Feel your body

Every organism has its own strategy of protection. Animals' fur stands on end. Skunks has its liquid with a strong unpleasant smell. And what about human body? Our organism reacts at everything whether its pleasant thing or not. When we're stressed, our body start to protect itself. When a person should present public speech in front of the audience, our body starts to protect itself. We feel a huge wish to hide from all of these people. This is the usual reaction. Every person feels the same way while he or she on the stage. There a lot of eyes staring at you and it's ok to feel uncomfortable this moment.

Our body thinks that it's a danger situation. It starts to protect its main organs like heart, stomach, lungs and brain. So, the blood stream is concentrated in these areas. That's why our nose and ears become cold and we feel numbness and tingling of our fingers and toes. I always feel this way during my performances. In the school I was at the theatre club so I felt myself very nervous every time I was standing in front of the public. That was a one day I couldn't take a piece of paper, because my fingers were totally frozen.

I realized that it is the ordinary reaction of every human body, so it made me feel better. It always helps when you understand that you're not alone. We need to accept our body and appreciate that it cares about us this way.