Body Language

We may not have noticed that in our daily face-to-face conversations, the words we speak is only constitute for less than 10% of the message we are conveying, the rest would be coming from our body language (non-verbal behaviour) and paralinguistic cues. According to Albert Mehrabian, a researcher in the 60s, the more precise of the composition of the information we picked up from a conversation would be 7% from the word itself, 38 % from tone, inflection and the speed of voice, lastly 55% from the body language, or more scientifically known as non-verbal signals.

Body language is important when we are interacting with people everyday. Our body let out messages constantly and usually we don't recognise that we are communicating a lot more than we realise. If we are feeling happy it can easily show in how we 'compute' on our body languages. When we talk, if we look at someone else’s body we can often tell how they are feeling by the signals their body is giving. Say if your words say one thing but your body says another, your counterpart is more likely to believe the message your body is sending out to be more reliable. It is useful to be able to read people’s body language, but it is equally useful to learn how to get our body to send the right signals and minimise the wrong signals. In this blog, we will explore more on how to start using body language to improve daily communications and to improve the quality of life.

'If the eyes are the windows of the soul, then the body is the mirror of our feelings.'

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