The practice of weighing face, body, voice and setting together as one picture.
A confident posture, a warm voice and a relaxed face together tell a coherent story. Read as a whole, the signals agree and the meaning becomes clear.
Read the whole person rather than fixating on a single channel of expression. Weigh face, body, voice and setting together, since each one alone can mislead.
Narrow focus on one signal distorts the picture, so step back and take in the whole. Fixing on a single cue while ignoring the rest is a common path to error.
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 principle that meaning lies in change from a normal state rather than in fixed signs.
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