• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrbXMaiR_Ww&feature=related

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!