Hello, my name is Jay and today we will talk about the power of body language. Okay, okay, stop, stop. What happened here? Think of your perception of me in these few seconds. change a little bit from the perception, perception you were having for the last steps. What changed?

Because it's me I'm wearing the same clothes. I have the same face as a nose, right? The only thing that changed this Can you see how different you perceive me? So that's the goal of today's lesson. Let's boost your body language so that it has an effect on your voice and on the perception that people have with you as soon as they see you for the first time, right? People know if you're confident or not, even before you open your mouth, make these experiments look at a person that's trade, look at people that you don't know.

And try to get an idea of how confident they are. Usually, they'll find that you are pretty accurate in your guesses. So what's body language? For me, our body language is intonation that our body makes to communicate indicate what we're saying with our mouth. If our body language is terrible, it will dilute and reduce the impact of our communication in a big way. If our body language is resonant, confident and powerful, it will boost whatever we say and make it more interesting and attractive for people to hear, understand and be moved by our message.

So let's take a look at how we can boost our body language to improve our English effectiveness. So some key basics about body language standing up, I think you know this, how should you stand? This is called slouching. Should you be slouching or should you be standing up straight. A good tip that I like to think About when I'm practicing my body language is to imagine that I have a string pulling me straight up to the sky. It's an invisible string pulling my head up like this.

Right now, don't exaggerated. Don't pull your chest out too much. Just stay relaxed. I have your feet at shoulder width. Now, another thing you should be careful with is your hands in your pockets. Right, if you like it, you can do it a little bit.

But try not to go all the way down into your pockets and slouch. It doesn't look so well. Right? So preferably, keep them out. Stand straight, and leave your hands hanging comfortably to the sides. Another thing to watch out for are your nice Try not to have your knees locked completely straight.

Try to bend them just a little bit. I mean, don't go like this would have them slightly bent. This gives you a feeling of centering and what I like to call grounding. Another thing I like to do when I'm standing up straight, is to grab the ground with my feet. This makes me feel completely centered and grounded and open to what's in front of me. To do this, the only thing you need to do is kind of do this with your toes.

Try to grab the floor. Don't waste too much time and energy or focus during this. Just do it a little bit and try to feel how it makes you feel more connected to where you are to the crowd. And finally, something optional. This is something I learned from friends that do ballet, they have to stand up straight for long periods of time without moving. So when the hands are hanging to your sides comfortably, that's perfectly okay.

As long as it's natural, and not tense and rigid and fake, right? But an extra little detail that I like to do is to connect my thumb with my middle finger, they should be lightly touching. Don't do it like this. Just lightly touching gives you a sense of connection. All your body's locked and connected. And I don't know why it works, but it makes me feel much more comfortable and confident when I'm speaking.

To try to have your hands like this. By the way, these are our thumbs right? In English, we don't have 10 fingers. We have Eight fingers, two thumbs and 10 toes, right? Just a little extra vocabulary. Okay, so these works every time you need to be standing up.

This also works when you're sitting right when you're sitting, keep straight. Don't lean in too much, and don't lean back too much either. Keep attentive, keep focused, and straight. Remember, that's very important. Never slouch. Okay, good.

Now, if you have to speak, your hands, and your facial expressiveness are the most important tools you have in your body to aid and improve your communication. So let's talk about some tips to make your facial gestures and your hand movements more powerful. So, tip number one, be expressive with your face. You can show emotions just by moving certain aspects of your face. This is something that happens naturally when you feel your communication. And when you feel confident and free to express yourself.

You don't need to consciously and analytically, think about what phase you're going to do when you say this word, right? It comes automatically as a result of feeling your communication along with thinking and speaking. So, remember, use your facial expressions to communicate more clearly, eyebrows are a good indicator or a good capture of attention, right if I simply raise my eyebrows or my eyebrow, I'm indicating that you should be paying attention My face because what I'm going to say right now is more important than everything else that I'm saying. Have you also noticed how sometimes when I'm speaking, and I'm gonna say something important, I lean in a little bit. This helps catch the attention of your audience. Right?

So leaning a little bit, it helps. Another useful tip is to tilt. This is tilting. Tilt your head a little bit when you're speaking, right, don't go crazy and move too much, but lean a little bit ahead instead of keeping it straight. Alright, this helps build empathy and understanding in your audience. Now let's talk about the gestures of your hands.

Because your hands are the two most important tools you have To transmit your message with your body language, right, so when you're speaking, move your hands to emphasize your information. Now, make sure you're not looking like a circus monkey when you're speaking, right? If you move too much, too disorganized, sadly, it can be confusing for your audience. Also, try not to have your hands too high for long periods of time, or too low all of the time. You're alive and your hands are alive. And your best friends you're communicating, you're speaking.

So move them consciously. Look at yourself in the mirror, when you're practicing this to see how it looks and make sure it looks fine. Right, some tips when you're moving your hands kind of like this. You're laying out the information. I see this Everyone to see, you're basically saying, look, this is the thing how it is, I'm being honest with you. And this is information.

So take it. If you change your gestures to this form, it looks like you're being more open more honest. Right? Please, this is it. I'm not lying to you. I'm saying the truth, I'm claiming.

Of course, when you're emphasizing things, you can emphasize the words with one hand, or with both hands. Now, this is a matter of personal taste and style. Everybody moves their hands differently. So you can also start paying attention to how your favorite speakers move their hands and try to get some ideas to imitate. So I hope that you're starting to realize that the combination of being sent Heard, are grounded. And adding some resonant and conscious movements of your body of your face of your hands is a perfect combination to give the extra boost to whatever comes out of your mouth.

You're not only saying words, remember, you're transmitting feelings, images and ideas into another person's head. So you have to use all of your tools to transmit the messages as powerful as you can. So now let's practice. Remember a few sessions ago when we worked with your keywords, how you prepared a presentation, or a meeting or a little speech you have to do using your keywords and your frames. Well, if you want you can use the same presentation You can create another one, whatever you prefer. So, prepare your information and stand up in front of a mirror.

If you can also record yourself, make a video of yourself doing this presentation. So you can actually see how you're more. Now, it's funny how we move on, we don't look at ourselves, so we have an idea of how we look or speaking. However, if you see a video of yourself doing that, you might be surprised because you could look very different than what you expected or what you thought you would look like. So it's important to see a video of yourself moving. So try this presentation.

Use your body language and see yourself and give yourself some feedback. Right? Remember, we need that balance. First. Learn to feel comfortable with who you are and how you move. But also find points of improvement that can help you be more impressive, more resonant and more influential when you're moving.

So, enjoy your practices.