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Our body shapes who we are.
In this TED talk, Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist, explains how our body language can influence our life, detrmining what people think of us. This is why she suggests to take few minutes before our next stressful situation to change our body language in a way to cope with that situation. Our bodies change our mind, our minds cand change our behaviour and our behaviour can change our outcomes.
Image source: Flickr – Obama White House
You don’t speak with your mouth: you speak with your body, too.
Or rather: your body speaks for you. Your body’s movements and positions express your thoughts and feelings. Your facial expressions communicate information. Also, body positions affect attitude.This happens silently and often mechanically.
Body language does not have a real grammar. The first step is to become aware of it. For this to happen, you have to practice. Here are some tips:
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Image: Flickr – Francesca Solaro (CC BY-NC 2.0)
In her TED Talk Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows that body language affects how others see us and it may also change how we see ourselves.
Amy Cuddy’s research on body language reveals that we can change other people’s perceptions — and even our own body chemistry — simply by changing body positions.
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