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A hug heals heartbeat and blood pressure

By: Ulrich Sollmann
20-10-2014
intercultural, nonverbal communication, psychology, science

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A hug heals heartbeat and blood pressure

Of course you know how much you like a hug. Of course you remember how it felt like the last time. But did you know that a hug heals heartproblems, reduces high blood-pressure?

In older times people knew about that. They of course did not know this connection on the physical level,  but just by doing it. In our times a hug often is done without really being touched inside. We hug one another because people usually do so. We hug one another because others expect it from me. We hug each other because…..

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How to taste another body language :-)

By: Ulrich Sollmann
07-08-2014
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to taste another body language 🙂

Some time ago a new restaurant opened in Canada. Nothing important you could say.

Well, new is that there is the opportunity for a “double-taste”. One taste is reserved for food and Drinks. The second taste is reserved for body language. What could this be, you may ask. Well, as the waiters are unable to hear or speak they can only communicate with a Special sign-language. This sign-language of course is nonverbal.

How does it work there, you may ask. Well, you decide your dish and drink and will find the reference signs being pictured in the nemu.

You are now invited to order nonverbally by using this special sign-language. If you are good enough you will of course what you wanted to get. If you are not so good in the beginning, you may get a surprise dish. 🙂

Please have a look and imagine yourself being there and order a dish and a drink.

http://sfglobe.com/?id=2334&src=share_fb_new_2334

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What a shame

By: Ulrich Sollmann
04-07-2014
Body language, intercultural, News, nonverbal communication, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a shame

Four elderly petitioners from Henan took it all off and protested in front of the US Embassy in Beijing over the rights of their activist sons and daughters.

The nude petitioners were seen in front of the embassy around 10:00 a.m. with phrases such as “Corrupt officials in Henan are livestocks!“ written on their bodies. The demonstrators included 65-year-old Xing Jiaying, 66-year-old He Zeying, 73-year-old Tian Guirong and 68-year-old Zhang Fengmei, who were also holding placards reading simply “yuan” (grievance).

According to the protestors, their sons and daughters were human rights activists suffering from torture and mistreatment while under illegal detention. Their children voiced grievances in the form of letters or calls to the government, resulting in 18 years of illicit detention, one of the parents said.

What a shame for those old women to offer their naked bodies as last sign of desperation and powerlessness.

What sign of respect for life.

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Life long learning to be silent

By: Ulrich Sollmann
30-05-2014
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life long learning to be silent

“It took years to learn to speak and a life long to be silent.”

With these words the famous writer Ernest Hemingway, a master of words, brings it to the point what nonverbal communication is about.

It takes a bit longer than two years for a child to learn to speak, Hemingway’s focus is true.

Mankind belongs to the speaking and reflection species of nature. This is connected with the competence ……………..

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An inspiring island of body experience

By: Ulrich Sollmann
13-05-2014
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, science, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An inspiring island of body experience

I am sorry being so late in writing. Right now I am in Shanghai for a Workshop on body-to-body-communication and a panel lecture on Body psychotherapy at the IFP World Congress on Psychotherapy and Mental Health. Today I will have a lecture at the Fudan University. And from tomorrow on there is a 5-days-Workshop with Managers at the HRI on Body language and nonverbal communication.

Quite a big Programm and yet enjoyable and of course really inpiring.

The Little time I am off I use it to experience more about the Body ad China. So pleae wait a little. I will write more after May 23rd. 🙂

Have a nice time.

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Permanence of body language

By: Ulrich Sollmann
15-10-2013
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, science

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Permanence of body language

“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.” — Henry Matisse

Matisse is a very famous French artist (painting). I just came across one of his remarkable sentences. This underlines that there is more than just body language or nonverbal communication performed by the body itself or by the person himself.

Painting and other art is so to say an objective of body language. An objective which can be regarded as a very personal expression and a cultural expression.

 

 

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Respect for a first detail is the start of exploration (an embodyed story part 4)

By: Ulrich Sollmann
11-05-2013
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Respect for a first detail is the start of exploration (an embodyed story part 4)

When I had entered the tiny shop or so to say small studio of the old woman my eyes first caught sight of this puppet which you can see on the photo. A lifeless puppet as it seems to be. Not really interesting. Not worth to enter the shop I said to myself. And yet the arrangement of the puppet without a head and the other stuff looked so strange and thus attractive, that I started looking around. Maybe it was the fact that there was this uncoordinated arrangement, with ……………   

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Just old hands: an embodyed story (part 1)

By: Ulrich Sollmann
02-05-2013
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An embodyed story (part 1)

What is the secret of these hands?

And this a hint to how it happens as it happens:

  • a first sight, perhaps for a second
  • you look around, you see many other things and the first sight stills stays in your mind
  • you feel some kind of attraction
  • you don`t know why but you feel the fact that it is as it is
  • and you slightly begin to realize that there is some hidden meaning, some meaning thogh you don`t know what kind of meaning

I can tell you that this probably will happen to you wherever you are in the world.

How do you thing about? Do you agree?

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Men and women…………….

By: Ulrich Sollmann
15-03-2013
intercultural, nonverbal communication

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Men and women…………

There is an old saying in China, 男女授受不亲(nán nǚ shòu shòu bù qīn), which means “men and women should maintain a proper distance from each other”.

Just have a look how it works today. 🙂

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Eyes or ears?

By: Ulrich Sollmann
09-03-2013
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication

 

 

 

 

 

Eyes or ears?

In western countries it is very popular and of course useful to look at somebody to get an impression of his body-language, nonverbal behaviour and his state of feeling. It is important to get an impression of that what is not put into words or verbal expression. This eye-approach is quite typical for western country. So the visual part of communication is activated and vitalized and a necessary competence for communication.

Of course people in China …………..

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