18 ways to improve your body language

There are several general interpretations of body language and means, which often are the most effective for control of the body.



Firstly, in order to change the language of the body, you should be familiar with your body. Pay attention to how you sit, how you stand, how to use his hands and feet, what do you do when talking with anyone.

You can work around the mirror. So you better understand how you look in the eyes of others, and thus you will be able to practice a bit before going out into the light.

Closing your eyes, imagine you are confident, calm, not straining to stand and sit when you're with someone communicating. Imagine yourself option, and then work out to be so.


You can also watch friends, movie stars, or someone else, who, as you see, a nice gesture, and make them an example to follow. Watch what they are doing and what ever these people do. Collect your mosaic of foreign gestures. Try for yourself to use these gestures.

There is nothing to worry about. People do not look at you as often as you think about it - they are busy with their own problems. In order to balance their movement, just a little have fun, practice and watch a.

Here are 18 general rules that will help improve your body language:

1. Do not cross your arms or legs.
Do not cross your arms, it seems that you want to shut down from others to protect themselves. Also, it concerns your feet. Be open.

2. Adjust eye contact.
If you're talking with several people, maintain eye contact with everyone to create a connection and make sure that you listen to. Do not overdo it, it may seem that you are trying to suppress the interlocutor. If your eye contact is too weak, you will seem uncertain.

3. Take a pose.
Take a confident posture, feels at ease human.

4. Relax your shoulders.
When you are tense, tense as your shoulders. They raised a little give in advance. Try to relax, shake your shoulders and take them back.

5. nods when they talk.
Nodding from time to time, you show that you are listening to. But do not overdo it, and that so you can be like Woody Woodpecker.

6. Do not slouch, sit up straight.
Keep your posture, but do not strain.

7. To the best lean.
If you want to show that you're interested in what someone says, lean slightly toward the speaker. If you want to show that you are confident and you are comfortable, lean back slightly. But do not lean too low. This way you will impress someone who desperately needs support. Or, if you are very lean back, you may seem too arrogant and callous.

8. Smile and laugh.
Treat all easy, do not take everything too seriously. To the best of relax, and when someone says something funny, smile and laugh. People are ready to listen to you if you seem to be a positive person. But do not start the first to laugh at his own jokes - this indicates that you are nervous and you need external support. Smile when you are with someone familiar, but do not need to stick to the face that smile - you deserved deem insincere.

9. Do not touch your face.
This indicates that you are nervous, and will distract the attention of listeners and interlocutors.

10. Keep your head up.
Head down - a sign of insecurity and helplessness. Your eyes should be straight.

11. Do not hurry.
This is done for the following reasons: when you're going slowly, you will not only calm down and become more confident, but you are a little goes a state of stress. When you are to anyone accessing, do not turn in that direction too fast and do it as slowly as possible.

12. Do not fuss.
Avoid nervous movements, such as rocking or fast foot tapping his fingers on the table. Gradually get rid of these habits, or convert them. Fidgeting indicates that you are nervous, distracted listeners and gives you the ability to clearly express the idea. Organize your movements, so as not to interfere with itself. Try to relax, do everything slowly and follow their movements and gestures.

13. Motion confident.
Use your hands to describe something or to your arguments seem more convincing. But do not overdo it - too many hand movements distracts the attention of the audience. And do not repeat all the time the same motion, control them!

14. Hold a glass below.
Do not keep the drink too close to him and at the level of the chest, so as not to look too closed and "to protect." Try to keep something (not only drinks) below heart level and at the level of socks foot in the frontal plane.

15. Keep your spine straight.
Many people could sit and stand straight and beautiful, but they think that the back ends where the neck begins, so pull your neck forward, not realizing that it is part of their posture. Your back end where the head begins. We need to try to keep exactly the entire back and then your posture is really good.

16. Keep your distance.
Do not stand too close. Everyone has long been known that if you get too close to the other person, he starts to worry. Allow people to have personal space, do not try to win it.

17. Mirror.
Often, when you have a good relationship with someone, talking, you become unconsciously mirror each other. This means that you are to some extent borrow someone else's body language. In order to communicate better, you can consciously use the mirror effect. If the source is tilted forward, you can also tilt forward. If the companion held out her hand to take something, you too can do so. But do not repeat everything, does not reflect every movement of the body. And that fear will be provided :-)

18. Be open and calm.
And last but not least - always applies to all and to all a good, be open and calm. Your feelings may also change the language of your body and make it completely different. For information on how to change your feelings, you can read the article about the ten ways to change your feelings.

You can change the language of the body, but to the new language has become familiar to you, you take time. Especially, it concerns the habit hold my head high, because it is quite difficult to change. And besides, if you try to change everything at once, you may be confused and you may find that you can not deal with that.

Work with a couple of tricks every day for three or four weeks. During this time, they should become a habit, and you will do them automatically. If they do not become a habit, repeat them until they become by it. Then move on to the next pair of receptions and work on them.