I love singing and this happens to me when I have to sing in front of someone, especially when people are particularly, attentively listening to me: I run out of breath. This does not happen when I’m singing alone, when nobody listening to me. If someone listens to me secretly he or she will discover that I don’t need to breath much, or I can effortlessly control my breathing even while singing intricate notes.
Breathlessness happens before a performance due to
- Extreme nervousness
- Lots of physical activity
How do you control breathlessness?
You can do it psychologically and you can also do some breathing exercises. Psychological breathlessness abates and then eventually vanishes when you have performed in front of people or when you have given presentations over a long period of time (with some people it never goes away as they are nervous before every public experience).
But you don’t have to be a veteran in order to have relaxed lungs. Even before your first performance you can avoid breathlessness by:
- Preparing well and feeling confident.
- Imagining that you are alone in the room.
- Being indifferent to how you perform: the sky is not going to fall.
- Understanding the negativity of feeling nervous: this really works. You know when you are nervous and excessively worried about your performance you are not going to be able to perform the way you ought to. Nervousness is worsening the situation and affecting your performance. Why feel nervous when you are anyway going to perform better when you are not nervous?
- Loving your audience: don’t see them as a threat, don’t see them as judges.
- Conversing with them: whether you are playing music, singing, acting or giving a presentation, converse with your audience, strike a rapport with them.
A post titled vacuuming the lungs tells you how you can relax your lungs by doing some breathing exercises.
