The Sign of Body Language
Language is a medium to communicate and many times your body
language is more powerful than your words. Have you ever thought that in your
school, college, office, community and club particular person became the heart
of the show even he/she communicates in the same manner as you do then what
makes a difference that he/she being focused more and you are out of any
attention. This is because your body language doesn’t convey your views to the
third person effectively and even though you answer all questions, the rating
of yours presentation will be low. I have observed many girls and boys who were
good looking and good physique but because of low body language (dull eye
movement, imbalance smile, lose walking, unnoticed hand movement and low
intonation), they observed and followed less whereas simple looking and
balanced thinking person steals the show by perfect movement of body while
conversation.
Body Language is a combination of all your physical
behaviours like- facial expression, eye movement, gestures and postures during
your conversation. Veteran Actor Rajesh Khanna was famous for his eye movements
in all his dialogues that separate him from other actors; Shah Rukh Khan uses
his facial expression the most; Shammi Kapoor was good in gestures means
movements made with body parts; Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachhan were expressive
through their intonation of dialogues in the movie.
In body language one can be a master if he/she understands
the uses of Tone of Voice. It is a combination of spoken and body
language. I was watching many politicians video and noticed something very
impressive in USA President Mr. Barack Obama. His delivery of speeches along
with his standing style and turning left side/right side gives weight to his
thoughts. On his India visit, media focused on Mr. Narendra Modi and Mr. Barack
Obama “Chai Par Charcha” while I was noticing their body language. While Modi
Ji was preparing tea for him, Mr Obama was not sitting erect else he preferred
to bend but he keeps that stiffness to his body. That was a symbol of world
leader whereas if I consider our PM, he is from Gujarat and so an accent comes
from his body automatically. But praise Worthing him he finds a “smile” to this
problem. Whenever he meets any world
leader, he talks and smiles first. In his case, greet was not only limited to
hand shake and photography whereas our previous PM Mr. Manmohan Singh body
language was silent most of the time. Mr. Singh dialogues were not presented
through his body and hence, he gave less impact to the audience.
Shaking hand is also necessary in body language. In latin
America, one who are close, greets one another by kissing on the cheeks. In
North America, one generally prefers to shake hands. In many Islamic states,
women doesn’t prefer to hand shake with men. In India, we can find handshakes
in corporate culture mainly. Handshake in political leaders resembles the sense
of commanding, humble, accepting the dominance, etc. In the picture below we
can understand it more clearly: (right side photo) Mr. Modi is firmly holding
hand with the China President Xi Jinping and Prez Xi Jiping is shaking hand
with equal weighted; (middle photo) Mr. Obama is holding Mr. Modi’s hand
tightly which shows commanding nature of the World biggest economy; (left side
photo)Mr. Modi when shakes with the Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel , she is
not folding all her fingers, this shows the discomfort level that she either
ignores handshake tightly or wanted to remove as early as possible but our PM
engaged her in his conversation to catch the media, it should be appreciated
because he took time from her, this is called the strategy of body language; (top
photo)the way Mr. Modi shakes hand with Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina shows the
commanding nature of fastest growing economy. Moreover, the gesture of holding
hand is an art.
Companies hire psychiatrist to notice the body language of
the candidate during interview in order to find the unnoticed behaviour of him/her.
Even, in daily life, police force always vigilant on the physical behaviour of
the suspects to find the criminals. Body language also create enigma, many
times you cannot believe of an act from a person because his/her body language
are so perfect to find an err. Nevertheless, reading body language is a complex
task. One cannot be 100% accurate for a person based on his/her body language.
A good book & CD on this topic is published by History International Channel. Prefer reading for deeper analysis by Body Language experts. (Snapshot below)
A good book & CD on this topic is published by History International Channel. Prefer reading for deeper analysis by Body Language experts. (Snapshot below)

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