WHEN YOU GET NERVOUS

What is this thing about “getting nervous” when you are about to do something important? Does that ever happen to you? Or are there only certain conditions under which it happens to you? When you are before an audience? Or being watched by your peers? Or when someone is benchmarking or assessing your performance?

Obviously, getting nervous is very much a human thing— a common human experience. I see it when people brand new to coaching come into the Meta-Coaching System and first experience one of the coaching labs. And even though they are only being watched by two persons (a benchmarker and a meta-person), sometimes a person will experience a very strong state of nervousness. Their nerves are activated and mobilized so they fidget around, have a lot of extra energy in their body, the thoughts in their head race and rush around so they find it hard to focus or to remember what they know, and their emotions are doing somersaults and other non-useful things. Did that happen to you?