In this article, I’ll give you some tips that’ll teach you how to read body language like a pro. I won’t be discussing specific body language gestures but general things that you should keep in mind while decoding body language. Mastering non-verbal communication skills will turn you into a magician. You’ll be able to predict …
Isolated gestures are rarely noticed while observing body language. Often, a person will convey his emotional state via more than one gesture and this combination of gestures is known as a gesture cluster. While analyzing body language, it’s imperative that you take into account as many gestures as possible because that will provide a more …
How we think and feel is reflected in the way we stand and in our walking style. This article explores the various nonverbal signals you give off with your standing and walking style. The attention position This is a standing position in which the feet are placed close to each other so that the legs …
One morning you wake up and find yourself not in your home but in a small wooden hut. Startled, you look outside through a hole in the hut wall beside your grassy bed, a prototype what we today call the window. You see people walking around dressed in long, white robes. You go outside and …
Can we deduce what’s on a person’s mind merely by reading the body language of their feet? That is the question this article attempts to answer. When we communicate with others, we focus our attention mainly on their words and facial expressions. We pay little, if any, attention to gestures of the body and when it …
In order to highlight how body orientation matters in nonverbal communication, consider the following scenario: You’re browsing through some items in a provisional store. You notice an old high school friend at the far end of the store and you decide to approach him. You move towards him walking backward- yes, with your back turned towards him. As soon as you …
To give you an idea about how body language plays a role in communication, I want to introduce you to Ahmed. Ahmed was a very jolly and a happy-go-lucky kind of person. You know the type- the one who’s always smiling and breaks out in a friendly, high-fived laughter at the pettiest joke. The one …
The leg and feet gestures can provide the most accurate clues to someone’s mental state. The more a body part is located away from the brain, the less aware we are of what it is doing and the less control we have over its unconscious movements. In fact, the leg and feet gestures can sometimes tell you what …
Whilst seated, a person doing the figure four leg lock gesture rests one leg horizontally over the knee of the other leg. The legs are spread out and the person leans back slightly. If you look at this gesture from the top, the legs appear to be making the shape of the number ‘4’ and hence …
Sitting and standing with legs crossed, like crossing the arms, indicates a fundamentally defensive attitude. While arm-crossing is a subconscious attempt by a person to protect his vital organs- the heart and the lungs, crossing the legs is an attempt to protect the genitals. Of course, crossing the legs seems like a silly and ineffective way to …