Your Body Never Lies

Learn to release emotional charges so that stress won't follow you

Body Language

Brian Snyder

Body language includes both external expression and internal experience. External body language includes gestures, posture, facial expressions, and our spoken word. Internal language includes feelings, thoughts, shifts in blood pressure, and other informative sensations. In short, external body language is what others see while internal body language is what we sense or feel. Some processes are conscious and voluntary, such as talking. Others happen involuntarily, including responses regulated by the autonomic nervous system (ANS).

While we may try to hide our emotions or intentions, we cannot suppress our ANS reactions. This is true of both internal and external stimuli: hence the phrase, "your body never lies." In YBNL, we learn to listen to shifts in ANS to better understand ourselves, others, and our environment.

In YBNL, reading body language involves noticing the sensations in our own body while observing circumstances. While reactive messages can be strong and difficult to ignore, intuitive information is easily missed. YBNL body language training increases our intuition by bringing ANS information into conscious use. This develops through observation and practice. YBNL does not maintain a catalog of meanings for gestures or expressions; we feel it in the moment. For more about this approach, see How YBNL Reads Body Language.

Your Body Never Lies

Training at The YBNL College begins with a simple distinction: what we feel is always real, but the thought behind the feeling might not be. For example, if we are angry because an item was stolen from us, that anger goes away when we find out that the item was only misplaced. In YBNL, we learn to sense the difference between sensations generated by assumptions (or history) versus those generated by circumstance (a form of intuition).

To learn more about the philosophy behind this approach, see Your Body Never Lies.

For definitions of common YBNL terms and teaching phrases, visit YBNL Concepts and Teaching Phrases.

In the first class at The YBNL College, students learn how they can shift their internal body language through simple behavioral choices. This free class, Shift Your Inner Dialogue, can get immediate results. The YBNL Playshop then teaches a practical exercise that shifts our mental chatter from negative to supportive more permanently. The mechanism that causes negativity is unraveled and discarded in favor of more freewill and greater intuition. First Semester students develop skills in the following areas:


To begin this internal body language training, take the free class on campus. This is available to members and visitors alike.

Adjustments

Table training uses hands-on body language adjustments to release old emotional charges, generally through a shoulder adjustment called a "wing release." By feeling a charge release, students learn through experience the corporeal distinction between current and historical stress. In other words, they feel different. This awareness leads to the ability to release other old charges, as self-care.

In YBNL, as students repeat the experience of releasing emotional charges, they are simultaneously teaching their body that holding onto upsets and stress creates unnecessary burdens. When the body (or subconscious) "gets it," it begins releasing old charges on its own, usually while sleeping. The end result is having a body that no longer holds or buries upsets, but rather resolves them as they occur.

Table training can involve up to ten sessions over two years, while classroom training offers guided lessons and independent practice over 5-6 months. For students who combine the two methods, the timeline is significantly reduced.

This body-centered training is available to members of The YBNL College, with scheduling priority given to Playshop students. At public events, non-members may volunteer for demonstrations to experience the power of body language adjustments.