Body Language Secrets You Should Know

By Datehow.com Staff

Body language, as the name suggests, is by and large nonverbal communication. It is done through unconscious postures, gestures and facial expressions.

Body language meaning varies from person to person, and so with the manner of communicating the same message, as in written or spoken language. Words are not enough to communicate. Even the slightest eye movement conveys a body language meaning. We use body language more often than we are aware of. When we come in contact with one another, it is always possible that we communicate something even through body language alone. Similarly, body language meaning differs from one instance to another and from one person another.

An element of body language is that it is subconscious. However, it is difficult to think that we are not aware of the body language meaning we are trying to put across. The body language meaning we are conveying will definitely say something about the quality of communication we use. We should therefore be aware of our own body language meaning. Our culture has a bearing on this. The context, as well, affects the body language meaning we wish to convey. Therefore, how we can interpret body language depends on the situation, the culture, the relationship we have with the person as well as the gender of the other. This means that there is not one signal that has the same meaning all over the world. If you do not take this into account you could get yourself in serious trouble. Body language meaning could be multiple, just like written and spoken language is.

Body language meaning is still also related with spoken language and a entire behavior pattern of a person. Various body language meanings can complement each other to make a particular message easier to understand or strengthen the message of what we communicate.

Body language meaning can carry messages about feelings. We can make body language meaning clear either intentionally or unintentionally. Sometimes this can be very confusing for the receiver. A person may give one message in words and an opposite message in body language. It is also difficult to lie or cover up our feelings through body language. People may give their true feelings away by not being aware of their body language meaning. Research has shown that most people pay more attention to, and believe more readily, their impression of how a person acts through body language than what is said through words. As a consequence we tend to doubt, or put a question mark behind, the spoken words if they do not correspond with body language meaning.

Body language plays a big role in intuition as it gives us messages about the other person that we can interpret at an intuitive level. It is therefore necessary to get to know our own body language meaning first. We should learn about it so that we can recognize it in others as well as in ourselves.

Body language is the meaning behind the words or the “unspoken” language. Believe it or not, only up to an estimated 10 percent of our communication is verbal.

The majority of the rest of communication is unspoken. There are some generalizations or basic interpretations that can be applied to help with the understanding or translating of these unspoken meanings. This is the reason why we should understand how body language works, know its advantages and disadvantages and the extent to which body language meanings vary.

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