Yesterday, Hunter Biden was convicted today on three felony charges related to the purchase of a handgun in 2018 violating laws meant to prevent drug addicts from owning firearms.
The above image of Joe Biden hugging Hunter was taken this past February. It demonstrates a crucial component of a sincere hug and thus affection – closed eyes (eyelids).
If one's eyelids aren't closed during a hug – either the person is distracted (usually with anxiety), they're not emotionally-comfortable with any public affection (anxiety component here, too) – or, the hug is insincere (the affection is being feigned).
Ninety percent of our sensory input and forty percent of the mass of our brains is dedicated to the visual system (the occipital lobe).
When we close our eyes, the blood, nutrients, and neuro-activity are slightly shunted to areas of the brain which serve our other four senses - as well as to the cognitive and emotional centers.
By closing our eyes, we amplify the non-visual areas of our brains. So it's not your imagination that you can taste the wine or the chocolate more deeply, smell the aroma of the flower, or hear music with more nuance, if we close our eyes.
It's also very common to close our eyes when we're trying to increase our cognition – when we're trying to 'concentrate', to focus.
The same enhancement also is true of our emotions. And when we're sincere – we instinctively want to experience the totality of the affection – to "drink in" the entire hug, and experience every ounce of the moment – thus we close our eyes.
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