Step No.2
Emotional State
Amy Cuddy Study
Amy shows that just by holding an efficient posture for 2 min changes the whole composition of your biochemistry:
the level of your testosterone increases by 20% which makes us feel confident, assertive and comfortable. And it will decrease the stress hormone cortisol by 25%. if you hold poor posture or inefficient posture, the testosterone in your body will decrease by 10% and the stress hormone will increase by 15%.
just two minutes leads to those radical hormonal changes and can basically reconfigure your brain to be either assertive, confident and comfortable, or really stress reactive. So, the way you move, the way you breathe, the way you use your facial expressions, your jesters, will change your feelings in real time.
And why is it important?
First, because you will increase the quality of your life, this is key, What you feel will define where your attention is. For example, have you ever bought a specific item, and then you started to see it everywhere?
this item was there all the time, what then made you notice it more than ever?
Your focus has shifted. Because you linked a feeling of importance to the item. There is a mechanism in our brain called the reticular activating system or in short the RAS, This mechanism defines what is important based on what we feel. If you feel fear, your brain will think:” this is a dangerous environment” and what do you think your RAS would look for?
So when we feel a certain emotion Our RAS will find evidence in the environment to confirm that. The way we use our body will define the composition of our biochemistry, and as a result, we will interpret reality accordingly.
That’s the difference between finding opportunities or finding confirmations to your fears.
Pay attention to this, the way we move determines our feelings, the way we feel determines what draws our focus.
How you move -> how you feel -> the opportunities you acknowledge
This practice is aiming to find the most effective movements, emulating one of the qualities of nature - effortlessness. As you are progressing towards this quality on the outside these changes are happening on the inside.
APPLICATION
Look for the path of the least resistance, achieving the same movement with as little effort as possible.
PRACTICE
Internalizing Phase
remember coming back to what you’ve learned help to make it part of you, part of the instincts, helps to create a solid foundation to build on