Our bodies change our minds
Our bodies change our minds
We know that our minds change our bodies, but is it also true that our bodies change our minds? And in a couple of minutes I want to convince you to pay more attention to your body postures and to convince you change your body postures in order to change how you feel. and I'm hoping that if you learn to tweak this a little bit, it could significantly change the way your life unfolds.
When we feel happy we smile. When we feel sad we do the opposite.
If you feel full of power and energy we are expanding, make ourselves big, we stretch out, we take up space, we're basically opening up. It's about opening up. And this is true across the animal kingdom. It's not just limited to human beings.
This expression, which is known as pride. People who are born with sight and people who are blind do this when they win at a physical competition. So the arms go up in the V, the chin is slightly lifted.
What do we do when we feel powerless? We do exactly the opposite. We close up. We wrap ourselves up. We make ourselves small. So again, both animals and humans do the same thing. And this is what happens when you put together high and low power. Maybe you're hunching, crossing your legs, maybe wrapping your ankles. Sometimes we hold onto our arms like this.
Physiologically, there are differences on two key hormones: testosterone, which is the dominance hormone, and cortisol, which is the stress hormone. So what scientists find is that people who feel powerful, full of energy and positive have high testosterone and low cortisol. People who feel low, powerless and stressed have high cortisol level and low testosterone.
The scientists have this evidence, that the body can shape the mind. Power posing for a few minutes can really change the way we feel.
The scienists decided to bring people into the lab and run a little experiment, and these people adopted, for two minutes, either high-power poses or low-power poses. They
We know that our minds change our bodies, but is it also true that our bodies change our minds? And in a couple of minutes I want to convince you to pay more attention to your body postures and to convince you change your body postures in order to change how you feel. and I'm hoping that if you learn to tweak this a little bit, it could significantly change the way your life unfolds.
When we feel happy we smile. When we feel sad we do the opposite.
If you feel full of power and energy we are expanding, make ourselves big, we stretch out, we take up space, we're basically opening up. It's about opening up. And this is true across the animal kingdom. It's not just limited to human beings.
This expression, which is known as pride. People who are born with sight and people who are blind do this when they win at a physical competition. So the arms go up in the V, the chin is slightly lifted.
What do we do when we feel powerless? We do exactly the opposite. We close up. We wrap ourselves up. We make ourselves small. So again, both animals and humans do the same thing. And this is what happens when you put together high and low power. Maybe you're hunching, crossing your legs, maybe wrapping your ankles. Sometimes we hold onto our arms like this.
Physiologically, there are differences on two key hormones: testosterone, which is the dominance hormone, and cortisol, which is the stress hormone. So what scientists find is that people who feel powerful, full of energy and positive have high testosterone and low cortisol. People who feel low, powerless and stressed have high cortisol level and low testosterone.
The scientists have this evidence, that the body can shape the mind. Power posing for a few minutes can really change the way we feel.
The scienists decided to bring people into the lab and run a little experiment, and these people adopted, for two minutes, either high-power poses or low-power poses. They