The principle that meaning lies in change from a normal state rather than in fixed signs.
A calm person who suddenly stills and quietens has just told you something important. It is the departure from their usual manner, not the stillness itself, that carries the message.
Learn the baseline, then read the deviations from it as the true signals. What matters is how a person differs from their own normal manner, not how they compare with anyone else.
Without a baseline almost any reading is a guess, so observe before you judge. You cannot know what a change means until you know what the person is like unchanged.
The principle that a sound reading rests on at least three cues pointing the same way.
ExploreThe principle that the setting often matters more than the gesture itself.
ExploreThe practice of weighing face, body, voice and setting together as one picture.
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