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117 How To Engage Someone's Story Part 1

The Place We Find Ourselves

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How to Attune to Someone's Face

If rees witherspoon is genuinely surprised by something, she cannot make her face look bored. Why? Because the forty two muscles of your face are connected to your nervous system. Therefore, when you feel surprise or shame or sorrow, your face automatically changes into a muscular configuration that display the emotion you are feeling. So you cannot attune to someone with paying attention to their face and their tone of voice. Secondly, you cannotattune to someone without knowing what's happening inside your own body. This ability to be aware of the sensations inside your body is called interoception with an eye interroception. And interoception happens in your insula. A neuro scientist,

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