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WELLBEING: Topic 2: Power Poses
• Power Poses are one of
the quickest ways you can
change your mental and emotional
state. • Managing your mental
and emotional states is one of
the most important skills you
can learn. • There are confusing
ideas about how to manage your
own “state” and that leads to
frustration
and doubts about yourself. • Knowing
how to quickly regulate your
own state will help you feel
better about yourself.
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Why are Power Poses one of the most important skills you can
learn?
Check In: What do you do to move from a negative to more
positive state?
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To create a breakthrough you
need to examine three things:
1. Your Story: Is the story are
you telling yourself about the
problem. 2. Your State: Refers to
the mental and emotional state
you experience with this problem.
3. Your Strategy: What strategy/s are
you using with this problem?
Now identify ONE:
• Strategy • Story • State
That will help you achieve it.
1. Change the questions you ask
yourself. 2. Change how you focus
on something. 3. Change your body
language (pose).
Describe body Language
Something sad or negative Something
happy or positive
Eyes
Tone of voice
Body
How to create breakthroughs?
Check In: What’s one breakthrough or change you want to make in
your life?
Three ways to change your state.
Check In: Describe the body language a friend when they are
telling you:
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Cortisol is a
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§ Each morning, wake up and
stand in a high power pose
for two minutes.
§ While doing that, close your
eyes, breathe in deeply for a
count of 3, hold for 1,
and then breathe out fully for
a count of 5.
§ In this way, you can
combine breathing exercises, meditation,
and power poses for a relaxing
and confidence–boosting start to the
day.
Check In: Describe the body language a friend when they are
telling you:
Action for you to take right NOW:
