This document discusses body language cues and their meanings. It covers topics such as: - Indications that someone is interested in what you're saying, such as maintaining eye contact, nodding, and facing toward the speaker. - Signals that someone is receptive to ideas, including open hands, nodding, smiling, and feet spaced apart. - Gestures that indicate someone is thinking, such as stroking the chin, adjusting glasses, or pinching the nose. - Defensive body language like crossed arms, hands in pockets, and hiding the hands. - Signs of boredom, like staring into space, pulling ears, tapping, yawning, and pointing toward exits. -

1. BODY LANGUAGE III
Dr.V. Veera Balaji Kumar
Soft skills Trainer
Cygmax institute of management studies

2. people who are interested
in what you are saying
• maintain eye contact more than 60% of the
time
• heads are inclined forward
• are nodding their heads
• feet are pointing towards you

3. Hands on their chest

4. Open hands

5. I don’t have any clue or I don’t know

6. If people are more receptive in
accepting your ideas
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Their hands are flat on the table.
Their palms are open.
Their heads are inclined forward.
They are nodding their heads.
Their legs are spaced out from each other.
They smile frequently.
Their hands are open. This also indicates genuineness.
They place their hands in their chest. This signifies
openness and conveys sincerity, honesty, or
dedication.
• However, a woman putting her hands in her breast is a
defensive position and may indicate that she is

9. What was that again ?

11. Indications that they are thinking
• stroking their chin - assessing the
advantages and disadvantages of the
proposal/idea
• take their glasses off, after which they may
either (1) clean them, or (2) put the tip of the
frame in their mouth
• pinching the bridge of the nose most likely
with eyes closed

12. Indications that they are thinking
• put a palm below the chin, index finger
pointed and extended along the cheek, while
other fingers placed beneath the mouth criticizing or antagonizing
• walk with the head down and hands behind
the back

13. palm below the chin, index finger pointed and
extended along the cheek

15. Indications that they are
defensive/hiding something
• They walk with their
hands in their pockets.
• They cross their arms.
• They hide their hands
any way they can

18. Indications Of Boredom
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Head supported by the palm, often accompanied by drooping eyes.
They show inattentiveness by staring at a blank space (eyes not
blinking) or by looking around frequently.
They are pulling their ears. This may also signify that they want to
interrupt while another person is talking.
They are clicking a pen non-stop.
They are tapping their hands or feet.
They yawn incessantly.
Their feet or other body parts are pointing to the exit, as if they are very
eager to leave.
They move restlessly in their seats. This could also mean that they are
not cozy or at ease, or they might just be exhausted.

19. Yawning
Yawning is a response to a wide variety of
response to a wide variety of stimuli, including
sleepiness, awakening hunger, boredom,
nervousness and inter cranial diseases.
There are several causes of yawning:
Psychological, including boredom, drowsiness,
fatigue, separation
hormonal, due to the actions of ACTH and
MSH;
neurological, as a result of various brain
pathologies,
psychiatric, for example, schizophrenia,
psychosis, depression and withdrawal; general
pathologies, including ear disorders, gastric
and biliary disorders and motion sickness;
drug overdose such as naloxone, valproate,
imipramine, clomipramine, serotonin, and
phenobarbitol; and
drug withdrawal, from heroin, morphine,
lefetamine, methadone and pentazocin.

23. How To Know When They Are Lying

26. Signals Of Nervousness/Tension
• Their fists are clenched.
• Their hands or feet are tapping.
• The bottom edges between the fingers of one
hand are clenched with the bottom edges
between the fingers of the other hand.
• Hands are interlocked; whistle to conceal and
fight their nervousness
• try their best to avoid having eye contact

27. confident or ‘know-it-all’ attitude

28. Steepling

29. Dominance, superiority and territoriality are evident here. Both-hands-onhead shows a superior ‘know-it-all’ attitude and feet-on-desk shows a
territorial claim to it. To further highlight his status he has a high-status,
leaning-back
chair with wheels