How you carry yourself also matters a lot. It you have the right posture you can boost up your confidence level as well as give the right impression to those around you. so next time you feel depressed, change your posture to a better one and see the difference. When you sit with shoulders slouched and stomach buried in, you will feel depressed.
Your breathing pattern is also irregular. Hence change the way you sit or stand and you can greatly improve your mood.
The way you place your head also can impact your confidence. If you want to feel confident hold your head horizontally as well as vertically balanced. When you want to exert your authority, put your head straight. When listening to others, tilt your head to one side. You can shift the position from time to time when you are listening to someone.
Arms give away the clues if you are a person who is receptive to ideas given by people around you. Hence, your arms should be to the side of your body or behind your back. This shows you are not afraid to face reality and you meet things head on. Generally, the more outgoing you are, the more you tend to use your arms. On the contrary, you move your hands much less if you are a quieter person. Try to strike a natural balance and keep your arm movements moderate. If you want to give the right impression to the people with whom you interact, crossing the arms is a big no. If someone hurts you with his words, you can show your disapproval by crossing your arms.
Legs are the most difficult to control. The reason could be because they are very far from the brain. Our legs tend to move a lot more than normal when we are nervous, stressed or being deceptive. So best to keep them as steady and firm as possible in most situations, especially at interviews or work meetings. Crossing legs also has different interpretations. Do you cross at the knees, ankles or bring your leg up to rest on the knee of the other? This is more a question of comfort than anything else. When you rest one of your leg on the other knee, known as the "Figure Four" it is interpreted as the most defensive leg cross, especially if someone is telling you something that is suspicious.
Angle of the body in relation to others gives an indication of our attitudes and feelings towards them. If we like any person we tend to incline towards them and incline away from those whom we don’t like. Angles includes leaning in or away from people, as we often just tilt from the pelvis and lean sideways to someone to share a bit of conversation. For example, at concerts or cinema wer are not in control of the angle of our body due to the seating or when we stand, it is during this when we lea towards the other person.
There are so many hand gestures that it is not possible to detail them here, hence a few of them are described below. A friendly gesture is palms slightly up and outward. Palm down gestures are generally seen as dominant, emphasizing and possibly aggressive, especially when there is no movement or bending between the wrist and the forearm. This palm up, palm down becomes crucial while you handshake. It is advisable to offer a handshake upright and vertical. This will be interpreted as equality.
Distance from others is crucial if you want to give off the right signals. It would be rue to stand too close. If you stand too close you will be taken as someone who is pushy. On the other hand, standing or sitting too far away, you will taken as someone who is aloof. Neither are favoring for us. So observe if in a group situation how close are all the other people to each other. If you move closer to someone and they back away, you're probably just a tiny bit too much in their personal space. You have breached their comfort zone and hence should pull back a little.
Ears, play a vital role in communication with others. Wondering how when there is not much you can do about them? However, you've got two ears and only one mouth, so try to use them in that order. This is to say you should listen much more than you speak. This gives people an impression that you know how to strike up a balanced a conversation. You are not the kind of person who is an egotist.
The way we move our lips tells a lot of things about us. We usually purse our lips or twist them while thinking. Also when we are angry but don’t want people around us to know we hold back by pursing our lisps. But people around you will know there you were not too happy. Even the smile we pass or give to people tells a lot about the kind of feelings or mood we are in.
Your breathing pattern is also irregular. Hence change the way you sit or stand and you can greatly improve your mood.
The way you place your head also can impact your confidence. If you want to feel confident hold your head horizontally as well as vertically balanced. When you want to exert your authority, put your head straight. When listening to others, tilt your head to one side. You can shift the position from time to time when you are listening to someone.
Arms give away the clues if you are a person who is receptive to ideas given by people around you. Hence, your arms should be to the side of your body or behind your back. This shows you are not afraid to face reality and you meet things head on. Generally, the more outgoing you are, the more you tend to use your arms. On the contrary, you move your hands much less if you are a quieter person. Try to strike a natural balance and keep your arm movements moderate. If you want to give the right impression to the people with whom you interact, crossing the arms is a big no. If someone hurts you with his words, you can show your disapproval by crossing your arms.
Legs are the most difficult to control. The reason could be because they are very far from the brain. Our legs tend to move a lot more than normal when we are nervous, stressed or being deceptive. So best to keep them as steady and firm as possible in most situations, especially at interviews or work meetings. Crossing legs also has different interpretations. Do you cross at the knees, ankles or bring your leg up to rest on the knee of the other? This is more a question of comfort than anything else. When you rest one of your leg on the other knee, known as the "Figure Four" it is interpreted as the most defensive leg cross, especially if someone is telling you something that is suspicious.
Angle of the body in relation to others gives an indication of our attitudes and feelings towards them. If we like any person we tend to incline towards them and incline away from those whom we don’t like. Angles includes leaning in or away from people, as we often just tilt from the pelvis and lean sideways to someone to share a bit of conversation. For example, at concerts or cinema wer are not in control of the angle of our body due to the seating or when we stand, it is during this when we lea towards the other person.
There are so many hand gestures that it is not possible to detail them here, hence a few of them are described below. A friendly gesture is palms slightly up and outward. Palm down gestures are generally seen as dominant, emphasizing and possibly aggressive, especially when there is no movement or bending between the wrist and the forearm. This palm up, palm down becomes crucial while you handshake. It is advisable to offer a handshake upright and vertical. This will be interpreted as equality.
Distance from others is crucial if you want to give off the right signals. It would be rue to stand too close. If you stand too close you will be taken as someone who is pushy. On the other hand, standing or sitting too far away, you will taken as someone who is aloof. Neither are favoring for us. So observe if in a group situation how close are all the other people to each other. If you move closer to someone and they back away, you're probably just a tiny bit too much in their personal space. You have breached their comfort zone and hence should pull back a little.
Ears, play a vital role in communication with others. Wondering how when there is not much you can do about them? However, you've got two ears and only one mouth, so try to use them in that order. This is to say you should listen much more than you speak. This gives people an impression that you know how to strike up a balanced a conversation. You are not the kind of person who is an egotist.
The way we move our lips tells a lot of things about us. We usually purse our lips or twist them while thinking. Also when we are angry but don’t want people around us to know we hold back by pursing our lisps. But people around you will know there you were not too happy. Even the smile we pass or give to people tells a lot about the kind of feelings or mood we are in.