Nonverbal communication in Thailand
The traditional Thai greeting is called the wai. In general, the younger person greets first, by placing the palms together at chest level and bowing slightly. If someone wai to you, it is polite to wai back.
In giving or receiving gifts or passing things, Thais ordinarily use the right hand. They place the left hand under the right elbow, and bow the head slightly.
Do not touch …………….
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The US hurricane: knowing about it and feeling it is not the same
The big hurricane shockes the US. New York`s major talked about what happened while Lydia Calas showed the people how it felt to be there. These two people and their performance outline the big difference between words and facial expression, nonverbal expressio9n and body language. The last really touches the people.
Lydia Calas is poetry in motion and she’s opera for the eyes. Lydia Calas IS the Maria Callas of sign language interpreters.
By popular demand, Lydia Calas, …………………
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The Importance of Nonverbal Communication for expatriats
Using effectively nonverbal communication when moving and relocating overseas is quite an important issue for people who go a country where they will meet very different cultural influences. I right now do not think especially about tourists but about people who have to live in a foreign country for quite a long time, as student, manager, representative of some organisation andsoon.
Spoken language is only7% to 35% of communication. The majority of our feelings and intentions are sent through nonverbal communication. Moreover we tend to search for signals when verbal messages are unclear or ambiguous.
Wordless messages or kinesics are the way we communicate by ………….
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Touched by the shadow
The dark red rose decorates a little girl’s hand while the girl’s eyes dive into the rose’s flavor. Both, the girl and the dark red rose, form a meaningful unit of presence, awareness, being in touch with each other and thus creating reality.
The girl of course is in love with this little boy whose shadow leans towards her. It is an emotional reality with the unspoken message “You’re here when you’re not here. You’re here when I want you to be here and you are near when I’m aware of this beautiful dark rose.”
Of course one would say the little boy is not there. It is……………………
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A dream is a dream, is not a dream……
Once upon a time………………
There was this morning when I got up still being fascinated by a dream and still caught by the deep feeling without knowing what was going on in me and what had happened during the night.
You must know I don’t dream so often or better to say I don’t remember what I dream. I know dreams are part of night life. Dreams of course are some space of mysterious experience while we sleep. Dreams are so to say the dynamics of the inner-body which …………….
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Primate vocalization, gesture……..
A good friend of mine is an expert in monkey and ape communication. Here are the results of some her studies. It is interesting how important the nonverbal communication is for the social life, for working together and for survival. And there are quite a lot parrellels to human communication. So have a look and get an impression. And enjoy:
“the performance of the language is multimodal, not confined to speech. Review of monkey and ape communication show ………..
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Tattoo and shame
It happened about two weeks ago when I travelled by underground in Berlin. It was a hot summer day. People wore light clothing so that I could see very clearly that someone sitting opposite to me had a tattoo on his shoulder. The man sitting together obviously with his girlfriend, arm in arm, had many very colourful and artificial painted tattoos on his shoulder and his neck. I began to look more intensely to those tattoos and tried to find out what they symbolised, and what the symbols were saying to me.
When it happened just on a sudden that this man addressed me obviously quite aggressive with the words: “Why are you staring at me? What are you looking for?” Meanwhile his girl-friend tried to cover her own tattoo. You can imagine how astonished I was about this reaction. I felt very friendly looking, I felt in a good mood admiring those paintings on the body. And I felt very interested in trying to decrypt the shown symbols.
Of course I right away realized the slightly aggressive tone in the man’s voice. Of course I felt rejected ………….
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Western body painting
Last week there was the world bodypainting-festival with the world championship in different categories in Austria. The world awards were presented to more than 40,000 visitors. Artists from more than 40 nations joined the competition for the world champion titles.
Body-painting is body-language and nonverbal communication! Body-painting also is a kind of fashion, a kind of self-presentation. Body-painting also is some kind of art.
To be honest I feel much more familiar with this kind of skin-message than the message of……………………
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Rescuing hug
Nonverbal communication accompanies us from the very beginning. It does not start in the moment of birth. It is some kind of subtile, on-going, very sensibel and convincing interchange between mother and (unborn) child. Sceíentific research proofs this as an overall phenomena in all cultures. It is something which mirrors an important nature of humans. Here is one very interesting example for this.
The article details the first week of life of a set of twins. Apparently each were in their respective incubators and one was not expected to live. A hospital nurse fought against the hospital rules and placed the babies in one incubator. When they were placed together, the healthier of the two, threw an arm over her sister in an endearing embrace. The smaller baby’s heart stabilized and temperature rose to normal.
Scientific research proofs the overal benefit of this kind of bonding, that means the deep influence which direct body contact has on man. One researcher, Mary Whalen, reports the following benefits:
So just have a look if you want to get to know more about.
http://www.planetdeb.net/spirit/rescue.htm
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/hug.asp
http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2011/05/the-rescuing-hug/
Read MoreAngela Merkel´s body language video-
All media write, talk and comment about Angela Merkel´s politics and behavior coping with the crisis. She polarizes whenever she talks about her political behavior, decisions and strategy. One side of the media reaction agrees, the other one disagrees completely. Some months ago many voices argued about her leadership. Those voices mirrored the opinion that she was not a leader at all.
Well she is a leader.
Well she shows this since ……………………
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