Soft gestures, saturated with energy, fascinate.
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Gentle gestures — gestures are smooth, rounded, they look regal, soft, caring.
What are soft gestures? A person who has soft and fluid gestures looks regal and moves with dignity.
Look how the queen gives her hand for a kiss — not a single sudden movement, the gesture is smooth from shoulder to fingertips.
Soft gestures trigger a feeling of confidence, calmness. Soft gestures make a person’s voice warmer, intonations soft and soulful. Moreover, soft gestures make a person softer and kinder inside. If you need to have a soft conversation, practice soft gestures fifteen minutes before it — you will see the result.
Soft gestures are based on smooth hand movements, active wrists and lively fingers. The palm is not opened with a shovel, each finger unbends and bends independently of the others. The hand rotates freely in the wrist, the movements are smooth, beautiful: up and down, left and right, eights …
How to practice soft gestures
- Copy soft gestures from movies. Find a movie that has a real queen. Select some of her fluid gestures and copy them in front of a mirror. Make a selection of ten to twenty of these gestures and practice to perfection.
- Dancing. Soft hand gestures are perfectly developed in ballroom dancing. Several months of practice will guarantee you smooth hand gestures.
- Wrist exercises. Stretch your wrists, pull the wrist of one hand with the other, then shake your hands, relax. After that, make eights and “waves”, try to make the movements as smooth as possible. Slowly at first, then faster.
- Finger exercises. Use finger exercises. Then combine the movements of the fingers from this gymnastics with the eights of the wrists.
- Stroking. Try to keep all touching objects stroking. Take the mug off the table with a gentle, stroking motion — as if it were not a mug, but a small kitten. How do you get the door handle? How do you turn on the kettle?
- Closed eyes. To better get used to soft hands, close your eyes. Try to quickly open the door. Was your hand soft or hard? A hard hand will hit, a soft hand will carefully and quickly touch the door handle and open the door. Or — with your eyes closed, place objects in front of you and try to quickly rearrange them to other places. How much did they drop? What were the hands? The softer your hands, the more items you will pick up rather than drop.
- Combine movements. When you have worked out the smooth movements of the hands, wrists and fingers, combine these movements, come up with your own beautiful gestures, experiment.
- Implement in life. In conversations, try to remember that you are practicing gentle gestures. At first, try to gesture as softly as possible until it becomes a habit.
Practice at a distance
Distance is a system of step-by-step personality development, and distance students are those who successfully practice this system. See the report on how Dmitry Romanov’s work on practicing soft gestures was organized, →