I learned a fun technique recently for reclaiming composure recently: in the moment of stress, imagine yourself ignoring a ringing phone ;)

Here's a comic that may offer some help feeling poised in many situations, including in strange company:

http://www.viruscomix.com/page528.html

From my experience: meditation. Just sit for 2 hours straight without doing anything and see what happens. In about 6 months you will have plenty of poise to share with others.

carrying yourself the best way possible in any occasions and in any kind of situations.

I think you'll find the chapter of this book on the PsiTek site really interesting! I am looking for the same 'poise', carriage or bearing as you do. It explains how actors do and it works for anyone. :)

Personal Magnetism

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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Richard Bach

Hope it helps!

BJ09

I developed poise while taking ballet classes. Our instructor told us to imagine a line that is holding us up from the heart to high heaven. That's physically, mentally, I am always reminding myself that every one I meet is a divine being and that I should treat them as such.

Thank you, namaste

have faith and grace. be in harmony.or become Tathāgata (Devanagari: तथागत) in Pali and Sanskrit) is the name the Buddha of the scriptures uses when referring to himself. The term means, paradoxically, both one who has thus gone (tathā-gata) and one who has thus come (tathā-āgata). Hence, the Tathagata is beyond all coming and going – beyond all transitory phenomena. He is one who has found the truth.