Faces of the world
Research results of an interesting international project on femal facial expression shows “the average-face” of women of various countries in the world. Just have a look and get your own impression.
And try to find your own opinion if it is another Kind of prejudice, or common view or scientific?
http://fstoppers.com/the-average-faces-of-women-around-the-world
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Unconscious body language of couples
While sleeping people usually behave very spontaneously. They are as they are, not self-controlled, not posing or doing anything special. Also while sleeping a couple behaves in a way that opens a deep insight into their relationship.
Nonverbally. They relate to each other in an unconscious way which mirrors their deep Connection and wishes for one another.
A Russian photographer once realized that many of her friends got pregnant. They as future parents…………
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A hesitating gesture
Chinese, especially female Chinese, like to expose themselves being photographed. They place themselves right away in front of the camera and wait for the relieving pic to be taken. Often they face something around themselves in order to give an impression of being related to this or that. Just like the little girl being related to this beautiful lotus flower.
Two aspects strike my mind almost always when I am aware of such a scene. First they expose and relate but in a more or less hesitating gesture. If you look at the hands or arms of the little girl you will see what I mean. She reaches out, or better to say remains ………
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Dancing in the park (Journey to China No. 8)
You see them in the parks. Mostly in the morning or later in the afternoon or evening. You see them dancing. You see them enjoying and you’re aware of a very big difference in bodily expression.
On the one hand, often when you see Chinese people, they seem to walk and move a bit slowly, feel aggrieved and in a black mood, as if it would be typical for most of the people, typical for the country or a typical character expressed on the body-level.
In contrast to a possible stereotype ……….
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Just there (Journey to China No.7)
He seems to be present. He knows where is looking at. He is characterised by his experience. His face is tells stories, without words.
He seems to be proud of whatever aspect.
And he is just there and yet so mysterious.
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Stereotype: tall and tiny (journey to China 1)
I just returned from my journey to China. It was an amazing experience. I will try to talk a bit about various impressions within the next weeks. Of course I had read quite a lot about China. Of course I had talked to friends of mine about where I was supposed to go. Of course I had my thinking or believes about China not yet discovered as a stereotype thinking. 🙂
Here is one impressing and obvious example: many people in Western countries believe that the Chinese is tiny and the Western in comparison to the tiny Chinese is quite tall.
To be true I have to disappoint you. It is not like this as shown on the photo. I myself am 1,80 m tall and very often I felt quite as tall most of the Chinese around me. For example in the Metro of Beijing I looked around and saw just into the faces of the other People and they could just looked into mine. 🙂
And still there are interesting phenomena concerning the body shape of Chinese people. I will talk about this later.
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The Psoas is:…..the orientation to the core of yourself (1)
If you guessed C, you’re correct. Buried deep within the core of…your body, the psoas (pronounced “so-az”) affects every facet of your life, from your physical well-being to who you feel yourself to be and how you relate to the world. A bridge linking the trunk to the legs, the psoas is critical for balanced alignment, proper joint rotation, and full muscular range of motion. In yoga, the psoas plays an important role in every asana. In backbends, a released psoas allows the front of the thighs to lengthen and the leg to move independently from the pelvis. In standing poses and forward bends, the thighs can’t fully rotate outward unless the psoas releases. All yoga poses are enhanced by a released rather than shortened psoas. (When you reverse your orientation to gravity in inversions, however, the psoas must be toned as well as released to maintain proper spinal stability.)
Whether you suffer from ……….
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“Discharging” is a survival activation
the production (charge) of energy through respiration and metabolism and discharge of energy in motion and movement are the fundamental processes of life. How much energy you have and how you use this energy, determines the way you respond to a situation, to life. The more energy you can put into free movement and expression, the better you can deal with different situations, with life.
I will talk about this later this week and will relate this to man, feeling, behavior and so on.
Please kee in mind discharging is a very normal process in life and a survival pattern or survival activation. Just have a look how this looks like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51DQL0bBEnc
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Facial expression is different in different cultures
Central to all human interaction is the mutual understanding of emotions, achieved primarily by a set of biologically rooted social signals evolved for this purpose—facial expressions of emotion. Although facial expressions are widely considered to be the universal language of Emotion and some negative facial expressions consistently elicit lower recognition levels among Eastern compared to Western Groups for a meta-analysis and and for review). Here, focusing on the decoding of facial expression signals, we merge………
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Function of the eyes (an embodyed story -part 8 -)
Eyes are the key: