BEAUTY WITH NO MAKE UP: STAND TALL
from the aricle "11 Ways to Feel Beautiful"
(And not one involves more makeup!)
By Jenny Bailly
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the January 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
STAND (AND SIT) TALL
"Your brain is constantly checking in with the rest of your body to find out how you're feeling," says Kelly McGonigal, PhD, a health psychologist at Stanford University. "When your posture is erect, the message it gets is: I feel good about myself. " One study, published last year in the European Journal of Social Psychology , found that subjects who sat up straight in their chairs instead of slouching were more confident about statements they wrote. Keeping your shoulders back and chest open also makes you look taller, slimmer, and radiantly self-assured.
MY THOUGHTS
hunched shoulders and drooping heads - they do (sometimes) mean sadness, lack of confidence, feeling lost. even if you are physically beautiful, no amount of makeup can hide (not for long, anyway) how bad you are feeling. so, straighten that back, hold that head up high, take the worry of your face and stop looking like the world has fallen on your shoulders.
from the aricle "11 Ways to Feel Beautiful"
(And not one involves more makeup!)
By Jenny Bailly
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the January 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
STAND (AND SIT) TALL
"Your brain is constantly checking in with the rest of your body to find out how you're feeling," says Kelly McGonigal, PhD, a health psychologist at Stanford University. "When your posture is erect, the message it gets is: I feel good about myself. " One study, published last year in the European Journal of Social Psychology , found that subjects who sat up straight in their chairs instead of slouching were more confident about statements they wrote. Keeping your shoulders back and chest open also makes you look taller, slimmer, and radiantly self-assured.
MY THOUGHTS
hunched shoulders and drooping heads - they do (sometimes) mean sadness, lack of confidence, feeling lost. even if you are physically beautiful, no amount of makeup can hide (not for long, anyway) how bad you are feeling. so, straighten that back, hold that head up high, take the worry of your face and stop looking like the world has fallen on your shoulders.
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