Presence is the direct sense felt experience of chi or life energy as it flows and extends through you in the moment.
Although its strength does very depending on your mood, health and situation, your presence always signals who you are.
Your unique presence reflects your inner qualities, level of consciousness, and how you think and feel about yourself.
- The body sees what the mind believes and the heart feels and adjusts itself accordingly.
- It is an air of self-confidence, not cockiness. A sense of humbleness but not necessarily weakness.
- It is not about arrogance or charisma
How do you see presence?
- “Not with the eyes. You sense it in the way a person stands. The way the person holds himself/herself.”
- “It is the brightness and glow of a leader’s confidence and inner-strength. It is the projection of their belief in their self-worth. “
Re-source: Represent
be a specimen or example of; typify
Researchers from Columbia and Harvard discovered that a person’s posture and presence affect their level of power.
- They found… people become more powerful when
they assume an open, more expansive pose by standing upright and spreading
their arms and legs for a couple of minutes
- Testosterone (the dominant hormone) increases and cortisol (the stress hormone) decreases
- This shift in hormones results in more confidence and a higher tolerance for risk that is reflected in the way they think and speak
Practice imprints a neural pathway that enables us to outflow our energy when under pressure leading to confidence joy and power.
- Researchers say that it takes 10,000 repetitions to imprint a new habit on to the nervous system.
However, if you start small in situations that do not overwhelm you and then build up to more challenging ones, your leadership presence will grow and who you envision yourself to be will become who you are.
craving and resource from “Stress Less, Achieve More” by Amy Bernstein
