The importance of Non-Verbal Communication

Non-verbal communication can be in many ways the most important in a conversation or speech. With non-verbal communication, we express ideas, feelings, our personality and also we use it to give meanings without saying a word. To be specific, we use the non-verbal to convey meanings, for example, when telling a story, we express the feeling of it with facial expressions. Non-verbal communication also involves the tone of voice, the way we speak, our accent, the way we dress and even our accessories can give an idea about ourselves. Body language is another important part of non-verbal communication. 

It is important, because everyday we use a method of communication, and to give a correct message we must consider using the non-verbal ways to transmit ideas and feelings correctly. For example, to share a sad announcement about the death of someone, we can not say it with a smile on our face or clapping when you hear an announcement like that. It is not correct to do that, our acts must be adequate for any kind of conversation. Also our tone of voice and the intonation have to be according to the person we are talking about or depending on the conversation.

Lots of people do not know about this and they think that body movements, facial expressions, eye contact, tone of voice, and other types of nonverbal communication does not matter when sharing thoughts and talking with someone, when the truth is that it matters. Sometimes we wonder why the other person gets mad when talking with us, but we do not think that maybe the reason is that we do not have the non-verbal skills and we may sound rude or disinterested.