Be it an interview or your first date, people judge you easily by your body language and the energy level even before you could say hello.
An article published in success.com says that anyone can train their body to send out the right message.'Social Psychologist Amy Cuddy says body language has the power to influence life's biggest moments. Cuddy shares the benefits of power posing and how mastering non-verbal communication could change one's life,' the article states.
The article mentions the experiment conducted by Cuddy with a common phrase 'Fake it till you make it' to show how people can take control of their life with their bodies.
'So we know that our non-verbals govern how other people think and feel about us. There's a lot of evidence,' she says.
'But our question really was, do our non-verbals govern how we think and feel about ourselves?'
The best example to justify is the smile to become happy or stand like like superman to feel powerful. But there has to be solid chemical proof to prove it.
Cuddy told the participants to do high power and low power poses for two minutes and collected saliva samples.
The results of the experiment was that the power posers were more likely to take risks and experienced increases in testostrone, the power hormone. The people in low power positions experienced an increase in cortisol, the stress hormone.
Then the question might arise can power posing for a few minutes really have an positive effect in your life.
'This is in the lab, it's this little task, it's just a couple of minutes. Where can you actually apply this?' Cuddy says.
There is no other better place to test the confidence level than a interview hall. Cuddy conducted her next experiment as candidates were placed in stressful job interviews with interviewers who displayed no positive body language. 'In the end, those who had done power poses beforehand were the hirable favourites, not for the content of their responses, but the confidence they emitted,' the article pointed out.
Cuddy points our that once a goal is finally achieved, a transformation should take place to avoid imposter syndrome, which to think their accomplishments are undeserved.
Cuddy says: 'Don't fake it till you make it, instead fake it till you become it . Do it enough until you actually become it and internalize it.'
