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From: Blue Chip
Date: Wed Mar 5, 2003 6:33pm
Subject: Re: [Derren Brown] Re: Speed Seduction et al
Sorry, I should have also shared this:
To take a "calibration" reading of someones cheek colour without it looking
too obvious...
Allow your focus to move from their eyes to their eye-brows. You will
appear (to them) to be looking them in the eye, and you will not be
distracted by _their_ eye movement. Let your eyes defocus just enough, so
that you can see their cheeks without moving your eyes. Take your reading,
refocus and "become aware" that you are now looking them in the eye again.
Even as a beginner, this process should take no more than about 1..2
seconds, and you will have it off-pat and down to about 0.1 seconds in a
couple of days.
If it all sounds a bit tricky, I can assure you that it is only the
explanation that is tricky.
Can you imagine trying to describe in detail how to use a cotton bud? But
I'm sure you would only poke yourself in the ear-drum once before you
worked it out ;-)
The actual process of face reading is something you do subconciously all
the time, and the English language often struggles to find ways to describe
these very natural processes.
If you want to practice this "defocus thingy", try it now. (pace & lead - lol)
Stop reading (no, in at the end of this paragraph bozo!) and stare at the
middle of the screen.
Now, without moving your eyes, try to see what is on your desk.
When you have seen what is on the desk or maybe a poster on the wall (etc.)
allow yourself to refocus on the screen and continue reading.
You now have all the skills you require to take successful blush reflex
readings.
Two ways to win: When you find someone who doesn't blush - ask them how
they do it :-)
Bc
>I'll try that, thank you bluechip.
>
>--- In a previous message Blue Chip wrote:
> >
> > >I do wish someone would come up with a way to mind control blushing
> > >under duress though. It's not charming and it's not clever.
> >
> > Perhaps you would be be happier if you were able to see just how
>often it
> > happens to everyone?
> > When we do rapport building one of the things we monitor is the
>colour of
> > peoples cheeks... as it quite tricky to control. During
>conversation with
> > a friends, after each chunk of conversation, take a mental colour
>reading
> > of your friends cheeks. You will find many answers therein ;)
