Read People's Emotions. Psychophysiology and Nonverbal Methods

The Greek philosopher Aristotle listed 5 main human senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. We will discuss how they work and how they affect our lives. Also, we will talk about additional feelings highlighted by modern physiology. You will learn how to train them, as well as the importance of the homunculus.

You will learn what emotional intelligence is and we will discuss other types of intelligence. We will talk about social competence and approach some issues of emotional self-awareness. All this, together with advanced self-motivation skills, will help you quickly achieve your goals.

With developed self-perception and self-regulation, you can objectively evaluate your strengths and weaknesses, as well as handle criticism well. In this lesson we will give you effective methods of self-regulation, using which you can maintain control in stressful situations. You will learn how to manage anger and relieve stress using therapeutic touch.

We will discuss what empathy is, as well as the difference between cognitive empathy and emotional empathy. We will tell you how mirror neurons are associated with emotional intelligence and how our heart rhythm affects our emotional state.

We will review 12 basic emotions and we will talk about nonverbal communication channels that will help you read emotions. We will tell you how facial expressions and gestures can reveal the true motives of the person you are talking to, how to read others by observing their body language. Also, psychophysiology and digital expression will help us with the development of nonverbal skills.

Everyone’s actions are based on their personal motives, which can be defined by hormones and neurotransmitters. The compass of motives, that we will discuss in this lesson, will help you identify your personality type. This knowledge will allow you to effectively build communication with others and define our goals more clearly.

Emotions alone are not enough for a holistic perception of yourself and others – that is why we study personality profiling. Using the five-factor model OCEAN and Dirk Alert’s research, we will learn to identify personality types and build our behavior based on these data.

We will tell you where the emotions come from and how to manage them. Pride and guilt, awe and shame, gratitude, and interest ... From now on, these feelings will not be a mystery to you anymore. With this new knowledge, you can easily control your emotional state and understand others better.