Well, I read this book a few weeks ago, is kind of dificult to use the information that it gives but very usefull, Its talk about the emotions and how the face show it unconsiusly, so you can know what the people is fealling before they start to notice. Please leave any correction or commet

Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman.

The information below was substracted from the book Emotion Revealed by Paul Ekman.
Everyone have emotions, and everyone have the same facial expressions to those emotions, the muscular moves in the face and the changes in the voice would show you how a person is feeling or what he is starting to feel, in this resume I am showing the principal signals of each emotions, how to controll and detect them.
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SOMETHINGS:
* Refractory Period: period of time the happens whenm we star to feel an emotion, this period cause us to resist and prevents us from having access to information that goes against the emotion that we are feeling.

* For an emotional test visit: www.emotionsrevealed.com

* A very ggod way to be awere of your emotional behavior, is practice meditation, this would help you to focus in your unconsiously procces.

* Kinds of Expressions:
- Slight Expresions: When the emotion is not very intense. Also represent the begining of the emotion, the diminished emotion or the failed attempt to conceal an emotion.
- Partial Expressions: This ones can be visible in just one part of the face. Represent week emotions, Diminished Emotion and Failed Attemp to conceal emotion.
- Micro Expression: This happens in just in micro seconds. Represent Deliberate suppresion of an emotionor unconcious suppresion of an emotion.

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+ Process to Control Emotions:
1) Becoma awere that you are being emotional, Recognize the body reaction
2) Identify the source of the emotion, why and when it happends

+ Moods:
The moods are not the same that the emotions, the moods are long and continuos emotional states, where you just need a small stimulus to star to fell a emotion.

+ Voice:
The voice rarely give false emotional messages, very few can convincingly simulate thje sound of aan emotion that they are not fealling, but thus dont help us to know how the other person is fealling if the perosn dont talk.

The importance of the voice is that even when we are ignoring the person who sends out the signal, we capture the variations in the tone and intensity in the voice.

+ Universal Fisical Reactions during the Emotions:
In anger: there is an impulso to move close to the emotion trigger.
In Fear: is an impulso to freeze if that will avoid the detection, or to get out of harm's way if it wont.
In Sadness: there is a loss of overall muscle tone, the posture slumps in withdrawal .
In Contempt: there is an impulse to look down upon the object of contemp.
In Surprise: there is a fixed attention on the object of the emotion
In Relief: there is a relaxation ofbody posture

+ Techniques to moderate our emotional behavior:

1) We can try to reappraise what is occuring, if we succeed the emotional behavior will shotly stop, and the appropiate emotion may occur, or ir our initial emotion is the right one it may be confirmed.
The problem with this technmique is that the refractory period would block the informacion that we need.
2) We can choose to interrupt our actions or our speech for a few seconds. If we can resist this impulses our emotions wont have full reign, and the consecuences wont be soo bad.

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+ SADNESS:

- Recognizing Sadness in Ourselves: we have 2 options

1) Try to remember a sad memory, le it grow as strongly as possible.

2) If the first option doesnt work we can try to imitate the facial movements, try to follow this steps:
- Drop your mouth open
- Pull the corners of your lips down.
- while you hold those lips corners dow, try to raise your cheeks.
- Mantain the tension between the raised cheeks and the lip corners pulling down.
- Let you eyes look downward and your upper eyelids droops.
+In both cases you have to consider how are you feeling and what are the actions of your body. Learning that you would be able to know when your are starting to be emotional.


- Recognizing Sadness in Others:
In this part i am going to write just the sign that the people show when they are sad or starting to be.
1) A very strong and reliable sign is the angling upward of the inner corners of the eyebrows. ( is very difficult make this movement voluntarily.)
2) Obliquely positioned eyebrowns.
3) A vertical wrinkle between the brows will apear.
4) Lips stretched horizontally and the corners of the lips puylled downward, and also the lower lip pushed up.
5) Raised cheeks
6) The sking between the chin and the lower lip, would ne wrinkle and pushed upward.
7) Hosershoe pattern.
Drooping of the upper eyelids.

+ ANGER:
- Recognizing Anger in Ourselves: we have 2 options

1) Try to use a memory, to feel anger and let it grow as strongly as possible.

2) If the first option doesnt work we can try to imitate the facial movements, try to follow this steps:

- Pull your eyebrows down and together, make certain that the inner corners go down toward your nose
- While holding those brows down, try to open your eyes wide, so that you upper eyelids push against your lowered eyebrows staring hard.
- Press your lips together tightly and tense your lips ( dont pucker)

+In both cases you have to consider how are you feeling and what are the actions of your body. Learning that you would be able to know when your are starting to be emotional.

- Recognizing Anger in Others:
1) Lips tightly pressed
2) The red margin of the lips become narrower (This is the most important sign)
3) Loudness of th evoice.
4) Eyebrows are down and together
5) Eyes glaring.
6) Sometimes the jaw is thrust forward and the lips parted.

+ SURPRISE AND FEAR:
-The expresion of surprise and fear are almost the same.
-During the fear the blood go to the legs (ready to run)
-The fear have 3 levels: 1) fear 2) Terror 3) Panic
- Recognizing Fear in Ourselves: we have 2 options

1) Try to use a memory, to feel fear and let it grow as strongly as possible.

2) If the first option doesnt work we can try to imitate the facial movements, try to follow this steps:
1) Raise your eyelids as high as you can , and if you can also slightly tense your lower eyelids ( if you can not do both, focus in raise your upper eyelids)
2) Let your jaw drop open, and strtch your lips horizontally back toward your ears. If you can not do both focus in let your jaw drop open.
3) Raise your eyebrows together.

You may find that your hands get golder, that you begin to brathe more deeply and rapidly, that you begin to sweat and perheps thet you feels trembling or tightening of the muscles.

+In both cases you have to consider how are you feeling and what are the actions of your body. Learning that you would be able to know when your are starting to be emotional.


- Recognizing Fear in Others:

1) Eyelids raised, and lower eyelid tensed.
2) Eyebrows raised
3) Jaw drops down (surprise)
4) Lips strtched back toward the eyes (fear)

+ DISGUST AND CONTEMP:
Contempt --> feel that you are better than the others.
The disgust can be manifested with anger

- Recognizing Disgust and Contempt in Ourselves:

1) Try to use a memory, and let it grow as strongly as possible.

2) If the first option doesnt work we can try to imitate the facial movements, try to follow this steps:
- Disgust:
1) The sensations in our sensitive system are increased, so you feel them more.
2) We try to eliminate the source of the disgust or to run away of it.
- Contempt:
1) Tendency to raise our chin
2) Look down your nose to someone.
3) Feel the tightening in one corner of your lips
- Recognizing Disgust and Contempt in Others:
1) The upper lip is raised as high as it will go.
2) The lower lip is raised and also prottuding slightly.
3) The wrinkle extending from above the nostrils downward to beyond the lip corners is deep, and its shape forms an inverted "U"
4) Nostril wings are raised.
5) The raised of his cheeks and lowering of his brows creates crow's feet wrinkles.

+ ENJOYBLE EMOTIONS:
- The smiles are the best signal of the enjoyble emotions, but sometimes the smiles cna go with the unpelasent emotions.
- The enjoyble emotions can be feel by all our body, can be trigger by sounds, smells, the touch of something or someone, the tastes, etc.
- The enjoyable emotions are signaled more in the voice than the face.
- Miserable smile: this smile acknowledges unenjoyable emotions, it shows you are a good sport, and that you can take the criticism and still smile about it.
- The muscles around the eyes are imposible to move by your own will., that is a really god signal to know when the smile is real.
* Some Enjoyable Emotions:

* Amussement

* Contentment: when everything looks right in the worl, when there is nothing we feel we need to do.
- One signal of contentment is the relaxation of the facial muscles.

* Relief: One signal of relief is a deep inhalation and exhalation of breath.

* Wonder: feeling being overhelmed by something incomprehensible. we dont understand what it is or why it could happen, but we are not frightened of it.
- Signals: goose bumps, tingling on the shoulders and back of the neck, change in respiration, shaking the head in incredulity may occur.

* Ecstasy: state of self-transcendent rupture achieved by some through meditation, through experience, etc.

* Fiero: italian word for when you have succed in something difficult, and feelingvery enjoyble.
- Signals: Arms in the air, small or big jumps. open jaw, happy face.
* Naches: Yiddish word that define a "beam with immense pride and plesure over an achiavement of another person".

* Elevation: " A warm, uplifting feeling that people expeience when they see unexpected acts of human goodness, kindness and compassion."
- When we feel elevated we become motivated to be a better person, to angage altruistic acts.

* Grattitude: " appreciation for an altruistic gift that provides benefit"
- Signals: Slight bow of the head.


* Recognizing Enjoyble Emotions in Others:
1) The cheeks are higher
2) The eyebrows moved down slightly.
3) Very broad smiles change not only the lips, but also the cheeks and the appearance of the skin below eyes.
4) Sparkle in the eyes

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Using the Information From Expressions:

- Often the best course of action to say nothing about what you have seen. And use that information to prevent the other persons reactions. Never asume that you know the cause of the emotion bacause is almost imposible to know if what is generating the emotion is happening in the moment or if is a past experince.
- What you can do with the information depends of the relation that you have with the other person. Be Cautios