Women's Flirting Eyes Body Language

Sociologists have studied this ancient mating process and identified these two behaviors for making initial contact:

1: Making Eye Contact Shows Interest

Looking directly into the eyes of another person can send a powerful message indicating either a desire for closer contact or a challenge to fight. The length of eye contact and the body language, with facial expression, reveals if the contact is to be inviting or threatening. So be sure to smile when you are trying to make a friendly connection with this long eye contact.

Observing the eye movements of acquaintances can be very revealing. For example, when meeting a new person if they make only very brief eye contact, then their interest in you is minimal. They will remain emotionally distant from you until something changes their attitude. This weak personal connection toward you may not necessarily have anything to do with you. He or she may feel intimidated, inferior, frightened, or shy.

Watch for these eye patterns when you are using your flirting eye contact:

• If he or she looks away quickly while you are holding your gaze, then there is little interest in you -- or they have interest but are afraid of intimacy or are shy.

• (For women)If he holds his eye contact until you break it off to look down, then he has interest in you. If he is there to meet your gaze when you look back up, or he repeatedly glances in that direction, then he has great interest in you.

Researchers have measured the length of the average casual eye contact at about 100 milliseconds (one-tenth second). The flirting eye contact lasts at least 150 milliseconds. Amazingly it is done unconsciously and very accurately in most cultures. This longer than usual eye contact is an ancient body language signal indicating interest.

2: Looking Down Indicates Passiveness

It is important to understand the strong message you send when you hold your gaze for longer than normal, then break eye contact and look DOWN. This is body language from our ancestors that is programmed into our DNA. This is what the message is:

• A Smile and Long Eye Contact = "I am friendly and happy to see you. I am interested in you."

• Looking Down = "I will not resist you! You may come closer." The receiver of this message should read it as, "I want you to approach me! I am waiting for you!"

I wonder how many men have fallen for that women's trick over the past million years?