How to Be Nervous and Excited on Stage

"You are the master of your own thoughts and your self talk really is in the midst of how you respond to any kind of stressor," she says. "In order to get control of these things, you have to study what is nervous and what is excited." The skill is to objectify an emotion by looking at it like a cat coughing up a furball - so where in my body do I feel anger? How big is that feeling? Does it have a temperature? And if you start to describe it and objectify it, it starts to give you control.