Body Language Includes...

Body language is not just about how we hold and move our bodies.
Body language potentially (although not always, depending on the definition you choose to apply) encompasses:

• how we position our bodies
• our closeness to and the space between us and other people (proxemics), and how this changes
• our facial expressions
• our eyes especially and how our eyes move and focus, etc
• how and when we use touch
• how our bodies connect with other non-bodily things, for instance, pens, cigarettes, spectacles and clothing
• our breathing, and other less noticeable physical effects, for example our heartbeat and perspiration

Body language tends not to include:

• the pace, pitch, and intonation, volume, variation, pauses, etc., of our voice.