- feel in my body a lot more energy. So taking deep breaths, it’s such a simple way and
yet it’s very powerful. That’s why in a lot of spiritual traditions, also in martial arts, in sports, you find that they will focus on breathing. They will
tell their students to breathe more deeply. They have a very kind of controlled way of
breathing because they know by breathing very deeply they can change their emotional
state and their physical state. Increase their energy. Increase the aliveness in their
brain, the alertness in their brain.
So this is another thing I want you to do before you learn English. Any kind of studying,
these lessons or a book, anything, I want you to focus on breathing deeply. Maybe just
two minutes, for two minutes I want you to take deep breaths. Hold it for maybe 2, 3, 4
seconds and then let it out. Then do it again. Hold it…and breathe out…and again and
again, 1 or 2 minutes deep breathing. Of course at the same time remember you’re
changing how your body is moving and how you’re sitting.
You’re changing your posture. Of course posture means body position so you’re going
to have a strong posture. It means you’re going to have the shoulders back, your chin
up, your eyes up, chest out. That’s number one. And then number two you’re going to
breathe deeply. Hold…and out…and again. So again, strong posture, shoulders back,
chin up, eyes up and then deep breathing. Do this for 1 or 2 minutes every time before
you study English. I know it seems crazy, it seems so simple and yet it will totally
change the way you feel while you’re learning. Because you will feel differently you will
learn differently.
Just this simple, simple technique can increase your learning by two or three times, two
or three times faster because your brain will be awake when you’re listening to English.
When you’re bored, when you’re tired, your brain is half asleep. You’re just not learning
efficiently. When you’re breathing deeply and your body is in a strong posture you feel
better and you learn faster.
Of course the next factor we already talked about a little bit is your face. You gotta
control your face. Why? Because your face shows emotion. But your face also can
create emotion. Just by smiling big, pretending, looking like a stupid person, it doesn’t
matter. Just by faking it, just by making yourself smile bit you’ll actually change your
emotion. You’ll change your feeling. It’s very hard to feel depressed and tired when you
have a big smile, even if you’re forcing the smile.
So that’s another thing I want you to do. Everyone on the train will think you’re crazy
while you’re listening to Effortless English but I want you to have a big smile every time
while you’re listening to the lessons. Right now, do it. So you’re going to have a strong
posture. You’re going to breathe deeply. And you’re going to smile big, every time,
before, during and after your English lessons.
What’s another way we can control our physiology and therefore influence our
emotional state? Well another thing about the body is the body likes to move so we’re
going to talk about movement. You’re going to have a strong posture. You’re going to
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