Play the Part: Master Body Signals to Connect and Communicate for Business Success

5Center of Unconscious Gravity

“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a different way to stand.”

—OPRAH WINFREY

BODY CENTERS

Now that you have a richer understanding of the body’s influence and signals on multiple levels of feeling, thinking, communicating, and connecting, and before we move on to the nonphysical aspects of presence, I want to explore two more ways of experiencing how your body impacts interactions and connecting. Recall for a moment the centers explored thus far: head, chest, arms/hands, belly, hips, legs/feet. In a perfect world, the energy and expression within us would move through us in a continuous flow from head to feet, with no dominant center. But a perfect ...