Article November 13, 1971 Issue

Overcoming Stage Fright

DONNA NALLEY RYBURN

Some people find speaking in public so frightening that they'll do almost anything to avoid it, even if that means limiting their progress. But really it's unnecessary to live with such a handicap. It can be readily healed. Overcoming stage fright is simply a matter of gaining self-knowledge and self-control.

To possess self-knowledge is to know who man really is, and what he really is. And true self-control lies in the conscious demonstration of the infinitude of man's capacities as the expression of God.

To really know man, we have to begin with God, for man is God's likeness. God revealed Himself to Moses as "I AM." Ex. 3:14; Accepting this divine revelation, Mrs. Eddy gives as part of the definition of God in the Glossary of Science and Health, "The great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal." Science and Health, p. 587; God is one and All. He is the one and only Ego. This means He is the source of all knowing, seeing, and acting.

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