Face is Not the Index of the Mind

by Ramalingam in Society, May 7, 2009

Though by nature, your face is endowed with or blessed with the ability of reflecting your feelings, it varies according to your age. When you are a baby or a child, your feelings are reflected quite naturally and also instantaneously get changed, when your mood is changed by the intervention of a third party. As you grow in age, you are somewhat slow in reacting to the given situation and so your face also reflects it slowly.

Your behavior pattern in the external world vis-à-vis third parties is entirely different and it is mostly artificial which you may call as business like, tactical, strategic, professional and diplomatic; it is needless to say that in the course of your behavior pattern with the external world, your face has no scope to express your natural feelings.

When you are a business man, in the course of any business conversation that you hold with your customer, your motive for profit predominates and your customer has no scope to gauge it from your facial expression;

When you are a lawyer, when you are dealing with a client’s case and in the course of the arguments of his case, since you are strategic and your motive of winning your client’s case predominates, your face does not reflect the truth even when you are telling lies in the name of defending your client or winning his case.

If you are a doctor, your professional ethics actually determines your behavior pattern and you are sometimes forced to console your patient even with a blatant lie with honey coated words, stating that there is nothing to worry about, even if your patient’s health is actually in a danger zone. Of course, your patient cannot find anything from your facial expression.