I was reading an article (in U on Sunday, January 29, 2012) based on an interview with Dr David Craig about his book Lie Catcher, released late 2011 in Australasia.
David is called in at times to be a human lie detector. He has honed his ability over many years and collated is knowledge and experience in his book. Though both eye language and body language say more than words, David focuses on eyes as one tool particularly useful for lie detection. “It’s as if your brain and eyes are hard-wired together and when the brain is put under pressure, the eyes reveal it,” David Craig writes in his book.
Actually, the Brain and Eyes are One
There’s no “as if” about it. The eyes are a physical extension of the brain itself. In the early stages in the womb when the embryo is progressively forming, the eyes begin as dark spots on the tiny brain in the seventh week of pregnancy. The spots progressively become little buds that grow to balls and are slowly pushed forward on the end of the optic nerve, looking like balls on sticks.
Your eyes are actually an extension of your brain and are created from the same layer of the neural tube that becomes your brain and your nervous system. It is amazing how, with today’s technology, we can track every stage of development in the womb, from conception to birth, learning from nature the miracle occurring at every step.
Every nerve impulse that goes to your brain also registers in the fibres of your iris. This is why iridology can be used to analyze the state of functional health. Your eyes are on the same communication loop between body and brain. The fibres in the iris respond to the every nerve signals that your organs sent to your brain.
Overactive organs send lots of signals to the brain causing the fibres in the iris to be pulsed forward, towards the surface of the iris, which makes that area look white. When an organ is underactive it sends fewer or feeble signals to the brain and the corresponding fibres in the iris don’t get stimulated to move forward, can even drop back deeper than surrounding fibres, so the area looks darker. Your health can be read by looking at your iris and the arrangement and patterns of fibres. And your stress level too can be read in your iris.
Another way to pick up what pleases or displeases, delights or distresses is to watch for changes in the pupil. Your pupil is not static. It will contract when you look at something you don’t like and open wider to let in more light when you see something you do like. Just watch a woman looking at the latest fashions or at jewelry. The items that appeal to her will “light up her eyes” and often her whole face. Your emotions are reflected in your eyes.
Learn more about this in Dynamic Communications Program.
Eyes Reveal Brain At Work
Dr David Craig says that a lie can be revealed by changes in eye contact, in blink rate and eye movement. “Liars may look away briefly as they tell a fib to break eye contact, but may also try to disguise their guilt by looking back quickly, for example. A rule of thumb is that if a right-handed person is recalling something that has already happened, they will look to your right, their left. If they are creating something in their mind, something not seen or heard before, they will look to your left, their right.”
So when you are watching the eyes you are watching the brain working.
Important Insights in Communications
What David Craig is referring to is the way the brain is set up. Most people store their memories in pictures for later retrieval. Complete or whole memories are stored in the right brain as pictures. Eyes that flick up left are referencing a picture in right brain. Just watch the kids in a spelling quiz in TV programs and you will see lots of eye flicks going up left as they confidently spell out a known and visually recalled word.
The left brain is active when we are building up a picture piece by piece so don’t know what the whole looks like as yet. Eyes right activates left brain and step by step thinking, and eyes left activates right brain to flash up a whole picture of an existing representation of an event or reference.
Learn more about this in Three In One Concepts program Basic One Brain.
Experiment
Check out eye/brain connection with this experiment: Ask someone to tell you about an enjoyable occasion, a special dinner, a sports event or a holiday. Watch their eyes and note which direction they look often while telling you about the event. A right-handed person will look up left to access their right brain.
Now ask them to tell you 3 things they did last week and to make one of them a lie. Note eye movements and look for the event where the eye movements are different from those when telling you about the past recalled events.
Some people look straight ahead and defocus when they access pictures from the past. That makes it a bit harder to pick the lie from the truth.
But you might notice a different blink rate or their voice tone may change or the rate at which they speak may speed up or slow down. An answer given more slowly is being considered more carefully. More on this is covered in Dynamic Communications Program too.
Lie detection is far from a precise science says David Craig. “Even with MRIs (magnetic resonance imaging) and sophisticated machinery, you cannot tell. The polygraph has been disproved many times. Its accuracy depends heavily on how questions are framed.” It seems people are still better than machines at picking a lie.
Learn More About Dynamic Communication
Lie detection is not on my agenda to teach, but Dynamic Communications is on my teaching agenda and is coming up next month. Language of the eye movements, the way body “speaks” through gesture and other movement is the language we all learned first, before we learned to understand and use words. It’s in your subconscious to a greater or lesser degree. You can learn how to bring it up into conscious awareness and gain an enormous advantage in all communications is what you learn in Dynamic Communications program.
How to read “between the lines” or hear more than the words is invaluable in all human communications and is another part of the course.
In day-to-day communications we often get clues that “something doesn’t add up.” We may be getting mixed messages, several agendas at play, with the eyes and body saying one thing the words another. You will learn how to decipher that.
There’s more. Have you ever felt uneasy when listening to someone, not sure you can trust what they say yet you can’t put your finger on why something doesn’t sit right for you? Can you recall a time when you were aware of tension between people even though nothing was being acknowledged as a problem or issue? Did you ever see a person smiling but you knew it wasn’t real? How did you pick that? And how did others miss it?
Stress Communicates Itself
Communication is both verbal and non-verbal. Words are only about 7% of any communication. Your body language and voice tone and tempo are the other 93% and often speak much more loudly than the words. When words are not congruent with what you see and hear beyond the words, that incongruence will need some exploring to get the whole truth behind the words.
Secrets You Can Learn
Through Dynamic Communications Program you can learn many secrets that help you decipher the different layers in a communication. One challenge in communication with others is associated with making sure that what you thought you said is the same as what they think they heard.
Communication occurs on multiple layers simultaneously, on conscious and subconscious levels. The Dynamic Communications Program reveals the layers, shows you what to look for, how to read and interpret what you see and hear, and become aware of what you may have missed in the past. Take advantage of attending this course to have a big advantage “up your sleeve” when communicating daily and especially in sticky situations. (see notice attached to February News)
Eye language and body language say more than words. Learn what they are saying.
Cheers
Anna