Power Poses To Improve Your Confidence & Mood

What if I told you that you could instantly boost your confidence and mood in a mere few minutes a day… for free. According to research, it is very possible. Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy has one of the most viewed TED Talks of All time. She developed the idea of “power posing” in 2009 after hearing the former F.B.I. agent Joe Navarro describe how police investigators sometimes used tactics to make themselves feel imposing such as using a bigger chair during interrogations. She decided to test the science behind it. “Our bodies change our minds,” says Professor Cuddy. Her research paper written in 2010 showed that standing or sitting in a high powered pose for as little as two minutes, raises testosterone levels by about 20 percent and lowers the stress hormone cortisol by about 25 percent. In