Touch Hunger, Touch Starvation or Skin Hunger

Touch is the first sense to develop in Utro. With a surface area of around two square meters our skin is the largest organ in the body. Nerve ending called C-tactile afferents exists to recognize any form of gentle touch. According to a 2017 study the ideal touching speed is between 3 to 5 centimeters per second.

Benefits of touch during COVID 19 isolation the body is more likely to release the stress hormone cortisol. Touch has been shown to reduce Cortisol and comforting non-threatening touch reduces can also reduce stress by releasing oxytocin also called the love hormone and the pleasure chemical dopamine.  Touch can calm certain body functions such as heart rate and blood pressure and healthy touch even a gentle safe touch from a stranger has been shown to reduce loneliness specifically reducing feelings of social exclusion.

During this time hug (with permission to share the hug) your close safe family and friends longer for at least 20 seconds as this is said to be the point at which humans release oxytocin.



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Ivanka Body Language. Lafayette Park Protests

Ivanka is holding a 1,540 dollar MaxMara bag that carried the bible her dad held up. Great marketing for the MacMara company. It is the it-bag for the elite who condone violence against peaceful protestors. Also, note that when you are posing for photos during a pandemic that has taken the lives of over 100,000 Americans and there are protests around the world for justice concerning the murder of a person of color by police you need to wear very high heels and pants that stop above the ankle.

Having read Ivanka's body language for several years I thought it appropriate to read her body language use before one of the most iconic images in American history Trump holding up a bible in front of a boarded-up Church after aggressively removing peaceful protestors from Layfette park.
Ivanka thanked the police and others for clearing the path and creating this photo opportunity and some insider sources the photo op was her idea.

Ivanka Trump is Advisor to the President. In her role, she focuses on the education and economic empowerment of women and their families as well as job creation and economic growth through workforce development, skills training, and entrepreneurship.

Note the president posed here on a  porch where they were moments before clergy and volunteers were handing out bottled water to protestors.



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Mobs, Aggression and Bonding Created Through Group Members Aggression.

Biologists explain pack mentality as a form of group mobbing called "aggression out." When two or more animals focus aggression on an outside victim, they feel psychologically closer and allied. Bonds between the pack/mob members gel as they join in mobbing.

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Movie Body Language Pleading and Victim Body Language, Black Legion Humphrey Bogart - Give Me a Break

Throughout the Classic Film Black Legion, (About a real murder carried out by the Klu Klux Klan )Humphrey Bogarts Character is often seen seated and looking up in a pleading victim pose. When you watch the film look for scenes where he feels he is helpless and alone against the power of a group and how his body language changes when he joins the Legion the Klu Klux Klan group. You see the power he gains from being in the mob/cult of the Klan, the power of the mob, and in this and other scenes how powerless he feels when he contemplates leaving it.
This film is not well known but it does an amazing job showing how the cult drew him in with promises of strength and power.
FYI another nonverbal symbol the white cross on a red background was used in the film. The film did such a good job and showing the evils of the Klan that the Klan sued Warner Bros. for patent infringement for the film's use of a patented Klan insignia: a white cross on a red background with a black square. A judge threw out the case.^[


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Begging, Pleading and Victim Body Language of Humphrey Bogart in Black Legion

"I've tried they won't let me out. Nobody ever lived to get out of the Legion."that The Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.