Patti just did an interview with OutsideMag.com on what to look for in the body language of Lance Armstrong tonight and she will be reading the body language of Lance Armstrong during his interview tonight with Oprah. Check back tomorrow to get all Patti's insights! Also, click the link below to read Patti's interview with Outsidemag.com!
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/biking/road-biking/Countdown-to-the-Lance-Armstrong-Oprah-Confession-Updates-Analysis.html?page=all
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.
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Five Ways to Create a Great First Impression
Check the link below to find out Five Ways to Create a Great First Impression.
http://www.pattiwood.net/article.asp?PageID=11491
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.
http://www.pattiwood.net/article.asp?PageID=11491
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.
What Your Bag Holding Style Says About You
Patti was asked to weigh in on different handbag hold styles by Refinery29.
Which one are you and what does it say about you?
Click the link below to find out Patti's insights!
The
Arm-Crook Hook
Held
with a bent armThe Briefcase
Held by the top handle
The Thumb-To-'Pit
Hooking your thumb onto the handle strap
The
Hands-Free
Wearing
a bag that crosses over your bodyThe Armpit Vice
Clutching a bag to your body without a strap
The Third Arm Drape
Wearing a bag with a long strap over one shoulder and letting a swing
This move usually involves a bag with a long strap...but instead of crossing it over, you choose to wear it over your shoulder. And since that baby is prone to slipping around, it shows a lack of awareness. "It says, I don't have power over my world."
The "I've Got A Bag Bitch"
Not holding the bag yourself--because you've got someone else to do it for you!
You've got better things to do than to hold a bag, for some, that's what assistants and boyfriends are for. "When people feel the need to look fabulous all the time, they can't be encumbered with anything."
The Twofer
Holding a bag in front of your body with two hands
Usually done with a coy smile and a leg cross, the two-handed twofer clutch denotes a shy, defensive person. "This creates a fig leaf position as if you were protecting your goods. If you find yourself doing this on a date, it's because you feel weird about where it's going."
The
Shlepper
Holding
2, 3, 4, 5 bags at once
The
Baguette
Holding by cupping it
A recent favorite of street style stars, the Baguette style, is a scoop-up, on-the-go method. "It's a utilitarian look and you don't really care about the bag but rather what's in it. You're goal oriented."
Holding by cupping it
A recent favorite of street style stars, the Baguette style, is a scoop-up, on-the-go method. "It's a utilitarian look and you don't really care about the bag but rather what's in it. You're goal oriented."
http://www.refinery29.com/bag-holding-style
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.
Get Powerfu! Change your body language to change your life.
By Patti Wood, MA, CSP body language expert and Author of Snap –Making
the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma.
The first speaker walked confidently onto the stage with his shoulders
back, his chest held high and stood with his feet apart and began gesturing
broadly. The second speaker shuffled
hesitantly onto the stage and stood with his shoulders slumped, his head bowed,
his feet together and his hands twined together held below his belt. What do
you think of each speaker and what do you think each was feeling? Powerful body language is telling. In a study of 132 business school graduates
that took place over eight years and included extensive interviews, researches
looked at women who showed powerful body language and discovered that women
who can turn their powerful on and off according to their circumstances,
(called self- monitoring) get more promotions than men or other women. We know
that body language can make people think and feel differently about you but in
her popular TED talk Amy Cuddy
enthusiastically shares her research results that show that holding a powerful
or powerless body language posture for two minutes can to change your hormones,
(raising or lowering testosterone and cortisol) and thus how you feel. Halleluiah, some great new research to
support what I feel is one of the most remarkable and beneficial aspects of
body language awareness. I say in my book
Snap Making the Most of First Impressions Body Language and Charisma that however
you
hold yourself, however you move through space, and however you gesture, your
body sends messages back to your brain to make you feel that way. So, if you
are standing with your shoulders drooping and head bowed, the little pharmacy
in your brain creates, and sends, chemicals into
your bloodstream in less than a fortieth of a second - to make you feel less
powerful. The great news is, if you know
what creates powerful body language messages, and integrate that with an awareness of your own body language, you can feel
as powerful as you wish to be in a fraction of a second. What can you do to make yourself feel
authentically powerful immediately? The four foundation principles of power are confidence, space, openness,
and relaxation.
So to feel
more powerful:
1) Take up space with
your body. Notice how far apart your feet are normally and if you don’t feel
powerful, stand or with your feet as little as one inch further apart to feel
lion like stability and presence. If you are seated you can put your feet
further apart or out and use those arm rests. Spread out.
2) Hold and or gesture
your hands above your waist, or to feel victorious and euphoric hold them very
high up at or above your head. What I call Up posture makes you feel up and
confident. So hold your head and body up. We spend far too much time looking
down at our smart phones. Train yourself
to look up.
3) Keep what I call
your body windows open. Focus on the windows at your feet your pelvis your
heart your neck and the palms of your hands. Stand or sit with your limbs
unfolded and don’t close and block your windows with your stuff, such as your
coffee cup or purse smart phone or by touching you face, your neck shirt collar
in power reducing self- comfort moves.
4) Relax your body. Tension
makes us get small relaxing and breathing make you look and feel powerful.
You
have the power to change the way you feel in any situation. So put your hands
in the air and get powerful!
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.
How to 'take over' a brain
By Leonard
Mlodinow, Special to CNN
updated
10:22 AM EST, Sun January 6, 2013
In junior high
I was a science fiction fan, divorcing Ray Bradbury and Author C Clark novels
of strange new worlds, robots, Martians and brain control. I was reading today
about new research in the field of optogentics by Leonard Mlodinow. The
article sounds like someone out of science fiction and discussed fascinating
new research in Optogenetics and the discovery of a kind of protein that can
be used to turn brain neurons on and off in response to light.
The
exotic light-sensitive protein is not present in normal neurons, so scientists
designed a way to insert it. That is accomplished through a type of gene
engineering called "transfection" that employs "vectors"
such as viruses to infect the target neuron, and, once there, to insert genetic
material that will cause the neuron to manufacture the light-sensitive protein.
Put it
all together, and you have that sci-fi-sounding technology:
genetically-engineered neurons that you can turn on and off at will, inside the
brain of a living and freely-moving animal.
It is the
combined use of optics and genetics that give optogenetics its name, but it's
not the "how" that makes optogenetics exciting, it is the
"what." Scientists didn't really develop it to "take over"
a creature's brain. They developed it, like fMRI, to learn about the brain, and
how the brain works, in this case by studying the effect of stimulating
specific types of neurons. To see how they are using it to study Parkinsons
disease and Schizophrenia read on http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/06/opinion/mlodinow-science-frontier/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
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.
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