Body Language: Move Your Body Right

If you “rock your body right,” like the Backstreet Boys say in their song Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) you will say more than just what you communicate though your words. You will be speaking with your body. Body language is known as kinesics. Through body language you reveal your true feelings and meanings to others while they reciprocate the same to you (Chapman, n.d.). It is a useful tool to help people communicate without using their words. To understand this you need to understand more than just body placement but in the way we smile, touch others, space our bodies, and how we mirror others (Harr, 2014). Body language is different for men and women and understanding it is a whole nether story. This is important to your everyday life and affects everyone’s opinion of you. Body language can actually be additional form of communication and an influence in someone’s opinions and reactions to a person even though it is sometimes a conscious act.
Body language is seen as many different things to many different people but what is it really. Understanding body language is a science that takes into consideration the interpretation of many different signs and signals. About 50-80% of all the communication we have with others is non-verbal. Being able to understand body language makes for better self-awareness and self-control. Since body language is actually many different things there is more than one definition for body language. The Oxford English Dictionary (2005) says that body language is, “the conscious and unconscious movements and postures by which attitudes and feelings are communicated.” While The Oxford Business English Dictionary says that body language is, “the process of communicating what you are feelings or thinking b...

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...t is helping explain is what different types of handshakes mean and to explain personal space and mirroring. Something else that I’m going to use this article for is to see how body language is different when you have a close personal relationship.
Harr, M. (2014, April 12). The Difference Between Male and Female Body Language - Spotsify. Retrieved April 14, 2014, from http://www.spotsify.com/male-and-female-body-language/
I plan on using this article to explain how to tell the difference between a women’s real smile and a fake smile. How women and men use their own personal body space and to tell the different ways women and men mirror each other.
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I’m using this resource to define how women are viewed compared to men in society.