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0:02 Okay, now we're ready to talk about the face. There are actually two things that your face
0:09 communicates. The first thing that I want to talk about is what your face communicates
0:14 with or without trying. You may manipulate your face to communicate something. But a
0:21 lot of times our facial expressions just happen in reaction to the things around us. And that
0:29 is facial communication. It has been proven that your face can communicate all of these
0:36 emotions simply by what you do with it. Surprise, fear, anger, sadness, disgust, contempt, interest
0:49 and happiness. There are other researchers that also believe, and I believe it as well,
0:54 that our face can communicate bewilderment. When we just don't really know exactly what
1:02 it is you are trying to tell us and we don't understand. So sometimes you can be aware
1:09 of what you do with your face. Sometimes it's just going to be an automatic reaction. I
1:15 might make a mental choice to, to prove to you through my face that I'm not very happy.
1:22 Or I might walk in the door and you've thrown me a surprise birthday party that I didn't
1:26 know about, that's going to be something that's automatic. These are neither good nor necessarily
1:33 bad. They establish to the person you're trying to communicate with a stronger understanding
1:41 of how you feel. So I encourage you to use them but don't abuse them.