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How Body Language Affects
The Communication Process
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It's about matching what you see with
what you hear in the environment
surrounding the situation & drawing a
probable conclusion.
Nonverbal communication takes place
by means of facial expressions, head
movements, eye contact, hand gestures,
body positions and acts, tones of voice,and so on. In general, body language
expresses an individual's emotions,
feelings, and attitudes.
Definition of Body Language
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Many people send and receive non-verbal
signals all the time generally without being
aware of it. These signals may indicate
what they are truly feeling.
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Understanding body language Body language is considered to be an
outward reflection of person's emotionalcondition.
Each gesture (movement) can be avaluable key to an emotion a person maybe feeling at the time.
Depending on the situation, try to interpretwhat the person may be thinking orfeeling.
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e.g.
The act of folding arms !!
This can indicate that a
person is putting up an
unconscious barrierbetween themselves and
others to feel more
secure.
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e.g.
When the overall situationis amicable, it can mean
that a person is thinking
deeply about what isbeing discussed.
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e.g.
In a serious orconfrontational situation,
it can mean that a person
is expressing opposition.
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The key to reading body language is being able
to understand a person's emotional condition
while listening to what they are saying & notingthe circumstances under which they are saying
it.
When we say someone is perceptive or intuitive
about people, we're referring to his ability to readanother person's body language or to compare
the cues with verbal signals.
Being perceptive means being able to spot the
contradiction between someone's words and
their body language.
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Origins of body language It's believed that the ability to read a
person's attitudes & thoughts by theirbehavior was the original communication
system used by humans before spokenlanguage evolved.
Body language is a product of bothgenetic and environmental influences.Blind children will smile and laugh eventhough they have never seen a smile.
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Social and national distinctions
Body language is an important ingredient
in social differentiation.
Different languages involve different facial
and bodily movements.
Most of inborn or genetic communication
signals or gestures are the same all over
the world, however, acquired gestures
changes according to cultural differences.
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The act of smiling indicates your happiness
e.g.
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The act of frowning indicates your anger
e.g.
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Shaking the head in the "no" gesture is believed
to be learned in childhood.
When a baby has had enough milk or food heturns his head from side to side to reject anyattempt to feed him. So from his first day till hisdeath he's using the same gesture to indicate
his "no".
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Women are far more perceptive than men,
that's what's commonly referred to as
"women's intuition". Women have a greatability to pick up non-verbal signals as well
as having an accurate eye for small details.
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The three wise monkeys
These monkeys symbolize those who hearno evil, seeno evil& speak no evil. Theirsimple hand-to-face gestures form thebasis of the human deceit gestures. Insimple terms, when we see, speak & hearlies or deceit, we're likely to attempt tocover our eyes, mouth or ears with our
hands.
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Practicing
The ability to work out what's happening with aperson is simple but not easy.
You can be a great reader with some practicing.Turn down the sound of T.V. & try to understandwhat's happening by watching the pictures only.From time to time turn on the sound to check
whether you are following up with what's going onor not. This simple exercise will activate yourability to read non-verbal gesture whileunderstanding; just as deaf people do.
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Thats how we can conclude at the end that
Body Language is particularly important
in group communications because forlarge groups it dominates the spoken
word.