Body Language

“I speak two languages, Body and English.”

– Mae West

Non-verbal communication. We do it every second of every day and we do it without thinking. It’s estimated that 80% of what we understand is non-verbal. If so, we’ll need a new understanding of how we communicate.

Body language is, perhaps, the most apparent manifestation of physicology. How the human body reacts to its environment is the most primal way we understand our world.

“Body language says more than words can communicate,” says Michael Koth, founder of MyPhysicology.org. “We are much more than what we speak. An entire vocabulary exists within how we experience our bodies.”

What is Physicology?

“Almost all cultures categorize human expression. We tend to ascribe thought to the brain, speech to the mouth and emotions to the heart. Physicology seeks an understanding that these are all connected as one. They are integrated” Michael Koth has pioneered new methodologies about how we communicate, emote, feel and understand our lives.

An example:

Below, we see in Kylie Minogue’s video titled “Slow” constant body movement and differing paces and expressions of movement, which provide us with a sensual feeling.  We are accustomed to waiting for words to tell us about these expressions, yet in actuality, words are only the last comment.  

Prior to the words we have the intricacies of body/mind expressions.  

The right hemisphere of the brain, commonly known as our feminine side and expresses through the left side of the body, is responsible for some of the cognitive functions such as attention, processing of visual shapes and patterns, emotions, verbal ambiguity, and implied meanings..

The left brain, commonly known as our masculine side and expresses through the right side of the body, handles reading, writing, and calculations. Some call it the logical side of the brain. 

The right brain is more visual and deals in images more than words. We process information initially in an intuitive and then simultaneous in a concretely interpretive way.

During the video, we can see differing movements (ex: left knee lifted over right) which tell us “open, closed.”

With the title being “Slow” (from the album entitled Body Language), through the choreography we actually see the body saying go/stop, stop/go several times creating a “slowed” pace to the actual sensual experience.  

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