This week has had me thinking a lot about communication.<\/p>\n
So much of our daily interaction with fellow beings is done via internet communications or by telephone and it is difficult to impart subtle meanings with the written and facelessly spoken word.\u00c2\u00a0Body language and facial expressions add so much meaning to face-to-face conversations. Oh, I know we can use various forms of punctuation such as underline or bolding to emphasize certain words or phrases in the written language and use voice inflections when speaking, but it’s just not the same as hand gestures, smiles or frowns, brow wrinkling — that list can go on and on! I think\u00c2\u00a0overall, this lack of personal conversation\u00c2\u00a0making us less sensitive to those very things when we do<\/strong> have the opportunity to speak in person. I know I’ve recently\u00c2\u00a0caught myself not looking at the person speaking, so miss those gestures or expressions. I’ve gotten so used to looking at the computer screen or concentrating on what I’m hearing that I let my eyes wander when talking face-to-face. And when my eyes wander, sometimes, so does my concentration!<\/p>\n I was\u00c2\u00a0taught in my public speaking course (taken way\u00c2\u00a0back in the dark ages)\u00c2\u00a0that it’s very important to make\u00c2\u00a0eye contact and to notice body language when speaking to\u00c2\u00a0others. I’m dissapointed in myself for letting that habit get away from me. I used to be someone\u00c2\u00a0people enjoyed talking to\u00c2\u00a0as I would look at their face and keep my own mouth shut until they were\u00c2\u00a0finished their part of our conversation. I still keep my mouth shut or only offer encouraging sounds at\u00c2\u00a0most, but I’m not making eye contact like I used to and not watching facial expressions and so I’m missing out on important things.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s sort of like the difference in an orchestra playing with or without a conductor. You can certainly play<\/em> a musical piece without a conductor, but HAVING<\/strong> that conductor waving his baton, using his body to highlight the highs and lows and imparting his energy into your playing makes the music come to life.<\/p>\n At any rate, my personal goal this week is to work harder at making eye contact when speaking or being spoken to and to notice those things I’ve been missing in conversations.<\/p>\n Got to run — time for work.<\/p>\n Love to all,<\/p>\n Margaret<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week has had me thinking a lot about communication. So much of our daily interaction with fellow beings is done via internet communications or by telephone and it is difficult to impart subtle meanings with the written and facelessly spoken word.\u00c2\u00a0Body language and facial expressions add so much meaning to face-to-face conversations. Oh, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemar-k9s.com\/HoundBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemar-k9s.com\/HoundBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemar-k9s.com\/HoundBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemar-k9s.com\/HoundBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemar-k9s.com\/HoundBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemar-k9s.com\/HoundBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemar-k9s.com\/HoundBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemar-k9s.com\/HoundBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemar-k9s.com\/HoundBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}