How To Feel Better In 60 Seconds | Ep 79 | David Hulman
21 Feb 2020 · 1 min
David Hulman works with audience volunteers like Gareth Burnley on quick exercises to boost confidence and mood. He demonstrates smiling to trigger muscles, a two-minute appreciation breath to sync heart and brain, and power poses that produce measurable physiological changes.
People seem to forget if you change today, today will change your life. Keep your hand up if there's an area of your life right now which you wish you had a little bit more self belief in. What's your name? Where are you from?
It's Gareth Burnley. I'm from Leeds.
Craig from Glasgow International. Welce Lynn. Amazing. There's an area life that you would like more self belief in. Do you mind sharing what that area is?
Yeah, it's getting out of a comfort zone. From the position I'm doing at the moment, I'm trying to decide where I should best be fitted next within the company.
Excellent. Good first impression with key contacts. That's a really cool. And that's such a common one as well. And what's holding you back?
Confusion. Same thing for 17 years. And it's a matter of what's the.
Next steps, what's holding you back? You just get a lack of confidence. Can I ask you two to both come to the front? Everyone give them a round of applause. Again, I'm going to get them to, to think of two moments in their life. Okay. And then I'm gonna get you guys to guess what the, you know, what state or mood they're in. Okay? Right, so group huddle. Just talk amongst yourselves for a minute. Stand there, stand there. Okay, so it's a bit awkward, bit uncomfortable. Yeah. But we're stepping out your comfort zone and we want to make a good first impression. So 1, 2, 3, go. Okay, stop. After three you properly go for. Only works if you go for it. One, two, three, go. Yes. This quote here, happiness starts with a smile. It got me thinking. When we're happy, we smile. Great. But does smiling make us happy? Science proves that it does. Neuro linguistic programming. In other words, muscle memory. There's patterns of movements with our muscles that get us in a good state. So when we smile, the muscles in and around a mouth send signals to the brain saying, oh, you're happy right now. So what do you do when you're confident? What are your physical triggers when you're confident? I stand up straight, shoulders back and down, head up, chin up, smile, and then I'm there. We all have physical triggers, so think back to the, the moments where you've been most confident. And I get, I tell you this now, there'll be pretty much the same things over and over again in all those moments. So work out what your triggers are. Nearly done. As I said, I want you two guys to stand shoulder width apart like this. Hands and hips like this. Excellent. And look up and don't do anything. Okay? Everyone else, put your hands on your heart like this. Hands on your heart like this. Okay? Some scientists found out some things which are amazing. I want you to think of something that you really appreciate in your life. I want you to take a deep breath in through your nose. Hold and breathe out. Scientists have found this is amazing. If you do that for two minutes, right? So your ECG and your erg, so your brain waves and your heart rate, they're those lines that do that? Yeah. They are completely all over the place, the two of them, at all points. If you do that for two minutes, They sync up. Your brain waves and heart rate sync up. How amazing is that? Now, what's the benefit of that? In terms of relaxation, in terms of appreciation, in terms of your body all pulling in the same direction, you know, rather than have some of your body going over there, it's that feeling of being centered. So think of something you appreciate. I suggest you do that first thing in the morning. Gets you in a really good state the first 20 minutes. That's a really good thing to do in the morning. Now, what are you two guys doing? Obviously, you don't know. So the first thing is this. As a scientist who worked out, if you adopt a power pose such as this, there are various different poses, something like this, you do it for two minutes, it boosts your testosterone by 20%. That's a key hormone. Full confidence, obviously. And it drops your cortisol, which is the. The key hormone for anxiety, by 25% in two minutes. That's a 45% swing. Now, I think for two minutes a day we would do that. And when you do it enough times and you get the feeling of how that actually feels, you'll become addicted to it. I promise you that. So two minutes there, two minutes there. Great appreciation, great confidence. Have a think about that. Thank you both very much for volunteering. On your way back, I want you to get as many high fives in the audience as possible, because obviously you're now confident enough to give them. And you guys will really appreciate them, huh? So you've got to run past the second row and you're going to get as many high fives as possible. And obviously a bit of music gets you in a good mood, gets you in the right state. So after three, I want you to get as many high fives as possible. Ready? One, two, three. Keep going, keep going. More high fives? Yes, as many as possible. Give them a round of applause.