ONE OF THE clients I consult with took private lessons from me years ago. He said that learning about nonverbal communications and applying nonverbal intelligence was like “uncorking a huge reservoir of information about life that previously had been hidden.” He found it liberating to grant himself license to thoroughly attune to people and situations and say, “Yes, I have a confident feeling about this, I sense this, and I’m going to run with it,” whereas before he had always felt inhibited. I think that social conditioning, coupled with the hectic pace of modern life, does that to us. It suppresses our natural ability to engage deeply with our world, compelling us to ignore a lot of things we know and should act upon. Successful ...
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