Cantrell - Mastering the Body Language: How to Read Peoples Mind with Nonverbal Communication

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There are many ways to communicate within oneself, but bodylanguage is known to be very effective. It actually accounts for about 50 to 70percent of all communication. Body language uses nonverbal techniques to relaymessages, and is seen through expression of feelings, intentions and thoughtsusing physical behavior. In the modern world, body language is a good tool usedto make relationships stable.

In other platforms, you will find it to be more than usefulwhen it comes to matters leadership and other forms of work where communicationis vital. Whether its mating, dating or even parenting, body language plays avital role of communication. It is easy to let the other person understand yourfeelings and thoughts by the use of body language alone. With body language,there are two main things that come out clearly:

Other people easily understand the real meaning of your feelings

You get to understand the true meaning of other peoples feelings

From that, it is very clear that body language is a two-wayform of communication. When you are sending out such signals using bodylanguage, it happens in both the conscious as well as unconscious level of themind.

It is very important that you understand your body language inorder to communicate effectively. Even as you do that, it is equally importantthat your attention shifts to some other signals that will help you achieve themission. For a better understanding, you should do things as a group comparedto doing it individually. As you seek to understand your body language, take adeep look at the following:

Facials
The expressions on your face say a lot around what you are thinking about oreven feeling. There are different emotions that can be expressed through theface and include sadness, happiness, disgust, surprise, anger, fear, desire,excitement and confusion.

Eyes
Eyes are more of the windows to your inner feelings. Eyes are better positionedof all body parts to say what you are feeling internally. Thus, they will beamong the best to help understand your body language. Eye contact is theepitome of interpersonal communication so it can say a lot if you are avoidingdirect eye contact with another person. Some of the aspects to look at inunderstanding your body language are eye gaze, pupil size and blinking.

Mouth
Mouth is another part to help you understand your body language. Of keeninterest will be movements of the mouth, which are very essential inunderstanding body language. Your attention should be directed towards pursedlips, lip biting, covering of the mouth or even if its turned up or down. Youwill definitely read a lot into all that.

Gestures
Every gesture whether done using the hands or head has a meaning and that arewhat will help you understand your body language. Some of the gestures to lookat include thumbs up or thumbs down for approval and disapproval as well asclenched fist that shows either solidarity or anger.

Legs and arms

The way you pose with your hands and legssends very important message. If the arms are crossed, it will be an indicationof a very protective person while hands clasped at the back shows an anxious orbored person. Crossing your legs might send a message that you need someprivacy. It is important you understand the meaning of such tendencies becausethey might send a message different from what you intend.

This is a way of understanding body language by reading thepersonality of another person using the face. It is very easy for even firsttimers in this field. First and foremost, you need to understand all of thefeatures that make up the face. Once you have an understanding of all, tryrelating each of them to the personal traits that they correspond with. If youare in a position to do so, there will surely be no challenges in understandingyour body language or that of another person.

Chances are that very few people can draw sketches of theirfaces because they dont know the features to concentrate on. That is thesingle reason why you need to study your face very well under physiognomy. Howcan you understand your body language without understanding the real meaning ofkey facial features? You must prioritize this step if you hope to become a goodface reader.

This is basically the general study of body language, and itentails several key aspects. With this, you can easily interpret what bodycommunications like gestures and facial expressions mean. Under this, you willnarrow down to:

Body posture

This is the manner in which your body isheld will send very many messages about yourself. If you are comfortable andwant to dominate more, your body will tend to be more open while a closed bodywill denote inferiority.

Gestures

These are the movements generated by thebody as well as arms and common types are adaptors, regulators, affectdisplays, illustrators and emblems. You must be able to note all those inunderstanding your body language.

Facial signals

The face is the most effective tool ofcommunication and it will help you understand body language easily. Eyes arethe most important of all facial features and observing the way they behavewill be very important.

Proxemics communication is where you communicate with otherpeople through body positioning. It touches more on the personal space aspectof body language and it has very close areas of the body reserved for thosepeople who are trusted more. These areas include public communications when itcomes to addressing many people, casual-personal conversations,social-consultative transactions and intimate when dealing with family andfriends. In all those instances, distance kept keeps on varying.