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I was just wondering about 2 things. First off, I have noticed alot of people look in your eyes when they talk to you & I tend to look at someones mouth more when we are talking. What is the difference & what does it mean? Also, how can you "read" someones eyes? All I see is a glassy eyeball. How can you tell how they are feeling by looking into their eyes? Thanks!
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Oh my goodness. Eye contact is possibly the most important habit you can learn! This is coming from a theatre student, but it drives me crazy when people stare at your forehead when you talk. It is considered polite to look into someone's eyes when they're speaking (whether it's directly to you or a group, like a teacher)-- it show's your paying attention and interested in what they have to say. I'm not saying you have to stare them down, but just acknowledging what they're saying by looking in their eyes will make a huge difference in job and college interviews, especially.
I'm not a body language expert, but if someone is squinting a lot, that probably means they're confused or angry. (Or the sun's in their eyes. Haha.) What a person does with their eyebrows also says a lot about what they're thinking. Just think about what you do with your eyes when you're excited, tired, sad, surprised, angry, etc. and watch in the mirror to see what they do. Maybe that will help you?
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It's called "eye contact." It is just a good communication tool, basically. It means they are talking directly to you, and you are listening to what they are saying. But that doesn't mean you have to stare into some one's eyes during a conversation.
As for looking at their mouth as they speak to you, I don't think there is a huge difference. You are looking them in the face, right? Glance up to their eyes now and again. Even a glance is establishing eye contact.
People who tend to look at the floor or their feet while talking to you generally tend to be shy or unsure of themselves. I am a floor looker, myself, until I get to know the person.
As for reading some one's eyes, it's mostly in the expressions they make.
However, I do believe in that old saying that the eyes are the windows to the soul. You can see happiness, sadness, anger, and outright insanity in some one's "glassy eyeball." It isn't something I can tell you how to see, you just have to learn it for yourself.
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Body language is a really interesting thing. When people speak to someone who is making good eye contact, that person will subconsciously feel as though the listener is really interested in what they have to say. It can also be easier to speak to someone who is making good eye contact - imagine trying to speak to someone who never looked at you!
Some people who have slght hearing problems might look at lips without even realising why - it could be a way of helping themselves understand the conversation better. Or, you just might be someone who likes lips!
As far as 'reading' someone's eyes - by looking at body language as a whole, you can tell a lot about how a person feels. Crossed arms or crossed legs can indicate the person is not feeling very open towards you, for example. As far as eyes go, there is a whole school of theory about them - it's called NLP. This is short for Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
This is partly the idea that you can tell a lot about if a person is looking up, down, or either side. This can include knowing whether a person is visualising things, telling a lie, etc. You can find out a lot of info if you Google the topic.
Best of luck!
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Good question in my opinion.
The way i see it when yo stare into someones eyes it means your really listening to what there saying and takeing it in. When you look at peoples lips your sort of just hearing what there saying and see what there saying. Hope that makes scence.:)
Reading peoples eyes is pretty easy. Look at the shape there makeing with there eyes. You can tell if there really interested in what your saying or not even listening. Or even if someone is into you. Watch there eye lids and kinda if the eye is moving. If the eyes are just staring blankly and are kinda wide it usually means there thinking about somthing completely different.
Say sombody was sad there eyes will be kinda droopy and the'll probly look down alot. Angry they might be staring aand eyes kinda squinted.
If a guy/girl is into you they might be staring at you intently or looking around nervously. Just look closely and you'll get it.
Hope i made some scence and i helped.!!
Becs <3
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Okay, the first one I'm not too clear on but if this doesn't answer your first one..then I didn't get it..obviously. Haha.
So the first one, some people like to make eye contact because I guess they feel like the person they're talking to is listening and they want to address you directly. And when you look at somewhere else while someone talks to yu, you probably don't feel comfortable making eye contact and it's perfectly fine because I don't like it either.
Reading someones eyes...if they're naturally an expressive person, it will be a little obvious and easy to tell. But "reading" someones eyes can be sometimes hard.
For me, I have to know the person very well in order to tell. You can tell from day to day what mood they're in because you've seen them so often at different situations that you've practically memorized their body language.
Some people are very expressive and some are not at all expressive. ME...well I'm expressive with my actions and expressions but not with words but with some other people it's vice versa or neither.
Did my rambling make sense?
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