Hugo Reynolds - Eye Contact: The Ultimate Eye Contact Mastery - Practical Guide to Glow in Confidence, Attract People and Excel in Work and Life... With your Powerful Eyes

Formingsuccessful relationships with other people involves a lot of details, but theability to keep an eye contact with the person youre talking to is definitelyone of the most important. Recent research suggests that women are far moresuccessful in maintaining an eye contact when they talk to someone.

But if youare a man and you have a problem with keeping an eye contact, dont worry itis something that can be learned through practice. Of course, not only men haveproblems with keeping an eye contact. Therefore, the techniques that wellcover in this book will be useful to both men and women.

Keeping aneye contact has more than one simple benefit to the person. People who look atothers straight in the eyes are generally perceived as more dominant, moreconfident and emotionally stable, as well as more sincere and more attractive.So, learning how to keep an eye contact will not only boost your confidence,but it will also have a more widespread effect on your life, mainly on theimage of you in other peoples eyes when they meet you for the first time.

For example,your chances of getting a good job, presenting an idea or a speech well, ortalking to someone youre attracted to without making a fool of yourself, aremuch higher if youre able to keep an eye contact with your audience or theperson in front of you. In the opposite case, it is more likely that peoplewill see you as insecure or even dishonest and emotionally unstable. Researchsuggests that musicians who keep an eye contact with their audiences have morefans.

Eye contactcan drastically improve your contacts with other people and improve yourpersonal confidence in social situations. Here are some of the reasons why eyecontact works in this manner:

1)Human Eyes Have Evolved to Show Connection

Ever wonderedwhy we, of all the species, have white areas on our eyes? The answer is that itis evolutionary: Since people are social beings even from the infancy, they usetheir eyes to track where the other person is looking at. The white areas inour eyes indicate the direction where we are looking at. Even little babiestrack peoples eyes instead of head movements. Our eyes are made for socialcontact and you should learn to use this for your advantage.

2)The Eyes are the Windows to the Soul

Youve likelyheard this before, but it is also scientifically proven. Our emotions andthoughts affect our eyes in such a way that you can judge, just by looking atthe eyes if somebody is happy, sad, or excited. If you ever seen a professionalpoker match, youve surely noticed that majority of players wear sunglasses the reason is that they want to hide their emotions and to not give clues totheir opponents.

3)Eye Contact Means You Value Your Conversation Partner

Everybodyloves to be the center of attention and most people dont feel very pleasedwhen you interrupt the conversation by checking your phone. When yousuccessfully maintain the eye contact during a conversation, youre not onlyshowing that youre confident, but also that the person youre talking to isworth your undivided attention.

Eye contactalso creates an intimate bond between you and the person youre talking to.Thats obvious in situations where couples who are together for some time donteven have to speak in order to understand each other. They can understand howtheir partner is feeling or what they are thinking only by looking in theireyes.

Even thoughits pretty clear why eye contact is important both personally and socially, aswe explained earlier, some people are predisposed to have problems in formingand maintaining eye contact during conversation. There are several main reasonswhy some people might have such problems:

1)Insecurity

Eye contactmeans closer and more intimate interaction with the person youre talking to,but since insecure people have a bad image of themselves, they think that theycan hide that insecurity from others by avoiding eye contact. Insecurity canhave various reasons, from not being satisfied with your physical appearance togeneral shyness and feeling like youre less adequate than others.

In order toovercome your insecurity you have to face with these issues that are preventingyou from forming meaningful relationships and successful social interactions.That is the only way that you can re-gain your confidence and become successfulin maintaining eye contact while youre talking to people.