Do you talk with your hands

[EE_]

I've always watched body language of people and hand language is especially noticeable to me. Politicians use of it is very pronounced to the point it looks ridiculous.

I'm sure we all use it to some degree, but when I see someone, or talk to someone that use it to the extreme, it makes me think they are trying to divert attention away from their ugly face. When a friend uses it a lot, on occasion I like to make fun of them by taking my hand gestures to a higher level then their's...just to be funny and make a point.

The touchers are the worse, those people that touch you when they talk. The best way I found to deal with them is to start touching them back twice as much. Unless they are a stranger, then I would tell them point blank, "don't touch me!"

Watching all these political people on TV, I can't help thinking how ridiculous some of them look. They look like they are over-compensating for something they are lacking (small penis), or opposite for women (huge vagina?). There must be a class that politicians take that teaches them how to lie with their hands and look confident doing it?

Do you guys notice this too? Are you a big hand talker?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzWXdVsHMCM

[mamboni]

Funny video. I think Trump is a natural with his hand talking.

And liberal-progressives can't handle genuine facts, logic and natural talent because they tend to be ignorant ideologues stewing in narcissistic self-importance.

[hoarder]

Thanks. Now I'll be much more conscious about what my hands are doing when I speak.

[Glass]

body language is an important element in communication. We pick up far more cues from peoples physical disposition that we realise. We generate an impression of people within the first 2 or 3 seconds of meeting that person and most of that impression comes from their body disposition. They may not have even spoken in that time but we still form these impressions. Great public speakers are trained in body language, learning what to do for emphasis and what to do to avoid giving the wrong cues.

The touching of you by someone talking to you is a part of the hypnosis techniques. It anchors key thoughts and ideas on your subconscious. If you watch hypnotists in action it is exactly what they do.

NLP is a more mainstream form of hypnosis and body touching is used as part of their techniques as well. I realise most people don't practice NLP and well, you don't know who is a hypnotist but it is worth keeping mind that if they are touching you when they are speaking to you, they could be deliberately employing the techniques against you and you might want to counter their actions.

[Ponce]

If you want to shut up a Cuban or an Italian then all that you have to do is to chop off their hands..........well, not really...for a Cuban you better chop off his head.

V

[Hitch]

body language is an important element in communication. We pick up far more cues from peoples physical disposition that we realise. We generate an impression of people within the first 2 or 3 seconds of meeting that person and most of that impression comes from their body disposition. They may not have even spoken in that time but we still form these impressions. Great public speakers are trained in body language, learning what to do for emphasis and what to do to avoid giving the wrong cues.

The touching of you by someone talking to you is a part of the hypnosis techniques. It anchors key thoughts and ideas on your subconscious. If you watch hypnotists in action it is exactly what they do.

NLP is a more mainstream form of hypnosis and body touching is used as part of their techniques as well. I realise most people don't practice NLP and well, you don't know who is a hypnotist but it is worth keeping mind that if they are touching you when they are speaking to you, they could be deliberately employing the techniques against you and you might want to counter their actions.

It's amazing how connected we all are, energywise, to have these techniques having any effect. What sort of counter measures to their actions would you recommend?

[Horn]

If you want to shut up a Cuban or an Italian then all that you have to do is to chop off their hands..........well, not really...for a Cuban you better chop off his head.

V

Its true, its worse when the hand gestures come with sound effects. Woooshafzzt ticka-ticky!

with spanish its almost required in some places where there are no words or someone forgot the proper one.

[Glass]

It's amazing how connected we all are, energywise, to have these techniques having any effect. What sort of counter measures to their actions would you recommend?

I do not think that you have to do much. If they touch you on the arm you can pointedly look at that spot or actually touch or rub that spot yourself and nullify anything with a conscious thought. I also tend to shift my position, moving that part of me away or out of reach. So if I am standing shoulder to shoulder and am touched on the arm or shoulder I might turn around so that, that my body is between them and that arm or shoulder.

To me the idea is to break the connection because you will find that they touch the same spot multiple times on key words or points they are making. To my mind each touch further reinforces what they are projecting at you and the key is to break that. I move in an effort to stop them attempting to pick up where they left off or to stop them starting over. Depending on the feel I get for the person, I might move completely out of arms reach. I will certainly move out of arms reach if they do start again.

A very very few times I have told people to stop touching me as a last resort but that is because it's clear they are not just making a friendly gesture that you might make such as when they maybe introducing you to other people and are touching a shoulder or upper back as one might do as an inclusion gesture.

I tend to go with my gut with most things and when it comes to people I think it's proved pretty accurate.

Hypnotists are something you need to be determined to resist but to resist you need to know someone is using a technique on you. I have no way of knowing other than they say they are or I just get a feeling and am on the watch in case. There are some very powerful hypnotists out there and I don't know anyway you can be sure of detecting them or resisting them. I've been to inspirational gatherings and some people presenting have been hypnotists. Watching 400 people voluntarily fall under a spell is quite troubling to me. This is also why you should stay away from psychiatrists/psychologists.