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Body Language

This document discusses how body language and non-verbal cues provide insights into people's true intentions and emotional states. It describes common body language signals for different emotions like happiness, anger, sadness, fear, surprise, and how arm and leg positioning can reveal whether someone feels open/closed, confident/insecure, and more. Body language is described as a "mirror to the soul" that can show what people are really saying beneath their words.

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Body Language

This document discusses how body language and non-verbal cues provide insights into people's true intentions and emotional states. It describes common body language signals for different emotions like happiness, anger, sadness, fear, surprise, and how arm and leg positioning can reveal whether someone feels open/closed, confident/insecure, and more. Body language is described as a "mirror to the soul" that can show what people are really saying beneath their words.

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Body Language

Non-Verbal Communication
• What people are saying (ie. the words they
speak) and what they are really saying
(their intentions, emotions, hidden
agenda's etc.) can be very different;
• Some people lie.
• Some people unconsciously oppose what
they say
• Some people pretend to be what they're
not
• Some people don't talk at all (but their
body speaks volumes!)
Body language and Intent

• Voluntary/Intentional movements - Usually


called "Gestures". These are movements you
intended to make, like shaking a hand, giving the
finger, blinking with one eye...
• Involuntary movements - Usually called "tells",
but "ticks" also fall into this category. Any body
movement you have no control over falls in this
category. While technically not a body
movement, sweating also applies.
Tone of voice and Intonation
• Pitch of voice - high voice, low voice,
intonation.
• Loudness - Everything from shouting to
whispering.
• Breathing - Slow, fast breathing, shaky
voice.
Happy/joy

• Your forehead is relaxed, and may show light


wrinkles as you eyebrows are lightly raised.
• The corners of the mouth are curling up,
sometimes showing the teeth. If someone's
laughing out loud, the mouth is open. The
cheekbones are lifted.
• Your eyes show wrinkles in their outer corners
(when 'the eyes don't smile', these wrinkles are
absent; it's a telltale sign that someone isn't
really happy).
Anger
• Your forehead is pushed together in a frown,
pushing down the eyebrows. Oftentimes your
teeth are showing, with snarling lips and
depressed corners of the mouth.
• Your nostrils are standing out and the nose is
wrinkled.
• The eyes are bulging out, putting tension on the
eyelids.
Sadness
• The corners of your mouth is depressed, often
with a shaking lower lip. The eyebrows are
squashed together, and the forehead is frowning.
• The skin around your eyes is pulled in, and the
eyes are tearing up (or even crying).
• Wrinkles are forming from the nostrils to the
corners of your mouth.
Scared
• Eyes are getting big, and the eyebrows go
up and then down again.
• Your lips are stretched outwards, and your
lower lip is pulled down.
• Your skin will look pale, as blood is
retracted from your head, and sweat can
form on your forehead.
Surprise
• When you're surprised, your eye brows
are pulled up high, making your eyes wide
open, and your forehead wrinkled.
• Your mouth opens as your jaw muscles
relax and your lower jaw drops.
• you reveal things about yourself with how
you place your arms and legs. Are you:
• Open or Closed?
• Confident or Insecure?
• Interested or Bored?
• Dominant or Submissive?
• Happy or Depressed?
• Successful or a Loser?
• Leaving or Staying?
Mirrors to the soul!

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