BODY LANGUAGE: My Reading

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Body language!!!
How to read others' thoughts by their gestures...


Body language, is the introductory book based on the different aspects of understanding body language of fellow beings, written by Allan Pease,an Australian author and body language expert . It was first published in 1981.It has been superseded by his 2004 book" The Definitive Book of Body Language: The Secret Meaning Behind People's Gestures", co-authored this time with his wife Barbara.

Well!! The physical gestures are shown by animals as well as human beings. This book is centralised on human gestures and their hidden meanings.


This book is more about the gestures or postures and less about the words, more about the understanding and less about the fiction,more about the experiences and less about the fantasies and imagination.
You will find-
  • Palm Gestures
  • Hand and Arm Gestures
  • Hand-to-Face Gestures
  • Arm Barriers
  • Leg Barriers
  • Eye Signals
  • Courtship Gestures and Signals
  • Cigars, Cigarettes, Pipes and Glasses
  • Territorial and Ownership Gestures
  • Carbon Copies and Mirror Images
  • Body Lowering and Status
  • Pointers
  • Desks, Tables and Seating Arrangements

The thing I came to know in this book is...
Why Daya ( yes the CID one )  used to slap the criminal in the lamp light on the chair in the last part of every episode!!
LOL!!!

Look at this part. You will also find.




Trying to comprehend body languages is prevalent in our society for quite a long time.Communication through body 
language has been going on for over a 
million years but has only been 
scientifically studied to any extent in 
the last twenty years or so. Charlie Chaplin and many other silent movie actors were the pioneers of non-verbal communication skills; they were the only means of communication available on the screen. Each actor was classed as good or bad by the extent to which he could use 
gestures and other body signals to communicate effectively.





The fact is that the non-verbal 
medium does not lie -the verbal 
medium does.
For instance,When you see the arm-cross gesture occur during a face-to-face encounter, it is reasonable to assume that you may have said something with which the other person disagrees, so it may be pointless continuing your line of argument even though the other person may be verbally agreeing with you.
Giving you the postures as given in the book👇



Standard arm-cross


As it is mentioned , it is the standard arm cross. Arm cross is having its own variations based on the circumstances. Unlike standard one there are fists clenched arm cross (indicating a hostile and defensive attitude),
reinforced Arm-Cross as shown here...





Gestures come in clusters, like 
words in a sentence. A single gesture combined with other secondary gestures may convey different meanings. Our body language also depends on the territory and zone in which we have been bringing up.


"Charles Darwin was one 
of the first to note that humans, as 
well as animals, tilt their heads to one 
side when they become interested in 
something."
Wanna have a look how gestures and postures are explained in that book??
Look at this!!




"The man on the left and the man on the right have taken the closed body 
formation to show the middle man that he is not accepted into the conversation. The 
middle man’s attitude shows superiority and sarcasm and he is using the lapel-grasping 
gesture with a thumb-up (superiority) plus a thumb-point gesture toward the man on his 
left (ridicule) who has responded defensively with crossed legs and aggressively with 
the upper-arm grip gesture (self-control) and side-ways glance. The man on the left of 
this sequence is also unimpressed with the middle man’s attitude. He has crossed legs 
(defensive) palm-in-pocket (unwilling to participate) and is looking at the floor while
using the pain-in-neck gesture. "


Albert Mehrabian found that the total impact of a message is about 7 per cent verbal (words only) and 38 per cent vocal (including tone of voice, inflection and other sounds) and 55 per cent non-verbal.
Professor Birdwhistell made some similar estimates of the amount of non-verbal communication that takes place amongst humans. Like it is important to learn verbal language, it is equally or sometimes more important to learn non-verbal language or body language.

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