Body language is much more influential than most people recognize. It infiltrates every human interaction and provides a revealing, subliminal commentary on what is officially taking place. The main reason it is so important is because it is more truthful than the official elements of our social encounters. We lie much more easily with our spoken words than with our expressions, our gesticulations and our body postures. True, we can put on a good face, we can a false smile and we can pretend to be annoyed. We can be deceitful with our actions as well as with our words but only when we know what we are doing. We know what words we are speaking, so that we can control our utterances down to the last syllable, but what are our fingers doing as we speak? How are our feet shifting as we talk? We may be able to control and manipulate some of our gestures but not all of them. There are too many and we are too preoccupied with what we are saying to be able to concentrate on all the finer points of our bodily actions.