Kapitel 20: Body Gestures
1. After a good lunch, sitting back and relaxing with a full stomach bulging forward (and perhaps tapping on it happily) is an obvious display of satisfaction and comfort.
2. When we feel deeply depressed we lower our head and curl into a fetal position - a defensive curl.
3. Strong and authoritative figures walk with their chest out and head high, they avoid hiding behind objects and walk with firm steady paces. They have nothing to fear from their surroundings.
Another point it's important to get is this: Dominant and powerful figures take more space than submissive and insecure ones.
Leaning - that's the body way to show involvement or lack of it. Simple as that.
When we talk and lean forward we're engaged and reveal that the matter is important to us, it doesn't mean that it's always a positive body gesture - when we're mad we also lean forward aggressively.
Backing off happens in the opposite scenarios obviously - boredom, disdain, superiority or even fear.
What we get, eventually, is that you can't really tell what the lean says except the level of involvement of whom you observe. I imagine it as some sort of driving stick: forward is engaged, backwards is hitting the brakes and the middle is the standby attention.
Check out the akimbo style of standing- o
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