188: Power Posing for Confidence
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 4 February 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever found yourself in the middle of an important meeting or speaking engagement paralyzed with anxiety or nervousness? If so, you’re not alone. Social Psychologist, Amy Cuddy, discovered that you can often overcome crippling fears by accessing your personal power through posture. Yoga students: this is called, “Posing for Confidence.”
You might know Amy from her extremely popular TED talk, Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are. She is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School and studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments influence people.
Her research has been published in top academic journals and covered by NPR, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Wired, Fast Company, and more. Cuddy has been named a "Game Changer" by Time, a "Rising Star" by the Association for Psychological Science, one of "50 Women Who Are Changing the World" by Business Insider, and a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum.
Her new book, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, is getting great reviews and is available on Amazon at all major booksellers.
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What You'll Learn:
- How your body language can actually increase testosterone and lower cortisol
- How there is an on-going, body-mind conversation, always
- How to take a “power pose” to change your mood
- Why New Year's Resolutions might be too long term and abstract
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Is oatmeal is healthy as they say?
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| 0:00.0 | Today's Yoga Talk Show is brought to you by the Bryce Yoga, 200-hour yoga teacher |
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| 0:08.1 | doing handstands, this is our Freestyle vignasa course. It happens just once a year in Thailand in July. This is our fourth year. You may not |
| 0:16.0 | know this but back in 2006 I founded a yoga school called Absolute Yoga Academy and we |
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| 0:24.5 | This year we're extremely excited for Brioni and Dice's 200 hour course. |
| 0:29.6 | We have an amazing group of guest teachers coming including Carlos Pameta, Daniel, Scott, Michelle Lamb, and quite a few others. |
| 0:37.0 | And I'm going to make a cameo there as well. I'll be teaching a yoga business module. |
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| 0:46.4 | maybe we will see it in Thailand. |
| 0:48.8 | This time of the year, people all around the world including myself are setting goals and |
| 0:56.4 | objectives for the new year the year ahead. They want to make big changes usually in |
| 1:00.5 | three main areas health,, wealth, and relationships. |
| 1:03.8 | We talk about health quite a bit on this show, |
| 1:06.5 | but other things are just as important, |
| 1:08.2 | those other two big buckets that people are focusing on. |
| 1:11.3 | And whenever we look at when New Year's resolutions, when life goals, when |
| 1:16.2 | our big objectives are not fulfilled, usually it's ourselves getting in our own way. And a big part of that |
| 1:21.5 | is self-confidence, and a big part of that is self-confidence and a big part of that is our physicality how we hold our body. |
| 1:26.5 | Some of the most profound changes that happen in yoga are when people learn to use their body which previously felt pretty broken pretty |
| 1:34.6 | clumsy pretty stiff and locked up and in this week's yoga talk show I have a |
| 1:39.1 | conversation with a really fascinating woman and a researcher named Amy Cuddy who talks about power posing |
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