Joe Navarro

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So this little area between your eyes is called the glabella. And the glabella is great because at about, well, I've seen it in babies as early as three or four days. But very early on, we begin to furrow. In other words, we push this together. when we have doubts or we don't like something or we don't understand something. So we furrow the glabella.

So this little area between your eyes is called the glabella. And the glabella is great because at about, well, I've seen it in babies as early as three or four days. But very early on, we begin to furrow. In other words, we push this together. when we have doubts or we don't like something or we don't understand something. So we furrow the glabella.

Some people call it eyebrow knitting because we have nicer eyebrows nowadays, not bushy like the old days. They don't come together like they used to. So a lot of those expressions of I don't understand, we use with the squinted eyes, the furrowed glabella. Sometimes we'll touch our face or scratch our face.

Some people call it eyebrow knitting because we have nicer eyebrows nowadays, not bushy like the old days. They don't come together like they used to. So a lot of those expressions of I don't understand, we use with the squinted eyes, the furrowed glabella. Sometimes we'll touch our face or scratch our face.

Babies at 47 seconds, which I have directly observed, if you shine a light at a newborn baby, it will furrow the chin that they don't like it. And In my presentations, I have a matching one of a 47-year-old man and a 47-second-old baby, both doing the same thing when they hear things they don't like. So we begin to communicate quite a lot, actually, with our faces. What about eyelid touching?

Babies at 47 seconds, which I have directly observed, if you shine a light at a newborn baby, it will furrow the chin that they don't like it. And In my presentations, I have a matching one of a 47-year-old man and a 47-second-old baby, both doing the same thing when they hear things they don't like. So we begin to communicate quite a lot, actually, with our faces. What about eyelid touching?

Yeah. So for a long time, including in some of my writing, the theory was a lot of people cover their eyes, touch their eyes when they hear bad news. You said, hey, Joe, can you help me move this weekend? Oh, gee, Steve. Right. You see a lot of that. And I started to think about that about five or six years ago. And so I took some classes in anatomy, human anatomy.

Yeah. So for a long time, including in some of my writing, the theory was a lot of people cover their eyes, touch their eyes when they hear bad news. You said, hey, Joe, can you help me move this weekend? Oh, gee, Steve. Right. You see a lot of that. And I started to think about that about five or six years ago. And so I took some classes in anatomy, human anatomy.

And I'm pretty much convinced now that a lot of the facial touching, including the touching of the eyes and so forth, has to do with the innervation of the fifth cranial nerve and the seventh cranial nerve. Now, some of your viewers may find this interesting, that nerve, which goes to our forehead and actually goes into our eyelids and so forth, and the seventh, which is the facial,

And I'm pretty much convinced now that a lot of the facial touching, including the touching of the eyes and so forth, has to do with the innervation of the fifth cranial nerve and the seventh cranial nerve. Now, some of your viewers may find this interesting, that nerve, which goes to our forehead and actually goes into our eyelids and so forth, and the seventh, which is the facial,

is very short in distance to that part of the brain where it is received. And so I think, you know, I postulated, I wrote for Psychology Today that a lot of the reasons why we touch our face and why we touch our eyes, oh no, is because that pressure It immediately goes to the brain and helps to relieve stress.

is very short in distance to that part of the brain where it is received. And so I think, you know, I postulated, I wrote for Psychology Today that a lot of the reasons why we touch our face and why we touch our eyes, oh no, is because that pressure It immediately goes to the brain and helps to relieve stress.

And because the nerve is so short, we could massage our feet and achieve the same, but it's very far away. So I think a lot of facial touching, including eye touching, we do. Because of its ability to, anytime there's stress, we pacify ourselves. And by the way, it's very interesting. In 1974, I was bored at the university.

And because the nerve is so short, we could massage our feet and achieve the same, but it's very far away. So I think a lot of facial touching, including eye touching, we do. Because of its ability to, anytime there's stress, we pacify ourselves. And by the way, it's very interesting. In 1974, I was bored at the university.

So there was a lab where you could actually watch children and study them at play. And they had some children there that were born blind. So they had never seen. And I was just blown away the first time I saw a blind child who had never seen, heard some news that was not very good and immediately covered their eyes, having never seen. And that's when I realized, okay.

So there was a lab where you could actually watch children and study them at play. And they had some children there that were born blind. So they had never seen. And I was just blown away the first time I saw a blind child who had never seen, heard some news that was not very good and immediately covered their eyes, having never seen. And that's when I realized, okay.

We are 2.4 million years old. This is hardwired in our DNA. This is part of our paleo circuits, as Dr. David Gibbons later taught me. And it has to do with how it feels. And that's why we touch our faces so much.

We are 2.4 million years old. This is hardwired in our DNA. This is part of our paleo circuits, as Dr. David Gibbons later taught me. And it has to do with how it feels. And that's why we touch our faces so much.