Body Language In Communication

Communication is a part of everyone’s life. All individuals need to communicate to share their knowledge and information with others; however, the degree of its effectiveness depends upon your personal communication skills. The better your communication skills are, the better a person understands you. The purposes of communication could be many, but the most important part is to understand how to communicate effectively. Communication is a two way process and therefore requires complete understanding among the communicators. Communication skills simply do not refer to the way in which we communicate with another person. It encompasses many other things such as the way in which we respond to the person we are speaking, body gestures including

In fact body language is a tool that if correctly used would emphasize and support your speech. However, it may oppose your words and lead to undesired impact on your audience if it is misused. As for using body language to maintenance what you are saying, the nonverbal aspects of speech plays an important part. I mean by the nonverbal aspects: the volume, tone, voice quality, rate of speaking and stress. For example: If your rate of speaking is lower then you’re informing your audience that what you’re saying is important and you want them to concentrate with you. Also, if you raised your voice at a certain part of the speech, it means you are so enthusiastic about what you are saying and gives the kind of motivation to people hearing you. Moreover, sometimes nonverbal aspects of speech are used to support expressing your emotions like when you are happy, you start using higher volume, sharper tone and high speed of speaking, but when you are sad you use low volume, Steady tone and low speed of speaking. Although these aspects improve your speech and make the audience feel your words and understand your message their overuse would lead to decreasing their effect. Unfortunately, sometimes your body language is opposite to what you’re saying and this lead to the lack of trust and understanding between you and your audience. Communication skills simply do not