4 essential body language tips from a world champion public speaker

my dad came up to me and said son it's

okay you flun your exams you already got

arrested one of the most important

things that you need to realize is when

you get nervous you try to cover your

vital organs and that's why you would

see a lot of speakers sometimes fold

their hands bring their hands in front

of them and that's a sign of nervousness

great speakers keep their body open so

there is no barrier between you and me

raise your hand if you have emot mother

let me

see put them all together you get

Mama and something that when you're

starting out you got to be very

conscious about is keep your body open

here's tip number two have your palms

open do this exercise with me take a

look at your palms turn them around take

a look at the inside of your palms

again what side relaxes your eye if you

really concentrate when you look at the

inside inside of your palm your eye

relaxes and a lot of great speakers they

open their palms towards the audience

showing a more

openness uh and that allows the audience

to connect with the speaker better as

opposed to showing the back of your hand

ladies and gentlemen today I'm a dreamer

I'm a speaker and I learned the

unfailing quality of unconditional love

from my wife number three get

comfortable with the stage when you're

comfortable on the stage that you're

speaking on your body is free to move

about uh you know use body language but

if you're not comfortable with that

stage and if you feel foreign on that

stage what happens is your body language

starts to constrict and you start to

cover your body up and when a son sees a

mother cry te of Shame that's a

life-changing moment she looked at me

and said son I want you to be a better

man whatever you do don't touch the

podium

as soon as you do that you're going to

be leaning on it you're going to be

shaking that Podium uh and you will be

doing all sorts of things on the podium

so what you do is you keep a comfortable

distance between you and the podium you

can keep your notes on it but you can

use your hands to

gesture don't rest your hands on the

podium so keep a distance and you can

gesture use body language as you want

from a little distance from the podium