Confidence in body language

Are you capable of making your body convey positive messages about yourself? What energies are you producing through your posture and body movements? What messages are you communicating when you walk? How do you look?

Practicing killer body language will help you boost yourself confidence making you feel great about who you are. When you convey a positive and strong body language you will unlock closed doors that will bring you to your successes. 

Imagine that you are stepping into an interview room, the interviewer begins to gather information about what your body is saying way before thy even ask you the first question. Your poses and posture conveys a language which people are capable of reading.

Your body language reflects your level of confidence, your mood for the day.

Building strong body language 

Eye contact

Maintain a positive eye contact at social interactions. Eye contact indicates comfort, acceptance, willingness and interest. Look in the other person’s eye 60% of the time. In your mind pretend to be studying his or her eyes e.g. for eye colour.  

Chin up 

Keep your eyes forward. Whenever you are walking avoid looking down at your steps, always look forward. Not looking forward conveys a negative message that you do not want to interact with others. Avoid the habit of always looking down. Walk with your head up.

Smile 

Smiles indicate trustworthiness and approachability. When you smile at someone, there are high chances that they will smile back. Confident people are seen through the way they smile, they have nothing to worry about.

Avoid pockets 

Keep your hands off your pockets. Keeping your hands inside your pockets is a sign of being uncomfortable. Put your hands on your hips. Shoving your hands on your pockets makes you look nervous and less confident.

Wide stance 

Taking wider steps reduce anxiety. Wide steps show authority. Standing with your feet closer together makes you seem hesitant and unsure. Get used to large steps that are solid and relaxed.

Power poses 

Power poses relieve stress, they convey messages of dominance and power for example wide stance, standing with hands wide open. 

Lean forward 

During conversations leaning forward shows great interest and attention (how attentive you are).

Hand movements 

Avoid neck and facial hand movements during conversations. This makes you look anxious, afraid, nervous and unsure of what you are saying. Action speaks louder than words. Use open gestures (show persuasiveness) that will bring clarity to whatever you are saying. Avoid too much or overuse of hand movements.

Don’t fidget 

Fidgeting is done by those without confidence in themselves. Confident people do not fidget. Confident people keep their minds still because they are not worried of anything. Always keep steady. Fidgeting shows anxiety, worry, lack of confidence and nervousness. Fidgeting reduce your audience’s focus and destroys their attentiveness.

Handshakes 

Weak handshakes shows lack of confidence. Practice strong. Perfect, powerful, firm handshakes that will increase your credibility. 

Grooming 

Bath yourself well, dress for success, shave, make a nice haircut and always look perfect.

Lower your voice 

People with higher pitched voices are less empathetic, less powerful and more nervous. 

Building a solid and a positive body language boosts your confidence of meeting anyone anywhere anytime increasing your chances of getting opportunities – the key to success.