Body Language Signals - Do You Attract Other People?

Even if you never say a word, your face and body are constantly sending out messages to other people about your mood.

In fact, some body language experts claim that only about 7% of our messages are communicated through the words we speak. The rest of our messages are conveyed through our body language, tone of voice, and facial expressions.

During your entire life you have been sending messages to others through your posture, gestures, and facial expressions. When you were an infant, before you learned to speak, people were peering into your little baby face, looking at your gestures, and listening to your little cries and gurgles, trying to decipher what kind of mood you were in, and what you were trying to say.

And you have been reading and reacting to the body language, voice tone, and facial expressions of the people around you all your life, even though you may not have been aware of it.

What sorts of messages does your body language usually send to others? Does your body language encourage other people to approach you? Or do you frighten them away?

If you usually stand or sit with your arms folded across your chest, do you think this posture encourages others to come and talk to you? Most people will interpret your arms crossed in front of your chest as a signal that you don