Non Verbal Communication

Non verbal communication help us when we can not use more words. It helps us to
show emotions. Touch is another way of non-verbal communications. It helps in
indicating a person's feelings or expressions, closeness, and illustrates
characteristics of that person. A firm and stiff handshake or warm and lovely hug
signify obviously different than a loose one.
Firstly, we can say that non-verbal communication is important in expressing our
emotions. Emotions such as happy, satisfied, confident, surprised, eager, tired,
stressed, sad etc. These are almost all expressed through different body gestures
and face. We are able to understand each other up on judging each other's
expression. For example if someone cries, it indicate that something has happened
to him or her and others will be able to help it. Non-verbal gestures are what our
recipients see in the first place, even before a single word is heard.
Secondly, it plays vital role in communicating interpersonal relationships. Through
interpersonal communication we can establish trust in relationships and help
determine a person's fidelity. Interpersonal communication includes
communications that occurs with our words and through our tone of voice, posture
and facial expressions. It is also found by many researchers that non-verbal
interpersonal communication like body language may communicate 93 percent of
our attitudes and beliefs. We use language in verbal communication to
communicate precise messages. Non-verbal communication involves any other
information that we send and receive from others including our body language, eye
contact or how we say a particular message. So, this also indicates that non-verbal
is
equally
important
as
verbal
in
our
daily
life.
I feel that knowing only the importance of non-verbal communication is not enough,
but at the same time we should need to know, and be aware of some of the nonverbal signs in this globalized world where interactions and exchange of cultures
and customs takes place. I think that we should learn or read about the gestures
and the way some people acta round the world so we can be able to know what
some xpressions or gestures measn to them such as the signs we made with our
fingers and stuff like that or the way the greet. Through this lectures I have learnt
about some customs people have in their countries and how different they are of
ours.