- By the end of this video,
you will learn three
methods on how to improve
your self-confidence
through body language.
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How's it going guys?
It's Chris back with another
health empowerment video.
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As I'm sure you've heard before,
80% of communication is non verbal,
where 20% is the verbal
communication component.
So how you interact with the world
and how you present yourself
is significantly going to determine
how you feel about yourself,
and how other people feel about you.
So much like affirmations that people say
in the mirror like, I love myself,
those kind of things.
These kind of drills can
work into the sub conscious
if you're consistent with them enough,
you say them with thought and power,
and it's not too much of a
stretch of the imagination.
It's just a little bit outside
your comfort zone right now.
Now we're gonna go through three drills
that you can use to improve
your self-confidence
through body language.
First up is the expansive breathing drill.
So first start down in a terrible posture,
and feel how powerless that feels.
How much tension there
is maybe in your back
or in the front of your chest,
and how difficult it is to breathe,
and then we're going to collect our spine
and grow tall through
the crown of our head,
and then come back into the posture.
Now we're gonna start the breathing drill.
We're gonna breathe in,
and then we're gonna
breathe out, and just rest
into a little bit of sinking.
Not into a full slump.
Breathing in.
Opening the chest a little bit.
Scooping the arms open.
Spreading the fingers,
and then exhale.
Breathing in, growing tall.
Opening the chest, spinning the arms out,
and breathing out coming
back into a resting position.
Breathing in, growing tall.
Opening the arms, lifting the chest,
spreading the collar bones.
Growing tall through
the crown of the head,
and breathing out.
Get the chest and back
into it a little bit.
Breathing in, expanding,
lifting the chest,
rolling the pubic bones down in the front,
and slow exhale.
Feel yourself growing
tall and more confident
with each repetition.
Breathing in, expanding,
lifting the chest,
and breathing out.
You can break this up into small parts.
You could start with just the hands
and build it into the arms.
Get the legs going.
Opening up the chest, growing tall,
feeling powerful, feeling what it's like
to have good posture,
and just the energetics of that,
being able to connect with your body
in a powerful position will help you
to feel better about yourself.
It'll help you with your flexibility,
and it will help how
you perceive the world
and how others perceive you.
I think another incredibly important thing
is to keep your spine supple
to make sure that each section
of your spine is moving well.
So we're going to go through
an articulating bridge.
A bridge is where you just
lift your butt up off the floor
with your knees bent.
Instead we're gonna try
and get each section
of the spine to move well,
and then I'll show you another way
that you can advance that.
You should not do this if
you have any neck problems,
or stenosis, or severe
issues with your spine.
An articulating bridge looks like this.
We're going to first gently
roll the pelvis back.
We're going to reach
out through the knees,
and we're gonna peel each
section of the spine away,
and you take a breath at the top,
and you continue to reach
out through the knees
as you sink down at the ribs,
the chest, the belly,
and then lastly the low back.
You allow the shoulders to drift open,
keep the chest open,
and you repeat five to eight times.
Another variation of that
to get a little deeper in it
would be a bridge up against the wall.
Swing the feet up, reach the knees out,
peel each section of the spine away.
Allow the chest to open.
Don't turn your head in this position,
and then again, continue to
reach out through the knees
as you sink down through
each vertebrae one at a time.
The benefits of doing
this particular drill
is your spine will become more supple.
It will alow you to get into postures
that feel more powerful to you.
Particularly the next
drill we're going to do.
Lastly is a simply affirmation
with a tall posture.
So I'm gonna, if I'm turning to the side,
I'm growing tall through
the crown of the head,
I'm gently drawing my
head back on my spine.
I'm lifting the collar bones,
and I'm spinning the arms
open so I'm not here,
and I'm not just shoving
the shoulders back.
I'm rolling the shoulders into place,
and drawing my head back on my spine,
and from that position
you're gonna breathe.
Slide the shoulders down your spine,
and we're going to say
to ourselves, out loud,
I deeply and completely
love and accept myself.
I deeply and completely
love and accept myself.
I deeply and completely
love and accept myself,
and you're gonna say this,
you're gonna say this
for a full three minutes.
In summary, simple posture changes
can bring upon profound changes
in the way that you feel about yourself
and the way that other people view you.
This has been another episode
on mental health Mondays
where we focus on stress,
depression, anxiety,
and everything related
to your mental health.
On Wednesdays we have
working body Wednesdays
where we look at posture,
functional movement,
and things you can do to
make your body more capable
of movement.
On Fridays we have TGIF.
Which is talking gut immuno Fridays.
Everything from probiotics, sinus health,
and improving your immunity.
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