Dr. Ali "Victor" Binazir, Happiness Engineer

The body language of love and attraction

Last week I read a book I’d been meaning to read for a long time — Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to the Body Language of Courtship by David Givens, Ph.D. It turned out to be even better than expected. In fact, I made 163 highlights and took 19 pages of notes!

Now we’ve all heard the term body language and are aware of how it works to some extent. But the word language is not even a metaphor here. Body language is literally a language, and if you’re not familiar with the vocabulary and syntax, you might miss something life-alteringly important.

Luckily, language operates at an unconscious level, so you’ve probably been doing a good job of understanding body language all along. At the same time, a little bit of extra training can put you way ahead of the competition – and enrich the experience of peoplewatching next time you’re in a public place.

Here are some fascinating snippets from the book:

— You have a whole center in the temporal lobes of your brain dedicated to responding to (more…)

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Written by Ali Binazir MD MPhil on 29 July 2014

On New Year’s Resolutions and Dr Ali’s Book Club

A few days ago was the first day of the Gregorian calendar, January 1.

In the countries that use that calendar, the night before January 1 is a festive time. People dress up, ingest large amounts of food and alcohol with friends, and angle to lip-lock with someone at the clang of midnight. They make a big deal of it.

In the meantime, most of the world (more…)

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Written by Ali Binazir MD MPhil on 13 January 2014