Your Body Exposes Your Secrets: 10 Powerful Body Language Clues

Your body exposes your secrets

1. Your eyes reveal interest … you look longer at what
   you truly like
2. Crossed arms often signal defensiveness or
   discomfort
3. Fidgeting hands = hidden anxiety or nervousness
4. Fake smiles don’t reach the eyes … real ones do
5. Your feet point toward what you actually want (or
   where you want to go)
6. Touching your face can signal stress or dishonesty
7. Leaning in shows attraction or deep interest
8. Mirroring someone means you subconsciously like
   them
9. A shaky voice reveals lack of confidence or fear
10. Silence + body tension often say more than words

Your Body Exposes Your Secrets: What You Don’t Say Out Loud

Everyday your body reveals parts of you that you try to hide through the words of your mouth, “I’m fine.” Your eyes stay a little too long. Your arms cross. Your voice quivers. Your feet want to walk away. They are like little subtitles of emotiontranslated beneath false smiles, fury, or avoidance.

Psychology research is clear the way we communicate nonverbally has as much bearing on others perception as what we say; by way of example, when we are in close relationships and having emotionally charged conversations postures gestures and microexpressions can provide clues as to how interested or attracted, anxious or defensive or even lying we are before we have even spoken a word. Our bodies become tell-tales of truths.

Here are 10 subtle ways your body gives you away—even when you wish it wouldn’t.

1. Your eyes reveal interest: you look longer at what you truly like.
2. Crossed arms often signal defensiveness or discomfort.
3. Fidgeting hands can indicate hidden anxiety or nervousness.
4. Fake smiles don’t reach the eyes, but real ones do.
5. Your feet point toward what you actually want (or where you want to go).
6. Touching your face can signal stress or possible dishonesty.
7. Leaning in shows attraction or deep interest.
8. Mirroring someone means you subconsciously like or feel connected to them.
9. A shaky voice reveals lack of confidence or fear.
10. Silence plus visible body tension often says more than words.

Your Body Exposes Your Secrets: How To Read These Signals

As you become aware of the ways in which your own body reveals its innermost being, you gain a greater focus of intention; on yourself and others. When someone says, ‘I’m not upset” yet their arms are crossed tight across the chest, their jaw is clenched and their feet angle away from you, their body language is betraying them and telling you that they are! Conversely, when someone leans in toward you, mirrors your behavior and maintains gentle eye contact, you feel heard and emotionally “there”.

That doesn’t mean you should be staring at each gesture or whatever else, and expecting each signal to stand for a set, single meaning. You have to consider context. Still, the more you learn to read these unspoken signals of the body, the better you are at protecting yourself, communicating directly and honestly, and developing intimate relationships. You’ll learn to recognize when your body is giving off signals of exhaustion, fear or attractionbefore your intellect even catches up to what’s happening.

Finally, if you persist and learn these body language tricks, eventually you’ll learn to make your words, feelings, and movements congruent, you won’t be fighting yourself any longer. No matter what, your body will deliver the goods. And the moment you begin truly listening to that is when you hit the jackpot: using what it tells you to manipulateor better yetcomprehend yourself and other people with greater insight, compassion, and self-awareness.

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