This video we're going to go over the body language of confidence. So let's go right ahead and jump into this year. So what you want to do to have confident body language is you want to be able to stand tall, shoulders back, chest out, right? And your stature doesn't matter because it's all about attitude. It's about how you present yourself, right? So think about your feet being grounded to the ground, right?

And then stand tall. Okay? Now as you begin to do this and correct yourself, because maybe right now you're not standing tall, you're kind of hunched over, maybe you just come naturally are that way, right? Because that's how you've, you know, naturally acted your entire life. So, once you begin to, you know, put your head up right, and put your chest out and people are going to pay attention to this confident posture. Now if you're hunching or slouching, right, this is given the impression that you're weak.

You have low self esteem, you are seeking and looking for approval, right. So you Want to avoid those. So you want to actually make sure that you're standing tall, you have your shoulders back, right and your chest out. And then with your eye contact, this is one of the most important parts of your presence. Because when you're talking to somebody, right when you're speaking, you want to look people directly in the eye and then hold their gaze, you should maintain eye contact long enough to show that you're sincerely interested in the other person, right? You're not just sitting there looking at it real quick and then looking away or looking you know, to the side.

You want to make sure you have eye contact there. So voice tonality This is one of the most important things here right? Because if you don't have the right tonality in your voice, if you are speaking kind of with the high pitch and that is typically going to showcase you having low confidence, low self esteem because you shouldn't be making statements in the form of a question. You should be making deliberate statements and not having them end in questions. So when you have a dominant voice and you, you know, have your proper tonality that expresses leadership, assertiveness and security, like, you know what this is what it is, this is how it's going to be, you know, that's all there is to it right? Instead of asking a question, or trying to seek approval, you're not trying to impress anyone here, right?

And once you start doing this, people are going to begin to trust you and respect you more, because they hear you coming with that dominant voice, right? So with the dominant voice, this stays the same or lower in pitch when finishing a sentence or phrase. It's just like you're speaking your mind without hesitation. Now, these submissive voices rising pitch almost that they're asking a question, right? Like I mentioned, when you're actually not, and this is actually communicating that you have low self esteem, you are submissive, and you are not very confident in yourself, right? Because you're unsure you're looking for approval, right?

That's exactly how you don't want to be so with Oh, In gestures, right, keeping your movements relaxed, open arm gestures, and showing the palm of your hands like, Hey, you know what, I have nothing to hide here, right? And so that signals credibility and candor. And one of the things here to keep in mind is that when you have open gestures, and you're just, you know, talking like you don't have anything to hide, you're perceived more positively, and are more persuasive than those with closed gestures with arms crossed, hands hidden, hands close, you know, to your body or fingers or hands fidgeting, whatever that may be, right? Because you're showing openness, right? Like you're not hiding anything. So really important to understand that when you're communicating with people having open gestures is definitely a benefit because people are going to see that you have nothing to hide.

And interestingly enough, people are doing this all unconsciously they are judging you. They're looking at your body language, what you're doing what you're not doing and unconsciously they're ready. running these different things in their mind, and they are judging you based on your particular body language because your body language is actually saying more than your actual words. Now, here's a couple of videos that I highly recommend you check out for improving your body language because this course is a confidence course. And as far as body language, I mean, that could be a whole course in of itself. But these are very great videos here.

They're TED Talks from a couple of different people. One is Amy Cuddy, very famous psychologist. And then I believe it's Anne Washburn, she's a keynote speaker. I think they success coach as well but they both have great, great videos here on body language, so highly recommend you check these out. I'm going to leave these links for you to check out and that's going to be here for this video and we'll see you on the next one.