Non verbal gestures

The importance of verbal communication is known to everyone. So is the role of body gestures in determining whether a person is on his nerves, defending his point, acting smart or flirt his/her colleagues.

 

No one can deny the fact that who is the master of his speech is the master of his emotions and gestures. The ancient people and sages used this technique of reading gestures to identify the credibility of the stranger’s character or to understand the overall personality. This has served as a supporting tool in training the potential prospect for official purposes.

Due to commercialization that resulted through cutting throat competition, the subject of body language has gained momentum and departments are established to train on the gestures of convincing, acting smart and hold the meetings by hiding the flaws. Millions of currency is being routed to this department only to analyze and tap the potential resource. Hence it’s no wonder one has laid trust on this area of subject.

I hope this hub will serve as a source in identifying the personality or reading him/ her gestures to assess. There are many books and blogs already doing wonders on this topic. This is only a minor attempt to provide few details that I knew. Request you to kindly comment on this.

For starting any production, one would make a note of ingredients and raw materials required for the output, so is this blog. To read a person for specific gestures, first we should know what areas to be observed and for what?

1.     Facial expressions: It is the first impression on any person. In fact, few consider face as the index of a person. This would convey if she is “available for you”, “he gives a fish look” or “ready to grab” etc meanings. So a careful observation will give subtle inferences. One can observe astonishment, confidence, fear, tension, love, panic, assurance, acceptance etc.

2.     Shaking hands: People consider themselves as experts in analyzing stranger’s attitude by simply shaking hands. Such is the importance of this gesture. No wonder one can infer if you are nervous, defensive, friendly, confident, exaggerated, warm, cold etc.

3.     Walking gesture: Everyone have their unique style basing on their social status, emotions, body structure etc. we can infer your energy levels, pride, dejection, goal oriented, response to dangers, liability etc.

Individual and combination of these raw materials will aide before plunging into reading others gestures.