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3 Note their body language. See how many characteristic
elements of this state you can detect.
4 Ask your partner to break state (think about something
completely different).
5 Ask your partner to think of a time when they felt
completely at one with themselves. Ask them to associate
into this time by seeing it, hearing and feeling it from their
own shoes.
6 Note their body language. How many characteristic
elements of this state do you detect?
7 Feedback to your partner what you noticed to be the
differences between the body language of each state.
8 Ask them to do the same for you.Our bodies can know much more than our minds alone. If we
limit our learning to what we can know intellectually, we
significantly compromise what we can learn. We live in an age
when learning is key. We not only need to learn how to learn,
we need to use every resource to do so. Whole body learning
comes from using our bodies to tell us what our minds don’t
consciously know. And the quickest and most effective way to
learn how to respond to the different cultures we come into
contact with each day is to listen and look at the body
language.
Making people aware of their body language can often have
the effect of lifting them out of the issue so that they take a
more dissociated view of what is happening. This can be
valuable if they are so emotionally caught up in an issue that
they cannot break out of it. Awareness of body language
creates a meta state from which we can watch and listen to the
patterns of what is happening and how it is happening.SUMMARY