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What is Body Language?

Faces & characteristics

General characteristics

Personal Space

Hands & Handshake

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Legs & Walking gestures

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What is body language

Body Language is the communication of personal feelings, emotions, thoughts through body movements either consciously or involuntarily.

Like any spoken language, body language has words, sentences and punctuation.

Each gesture is like a single word and one word may have several different meanings.

Importance

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The 93-7% theory

How body communicates…

GesturesA gesture is the verbal or non-verbal body movement used to express or emphasize an idea , an emotion or a state of mind.

Body MovementsThis includes the head, eyes, eyebrows , lips , neck , shoulders, fingers and so on.

BehaviorThis refers quite simply , to everything we do which is overt or observable. It is important because it is observable to others.

EmotionsRefers to states such as happiness, depression & anxiety & milder moods such as feeling of pleasure & displeasure , degrees of excitement or drowsiness etc. A ‘Emotional cue’ is a facial expression, body movement or tone of voice indicative of emotion.

How body communicates…

First Impression

Faking/ Deception

Faces…

Face is the most significant and the most photographed- part of human body. The flashes of facial signals are generally spontaneous reactions which a person finds difficult to hide.

Six Universal Facial Expressions

Happiness Sadness Fear

Disgust Surprise Anger

Face Characteristics…

The eyesThe eyes can be steely, knowing, mocking, piercing, shifty. They can level a burning glance, or a cold glance or a hurt glance or again can be wise , knowing , inviting , scary , disinterested and so on.

Mouth When ‘raised’ , the mouth communicates positive feelings ,

happiness , optimism. If kept ‘straight’ to conceal emotion. ‘Turned down’ to express sadness, confusion , dissatisfaction.

The HeadA nod depicts a positive signal & a ‘head- shake’ signifies ‘no’ or a negative gesture.

Head nods show continuing attention , it also depicts what is happening to us emotionally. Heads tilt is a signal of interest.

Face Characteristics…

EyebrowsPeople lower or knit their eyebrows when they show disagreement or displeasure. Frown when in displeasure

LipsWhen one does not utter a word lips can be eloquent because silent lips express a wide range of emotions from smile to frown.

General Characteristics

ExpressionFacial expressions are highly flexible & changeable. The face can encode a variety of communicative & informative messages.

EmotionsThe face is the most reliable indicator of a wide range of emotions: Joy & happiness , fear , annoyance, surprise, anger, sadness etc

Ways of lookingSide long glance is referred to as stolen look.Blank stare depicts boredom.Sparkling eyes are an attribute of those who have ‘magnetic

personalities’.

Smile Smiling & frowning are two major facial expressions. A genuine smile means ‘I appreciate you’; ‘I accept your ideas’. A frown means ‘I find you puzzling’.

Personal Space

ProxemicsPersonal space - is defined as the amount of space that people find comfortable between themselves and others.

Public

Social

Personal

Intimate

Close Intimate

Hands & Handshake…

‘Human Hand is a restless organ’

The HandBody language involving hands is extensive. This is because hands are such expressive parts of the body, and because hands interact with other parts of the body.

Hands contain many more nerve connections (to the brain) than most if not all other body parts.

Hands & Handshake…

Hands… and what the say?Limp hands…?

Nervous or jittery person shows restless hands

Clenched hands…?

When the arms are crossed they form a ‘barrier’ to an impending threat

Nose rub…?

Chin stroking is when people are in deep reflection.

Hands & Handshake…

Styles of Handshake…

Palm down thrust: signifies dominance or aggression.

Palm up position shows submission by the giver.

Both hands handshake: Convey Trustworthiness & honesty. But is that always true?

Legs & Walking gestures

Legs…Crossed legs…?

The ankle lock signifies…?Sitting on edge of chair indicates compromise, accept or agree or

conclude.Rocking or swinging in chair indicates a person is in full control

of situation.

Walking...

Legs & Walking gestures

Walking gestures…

Lets find out….

Arms swingingHands in pocketsHands on hipsMeditative walkConfidence walkLeadership walkPacingSwagger

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