Please let me know how you get on with the technique.

Bill

“Hi Bill, thanks for the extensive and interesting reply. IM going to try your technique, were you reading the original book by Dr. Waltz?”

The way I used Dr Maltz’s technique was very close to the way he describes it in his book. Sitting or lying quietly, eyes closed, I imagine a pair of closed doors. Like the doors in an old fashioned theatre. When I am ready I open the doors and walk through the theatre and onto the stage. The stage is already set, in my imagination as the place where my real life action will occur. From then on it is like a dress rehearsal with all the actions and events that I want to rehearse. I can alternate between being director and actor, even arrange prompts, and try out a variety of gestures and phrases. At the end of the virtual rehearsal I thank my helpers and leave the theatre, back the way I came. I am fairly unaware of any audience involvement most of the time

My particular challenge was to be able to stand up in front of a group of thirty people at a meeting and deliver a formal greeting, in Spanish, without notes. At the time I had only been learning the language for 15 months. I used the rehearsal technique about 6 times at roughly 4 day intervals and I’m happy to say it worked very well.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Bill

“It was with great interest that I read your post on the theatre of the mind http://www.thirdlanguage.co.uk/audio/psycho-cybernetics/the-theatre-of-the-mind/

Im currently starting to use Dr. Waltz’s method for public speaking/improving my self image but not sure one the exact method.

What I do is 1) close my eyes 2) focus on my breathing 3) count backwards from 50 4) at 15 i try to relax one bodypart at a time 5) at 0 I try to imagine myself speaking in public or making a presentation

I would be interested in hearing about your technique in detail, are you doing something similar? and what were your results?

Thanks for any assistance”