How to boost your confidence in just 2 minutes

Hey everyone, I know it’s very common to have fear or anxiety in situations like introducing ourself to many people, talking to someone special, giving presentation or going for an interview, Right?

Our heart starts beating very fast and our breathe starts distorting because of this we cannot properly overcome the situation and after that we REGRET about what we ought to do and what we have done. Am I Right?

Now, the reason of all this is LACK OF CONFIDENCE!!

We can perfectly talk to a group a children but we would be nervous if we talk to any one of a billionaire. This is because we have a feeling of being LESS POWERFUL. YES, we human beings are controlled by different types of powers and our behavior is influenced them. So what happens is that we get nervous and we start making mistakes because it’s pretty natural for human beings to make mistakes when they are nervous. Which is not a good thing.

Not to forget that these are all the things that I have faced in my life or still facing a few but as I grew up and started learning different things, I started working on my personal development and Now I can proudly say that I have made a change in my life. I try to relate all the knowledge with my personal experience in order to let everyone have a better understanding.

So let’s come back to the topic, what you need to do is to FEEL MORE POWERFUL than others in order to cope up with these kinds of anxiety, only then you will change your REGRETS into COMPOSURE, CONFIDENCE and SATISFACTION.

Author Amy Cady had a car accident where she got injury on her head, Doctors clearly told her that because of this injury you will not able to pass your college. But Amy proved them WRONG!! She didn’t even completed her college but became a renowned Professor of Harvard Business School after that she gave one of the most popular TEDTALK and published a great book. Let me tell you an exciting thing I am giving you a summary of this book by Amy Cady.

Question arises that from where did she get that much confidence, self-esteem and power through which proved everyone wrong and became successful.

Answer lies in her own research in which she found out a simple scientific trick in order to feel more powerful and confident, which she always uses.

We can also feel CONFIDENT and POWERFUL in JUST 2 MINUTES!! Yes only 2 minutes. This is amazing!!

In an experiment by Amy Cady she took two groups of people A nd B and told group A to make HIGH POWER POSES for 2 minutes and group B to make UNDER CONFIDENT POSES for 2 minutes. RESULTS were amazing

When they took a blood test of Group A, they found that their TESTOSTERONE Level increased by 20% and CORTISOL Level was decreased by 25%

On the other hand Group B had TESTOSTERONE Level decreased by 10% and CORTISOL Level was increased by 17%

TESTOSTERONE is a dominance hormone which increases Assertiveness, Confidence and Power 

while the CORTISOL is related to Stress and Fear

The technique is EXPANDING YOURSELF. When someone achieves something in life

So his body reaction is like this picture. Author described this as a UNIVERSAL VICTORY POSE. Because every person does this regardless of country, religion or culture. The fact lies here is that when we feel more confident and powerful OUR BODY EXPANDS and we take more space. This is not only common in Human Beings but also in Animals too. You might have seen a kitten when she gets scared of something she tries to hide and make herself as small as possible.

So whenever a LOW CONFIDENT person talks to somebody he/she talks very fast without pauses because they think that they are wasting others time or the other person is not that much interested in them. On the other hand when a HIGH CONFIDENT person talks to somebody he/she takes pauses, talks slowly which shows power. The reason is our brain is connected to our bodies and it controls the body so when ever we feel different kinds of emotions our body languages changes because of the signs we are getting from our brain. The point everyone know is we cannot control our brain but we can control our body language. 

So Amy Cady in her research showed that we can control our brain by controlling our body language.

In simple words when you feel under-confident you just need to make poses that are POWERFUL and SHOWS CONFIDENCE, 

Poses like this Victory POSE

SUPERMAN POSE

These are some examples of POWERFUL POSES.
You can use that pose which takes more space, it is as simple as you never thought.
I would suggest to make this your daily routine when you get up in the morning make POWER POSE for 2 minutes, it will bring a change in your life,

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