Coaching practices for Posture and Emotion

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  • I’m slumped over and folded into myself, and I keep wondering why I feel so unmotivated and foggy
  • Right before something nerve-wracking I want a quick body-based way to feel a notch more sure of myself
  • I’ve been sitting hunched and shallow-breathing trying to think my way out of a low mood for an hour and it isn’t budging
  • When I’m feeling low I notice I’m all folded in on myself
  • I’ll suddenly catch myself caved in at my desk and realize I’ve been quietly sinking into a low mood for an hour without noticing

Practices that may help

  1. Use posture to scaffold a productive cognitive state
    Adopt an upright, open posture before cognitive work to support focus and approach motivation.
    Embodied Cognition: How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking
  2. Adopt expansive posture to shift subjective confidence
    Upright, open posture — not a "power pose" — reliably correlates with higher self-reported confidence, even if the hormone claims did not hold.
    Power Posing Revisited
  3. Change your state by changing your body
    “Motion creates emotion” — shift posture, breath, and movement to shift how you feel, fast.
    Tony Robbins’ Core Practices
  4. Posture and Confidence, Honestly Explained
    Adopting an upright, open posture is associated with modest improvements in mood, self-perception, and felt confidence — but the dramatic "power posing changes your hormones and risk-taking" claims largely failed to replicate, so be skeptical of those. Think of posture as a small, real nudge on how you feel, not a hormonal hack; this is general wellbeing information, not medical advice.
  5. Reset to an upright, open posture
    Sit or stand tall with an open chest to give your brain different bodily evidence.
    Posture and Confidence, Honestly Explained
  6. Read your own posture as a self-signal
    Notice what your posture tells you about your state and respond to it.
    Posture and Confidence, Honestly Explained
  7. Do the opposite action all the way
    Commit to the opposite fully — posture, voice, attention — not half-heartedly.
    Opposite Action: Acting Against the Emotion’s Urge
  8. Build the strength that makes upright effortless
    Strengthen the postural muscles so an open posture is your default, not a constant effort.
    Posture and Confidence, Honestly Explained
  9. Un-slump to interrupt low mood
    Use a deliberate posture shift as a physical pattern-interrupt when you spiral.
    Posture and Confidence, Honestly Explained
  10. Posture and embodied confidence
    Getting stronger tends to change how you carry yourself — and that feeds back.
    Strength Training for Confidence

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