How we can read minds
We all like to read minds, for most of us, reading minds or telepathy is like a superpower that everyone wants to have, but from the perspective of science it’s not something impossible, it is a task that everyone can do it, you need just to analyze the behavior of others to know what’s in their mind.
All Humans have the ability to sense things and process its meanings, in our world everything has a sense, and all humans have behaviors that can lead us to know what they’re thinking of, for a simple example: most of the people when they’re lying they turn their head in one of the sides (left or right), or when someone embarrassing, he is often looking down on the floor, etc…, so to read the other’s mind, we need just to focus on their expressions and their behaviors, also there are other ways to read others mind, According to Hodges and Myers in the Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, “Empathy is often defined as understanding another person’s experience by imagining oneself in that other person’s situation: One understands the other person’s experience as if it were being experienced by the self, but without the self actually experiencing it. A distinction is maintained between self and other.”
br> Now well discover ways you should master to be able to read others mind:
Use Body Language:
Body Language is considered as the honest way to know what the other person is really thinking about or how he is really feeling, because our thought and feeling are directly reflected in our body’s behavior such as facial expression, eye movement, and vocal tonality, we can lie about how we feel but our body’s behavior cannot, if we said that we are happy but in reality we are sad, our body will reflect our sadness, because our emotions and our feeling whose control our body, not us, it is so hard to manipulate our body’s behavior voluntarily so the body language is like a mirror to our thought and feelings, that’s why we said before that it is an honest way to know exactly what’s in other’s mind
Let’s take an example of body language behavior and specifically of facial expression such as smiling, the secret to knowing if the person in front of you is really smiling or he just doing a fake smile is the skin between the eyebrows and the upper eyelid, that will move slightly down in a real smile but it will not move in a fake smile, everyone can voluntarily make their mouth smile but no one can contract the muscle that surrounds the eyes.
Observe Their Behavior
Our behavior always depends on how we feel or what’s happening inside our minds, to understand that, let’s take a simple example: if a person breaths deeply, slowly and uses one’s diaphragm and stomach, this means that he/she has a relaxed impression, otherwise, if his/her breath is too short, excessively rapid, this means that the person has a nervous and anxious impression which mean that he/she is shy or not comfortable or maybe afraid of something
Read Their Eyes
“Eyes Never Lies” or “Eyes are Windows of Soul”, all of us know these famous Quotes, they are resume the importance of Eyes to read what inside others’ minds.
Now, all researches approved that the person has no control of his pupils which mean we cannot control what our eyes tell about us, for example:
- If you stand in front of someone you like so much, your pupils expanded up to 45% of their normal size.
- If the person looks upwards, it means that he thinks about something big or make a picture of what he wants to be in the future.
- If the person is avoiding eye contact, it means that he is shy or has a lack of confidence, certainty or truthfulness.
- If the person is looking directly at other eyes, it means that he has confidence and has a sense of challenge.
- If the person is looking down, it means that he is embarrassed or this may be a sign of submission or giving up.
- If the person is looking down-left, it means that they are mentally talking to themselves, otherwise, if he is looking down-right, it means that they are attending to internal emotions.
- If the person moves his eyes on both sides, it means that he may be lying or he is checking out if someone is listening or not.
Focus on The Tone of The Voice
The tone of voice can mean everything. Tone of voice includes voice quality, the pitch of the voice, the frequency of speech and articulation. It is not about the content of your speech, but the way you say something and the impression it makes on others.
Slow speech indicates calmness and fast speech means one is nervous. The words are not as important as the energy that feeds them. We have to keep our ears open and mouth shut if we want to understand the thought processes of a person. We have to perceive beyond the mechanical words spoken.
If more stress is given on a particular word, then the person might be trying to signify the word. The pauses made in a speech are also important. Pauses in speech often mean one is collecting one’s thoughts and hence indicate a lack of spontaneity in the flow of information. The person could be editing his expression.
Spend Time With a Person
If you want to know what the thoughts of a person are, spend time with them. Once you spend time with a person, they slowly open themselves up about their ideas, attitudes, values and mental set. A peep into another person’s psyche helps learn more about their thought process. When you spend time with someone, it will become easier to understand how that person reacts to certain situations because you have been a witness to their behavior.
It is for this reason that parents get surprised, claiming to not notice before their child does something wrong. “Everything was normal.” they might say. This usually indicates that the parents were not spending enough time with the child.
Often in a relationship, even after years of being together, you cannot understand what the other person has in their mind.
Being mindfully connected to a person helps understand their traits and how they behave in several contexts.
Being able to read mind doesn’t mean you will use manipulative techniques to your advantage once you know what other people are thinking. If we focus and look at its brighter side, reading the mind of someone else can allow you to help understand their perspective and to connect to them on deeper levels
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