Touch Yourself



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Goal: Better Your Body Language
Description:

Self-touch is an incredibly interesting nonverbal cue and can mean 2 different things:

1. Self-Soothing Behavior

When we’re highly uncomfortable, our body language shows it. Self-soothing is a behavior we engage in to calm our inner nerves. Self-touch activities include

  • Rubbing the backs of our arms
  • Wringing hands
  • Cracking knuckles
  • Biting the tongue or lips

It can calm nerves, use it sparingly. Self-soothing can often lead to other low power behavior, which decreases your confidence levels and can make your nerves even worse.

2. Flirtation

Self-touch in the dating environment is generally perceived more positively, especially for women.

When a woman exposes and gently strokes her neck, this is a flirty type of touch. Women touching their hair and jewelry or adjusting their clothes or bag – increases attractiveness and overall sensuality.

However, men engage in less self-touch when they are comfortable and attracted to a woman and tend to claim more territory. Splaying legs and arms (manspreading) is a territorial display of dominance. If a man displays self-touch, like rubbing the back of his neck, this most likely means he’s feeling a negative emotion like insecurity, nervousness or worry.

Please refer to the blog for more details on this activity.

 



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