does not send a wrong communication signal - in the sense, you may have acquired that deliberate, wild swaggering gait sometime during your teens, and that may have just stayed on!

You are now a calm, stable disciplined and mature being yet the message you may communicate would be a wild, reckless, adventurer.

Whichever way you walk, if you don't want other people to draw unpleasant or incorrect observations about you based on the way you walk, some ways you can try and see yourself as others see you would be to ask one of your friends or family members to make a video recording of you walking across a room or corridor. Tell your friend to do this exercise without telling you so that your walking style will not be affected by any camera conscious effort you may add as a special effect. Of course, then that would not be a reflection of your true walking style!

Now, once you can get some comments from your friends, relatives and other well wishers about your gait and you can also make an objective evaluation of your walking style, you can start correcting yourself, if necessary.

One way to get a balanced gait would be to walk across a room balancing a couple of books on your head. Although this is a very old fashioned method, it works wonderfully! Try it sometime, either on yourself or on your friends and relatives and notice the difference.