Guide for Body Language Part #2

Five ways to improve your techniques of body language

How to control your body language tools - posture, gestures, movements, facial expressions - and to exploit them effectively in your speech. Here are five rules from the bottom.

The purpose of this guide is to teach you how to use your body as a real communication tool. While reading, you will discover which modes of using non-verbal language have the greatest impact on an audience, which one conveys information the best, why a controlled gesture can soothe you enough to continue to perform and most importantly, what means to arrive and to get you also eloquently expressed in gestures and words.

1. Loose annoying tics 

If your actions are consistent with your argument, you reinforce the impact of your speech, even if your audience does not notice them. If they contradict the argument, they divert attention on the expense of your remarks. The ambitious speaker sometimes more effort devoted to prune only to enrich his non-verbal communication.That it should be pruned? The next meeting of your club observes speakers.You'll probably notice a few annoying tics on each of them like swing oscillation or any other perpetual bodily motion of the body.

Novice or awkward speakers also tend to

1. cling to the podium
2. cracking fingers
3. chew
4. lick his or her lips
5. make tinkling coins at the bottom of a pocket
6. wince
7. run his or her fingers though his/her hair
8. constantly or unnecessarily swivel his or her head

What all these tics have in common is that they externalize unintentional anxiety which is a natural reaction, but has a detrimental effect, ultimately. In general, we are aware of our verbal mannerisms, but if we have never had the opportunity to have our speech recorded, we do not recognize our language tics, therefore we are unable  correct them.I order to loose them, first and foremost, you must analyze your body language. Except, without external help, it's almost impossible!

2. Be yourself!

If there is a golden rule of how to be aware and control corporal expressions, then this is it!
Contemporary discourse takes the form of a structured conversation. Means more pompous phrases and lyrical flights whose speakers of the time saved their audience. Today, he goal is to communicate and share ideas, not to preach or give a show. Do not attempt to imitate anyone. Just let your body translate what you think, feel and say. Try to be as authentic, as you are with your loved ones, and everything will into place.

3.Your body, the mirror of your thoughts

Dale Carnegie, the 'father of modern discourse' once wrote: « a person who is guided by feelings is naturally and spontaneously, revealing his true self ».If you are passionate about your topic, if you believe in your argument, if you really want to share your ideas, all your actions will be cogent and give of themselves to your words. As soon as it is fully mobilized, it is being expressed in a natural and spontaneous way without having to think about it.

4. Get confident by preparing thoroughly

Nothing serves a speaker more than the fact of being the master of his field. That certainty provides an essential ingredient to the success of any public appearances which is self-confidence. If you are well prepared, you will concentrate on the outside – on the reactions of your audience - rather than on the inside – which would  affect your anxiety. Less risk to poison gestures. It's important to be and to appear natural, to act and to react spontaneously, meanwhile almost effortlessly, to radiate sincerity, professionalism and enthusiasm. Rehearse your speech for as long as it takes to get comfortable within the topic, but do not learn your text by heart : the concentration it would require to remind of every word you wrote before would be so much anxiety that all your preparation will be wasted. Just make sure to know if well your subject words will come you of themselves once you have learned your presentation plan.

5. Practice makes perfect

Attend meetings as often as possible, take the floor regularly, listen carefully to the comments of your audience, in particular to those referring to your body language. There is a good chance that by incorporating the instructions of this guide to your presentations, you will gradually master all facets of public speaking.