» The Most Important Skill to Master. Post written by Leo Babauta. If you’re like me, you are constantly learning new skills — gardening, carpentry, pizza-making, languages, sports, and so on. And I think this is a fun and wonderful thing to do. But what’s the most important skill? That’s debatable. But if I had to pick just one, it would be this: learning to be happy with yourself.
That seems too simple, to trite! Why? So many of the problems people have stem from this one thing — being unhappy with themselves (often in the form of being unhappy with their bodies). Why It Affects Everything Let’s say you’re unhappy with your body. We’ll get into why we’re unhappy in a minute, but for now, just imagine the unlikely scenario that you’re unhappy with your body. If you’re unhappy with your body, you might not want to look at it. You might have anxiety about all of this, about your body, your health, your girlfriend leaving you. There’s much more that’s possible, but you get the idea. Why We’re Like This Mass media. The Lives They Lived - Interactive Feature. I AM THAT GIRL. Using Body Language. Techniques > Using Body Language Message clusters | Core patterns | Parts-of-body language | Other notes | See also Body language is an important part of communication which can constitute 50% or more of what we are communicating. If you wish to communicate well, then it makes sense to understand how you can (and cannot) use your body to say what you mean.
Message clusters Body language comes in clusters of signals and postures, depending on the internal emotions and mental states. Aggressive Body Language: Showing physical threat. Core patterns A number of core patterns in body language can be identified that include clusters of movements: Crossing, Expanding, Moving away, Moving forward, Opening, Preening, Repeating, Shaping, Striking and Touching Parts-of-the-body language You can send signals with individual parts of the body as well as in concert. Other notes 5 Cs of Body Language: How to effectively understand body language. See also. Radical Self Love Warriors! Self-Respect Quotes, Sayings about Respecting Yourself. Related Quotes Integrity Self-Control Responsibility Confidence In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. ~Jane Haddam Self-respect is the fruit of discipline... ~Abraham J. Heschel He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Www.