Stress and Finding Balance Tip

1.      Choose to feel good. We complain about sore muscles as if they were badges of honor for being such hard workers. If your muscles are sore get a massage ask for a backrub or Get buckwheat-filled heating or cooling packs from a salon or on the Internet. You can pop one in the microwave and wear it when you're on the computer. They feel wonderful, and you relieve those sore neck and shoulder muscles at the same time. 

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

Stress and Finding Balance Tip

1.      Anchor yourself to relaxation. Whenever you find yourself very relaxed, in the morning, in your car or maybe on the couch, put your hand on your stomach and say the word “relaxed.” Then breathe in and out slowly. Do this religiously for 21 days. Once you have anchored the touch of your hand on your stomach to the state of relaxation in your brain, you can use it to relax quickly in any tense situation. When you're about to give a speech, place your hand on your stomach and your brain will say, "Oh that means relaxation" and it will cause your body to relax. It’s like a magic trick.

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

Stress and Finding Balance Tip

1.      Make play the topic of conversation. This week, whenever you are on a break or away from work, avoid any mention of work. Talk about anything and everything else. Notice how you feel and how you create more positive body language in others. 

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

Stress and Finding Balance Tip

1.      What do you do for fun? Ask people that you meet what they do for fun or if you know them what have they done recently for fun. Watch how their body language changes. It is so much fun. You may see someone's shoulders go back. A facial expression “face lift”, A head tilt up. In Paris it is rude to ask someone what they do for a living. You ask them what they do for fun. Have you made any fun lately?

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

Stress and Finding Balance Tip

1.      Change stress to challenge. When you find yourself saying or thinking, "I am so busy" or "I am overwhelmed," replace those thoughts with positive ideas, such as:

 I am getting so much done.

 I feel so challenged lately.

 I am learning how much I can get done in a day.

 I have things I can accomplish easily and so much to be grateful for.

When I do the things I need to do I feel better.

I will do one thing right now.

Say the new thought out loud putting your body language in the position that makes you feel that way

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

Stress and Finding Balance Tip

1.      Create reminders in your day to take time to breathe deeply. Your reminder could be a red light, a raised voice, your own yawn, soreness or pain in any part of your body, the hour changing on the computer clock, the urge for a snack or drink a cup of coffee. Try this full breaking technique. Breathe in on a count of three, hold for a count of three and breathe out on a count of three.

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

Stress and Finding Balance Tip

1.    Count to ten. When you're upset, count to ten. When you're mad or angry, you are operating from the emotional limbic brain (what we use to call the right hemisphere of the brain.) Numbers are in the brain’s neocortex. (left hemisphere). Counting gets your brain to switch to the your more logical brain this automatically gets you to feel calmer. 

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at wwsnapw.firstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

Stress and Finding Balance Tip

1.      Take action instead of complaining. If you find you are complaining about something, then figure out one thing you can do to improve the situation and do it.

Realize if you are tense your body language is reflecting that tension. Taking action creates “power” body language changing your body chemistry so you feel better. 

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.