Getting short breath on teams webinars
Hello everyone, yeasterday I had to read a short lecture on a web call for work. I had 2 hours to make a traning/presentation on a fairly complex topic, and I delivered it sitting at my desk on a web call.
I consider myself a calm speaker, I have experience in public speaking in front of an audience and my level of nervousness and anxiety are probably in the normal range for someone who works daily with people.
Still, yeasterday about an hour in I started to get short breath, and it almost triggered a mild panic attack. The first time it happened it was during the pandemic, but then all the aprtecipants had their webcam off and were silent, then I got in my head that I was boring and talking nonsense and I had a full on panic attack.
This time I asked the audience to keep the camera on and tried to engage them in the talk, asking questions and input. Still, the breath thing happened and I'm starting to think it's the sitting position that's messing with my breathing.
Are there techniques to breath correctly while speaking sitting? I tried pacing myself and not speaking too quickly, still I have a lot of stuff to say in a short time.