Body language is a powerful form of non-verbal communication that can convey 93% of our messages. There are seven main types of body language cues: posture, facial expressions, clothing, gestures, eye contact, voice tone, and personal space. Positive body language like upright posture, confident handshakes, and steady eye contact signal confidence and security, while negative cues like fidgeting, avoiding eye contact, and fake smiles indicate insecurity or dishonesty. Eye contact, tone of voice, arm and leg positioning, and other behaviors can also help reveal if someone may be lying or feeling uncomfortable.

1. BODY LANGUAGE

2. DEFINITION
Non-verbal communication
Body Language may be the most powerful and honest type of communication.
Some research suggests we send 93% of our messages non-verbally
Body Language is used to help send a message and needs to coordinate with how we are
speaking or listening.
Your body language should be chosen as carefully as you choose your words.
BODY LANGUAGE HAS TWO FORMS:
 Positive messages
 Negative messages

3. SEVEN TYPES OF BODY LANGUAGE
1.How you sit or stand (posture)
2.Facial Expressions
3.Clothing and Grooming
4. Gestures (hand, foot, eye movements)
5.Eye Contact
6.Voice Tone, Inflection, and Volume (38%)
7.Personal Space

4. GESTURES
There are two types of gestures they are:
• Positive body gestures
• Negative body gestures
Positive body gestures
• Positive body gestures are a sign of confidence and security.
Positive gestures include:-
 Walking upright
 Shaking hands confidently
 Having a pleasant face.
 Nodding head is a positive gesture
 A steady eye contact

5. Negative body gestures
• Negative body gestures are a sign of insecurity and restlessness .
• Such gestures shows the lack of confidence.
• Such gestures should be avoid in interviews or meetings.
Negative gestures include:-
 Being up tied
 Biting nails
 Getting distracted
 Faking a smile
 Looking at something else while talking instead of the speaker.
 Proper etiquettes should be followed.

6. BODY LANGUAGE MESSAGES: EYE CONTACT
 Good eye contact can tell a listener that the speaker is:honest, dependable,
interested, confident.
 Poor eye contact can tell a listener that the speaker is: dishonest, undependable,
disinterested, nervous, embarrassed, fearful, shy.
 Eye contact that is too long can tell a listener that the speaker is: disapproving,
hostile, wishing for greater intimacy, challenging a supervisor’s authority.
 uncomfortable and inappropriate within a classroom environment.

7. SEVERAL BEHAVIORS THAT MAY COMMUNICATE SOMEONE IS
LYING.
 Poor eye contact
 Crossing arms and legs
 Covering mouth
 Face reddening
 Nose itches (Pinocchio Syndrome)
 Mumbling
 Move less than usual
 Unusual changes in volume, rate, tone, or pitch of voice
 Mid-sentence cut-off
 - using “um”, “ah”, “like”, “You know” (stalling for time)
 - stumbling over words (making up story)
 Abrupt changes in nonverbal communication.

8. TONE OF VOICE
• Tone of voice is a combination of spoken language and body language
• The manner in which something is said can affect how it should be interpreted.
Shouting ,smiling, irony and so many add a layer of meaning which is neither
pure body language nor speech.

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