Week 8 EOC: TED Talk Body Language

Body language also known as non verbal language is the way people around us are able to perceive us without actually talking or approaching us. Body language can show others what your mood is like, how you feel about yourself, rather you are confident or nervous, just about anything. Although we may not realize it but we can actually change the outcome of situations if we change our body language. That might sound weird, because who knew that body language could be changed, we just do it naturally right? But we can. If we are nervous about an interview, a presentation, a performance, anything that deals with public speaking, all we need to do is take 2 minutes out of our time and just relax and do some "power" poses. It has been tested and studied that if you do this before a meeting that you will become more confident with yourself and present yourself the way you have always pictured yourself giving your speech. Those 2 minutes of power posing brings up your testosterone levels, which are those hormones that bring dominate feelings, and brings down your cortisol levels, also known as your stress levels. Non verbal language governs our thoughts and feelings about ourselves so by just changing them a tiny bit it can dramatically change our self esteem and the overall impact of our speech. "Don't fake it til you make it, fake it til you become it." Try to exercise these power poses enough so that you will eventually not need to do them as often. You will gain that confidence, passion, and enthusiasm, that you've always wished you had.