Reading signs and symbols is not anything unusual. Inspect your daily life, and you’ll find a lot of of them. On a wet floor, you’ll observe a wet floor sign. To indicate luxury homes for sale, you’ll see a for-sale sign on a luxury home. To tell other drivers that a baby is sitting in the car, you’ll observe a baby on board sticker on the car… There are just a lot of them! And, reading them is surely not a difficult task for you. However, when you consider reading signs on the face of a person, not many individuals might know how to read them. To many, reading body language is the task of a psychologist, and a common man might not be able to do it. However, this might not be completely true.
They say practice makes perfect. The tag line truly applies here. The science of reading body language does carry musch of deepness in it, and you are not going to excel at it immediately. The foundation law of psychology is that each brain is different and therefore every person is different. Therefore, you will need practice to be an expert at reading it. Yet, there are a few signs that are too obvious for everybody to comprehend. For example, your hands tell much about what you have in your head. If someone is sitting/standing with a posture that conceals his hands, it symbolizes that he is hiding anything from you.
Primarily, let’s examine the ‘crossed arm’ posture. Crossed arms might be read in several ways. If you are talking and the person hearing you has his arms crossed, it means that you still have a long way to go before you could get him convinced on what you are saying. This posture might say that the person disagrees with you, or he might be hiding anything from you. On many occasions, it will also denote arrogance and defensiveness.
If a person has his arms crossed while he is talking, it may suggest that he is somewhat edgy or uncertain about what he might be saying at that very moment. This posture might also mean that he is hiding anything, or he might not be telling the truth. On the whole, a crossed arm posture denotes that a person is attempting to protect himself, or is afraid from the within. Now, examine the ‘hand-in-pocket’ posture, it depicts that a person is not comfortable in the environment around. When a person holds this posture, it means being edgy or bored in the surroundings. Hands in pockets are a symbol of concealing, and this is the reason why it may also be thought of as disloyal stance. On the whole, it is a sign of the lack of poise in a person.
Reading body language does not end here. Your eyes, legs, feet, fingers, arms and eyebrows, all have different things to say about you. Each gesture might exhibit different behaviors which can be comprehended in several ways. Therefore, the science of reading body language is a deep fact which gets more interesting as it gets deeper.
