The "fight or flight syndrome"

Human body is built up by a genius. It can adapt to almost any situation and it always tries to survive. When a human needs to run away from the danger, the heart starts beating faster. When a human heed a rest, the brain switches off and a human fells asleep. And it turns out that stage fright symptoms are part of these body's Primary Threat Response. Usually, performance situation doesn't require you to do anything physical, but your body thinks that it does because you consider this situation as dangerous one. The body perceives the adrenaline signals, assumes that some sort of attack is possible, and simply prepare you for the worst. You can feel these preparations before and during your performance. Everyone has different symptoms. And I'm going to describe one which is very close to me.

When your body is under stress, it understands that your major organs needs additional oxygen. That's why the tiny blood vessels serving your toes, fingers, ears and nose constrict. This leads to the sensation of cold hand and feet, along with numbness and tingling.

As you see stage fright is a natural phenomenon. And some tips to overcome it will be listed in the next post.