Can You Speak As Well As 10 Year old Dalton Sherman?

At 10, Dalton Sherman is a speech-making pro. Since winning a big oratory competition in Dallas, he has spoken at numerous churches and events all over Dallas. He was keynote speaker at an educational conference for 20,000 people on 25 August 2008.

“He has the ‘it’ factor,” said Dawn Blair, Dalton’s godmother. “Like Tiger has it, Obama. You can’t put your finger on it.”



Dalton’s speech was directed toward teachers. The applause motivated him, especially when he gestured and gave shout-outs to different neighborhoods, telling teachers to help children no matter where they’re from. “We need you,” he told them.

He was coached all summer focusing on proper diction and pronunciation of words. Ms. Redmond said she immediately recognized his big vocabulary when she began coaching him and he worked hard in response. Mrs. Sherman uses a worn book of her grandfather’s, “Natural Drills in Expression,” published in 1909, to coach her son on pronunciation.

Demonstrating, she reads a sentence. Dalton repeats it— “to dare, to do, to die.” He loves the book.

“I hope that I touch a lot of people,” Dalton added.

In June, he memorized the words. Then he practiced giving the speech up to three times a week at his family’s church, Concord Missionary Baptist. His mother and Ms. Redmond stood in the balcony as he practiced his movements and the built-in pauses to punctuate the text.

Dalton wants to be a news anchor someday, but he’s got even bigger plans. “Maybe after that, I’ll try to be president,” he says. “I want to be the next Obama.”

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Full text of Dalton Sherman’s keynote speech “Do you Believe in Me?”


If a 10 year old boy can learn how to give a speech in such a way, you can also learn. A local chapter of Toastmasters International can help you develop public speaking techniques sharing feedback of what was good and points for improvement. Learn from others. Overcome your nerves in a safe environment, learning step by step. The Competent Communicator programme of ten speeches will guide you through different challenges while you speak on topics of your choice. Learn to think and speak on your feet with Table Topics – impromptu speeches of up to two minutes. Toastmasters is challenging but also fun and social. 85 years old, there are nearly 250,000 members in more than 12,500 clubs in 106 countries!

Hypnotherapy can help you to overcome nerves, stage fright, blushing, anxiety or excessive sweating.

Antonia Harrison from Personal Development in the 21st Century , the English Hypnotherapist & NLP Practitioner in Belgium .

Hypnosis for Excessive Sweating

The medical term for excessive sweating or perspiration is hyperhidrosis.

What is hyperhidrosis?
Perspiration is a normal body function regulated by the Sympathetic Nervous System to maintain constant internal body temperature. There are about five million sweat glands in the body which secrete sweat to cool down the body but for 1% of the population, excessive sweating can be a problem. There are four main areas: hands (palmer hyperhidrosis), armpits (axillary hyperhydrosis), feet (plantar hyperhidrosis) and the face (facial hyperhidrosis). Excessive sweating in any of these areas can be emotionally distressing, causing the person to avoid social contact and affecting many areas of their life.

Surgery for Hyperhidrosis
Endoscopic Thoracoscopic Symathectomy (ETS) is invasive surgery through the chest to stop the signal transmissions of the sympathetic nerve impulse to sweat glands.

Topical medical treatments include astringents that dry up the sweat glands eg Drysol and Drionics, topical antiperspirants which have short periods of efficacy and can cause skin irritation; anticholinergic medications to suppress the cholinergic stimulation of the eccrine sweat glands by the sympathetic nerve trunks to eliminate or reduce excessive sweating; Iontopheresis, an electrical stimulation to the hands to stun the sweat glands in the hands which has not been found to be effective or long-lasting and Botox, found to be painful and of temporary benefit.

Any of these methods only deals with the symptom, not the root cause. So, even IF you do manage to control your symptom in one of these ways, the underlying bottled up emotions causing it will still be present and they will go on to produce another symptom for you, perhaps anxiety, panic attacks or claustrophobia: this is known as symptom substitution. The only way to properly resolve your problem and to make sure you do not develop a different symptom in the future is to resolve the underlying cause of your social anxiety.

Hypnosis Helps Sweaty Palms
Worrying, or being anxious about sweating tends to make the response worse so I work to alleviate the stress and anxiety about the sweating. There are specific neuro-linguistic and hypnotherapeutic techniques that are designed to help facilitate this process quickly and easily.

The less someone is bothered about the idea that they may sweat the less they sweat. Hypnosis is so effective as the technique of ego-strengthening helps enormously in controlling anxiety.

Hypnosis calms your sympathetic nervous system
It is a way to directly access your sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and stop excessive sweat and hyperhidrosis.

Sweating is caused by your sympathetic nervous system, which also controls your fight or flight response. If you are suffering from excessive sweating or hyperhidrosis, too many signals are being sent from your sympathetic nervous system to the sweat glands causing unnecessarily high sweat production. Reducing the activity of this part of your nervous system calms you down and can stop excessive sweating.

An important goal of the trance work is to re-condition the sweating response. Appropriate images and metaphors are used, and so are direct suggestions. Focusing on and rehearsing the new response allows it to become established as the 'norm', so that the client can feel drier and more comfortable wherever they are.

An NLP technique I have used successfully is to collapse negative anchors ie triggers which set off the reaction of sweating in certain circumstances then replace them with a positive anchor of feeling calm, confident and relaxed.

Private therapy with a competent hypnotherapist is always the best route but a download hypnosis Mp3 for excessive sweating is available
plus a script for treating excessive sweating by professional hypnotherapists.

© Antonia Harrison is the English Hypnotherapist in Belgium and recommends Download Hypnosis Mp3s for immediate access to positive life-changing hypnosis sessions.