The Body Talks

EVEN BEFORE YOU SAID ANYTHING, PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY JUDGED YOU.

Your clothes, your personal style, the colors you use, your behavior are all elements that reveal your personality, and others will judge you according to the non verbal message you send.

Your behavior, in addition, gives others clues about your confidence and personality; therefore,
your way of walking,
of giving your hand,
of smiling,
of looking directly,
or avoiding it,
communicate many things about your personality.
If one has a doubt on someone,
he will believe more to the body language than to the words.

Others perceive automatically body language and interpret it according to what it communicates.

It’s important to be aware of the signals – and their meaning – that our behavior sends out in any situation, stressful or not. When we are aware of the fundamentals elements of body language we use to make judgments, and compare them to our behavior, we can discover inconsistencies in us that can be judged negatively by others

High Image will make you aware of:

• Habits to stop
• Habits to nourish
• Acts that communicate approval
• Acts that communicate refusal

Body Morphology:

If we look at the history of image we see that society strongly influences the physical body: from the Greek principle of proportion, according to which all the parts of the body have a measurable relationship with each other and with the whole, to the Christian era, where the body was masked under yards of heavy fabric, to the Victorian era, where people were obsessed with decorum, flesh was indecent, and women – and many men – wore corsets to keep it under control, to today’s body building achieved through weights and aerobic exercises to create a lean and muscled body, and finally, to cosmetic surgery triggered by the need of social approval.

The body,
like the look,
represents an image,
which has it’s own
language

In fact, since a very tender age – researchers think that the notion is already formed at the age of three – everyone, absorbing the cultural presuppositions of the society in which grows up, knows which are the good and bad bodies. In perceiving people, the body seems to have universal meanings which elicit universal responses.

Beauty
is not
in the eyes
of the
beholder

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