How to Make People Like You In 90 Seconds Or Less

Firing Energy

This is one of the most powerful exercises we do in my seminars, but even without supervision you can turn it into a force to be reckoned with!

You'll need a partner to work with. Stand about eight feet apart, facing each other like two gunfighters in a cowboy movie. As you say “Hi!” clap your hands together and slide your right hand off and past the other in the direction of your partner. Gather up all the energy you can throughout your body and store it in your heart, then clap the energy on through your right hand (the one you use in a handshake) straight into the other person's heart. This is a long explanation for something that takes no more than two seconds, but when all six channels body, heart, eyes, smile, clap and voice/breathare fired at the person in a rapid flash there is a vast transfer of energy.

Immediately after receiving the energy, your partner should fire it back at you in the same way. Taking turns, continue fast and focused, firing at each other. Be sure to make contact with all six channels at once. Practice on each other for two minutes.

Now the real fun begins. You're going to start firing different qualities of energy: logic/head energy, com->

munication/throat energy, love/heart energy, power/solar plexus energy and sexual energy. You've already fired love/heart energy. Now do the same head to head instead of heart to heart. Keep firing head/logic energy at each other until you both agree that you can feel and differentiate it from love/heart energy. After two or three minutes back and forth, try the other regions: throat to throat, solar plexus to solar plexus, etc.

It gets even better. Figure out which kind of energy you want to send, but don't say what it is. Now greet your partner, shake hands, say “Hi” and fire! Your partner must iden tify the kind of energy he or she is receiving. Take turns. Practice and practice until your body language becomes subtle and almost imperceptible.

Next, go out and try it on the people you meet. Fire energy when you say “Hi” to someone in a supermarket, to your waiter in the cafe, to your sister-in-law or the guy who fixes the photocopier in your office. They will notice something special about yousome might call it “star quality.”

that same special energy that usually accompanies the full-blown shake.

Incidentally, the “hands-free” handshake works wonders in presentations when you want to establish rapport with a group or audience.