I love the subtle clues body language reveals. We're constantly communicating even when we keep our mouths shut. Non-verbal communication is like a foreign language and can be just as diverse to navigate from culture to culture. As a writer, there's lots of fun communicating with a body. Take the language of space and distance. For those of you living in North America, Australia/New Zealand, and England, our bodies and psyches recognize four basic comfort zones. Zone # 1, The Public Zone (12 feet) We generally like twelve feet of space when talking to a crowd. Public speaking is hard enough, but when that front row is a little too up close? Yikes! Your defense mechanism kicks in making you look further out into the crowd. If you had a tape measure with you, your gaze would naturally fall about 12 feet or beyond. And if you make eye contact with the first few rows...it's likely because you made a concerted effort to connect with them (and good for you for stretc...
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