Comments on: Using the Awesome Power of Posture To Beat Fear

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:24:47 +0000

Wonderful things become available to us when we start paying attention to ourselves. We learn the power of the body, power of the mind and the power of the consciousness.

By: xunsi

xunsi — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:19:54 +0000

Doing this a couple of years ago was one of the easiest and best things I did for my personal development. I started paying attention to my posture and body language after I read Tony Robbins book “Notes From a Friend” (It’s like a summary of his other books).

I used to be a lot more shy then. What I did was stand up straight, look forward — walk like if I’d be confident and sure of myself. I started to meet people’s eyes and smiling. Suddenly I felt quite extroverted.

Also from Robbin’s book, a cool thing is to think of a goal and then change your posture and breathing etc. to that of someone being totally sure of achieving the goal. You’ll immediately notice your thoughts changing.

By: Thomas Johnson

Thomas Johnson — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:27:54 +0000

Jarrod Said: “I think I did get a little carried away with the ‘amazing’ and ‘awesome’. Reading too many blogs.”

Yeah I know what you mean, after posting that comment I’ve noticed I do the same thing a lot.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:27:28 +0000

Thanks John.

There are many little things we can do improve ourselves.

By: John Rocheleau - Zen-Moments

John Rocheleau - Zen-Moments — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:59:27 +0000

Amen. I sure agree with what you say here. Posture is a powerful tool, physically, mentally, and spiritually. The power of the smile (Look up Mantak Chia’s “inner Smile” technique) is similar in how it influences us.

Good stuff,

John

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:13:06 +0000

I think I did get a little carried away with the ‘amazing’ and ‘awesome’. Reading too many blogs.

I think of this technique as a preliminary technique. Adjusting your posture at a given moment is easy. Maintaining it and always looking out for it is hard like you are saying.

By starting to do this you begin to become aware of some of your fears that cause bad posture and when you work on these then you start seeing “amazing” benefits. It is a useful awareness tool, but it has to be taken to the next level to see real change.

Thank you for your comment.

By: Thomas Johnson

Thomas Johnson — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:00:49 +0000

I definitely agree that working on your posture is worthwhile. But when you say “The greatest thing is that working on your posture is really easy, yet you gain amazing benefits.” My experience has differred from this, I have been working on my posture quite consistently for the last two years becoming more aware of my posture and doing yoga, it hasn’t been easy improvements have come very slowly. Also while feeling a little more confident and alert I wouldn’t call the benefits amazing.

So, sure go ahead and work on your posture but I wouldn’t expect anything “amazing”.

That’s just my experience though could be quite different for others.