Your powerpoint is their to visually assist your audience. It is not their to replace you. So don’t read directly from your slides.
You can stop yourself from reading by not putting lots of words on your slides, if you don’t have words on your slide then you can’t read from them. I once had a lecturer who said no more than 6 words per slide, I think that’s quite extreme. In reality, 3-4 bullet points with a line of text in each is more than enough.
Your audience is there to see you present your information, if you are just reading from your slides then you may as well have just handed them an essay and sat down for 20 minutes.
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