Posture Deescalates Stress & Promotes Enthusiasm and Strength: The Power of Embodied Cognition
Posture Deescalates Stress & Promotes Enthusiasm and Strength: The Power of Embodied Cognition A recent study demonstrated that taking an upright posture promotes genuine feelings of enthusiasm and strength and simultaneously assists in overcoming fear, hostility and other negative emotions. Posture appears to be a relatively easy to control behavior that can almost instantaneously improve your emotional mood. The study compared 39 upright posture keepers with 35 randomized slumpers. (Nair, Sagar, Soller, Consedine & Broadbent, 2015, p. 634) The authors call the results of their study an addition to the existing literature on “embodied cognition” See also, Kraft and Pressman (2012) which found that smiling “can influence both cardiovascular and affective responses to stress.” (Nair, Sagar, Soller, Consedine & Broadbent, 2015, p. 638) (Kraft & Pressman, 2012, p. 1374) Embodied cog