Do you think you can tell a person’s personality simply by their physical appearance? I don’t mean the intuitive energy felt when being around someone, which occurs though close physical proximity. My discussion here concerns the initial (and subconscious) thoughts about an individual’s personality that occur by simply looking at someone. This can be through a picture, video and even by actually looking at someone in person, from a distance though, as I believe close spatial distance matters more for vibrational energy, which is a better barometer of a person’s entire energy spectrum, not only personality.
So focusing only on personality here, I ask again: Is it possible to know an individual’s personality simply by looking at them?
It may be difficult to separate the gut feeling we experience when we meet someone from the internal thoughts we have about a person’s personality. I myself have trouble telling them apart at times. So to sharpen and narrow the focus further, I will focus on two-dimensional pictures and video only, thereby eliminating the vibrational energy that only occurs in three-dimensional space.
Here is a picture of me:
What do you think? Do you get the immediate thought that I’m a happy, pleasant person? If this was my first time seeing this picture and I had no idea who this person is, I would assume that yes, this person seems to be happy and pleasant. But maybe this is a filtered and cropped picture that was chosen out of dozens because it has the best smile, captured in the best light.
What about this one?
Obviously, this guy is some kind of professional, maybe a model or something. I have no idea. I Googled “Portrait of a random person” and he was one of the first results. At first glance, he seems serious, all about business. But is that his personality? If he’s a model, he is portraying an image, acting.
This is interesting because this can also be true for in-person meetings, but again at a distance. If you see this guy walking on the other side of the street looking like he does in this picture, then you probably would have the same thoughts on his personality that I did. However, if he were to cross the street and talk to you, then the proximal vibrational energy would take over and replace those initial thoughts on his personality.
One more:
Also a result of the Google search, it would be very difficult to come close to any idea of this woman’s personality. But if you had to guess, what would you think? I’m drawing a blank myself because her expression is devoid of any emotion and I swear I saw her the other day at Wal-Mart. Of course, chances are likely that I have never seen this person before, but she just looks like someone I should have seen before.
This is a very interesting aspect of human communication and intelligence that I wish I had the time, money and motivation required to test these ideas with others, in public. It would be cool to see how accurate we would be in describing a person’s personality through pictures, videos and in 3D space (at a distance, of course). If it is true that we consciously utilize only a fraction of our brain power, then I would hypothesize that our predictions and thoughts about another’s personality would be more accurate than not. To be able to experience powerful and intangible emotions such as fear, anger and love, our creators programmed into us energies and vibrations that we are aware of, but unable to explain. We know what it feels like to love a person, but we can’t actually hold and see love, it is only a concept. I believe the initial thoughts we have on an individual’s personality operate in a similar manner. More so for the vibrational energy we feel when meeting or by simply being around someone.
For better or worse, we can let these presumptions affect our own attitude toward another person before even talking to them! I can understand this for prehistoric times. When everyday is a battle for survival, it would probably be a good idea to identify your enemy before they are close to you. But there is less of a need for this now. Yes, there are still dangerous people and perilous situations in modern times, but we don’t have to fight our neighbors for that last piece of antelope leg that the lion pride just ravaged only moments ago. But regardless, that programming is very important to our species for its continued survival. You know the phrase, “It’s never too late to make a first impression”, I’m sure. Which brings forth another, equally fascinating question and maybe the subject of a another blog post:
Is it possible to change the first impression that someone has of you?
Jay Owens 