{"id":500,"date":"2013-02-15T16:28:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conradohagan.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2013-06-01T17:59:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T17:59:12","slug":"can-body-language-effect-our-physiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradohagan.com\/blog\/can-body-language-effect-our-physiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Can body language effect our physiology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to share this TED talk from Harvard researcher Amy Cuddy. \u00a0Amy specialises in a social science called nonverbals (also known as body language)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conradohagan.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5ef6830a2ff93870a3c59ac8a&amp;id=7639ad97c0&amp;e=787a60c3d7\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/amy_<wbr \/>cuddy_your_body_language_<wbr \/>shapes_who_you_are.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all know that our body language has a powerful effect on our communication with others and how we are perceived. \u00a0But did you know that our body language also has a powerful effect on our own thoughts, feelings and physiology?<\/p>\n<p>Amy shares a scientific experiment from Harvard, where two groups adopted certain poses for 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The group that adopted a pose demonstrating power and confidence increased testosterone by 20% and decreased cortisol by 25%. \u00a0Whereas the group that adopted a negative pose decreased testosterone by 10% and increased cortisol by 15%.<\/p>\n<p>These are significant findings worth taking note of as most supplements on the market don&#8217;t even come close to having this effect!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take home message \u00a0<\/strong>Be aware of your body language as it can have a big impact how\u00a0your day goes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to share this TED talk from Harvard researcher Amy Cuddy. \u00a0Amy specialises in a social science called nonverbals (also known as body language) http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are.html We all know that our body language has a powerful effect on our communication with others and how we are perceived. \u00a0But did you know that our body language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradohagan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradohagan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradohagan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradohagan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradohagan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/conradohagan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/conradohagan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradohagan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradohagan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradohagan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}