IONI — Institute of NLP India

Matching

Adopting some aspect of another person's behaviour — posture, tempo, breathing rhythm, vocabulary style — to enter shared rhythm.

The honest version is genuine attunement; the technique version fails calibration tests. Cross-over matching (matching their hand rhythm with your foot) is the training-wheels variant.

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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026