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• Standing with your hands clasped behind your back
• Playing with your hair or nose
• Putting your head in your hands
The first modern book on body language appeared more than 350 years ago.
Eye Contact
Keeping a proper eye contact shows you are mentally present
and actively involved in communication. The way you look
at someone will reflect some of the strongest emotions and
feelings during a social conversation. Rolling your eyes express
displeasure or unhappiness with a situation. Eye contact helps
you:
• Facilitate the connection with your audience in a meeting,
conference, presentation, etc.
• Improve your concentration
• Give confidence and authority
• Retain the important points of conversation
• Express your emotions like sadness, happiness, surprise, fear, etc.
Body Posture
Body posture is the position of the human body and its alignment and orientation with respect to non-verbal
communication. During a conversation, the way you sit or stand and communicate your body postures to the others
depends a lot on your attitude and emotional state. Before you start a conversation, standing straight and holding
your head high will have a great impact on the crowd.
The correct body postures for effective non-verbal communication are:
• Keep your shoulders straight and body relaxed.
• Sit straight while resting your hands and feet in a relaxed position.
• While standing, keep your hands by your sides.
Appearance
Appearance includes our choice of colour, body cleanliness, properly dressed, hairstyles, etc. When you are speaking
in public, you may be representing your organisation or just yourself. You should ensure that you are properly and
neatly dressed. It also increases your self-confidence and you will definitely feel good about yourself.
Personal Space and Proximity
Personal Space refers to the appropriate distance during a conversation or space surrounding each person. Factors
like regional culture, gender, age, ethnicity, or topic of conversation affects a personal distance. While going in
a lift, if a stranger enters, we feel uncomfortable and try making no eye contact and acting busy. Similarly, if a
classmate sits on your seat, you will try your best to convince him to go to some other place as we have a claim of
our own space and have a sense of control on it.
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