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It's All In Your Eyes

"Look into my eyes" has anyone ever said these words to you? Then it may be that such person already understands that the eye is a window to the heart. Deep connections can be felt with souls by looking at people. No, not at their figures but into their eyes. There's no place to hide once a person has gotten into your eye for the eye is road to your heart. Its all in the eyes. Your thoughts, your words, your emotions - anger, hate, pain, love, fear, agitation, tension the list goes on. Its in the eye.

 If one is observant, its easy to tell the state of another's emotion just by looking into their eyes. I know if a person hates my guts by the look they give me. I've seen pure admiration in someone else's eyes. I've seen jealousy, distaste, kindness, confusion, deception, love and even lies in the eyes. So I can say from experience that our emotions are in our eyes.

 But my resolution isn't based on personal experience alone. Research by Adams Anderson from Cornell university proves that the eye is a window to the heart.
"When looking at the face, the eye dominates emotional communication. The eyes are the window to the soul likely because they are the first conduits for sight. Emotional expressive changes around the eye influence how we see, and in turn this communicates to others how we think and feel." Anderson said

 There are six basic emotions and expressions 

 Paul Ekman, a psychologist who pioneered research into emotions recognition in the 1960s found happiness, disgust, anger, sadness, surprise and fear to be the six universal expressions . 

 Anderson and his co- author, Daniel H. Lee, professor of psychology and neuroscience at the university of Colorado, Boulder, created models of six expressions using photo of faces in widely used database.

 There you have it. Your eye is window to your heart. It's all in your eyes.

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