Hunched posture and downward gaze signal victim mentality. Standing straight, opening your chest, and making eye contact can shift your thoughts and emotional responses because the mind and body are tightly linked.
What I want to think about is when you're playing the victim, your body language is going to be different. Your body language is going to be more hunched over. You're going to be more protective of your heart space. You're going to be looking down. It's like, what is that feeling? So sometimes if you're just feeling like the victim, one of the ways— things that you can do is just stand up straight. Yeah. You know, really just stand up straight, take that breath, have your heart center focus on the other person, and really look them in the eye. And then it's like, Because we are so connected to our bodies and somatically, we can make small shifts that then start to shift how our brain is working and what we're thinking and what our response is going to be.
