Your posture shapes your mood as much as your mood shapes your posture. Research shows that holding a closed-off position makes you feel more defensive, while adopting an open, confident stance can shift your mindset toward positivity. Pay attention to how you're standing today.
Good morning, everyone. Here is your moment of yes for today. Now, we all know that our thoughts affect our body. And so we know that if we're thinking good thoughts, we're thinking positive thoughts, we're thinking confident thoughts, that it'll change how we stand, how we hold ourselves. If we're thinking positive and confident, we'll probably stand more upright, more confident, more firm. And if we know if we're feeling down, if we're feeling negative, depressed, we know that our body We get defensive, we fold our arms, we kind of get small to protect ourselves. So we all kind of understand that whatever we're thinking tends to affect our body. But what most of us don't know, and research and science has proven, that whatever body position you're in, the longer that you're in that position, it starts to affect your thoughts. So for example, if you're sitting in a room and someone's speaking, And it's cold and you cross your arms to kind of, you know, because you're cold. If you cross your arms, the longer that you sit in that closed-off position, it starts to affect your thinking to being closed off. Even if you have no problem with the speaker or don't even disagree with them, being in a closed-off body position will start to affect your thoughts. So it goes both ways. Conversely, if you find yourself in a In a negative mood, if you can consciously put yourself into more of a confident, open position, your thoughts will start to follow suit. So not only is this helpful for you to be conscious and to, to pay attention to how you're holding yourself because of what message you might be sending to someone else, it's very important that you're conscious of how you're holding yourself because it will start to affect your thoughts as well, subconsciously. So, your moment of yes for today is notice yourself. Notice your body language, your body position, and then choose an open, confident, positive response. See if you can do that throughout today. Notice how you're holding yourself. Notice how you're sitting, your body language, and open yourself up. That's your moment of yes for today, everyone. Have a wonderful day.
