What is up Explearners I am so happy to see you here welcome back and for those
of you who are new welcome to Explearning Communication this is the place for you
if you want to improve your interpersonal communication skills and
your public speaking so in today's video we are talking about working on our
posture to become a more confident and credible speaker now this is so
important especially in the age we live in we're constantly on our phones which
means we're doing this a lot of the time and not this anymore unless you're a
professional orator or rhetorician you're probably not going to work on your
posture unless you're cognizant about it today I'm going to give you
four ways of working on your posture and this is something that you can do
intermittently throughout the day as a little break from work or something that
you incorporate in your morning routine or your nightly routine as you wind down
here are the four ways of working on your posture because you know what it's
really important it's paramount to becoming a more credible speaker and a
more confident communicator and that's what we want to do right here right now
let's get into it no more making yourself feel powerless and
insignificant because you're not okay so we're not gonna hunch anymore we're not
going to stare at the floor when we speak eye contact is essential to good
communication so I want you to think about your shoulders up and down like
that you can also bring your shoulders up and release really quickly just to
sort of make sure that these are down think about also if you're familiar with
you know push-ups if you like that analogy I don't know if it resonates
with you but you can think of having your shoulders back and also your
shoulder blades touching and this is what happens and then we feel really
good and we also have a good posture for our audience and for the people that
we're communicating with this is particularly important if you are on
stage you want to make sure that your head is straight you don't want to be
doing that leading to one side or the other so
times we do this and we're not even cognizant that we're doing it one reason
people might be doing this is if they're constantly carrying a heavy shoulder bag
and they favor one side then we sort of just get into this position and that's
what feels natural to us so you have to make sure that there our head is just
straight and that we're able to face our interlocutors and our audience head on
really important so just make sure you can check yourself in the mirror every
once in a while and just make sure that your head is straight I mentioned this
one before but just to reiterate I want you to make sure that your shoulder
blades are squeezed together it feels strange at first but you'll start to get
the knack for it there's also these devices now that they have which are
posture fixers and essentially you wear it like a backpack and you can wear that
it doesn't deteriorate your muscles instead it it alerts your muscles to
work so because we're always hunched over like this if we're on our
smartphone or behind a desk it's not our fault you just have to keep that on so
that you're not even thinking about it but your muscles are doing that and then
the more you do this the more it becomes muscle memory and that's what we want we
want to get our muscles used to doing this instead of this the next thing that
you can do is check your alignment there's ways of making sure that your
spine is straight you can lean against a wall I mentioned that in another video
you can also imagine a string lifting you from the top of your head this is
something that they do in Pilates and ballet
I mean ballet dancers have exquisite posture but they work at it and then it
becomes muscle memory so you can do the same if you follow these these tips and
practice them and if you're diligent about working on posture because not
only are you gonna feel better but you're gonna communicate more
effectively your confidence is going to increase and also your credibility
because people are going to want to listen to you you're going to invite
them into your message and what you want to say and what you want to share with
people so definitely it's something to work on in this new year and always
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