Move your face and your life will change!　Dramatically improve your impression… how to do “facial muscle training” to dramatically improve your communicative ability.

I have a hard time getting along with people I meet for the first time,” “I’m trying to act normal, but people say, ‘Are you mad at me? or “I’m trying to act normal, but I’m told, ‘Are you mad at me?

It seems that such problems can be solved by “moving your face. The author of “How to Move Your Face to Convey Your Message” (Kobunsha), which explains in detail how to do this, has become a hot topic of conversation. The author is Yoshiko Mamada, an expression muscle researcher who has created a huge boom with her “face yoga. We asked Ms. Mamada, who has promoted “face yoga” for anti-aging and beauty, what it means to “move your face” and why it can improve your ability to communicate.

When people communicate, visual information accounts for 55% of the impression they make. Auditory information, such as tone and volume of voice, accounts for 38%, and verbal information, such as the content of the words themselves, 7%. In other words, even if you work hard to think about the content of what you say, such verbal impressions account for only 7%, and the important part is appearance.

In order to give the right impression to others with your appearance, it is important to have a facial expression that is appropriate for the TPO. For example, no matter how nervous you may be in a situation where your face might be stiff, if you can control your facial muscles and move your face softly, you can communicate smoothly. To do this, you must train your facial muscles. The face, like the body, is composed of muscles, so it can be trained through muscle training, and age is not a factor at all.

Many people train their bodies through muscle training on a regular basis, but it is strange that they have never thought about training the muscles from the neck up, says Mr. Mamada. In fact, he says, inactivity of the facial muscles can cause a variety of adverse effects.

People who are said to lack facial expression are not using their facial muscles,” says Mamada. Especially in Japanese, since we can speak only with our mouths, we use only 5 to 10% of our facial muscles. The only facial joint is the jaw, so everyone only uses this area. If you are not moving above the mouth, even if you feel happy or joyful, it may not seem so. It would be a waste to lose out in such areas, so I would like you to be conscious of using your facial muscles.

Not being able to express the feelings you want to convey… Mr. Mamada points out that the problem with the face when communicating with others is that “the face is not moving. In other words, they do not know how to move their faces.