Conveying Confidence & Magnetism Through Body Movements

When used in combination, the head, face, and eyes provide the clearest indication of attitudes toward other people.  Because of this fact, the head, face, and eyes are important in expressing confidence and projecting magnetism.  For the man or women with low self-esteem, it will prove beneficial to learn to project yourself in a more confident manner, which in turns makes you feel more confident about yourself.

Moving your head, face, and eyes toward another person makes you appear more magnetic.  As is well known, messages accompanied by eye contact are more favorably interpreted by receivers than are messages sent without eye contact.  Less well known is the fact that eye contact alone may improve the sending of messages but it is not necessarily a major contributor to magnetism.  Warm, friendly eye contact is the best for magnetism.

Creating warm eye contact is no easy task.  To improve this subtle dimension of nonverbal behavior, make a videotape of somebody on television who maintains warm eye contact.  Study the person's glance several times.  To practice the person's warm eye contact, first visualize the expression in the person's eyes, then attempt to emulate it.  The eye contact may appear warm in part because it is accompanied by a smile.

Posture

Posture also communicates a message, and contributes to or detracts from magnetism.  Leaning toward another individual suggests that you are favorably disposed toward the person and to what he or she has to say.  Leaning backward indicates the opposite.  Openness of the arms or legs serves as an indicator of liking or caring, which in turn may contribute to magnetism.  In general, people maintain closed postures (arms folded and legs crossed) when speaking to people they dislike. 

The magnetic individual severely restricts communicating dislike unless it is strategically advisable to do so, for instance, when intimidating an enemy. Standing up straight (assuming a person is able-bodied) generally reflects high self-confidence and magnetism.  Personally magnetic people rarely stoop or slouch when interacting with others.  Shrugging the shoulders is another aspect of posture that can contribute to magnetism.  Accompanied by a warm facial expression, a shrug will often be interpreted as "I'm not entirely convinced, but why not give your idea a try?"  The “shrugger” is therefore giving the other individual some encouragement.  A subtle indicator of the potential contribution of posture to magnetism is that people tend to overestimate the height of people they perceive to be magnetic.  This positive distortion is usually of the magnitude of two inches.  A physical factor contributing to this perception is that magnetic people typically stand up straight, thus appearing approximately two inches taller than their slouching counterparts.

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 Written By:
 Keith Lee