One thing that helps me is to practice the comment out loud to yourself first, so it becomes more automatic. Next, before your comment, do a few relaxation breaths. One that works for me is to breath in slowly for a 8 seconds, hold it for 8, then breath out slowly for 8. Do this a few times. Managing your breathing is very good for calming yourself.
Often people are nervous because they are afraid of what people may think of them if they do it wrong. Knowing you can blank out and forget your comment makes it worse, your fear makes it more likely you will blank out. Keep in mind that other people are far less interested in your comment and whether you fail or not than you are. What may seem like a huge deal to you is probably not even on their radar, so keep that in mind.
This kind of self consciousness is very common, especially among introverts. I used to suffer from this myself, I was very shy and self conscious as a child. My mom told me that I burst into tears because a stranger said hello when I was really young. As I got older it got better. I hated the door to door thing though, I never got comfortable with it, but commenting at meetings was not that bad to me. Practice helps too, the more you do it the easier it is.
...OUTLAW
