Cognitive restructuring helps us reduce anxiety by:

a. developing a mental picture of ourselves giving a masterful speech.
b. replacing anxiety-arousing negative self-talk with anxiety-reducing positive self-talk.
c. gradually engaging in increasingly more frightening speaking events while remaining in a relaxed state.
d. motivating us to adopt a communication rather than performance orientation toward speeches.


b. replacing anxiety-arousing negative self-talk with anxiety-reducing positive self-talk.
Cognitive restructuring helps reduce anxiety by replacing anxiety-arousing negative self-talk with anxiety-reducing positive self-talk.

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