Handshakes: Ego boosters: Chapter 7
Moving on with our hand shake business, we now come to the Indian sub-continent. India, the land of the mystics. Here too , we find great symbolism attached to the hand. The great statues of Budda always shows the Budda holding his hand in different positions. Each position has a mile long explanation.The classical dancers of India employ the use of subtle hand movements. Each move is well recognised by the average Indian.
Same is true with the folks in Burma. The female dancers make the maximum use of hand movements to convey the message of the dance. The Japanese, the Chinese and just about every other race on the face of this Earth has its own system of hand signals.
On any stock exchange in the World, you see guys waving and making strange hand signals to execute a buy or sell order.
Your hands are a dead give away....if you are lying or telling the truth. So if one decides that one is going to put his hands in his pockets or hide his hands behind a desk, that too tells a lot about the person. How a person moves his or her hands, while talking is a direct window into his mind. We have all heard of "poker face". There should be an expression "poker hands" applied to people who go out of their way not to move their hands. A liar can't chew gum and walk at the same time. While he is busy concentrating on not "showing his hand", he cannot allocate enough of his brain to the other tell-tale signs, hence totally exposing himself....
