Psychology: Do you know yourself?

Strictly speaking, I have limited knowledge of the technical terms in this vast field of research.

Still, this is one of the most interesting areas for me. I like to analyze body postures, facial expressions, eye movements, hand movements, and vocal variations collectively to notice what is actually going on in the person's head.

This interest of mine used to help me a lot in counseling my juniors when I was in the Counseling service at IIIT, Jabalpur.

There are two major areas that attract me.

1. Controlling an intensified (aggravated) emotion or state of mind (it might be sorrow, anger, depression, loneliness, etc) and channeling it in a positive direction.

2. Digging deeper into identifying the origin of some strong perceptions or thoughts in the person's mind.