HAPTICS

We're going to start taking a look at haptics.  Haptics is originally a Greek word that represents the study of our sense of touching in a medical, biological or technological manner.

Through touching we communicate.   Touching is one of the most common ways we communicate with one another.  Touching is a direct result of allowing other people to enter our personal space and feeling comfortable with it.  

Touch is the most real, sincere and emotionally connected manner to experience and sense the world around us. 

We receive a large amount of information from our skin when the environment or other people interact with us.  Studies have shown that babies who lack a sense of touch have a low sense of survival, in contrast to other senses.  Touching is actually the first sense we develop when we're born.

On the next post we'll be checking out the types of touch there are.  Don't miss out!

The story below the brow -

It's what you don't say that matters...

Interesting facts on the different directions your eyes follow with Robert Phipps.

The eyes

What do you think about this? and are your eyes dwelling around right now?

Happy birthday Madiba! Remember to dedicate 67 min...

Happy 95th birthday Madiba!

What an inspiring leader.  Remember to dedicate 67 minutes of your time to make the world a better place.  Lets stand together in peace, love and respect towards one another in honor of what Madiba stands for.  Please feel free to share your ideas with us.

MONDAY ?

It's Monday... Mondays are suppose to represent the beginning of a fresh NEW week...Do you feel excited to wake up on a Monday ready to go to school or work?

If Monday had a facial expression what would you do to Monday?

NO WONDER THEY SAY MONDAYS ARE (BLUE)

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GUESS THE EXPRESSION

How has your body language been since you've received the previous post?  It's time to see how good you are at identifying facial expressions.  

What do you read in this face?

According to Nick Morgan on the Forbes website : "The face is a poor place to start reading body language.   By the time most of us are adult, we’ve learned to mask our true feelings  — at least as they show up in our face – because we have to get along at work, at home, and in social settings.  So we pretend to be interested, we pretend to smile, we assume a bland expression when we’re actually peeved, and so on."

Of course, we’re not perfect at these polite deceptions.  We don’t always manage to stifle that 

yawn completely.  But for the most part, the face we present to the world is a polite mask that 

hides our true feelings.  And that’s a good thing, usually:  it helps us all get along -Nick 

Morgan".

• Would you agree with this satement?  

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Crossing your arms

Crossing our arms is something we do very often, sometimes not implying anything and we tend to do it due to our subconscious.  What message does crossing a person's arms have for you?

Would you categorize it as a negative or positive message?  Do you see it as a kind of shyness?  Do you see it as being in control? (Think about yourself and when you tend to cross your arms).

We need to think before we cross our arms, because other people might read a message that we did not initially intend on sending out to them.

We are all human beings and have the tendency to get ticked off because of  another person's body language portrayed towards us.  We can either approve it in our heads or become more skeptical of what they are thinking.

Today I was at a festival called Nampo Oesdag for all the farmers. It started raining unexpectedly so the nearest thing I could find similar to an umbrella was a plastic bag...I pulled it over my head and as I walked through hundreds of people I received a few raised eyebrows.

Was I skeptical? No.  Did I approve? Yes.

I just laughed at them..because their hair got wet and I was safe.

Do you think we should always approve the body language of others towards us?

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