What Every BODY Is Saying_Navarro, Joe & Karlins, Marvin

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 47 behavior is to watch people who put one or both arms under the table. If they are doing leg cleansin ...

48 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING (see figure 17). This ventilating action is often a reaction to stress and is a good indicator that ...

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 49 feel safe. However, if you see a person with his arms crossed in front, leaning forward, and giving ...

50 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING (2) Establish a pacifying baseline for an individual. That way you can note any increase and/or int ...

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 51 flight, or fight) and possess a pacifying system to deal with stress. We are fortunate to have these ...

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THREE Getting a Leg Up on Body Language Nonverbals of the Feet and Legs I n the first chapter, I asked you to guess which is the ...

54 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING AN EVOLUTIONARY “FOOT” NOTE For millions of years, the feet and legs have been the primary means of ...

GETTING A LEG UP ON BODY LANGUAGE 55 react in synchrony by noting each other’s movements. In our contempo- rary world, soldiers ...

56 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING that the face is the one part of the body that most often is used to bluff and conceal true sentime ...

GETTING A LEG UP ON BODY LANGUAGE 57 accurately, watch the feet and the legs; they are truly remarkable and hon- est in the info ...

58 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING BOX 13: HAPPY FEET MEAN LIFE IS SWEET A while back, I was watching a poker tournament on television ...

GETTING A LEG UP ON BODY LANGUAGE 59 they represent a true tell or just excess nervous behavior. For example, if a person has na ...

60 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING than not, this is a good indicator of impatience and the need to speed things up, not a sign of hap ...

GETTING A LEG UP ON BODY LANGUAGE 61 BOX 15: HOW FEET WAVE GOODBYE When two people talk to each other, they normally speak toe t ...

62 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING The Knee Clasp There are other examples of intention movements of the legs that are as- sociated wi ...

GETTING A LEG UP ON BODY LANGUAGE 63 you note these cues, particularly when they come from your superiors, it’s time to end your ...

64 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING up, so that his toes were pointing skyward (see figure 20). To the average person, that behavior wo ...

GETTING A LEG UP ON BODY LANGUAGE 65 sions of the emotion attached to the story. They appear in real time along with the story l ...

66 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING when they are stressed or upset, when they are being threatened, or, con- versely, when they are th ...