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Body language: In state of anxiousness:

If you've tried taking notice of how behave usually behave as they wait for their turn at the dentist's office, or as they wait for their end of year exams, then you're probably familiar with some body language anxiety signs.

Anxiety is one of the body's language that can not be identified by one gesture or the other; you have to combine more than one signal to know whether that person's anxious or not. The presence of three or more signs of the below shows that this person is anxious:

• Finger-nail biting
• Fidgeting (frequent change of position while you're sitting, unable to settle down)
• Tapping your heel on the floor repeatedly in a nervous manner.
• Tapping your fingers and/or hand on your lap.
• Sweating
• Jiggling whatever's in your pocket
• Whistling

As you've just seen, very slight changes in your body language can have a big effect on your relationships with others. In my book, How to make someone fall in love with you, I gave a description of how a slight change, such as keeping your back straight, can increase the chances of having people fall in love with you. The more confident you appear, the more attractive you will become; nothing can make you appear to be more confident than a straight back.

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