What Body Can Tell Us

Body language, everyone must be using it. Body language can actually tell us a lot of things. It tells us the person's feeling and thinking. Basically, body language can be defined as a form of non-verbal communication, consisting of body movements, body pose, gestures, and eye movements. Body language signals may have a goal other than communication. Usually, while a person is communicating, his body language tells his audience more than his speaking. Paragraphs below describe more about body language and some examples of body language.

I watched a movie last night, the movie contains a little bit about body language. A man and a woman in that movie were a pair of couple. The woman just graduated from her bachelor's degree in body language. She went back to her own country after she had graduated that was Hong Kong and her boyfriend was in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, her boyfriend had a new girlfriend and he was trying to keep that secret. The woman who just graduated could actually read her boyfriend's body language when he tells lie. At first, she did not believe that her boyfriend was telling lie to her because her boyfriend was treating her very nice. However, the woman could read the man's body language and she knew he was lying to her. For examples, the man was sweating and nervous while he was facing her. In short, body language can tell us more than verbal language can tell us.

Furthermore, body language actually different in varied cultures, races, gender, and religion. We must always do adjustment and accommodation to who we are communicating. Example, Malaysians will stick their five fingers together and act like they want to take some meals, that means they are already hungry and want to take some meals. However, Italians will think that body language or that action is not showing respect to them. Another example, a nurse may signal for someone to come by crooking the index finger, a common American gesture; nevertheless, this same signaling practice is a provocation among the Vietnamese and they usually do to a dog. We must always adjust ourselves to others to avoid misunderstanding.

Body language is a form of non-verbal communication involving the use of gestures, postures, and physiologic signs which act as cues to other people. Humans send and receive non-verbal signals all the time unconsciously. There are some examples, hands on knees indicates readiness, hands on hips indicates impatience, lock your hand behind your back indicates self-control, locked hand behind head shows confidence, sitting with a leg over the arm of the chair suggests indifference, and crossing arms means submissiveness. As a human being, we cannot avoid ourselves to get involved in body language, it can help us a lot if we can express out our thinking by body language very well.

Briefly, body language is the most important language for us and it is a part of our life that we must be using it every day!

Louis Beh ®