4 Ways To Have a Confident Body Language

Aisha Arif
4 min readAug 1, 2023
4 Ways To Have A Confident Body Language By Aisha Arif

Let’s learn how to improve our body language to impress anyone, professionally or personally. But have you ever think the importance of your appearance and how it impacts your life? If not then you probably face several issues in your life such as a lack of confidence and an inability to meet tasks etc.

Maintaining positive body language is crucial for projecting confidence and leaving a favourable impression, regardless of how self-assured you might naturally feel. But by practising confident body language, you can boost your self-esteem and overall enhance your self-worth.

Here’re the four (4) best gestures and movements that can lead you to improve and boost your self-confidence. Before moving further, keep my top advice:

“Imitate it till you Generate it”

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Make An Eye Contact

Appear Confident by trying to make eye contact whenever you communicate with anybody. Because it assists you to influence your personality in social interactions and shows your comfort level as well as interest in relationships.

Look into an eye for about 60–70% of the time while interacting with others. If making direct eye contact feels too intimidating, begin by focusing on a spot near the person’s eyes instead. It is so because if you make continuous eye contact with others, can also damage your character and somehow drop negative impact.

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Avoid Slouch Posture

Don’t slouch! Because it can totally destroy your personality and confidence. Always try to keep your back straight and shoulders away from the ear, whether you sit or stand. Maintaining your style of walking or sitting with a straight back and great body language will ultimately boost your confidence while interacting.

So if you want to impress then keep your posture impressive as a fit body can only lead to a happy life.

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Mirror The Body Language

It is common to mimic the body language of those around us and we do it subconsciously. So, we can also say that we start to mirror other's body language which is not bad. Because it creates a sense of understanding and interest you’re paying to the person. That makes them and you feel comfortable.

It simply strengthens the bond and levels up your confidence. So always push yourself to mirror others' body language and understand their nature to build great relationships.

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Improve Communication Skills

This matters too much because sometimes our body language supports confidence but communication can ruin it. And communication is also a part of our body language because it has a great impact on interacting socially.

Remember to speak slowly and clearly when interacting with others so they can feel comfortable while in conversation with you. That will ultimately make you feel comfortable as well and assist you to be confident around people.

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Bottom Line

There’s more to go with levelling up your confident body language because continuous improvement can result in the best way. But these were some main key factors that can help you to start with. If you can’t do them too then force yourself to act in the way because once you’ll start to act will lead you to behave in the way.

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Aisha Arif

Assisting several SMEs in their startups as a Freelance Content Writer | Virtual Assistant & Project Manager. Plus, loves to write stories.