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TIPS FOR READING YOUR OWN PHOTOS

When you're caught on camera, your body language can speak volumes. Snapped in an instant, a photograph can reveal a lot about your relationships with your mate, kids, parents, siblings and friends.

What does it mean if you're facing the camera with one arm around one child and a foot away from the other? Does that indicate that you love one more than the other?

Experts say no, not necessarily. But it does indicate a different kind of relationship between you and the two kids.

The field of phototherapy uses family snapshots to unlock deep, hidden secrets and reveal relationship difficulties that cannot be healed by conventional therapy. Often photos from one's childhood will trigger deep memories from the past.

"Facial expressions and posture -- the way one leans toward or away from one another -- can accurately reflect one's inner feelings," says Alan Entin, Ph.D., a photoanalyst in Richmond, Virginia.

After studying a series of pictures of a married couple, their children and the family pooch, he says, "I knew something was seriously wrong when I saw that the husband was very close to the children and the mother was hugging the dog."

In the end the parents divorced. The dad got the kids and them mom got the dog.

In most families, there will be more photos of the oldest child than the younger ones. And there will be fewer photos taken during times of family conflict.

When you browse through your album, note if pictures of formal events dominate the pages.

If so, you may be hiding the everyday interaction among the family members, choosing only pictures with smiling, happy faces.

WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

Here are Dr. Entin's tips for analyzing your family photos:

• Look at the pictures to determine if a pattern is emerging.
• Look at who is touching whom and the groupings of your family members.
• Are there more pictures of one person than others?
• Is there a change over time? Did you hug your sibling when you were young and avoid that sibling in later years? As yourself why.
• Are the pictures posed or candid?

This is a powerful way of discovering how you appear to others. If you don't like what the photos say about you or your family situation, you might consider changing the story.

"You're the editor," says Entin. "You can rewrite your role."

By checking your own body behavior -- whether your position is open or closed, forward or back -- you can make adjustments to give off a different kind of nonverbal cue and change the dynamics of every relationship.

From How to Read a Man or a Woman like a Book!