7
Quick Ways to Feel More Energetic Without Drugs or Caffeine.
How
to Use Your Body Language to Feel More Energetic.
How
you hold your body can actually change how you feel, in less than a 1/40
of second. If you hold and move your body the way you want to feel your bodies
chemistry can change in a fraction of a second. Your posture and movement
create a message that acts like a doctor’s prescription the message is sent
through your neural synapsis to the
brains pharmacy. The brain notes the posture and movements and creates
chemicals that match and sends them out into your blood stream so you begin to
feel chemically the way your body language is held or moves. If you drag around
head down feeling tired your will get the chemicals that make your feel more
tired. You think your
body language reflects your fatigue and lack of energy but you can change your
energy by how you hold and move your body. I have been writing about the
biochemistry aspects for over 30 years. (In her Ted Talk Amy Cuddly speaks about Power Poses using
research about this phenomenon.
Keep your body language “up.” Up energetic body language is
beautifully symbolic–you go up when you’re feeling up. In addition up body
language brings your posture up in way that allows more deep full lung capacity
breathing with gives you more oxygenated blood, thus more energy. Though the
steps may seem wacky, if your are feeling sluggish and just want to lay down
and take a nap, these methods can charge you up very quickly.
Five Quick Ways to Use Your Body Language to Feel More
Energetic
- Take
five deep full breaths. Breath in a
count of three, hold for three sounds and let your breath out slowly on
the count of three. Make sure your lungs fill up fully.
- Stand
up so and lift your chest up and out.
- Stand
up against a wall and see if you can get your shoulders back against the
wall. Pull the shoulders back so
even the tops of the shoulders touch the wall. Now step away from the wall
and see if you can stand and walk with the shoulders back. This posture enlarges the chest allowing
the lungs to fill up with air giving your body more oxygen.
- Bring
your hands up and gesture high in the air. The location of your hands also
affects other nonverbal behavior. Put your hands at your sides and your
energy goes down your voice lowers and can become more monotone, and you
tend to move less and show fewer facial expressions. Bring your hands to
the level of your waist, and you become calm and centered. Bring your
hands up high to the level of your upper chest or above, and your voice
goes up; you become animated.
You can have fun for second and
pretend you’re a conductor leading and orchestra. Coincidently researches so
conductors tend to live longer and they believe one of the reasons is their
high gesturing that increases their oxygen. You can pretend like you have just
won an Olympic competition and bring both hands up above your head and hold
them there for three seconds, lower them then raise them again. You can dance
to Pink’s song, “Raise Your Glass”, “YMCA” or Taylor Swifts, “Shake it Off.”
All contain up gestures! (I just love the up shake it off body language at the
end of Taylor Swifts Shake it Off video! The link to it is hear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM
- With
a lot of energy and at a very loud volume read a paragraph of something,
even these instructions. Overdo it have fun. Sing the lyrics to the songs
in step 4.
- Make
up facial expressions. First bring your eye brows and forehead muscles up
and down and up again in a look of surprise. Now smile and open your mouth
so you cheeks and the corners of your lips come up.
- Have
you ever notice how children skip and move up when they are happy and
filled with energy? They are moving with up body language. See if you can
walk across a room with the same upward energy. You don’t have to skip
just move so that your energy is up.
