often, my gun-range earmuffs. Most binaural beat recordings have a calming effect, as if you've found yourself at a high-end spa. At the same time, the clashing tones can become annoying, distracting, and even downright spooky. I recently began experimenting with something called binaural beats, an audio illusion that can affect brain-wave activity. Therapeutic usage of binaural beats is far-reaching: anxiety reduction, elevated focus, heightened cognitive functioning, enhanced mindfulness, and improved sleep. They can aid memory. They have also been used in hospitals to alleviate pain. Binaural beats may even provide relief for sinus congestion. NASA has experimented with the method for years. Binaural beats can intensify virtual reality experiences, which is useful during the agency’s VR training. TikTok boasts no shortage of content about “NASA genius brain wave music.” Psychosocial genius code, delivered through music. For the duration of this article, I played various kinds of binaural beats — a lot of them. All through the research and writing phases, I listened to "Binaural Beats: Focus," “Binaural Beats: Study,” “Binaural Beats: Focus Flow,” and “Binaural Beats: Focus and Concentration.” During several high-stress situations, I played “Binaural Beats: Calm Your Anxiety” in the background. When sullen, I played “Binaural Beats for Depression.” At night, I played “Binaural Beats: Sleep.” So did they work? Yes, but it’s complicated. What are binaural beats? While I swear I felt a positive effect when running the audio through my Sonos speaker, most experts agree that binaural beats only work when played on headphones. That’s because the “beats” are actually an illusion. They don’t exist. They are the effect of hearing different tones and frequencies in separate ears. This collision of sound causes the brain to introduce a third sound — the wavering pulse, the lively drone, which becomes the beat. The theory of “brainwave entrainment” posits that these binaural beats can influence brain-wave activity, leading to real-world effects. Brain-wave frequencies start at 1-4 hertz, known as delta, which corresponds to sleep, all the way up to 30-50 hertz, known as gamma, which is linked to the more advanced processes of cognitive function. The spectrum basically spreads from total relaxation to total awareness. How do you do it? Binaural beats didn’t turn me into a classical pianist or a theoretical physicist, but that’s not within their potential. They did help me achieve a weird tranquility that allowed me to focus. Most binaural beat recordings have a calming effect, as if you've found yourself at a high-end spa. At the same time, the clashing tones can become annoying, distracting, and even downright spooky. You can buy mind machines and brain-wave entrainment devices, starting at $300, from companies like Mind Alive, Myndlift, and A Chance to Grow. They employ audio-visual entrainment, an audio technology that's more sophisticated than binaural beats, enhanced by lighting and effects that stimulate deeper “entrainment.” One of their claims is that AVE devices offer a drug-free way to improve people’s mental health and cognitive functioning. Unless one of these companies wants to send me a test product, I’ll have to stick to regular old headphones. Frankenstein’s playlist Shortly after being discovered in 1839, binaural beats vanished from scientific interest. They didn’t recover this attention until 1973, thanks to an article titled "Auditory beats in the brain,” which established the ongoing link between binaural beats and neurological advancement. The movement has garnered a following of eager witnesses. And various studies have confirmed aspects of these claims. But overall, the therapeutic power of binaural beats lacks scientific consensus. The intensity of binaural beats varies from person to person, and they have no effect on some people. But it’s worth a shot: The risks are low, beyond the rare possibility of affecting people with epilepsy. At the very least, the sounds are pretty.

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