{"id":275,"date":"2013-04-18T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2015-03-02T06:36:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:36:06","slug":"the-body-language-of-a-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/the-body-language-of-a-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"The Body Language of a Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Body Language of a Warrior<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Musashi\"<\/a>I\u2019m currently re-reading an old book I have, called The Martial Artist\u2019s Book of Five Rings: The Definitive Interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi\u2019s Classic Book of Strategy<\/i>, by Stephen F. Kaufman. This was prompted by my recent viewing of The Samurai Trilogy<\/i>, the 3 movies created a long time ago to tell the life story of Musashi (1584-1645<\/i>), who was a real samurai or ronin in the olden days of Japan, and wrote his Book of Five Rings<\/i> to express his feelings, attitudes and strategies of dueling and of being a warrior.<\/div>\n
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I came across an excerpt that deals with the body language of a warrior, and I thought to myself: \u201cWow \u2013this is very specific information on how to set yourself up correctly before a duel!\u201d<\/i> and as I re-read it, it occurred to me that as a coach, I give very specific instructions on body language, stance, breathing etc. when I am helping clients give a better presentation, or make a winning first impression, for example.\u00a0 The devil is in the details, perhaps, and so the details must be perfected.<\/div>\n
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Please enjoy this \u2018clip\u2019, and then ask yourself if you were going into a big meeting, interview, giving a talk or PowerPoint, what would your body language convey?\u00a0 Do you think about it beforehand or just \u2018go with the flow?\u2019\u00a0 I think you know that my advice would be to actually \u2018plan\u2019 your vibe that you are sending, just like Musashi did, many years ago.\u00a0 Here it is, found on page 27:<\/p>\n

\u201cI always stress form and balance.\u00a0 If you are lax in your stances and positioning, then you will be unable to perform your technique effectively.\u00a0 Focus your concentration on only one thing \u2013 making the \u201chit.\u201d\u00a0 Narrow your eyes slightly and ever so subtly flare your nostrils.\u00a0 Always fight with your spine erect and unbent.\u00a0 Keep your shoulders relaxed and lowered.\u00a0 Tighten your abdominal muscles and root yourself into the ground.\u00a0 Make yourself bigger in your mind than you are as a manner of intimidating the enemy.\u00a0 Slowly work your way toward the enemy until you are ready to strike.\u00a0 Then do so with utmost conviction, quickness, and power.\u00a0 Keep your weapons ready at all times.\u00a0 You should practice the proper stances and movements prior to using any fighting technique and in this manner establish your own sense of being through your particular art.\u00a0 How often have you witnessed so-called experts with no form or balance?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Body Language of a Warrior I\u2019m currently re-reading an old book I have, called The Martial Artist\u2019s Book of Five Rings: The Definitive Interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi\u2019s Classic Book of Strategy, by Stephen F. Kaufman. This was prompted by my recent viewing of The Samurai Trilogy, the 3 movies created a long time ago […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[544,538,533,534],"tags":[546,549,551,577],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-language","category-confidence","category-interpersonal-communications","category-professional-communications","tag-body-language","tag-confidence","tag-martial-arts","tag-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}