Many people believe that they know how to detect deception. They rely on nonverbal cues or actions that oftentimes speak louder than words. Indeed, there are body language signals that can help detect if a person is telling the real story or not. It is often believed that you can tell if the person is honest or not by looking at his eyes. If he looks straight in the eye, he is presumed honest. However, there have been instances where nonverbal cues alone have failed to detect deception.
In an era that allows far too many people to lay blame where it doesn't belong, it is no wonder many of us cannot achieve success in our lives. A key concept in personal development is accountability. We live in a time when it is easy and even acceptable to play the blame game, blaming other people, our environment and social situations for our woes in life.
Detecting liars is relatively easy, especially when you know what signs to look for. There are two ways in detecting liars: through what they say and how they act. Hence, you must inform yourself of common telltale signs for you to know whether the person you are talking to is lying This article reveals 3 bizarre reasons why people lie.
Not everybody is going to choose to live by the rules you live your life by. Everyone has choices. But when you see people living life to their choosing and who seem to not be in control, you want to be able to change their choices.
When you are a reactionary you are reacting to other people including their feelings and their actions to those feelings. We also react to their problems and behaviors surrounding those problems. We then become uncomfortable with what is happening around us. There is a hidden panic within us. We become anxious and fearful. We either try to control the situation or ignore what is happening, which becomes denial. We become so uncomfortable with the situation we then turn it around to blame the other person.
Anger is a natural God-given emotion but it can at times get the best of us. It can be an essential device for basic survival, but we need to know how to recognize it so we can learn to convey it in a more appropriate manner than angry outbursts. Anger can be expressed in a healthy or in an unhealthy way. A study done in 1997 showed that 58 per cent of anger occurances included shouting as a form of expressing emotion and fewer than 10 per cent were made up of some form of physical aggression.
Trust is an important element in every relationship. If trust isn't a priority within the relationship, there isn't much of a relationship. As codependents, we learned a lot of the traits we carry with us throughout our life in our early childhood. As children we are pretty adaptive to our circumstances, but when we see inconsistencies in our environment we tend to focus on them and we end up reacting instead of acting on them. We then have not only a lack of trust in others, but also in ourselves. Emotional trust may be missing in our relationships due to what we lived through as children.