It is a well known fact that a good message or speech will travel to the listener’s heart if and only if it is conveyed with a good body language. Else, the travel ends at the listener’s tympanum.

In this blog post, I intent to share 3 key tips to deliver an effective public speech like the correct use of our expressions, hand gesture, voice modulations, use of feet, topic confidence etc so that you transform from a boring sound box to a great orator.

The Body

Whatever is your body structure, just keep it straight, visible to the audience, be relaxed and confident, that’s it! The rest will follow by itself. The only caution is to maintain your body balance and then you can deliver your message straight to the heart of the listener.

Hands and Arms

Majority of the people do not know what to do with their hands and arms during a speech. They usually grasp somewhere, insert their hands in the pocket or do some scratching on the podium. In fact they are actually forgetting that arms and limbs aid the orator in the deliverance to a great extent.

These limbs are like supporting artists to the hero in a play. In sync to what you preach, your idea should be supported with the appropriate dramatic movement of your hands and arms.

Your facial expressions like anger, shock, smile, amazement, frown etc aided with hand gestures and voice modulations would magically change the effect of your speech. Such speeches are never forgotten.

The audience would absorb what you preach like a blotting paper and act upon that. Depending on the gravity, tension and urgency of your topic a blow on the bench, throw of closed fist in the air, pointed finger etc conveys your sincerity and attachment to the subject and the message would directly hit where it is meant to be.

An emotionless speech without any of the above ‘supporting artists’ would force the listener to look in to his watch and surely bore them to the core.

Body Movement

And last but not the least is the art of body movement. First thing essential for this ‘movement’ is nothing but a clear space for movement. The stage should be clear of obstacles, hanging wires, without obstruction between you and the listener and a clean and rough floor. Once the above conditions are achieved, you can master the art of body movement in public speaking.

Body movement can be very much effective in pulling the attention to your lips. If you are not delivering your speech behind a podium, you can best utilize the chance by proper body movement.

A good orator is actually a good player of mono act. Exactly in sync with the situation, you move around the stage, cut jokes with your move and utilize the space keeping your body balance and next you would see the listener imitating your expressions with utmost concentration and joy. These elevate you from a normal speaker to an efficient orator and a crowd puller.

Body language is a type of non-verbal communication that comprises body posture facial expressions, signs and eye movements. Body language may reveal mental state of a person. It may show whether the person is sad, happy, relaxed, angry or tense.

Persons send out and decipher such signals almost involuntarily. Body language is common not only in humans but also in birds and animals. For example, when bees want to convey to other bees where to find a new place of “nectar”, they gesticulate in the form of a little dance in front of the beehive.

Quickly decoding the gestures, the other fees fly off in the direction indicated. In the whole process, there was no buzzing and no other communication except little signals. This is the body language at its best.

In our day-to-day life, we are all tuned to communicate through body language. This technique of wordless communication is passed on from one generation to another. In effect, communication depends more on body language than words.

Someone has scientifically established this. Many consider that around 80% to 90% of human communication consists of body language and that it always reveals the truth. Many consultants have established this in discussions with clients about truth, falsehood and fiction. Clients are divided into pairs to play a “story telling game”.

Each member of the pair tells the other pair one aspect of truth and another factor of fiction, without disclosing the details. The other group’s teammate listens carefully, assesses which one is true and which one is false. Based on this judgment, the partner introduces the other member of the pair to the group.

If their conclusions about the truth and falsehood are found to be incorrect, the partner is permitted to rectify them. The discussion that follows clearly brings out the fact that the conclusions about truth or non-fiction and falsehood or fiction were mainly based on instinct or involuntary actions of body language.

Body language is not a deception and does not depend upon the capacity of the “story-teller” to influence through his narrative or “acting”. It is a basic non-verbal communication. A proper understanding of the process of body language can be a very useful technique in numerous business ventures and professional jobs.

For example, body language plays a vital role in police force, recruitment agencies and sales promotion activities. The awareness of body language and the level of communication using this method can be enhanced by constant practice and training.

However, the signs that we have been using since birth can sometimes be detrimental to our interests. This is because of the diversity in cultures in different parts of the world. For instance, people use a smile, a touch or other gestures in building relationships or greeting in ceremonies or functions.

While westerners may welcome direct eye-to-eye contact to communicate and both men and women do not mind a handshake, people of other cultures may not appreciate these types of gestures.

Similarly, while South Americans, even in formal situations, like to come physically close to the person they are talking, Americans and the British people would like to maintain a safe distance. It is, therefore, essential to grasp the implied meaning in any body language method of communication.

People working in any field want to improve their job performance. Every person wants to be as good as possible in their jobs. We work hard and try our best for the achievement of our goals.

Sometimes, we think that our efforts may prove futile and that our goal is not achievable. This pessimistic view could be overcome by you only by finding new ways to improve your performance.

If your goal is to get promoted in your profession, it is essential to better your performance so that you overtake your competitors. Your standard of life will be improved better by being more energetic than by finding other ways to achieve your goal.

Hypnosis And Its Power

To improve your performance, the best tool that you could follow is hypnosis. If you wish to make your dreams come true, you can perform well by following the technique of hypnosis. Whatever be your goal, you can do better than before, by practicing hypnosis.

Hypnosis And The Mind

The latent power of the mind to restructure our habits, behaviors, beliefs and emotions becomes active when hypnosis taps into our subconscious mind.

The conscious and the subconscious are the two different parts of our minds. The conscious mind occupies only 2% of the mind’s capacity. The conscious mind takes care of logic and reasoning and controls our voluntary actions like moving the hand or leg.

The subconscious mind occupies 98% of the capacity of our mind and just like a computer, which has very high memory capacity, stores our beliefs and memories. Our subconscious mind functions as a power center and our lives and destinies are controlled by it.

3 or 4 bits of information can be processed by the conscious mind at any one time while hundreds of thousands of pieces of information can be processed by the subconscious mind. The mind’s subconscious area stores all the information received by us at subconscious level.

The subconscious area of our mind influences our attitude, beliefs, and values directly and hence our future life is controlled and created by it.

What is hypnosis?

Hypnosis is a therapy. In hypnosis treatment, the person reaches a trance-like state, with a higher level of awareness. Once when the individual enters into the hypnosis state, the conscious mind, which is analytical, is temporarily shut off.

The subconscious mind becomes active. The conscious mind does not interfere or obstruct when the subconscious mind plants itself the new positive suggestions, ideas and concepts. Ideas, concepts and suggestions which are positive are implanted deep into our subconscious mind. This enables the individual to accept patterns of behavior and thinking that are new.

These new patterns of behavior and thinking will help in improving the performance and thereby enables the individual to achieve better results.

Hypnosis & Its Benefits

There are factors which help an individual to attain the highest level of his/her performance. The person who practices hypnosis is benefited in many ways.

The calmness of mind and body is obtained and this enables alleviation of stress and anxiety.

The confidence level is enhanced and the individual’s self-concept is increased. Hypnosis motivates you a lot and brings many positive changes in your life. You can practice hypnosis with the guidance of a professional hypnotherapist or learn it by yourself.

Both will help you perform better and fulfill your desired goals. You can enjoy a happy and peaceful life of satisfaction. You get the confidence of doing everything to perfection and you achieve your goals. Utilization of the incredible power of your mind will yield improved results.

You will reach your goals and fulfill your dreams successfully. Hence, it is high time you harnessed this power. Practice hypnosis and realize a positive and lasting change in your life.