What Your Posture Tells About You

 The way we carry ourselves speaks volumes before we even utter a word. Our posture is not just about how we look; it's a significant part of our non-verbal communication, influencing how confident, competent, and positive we appear to others.

Here are 7 essential tips drawn from expert advice on mastering your posture, each designed to enhance your personal and professional development.

1. Understand the Importance of Proper Posture:

Recognizing the crucial role posture plays in our lives is the first step. It's more than aesthetics; it's about how we present ourselves to the world. Good posture is aligned with confidence and positivity, affecting both our self-perception and how others perceive us.

2. Leverage First Impressions:

Your posture is a key player in the kind of first impression you leave. As soon as you step into a room, your posture is silently communicating your confidence and positivity. This makes mastering good posture essential for impactful non-verbal communication.

3. Connect Confidence and Posture:

Embrace the profound connection between your posture and the level of confidence you project. Good posture doesn't just make you appear more confident; it can actually make you feel more self-assured, creating a positive feedback loop.

4. Project Competence Through Posture:

The way you carry your body can significantly influence perceptions of your competence. A proper posture can make you appear more capable and skilled, an essential factor in professional settings.

5. Foster Positivity with Good Posture:

There's a notable link between good posture and a positive outlook. Maintaining proper posture can enhance your mood and encourage a more optimistic perspective, benefiting your mental and emotional well-being.

6. Develop the Skill of Good Posture:

Recognize that achieving and maintaining good posture is a skill that can be developed over time. With awareness and practice, anyone can improve their posture, leading to enhanced well-being.

7. Employ Tools and Techniques:

Consider using ergonomic tools, like stand-up desks, to support good posture. Adjustments to your environment can make a significant difference in maintaining proper posture, contributing to your physical health and self-perception.

Mastering your posture is an ongoing journey that requires awareness, practice, and sometimes, a little adjustment to your surroundings.

By embracing these seven tips, you can start to see improvements not just in how you stand or sit, but in how you feel about yourself and how others perceive you.

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Video Transcript

What your posture tells about you? I wonder, what is your posture? Do you know how you carry your body? Posture is simply is a lineman of our spine. And it's physical and it's emotional and mental. How do we carry our posture? Sometimes tells a lot about how we carry ourselves. I want to encourage us all to be aware of our posture and intentionally create our proper posture. So before we dive into the conversation, I want to step back and I want to mention that sometimes proper posture is not available.

Maybe we had previous injury surgery and we mechanically cannot align our posture properly. That is a different thing. I want to pay our attention to those who know that we can work on our proper posture. In fact, I'm going to bring first the body language and perception. I've got my notes so I stay on track. Body language and perception. Can you imagine how much posture can tell about us? That first impression when you walk into the room, your face, your body tells pretty much everything about you.

How you show up is how you're going to make that impression long-term. Body language, posture is huge part of it. So what kind of impression and perception we create for those we're around, especially first time? So do we slouch our shoulders? Do we move our neck forward? Do we have kind of let us see with our spine? Do we look down versus slightly looking up? Good posture is confidence, competence, positivity. Sometimes I say when I lead the meeting, lift your chest up, shoulders down, it's the power posture, it's the confidence posture.

It's just a positivity posture versus when we slouch, it's very easy sometimes with the computer and the cell phone to kind of lean forward. But what kind of impression am I creating with that poor posture? So the perception can be on confidence and security. Maybe it's anxiety, fear, depression. What impression of perception do we want to create by using our posture? So having that awareness is such a big first step, my habit, I call it curiosity habit.

Just being curious, how is my posture? Okay, right now I'm leaning intentionally a little bit to create a better lighting for the cell phone. Okay, and also physiological, so I really want to focus on the mental and emotional perception of our posture. But also let's think about physiological. Would mechanically we create in our body, the body is going to be towards the least resistance. So if we sit like this, the body is going to create that posture.

So we have to intentionally realign our body. So again, the step one is really being curious and being aware. Step two, I'm going to start generating proper posture by proper posture first. Whether you're sitting, laying or standing, there are certain tools that you can utilize. Bring your head back, pull your shoulders back and down, lift your chest, tummy in, relax your glutes, slightly soft knees if you're standing and have your feet under your hips.

By the way, this and that, we're going to cover in the proper posture course. Proper posture tools, there are different ways and whichever tools to stick to you because that's how you resonate better. I'm going to cover as many tools as I possibly know for keeping our proper posture just from that one course you will remember. I hear you are in my head because it sticks, it's so easy to remember.

Okay, and also how do I move by the way my body? So it's not just aesthetic, how I sit, how I stand, but also how am I carrying my body around? So that's the daily body movement, we call this functional movement. Performing and again, keeping the proper posture while I'm performing those body movements are crucially important. It's also for safety, it's also for preventing injuries, but it's also like building internal strength. I recently posted an article, thank you for sharing about that article.

By building muscle strength, muscles send the signal to the brain that creates mind strength. It's so body-mind-connected, it's amazing. Okay, but also physiologically, if we slouch our shoulders, we actually create kind of compression in our organs which may affect our mood. But now Tony Robbins says, don't like your emotions, change your emotions. If you open up your chest, you open up your lungs, you naturally create the passages for better oxygen, better nutrient flow in the body, you have more energy, you have more clarity.

You feel emotionally better. So I would encourage us all to really pay attention, let me see if there's anything else I missed in my notes, and pay attention to your posture. Do you have poor posture? Do you have proper posture? That's okay if you're noticing you have poor posture. Just pay attention and start developing the skills for proper posture. And again, we will cover those in the proper posture course. And also by keeping our proper posture, we create the perception of confidence, of positivity, of competence.

Who wants that? So encourage us all to focus on awareness, static posture, movement, and also you can utilize that in the exercise. And if you need, on the final note, if you need to create a physical environment, ergonomics, I learned the terminology, when you sit in the angle that it helps proper posture, have stand-up desk, please do that as well. Looking at the self on this way or that way. It helps our posture, please do that. And also create a positive self-talk for yourself, please.

Positive self-talk helps us to open up our heart, thus open up our body. So before you go, please let me know how this message resonates with you. Anything I can do for you, please join our proper posture course. it is available as a course, thus recorded program as well. So I hope to see you soon.