Here’s something that hypnotists and neurolinguistic programmers have been using for years: your body often reflects your abstract thoughts in physical form.  For example, if you tell someone to imagine tilting back a picture of himself, then he tends to feel more relaxed — ‘laid back’.
Turns out that scientists have been uncovering evidence that this [...]

February 20th, 2010 | Tags: abstract thoughts, body language, embodied cognition, natalie angier, subliminal body movement | Category: Mind, Neuroscience | Leave a comment