The more you practice body language training the more aware you will become of how much information is available from everyone at any time.
Whether you are reading the body language of someone else or are more concerned with what your own is broadcasting, the more you know about it, the bigger the realization becomes that there really are very few secrets.
For instance, reading body language allows you to: More accurately gauge the amount of truth in what is being presented Become more conscious of the stress and tension people are experiencing Better understand the "type" of person with whom you are dealing Then, tailor your response more easily understood and acted upon by that person Create powerful "agreements that stick" anchored in common sense.
"Policy (and often unconscious behavior) Replace Life" By practicing body language you will inevitably become painfully conscious of your own body language, especially when it is not in alignment with what you are saying or thinking.
The mysteries of why you have that headache, another irritated stomach or yet another bad night's sleep will begin to solve themselves.
It will become unavoidably apparent that certain behavior patterns are in direct conflict with certain values you say or at least you intend to represent.
By becoming a student of non verbal communication you begin to better notice the dis-ease someone who is out of their integrity.
To possibly add insult to injury, nowhere will this consequence of your body language training more apparent than when you look in the mirror.
Yet is that bad news? The best AHA usually starts as an "Oh S%#T!" "There is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future.
" Patrick Collard.
The good news is that you have now become conscious of what your body has been broadcasting all along.
Congratulations! Now you can begin doing something about it.
If up to now you have been behaving, for example, by doing the following: Being polite and swallowing the choice words you so desperately wanted to say Achieving that goal you desired by ignoring the objections and pleas of your team Selling something you know is inferior to or more expensive than your competitors' Enforcing a policy that you know is ridiculous and dis-respective to the people affected With the revelations your improved body language reading skills provide, you now have two choices: 1.
To ignore all this new input and keep behaving you have habitually trained yourself to do.
2.
Change your behavior, minimize your dis-ease and create more harmony.
1.
Ignore it.
As your knowledge and understanding of how much leverage your body language contributes to who you are, what you say (and don't say), as well as what you do (and don't do), the first choice will cost you more and more.
Knowing what is causing your dis-ease and now consciously choosing to suppress or avoid that behavior which is causing it will only add to that dis-ease.
Good luck with that one...
2.
Change it.
Consciously changing or adjusting how you respond to this situation may not be politically correct, but you will begin plugging some very leaky holes in you own metaphoric ship the "SS Integrity".
Many actually feel they have more energy once they make this choice.
Yet be aware that taking a stand is hardly ever the easiest decision.
You are then literally asking for a confrontation with those who still have more to gain by ignoring or suppressing the consequences involved.
"It is impossible to get someone to understand something when their paycheck depends upon them not understanding it.
" Aldous Huxley Yet, what if taking a stand based upon being a person of integrity in the face adversity is the very essence of leadership? What if this is the path to sustainable and respectable business? What if you start sleeping better too?
Whether you are reading the body language of someone else or are more concerned with what your own is broadcasting, the more you know about it, the bigger the realization becomes that there really are very few secrets.
For instance, reading body language allows you to: More accurately gauge the amount of truth in what is being presented Become more conscious of the stress and tension people are experiencing Better understand the "type" of person with whom you are dealing Then, tailor your response more easily understood and acted upon by that person Create powerful "agreements that stick" anchored in common sense.
"Policy (and often unconscious behavior) Replace Life" By practicing body language you will inevitably become painfully conscious of your own body language, especially when it is not in alignment with what you are saying or thinking.
The mysteries of why you have that headache, another irritated stomach or yet another bad night's sleep will begin to solve themselves.
It will become unavoidably apparent that certain behavior patterns are in direct conflict with certain values you say or at least you intend to represent.
By becoming a student of non verbal communication you begin to better notice the dis-ease someone who is out of their integrity.
To possibly add insult to injury, nowhere will this consequence of your body language training more apparent than when you look in the mirror.
Yet is that bad news? The best AHA usually starts as an "Oh S%#T!" "There is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future.
" Patrick Collard.
The good news is that you have now become conscious of what your body has been broadcasting all along.
Congratulations! Now you can begin doing something about it.
If up to now you have been behaving, for example, by doing the following: Being polite and swallowing the choice words you so desperately wanted to say Achieving that goal you desired by ignoring the objections and pleas of your team Selling something you know is inferior to or more expensive than your competitors' Enforcing a policy that you know is ridiculous and dis-respective to the people affected With the revelations your improved body language reading skills provide, you now have two choices: 1.
To ignore all this new input and keep behaving you have habitually trained yourself to do.
2.
Change your behavior, minimize your dis-ease and create more harmony.
1.
Ignore it.
As your knowledge and understanding of how much leverage your body language contributes to who you are, what you say (and don't say), as well as what you do (and don't do), the first choice will cost you more and more.
Knowing what is causing your dis-ease and now consciously choosing to suppress or avoid that behavior which is causing it will only add to that dis-ease.
Good luck with that one...
2.
Change it.
Consciously changing or adjusting how you respond to this situation may not be politically correct, but you will begin plugging some very leaky holes in you own metaphoric ship the "SS Integrity".
Many actually feel they have more energy once they make this choice.
Yet be aware that taking a stand is hardly ever the easiest decision.
You are then literally asking for a confrontation with those who still have more to gain by ignoring or suppressing the consequences involved.
"It is impossible to get someone to understand something when their paycheck depends upon them not understanding it.
" Aldous Huxley Yet, what if taking a stand based upon being a person of integrity in the face adversity is the very essence of leadership? What if this is the path to sustainable and respectable business? What if you start sleeping better too?
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