How to overcome stage fright

It is not only experienced by speakers, It's also main strestful moment for all stage performers like musicians, actors, poets, comedians etc. I am a musician and I have been performing many times on stage and there is always some kind of fear, a stressful fright that is rising up a blood pressure and a temerature of your body.. i can say it is very helpful because it is inreasing our reaction time and when something unexpectful happend it ends up with burst of ideas in our mind to help resolve a situation. I guess speakers the often get more interesting speeches just because of that fright. I am sure it isn't destructive or corrosive. It depends on how you get approach your performance and duty on stage. After a years of experience I am missing that fact that I get used to it and there is almost no fear at all regardless the amount of audience!

even i had stage fright when i was a child. i am a dancer basically. firstly i used to be very scared to perform alone on stage. my fright never left me. so i stopped performing solo & started being a part of a group dance. but then to it happens. till date i have a stage fright. stage fright is good to be. you have to get nervous before performing in such a big crowd. if i don't get nervous then i feel something is wrong with me. nervousness makes you perform better, its as simple as that. no tip i could give you is to overcome stage fright you can always look at the last possible person you can see & perform. this is because the last possible person would be very far and you just can't see his facial reaction to get distracted.