What? I cannot hear you! You were saying…

How many times we've heard the maxim, "I cannot hear you because your actions speak louder than your words?" Or in a preacher’s parlance, “walk the talk.” They mean the same thing that is communication is more than the spoken words; it includes everything about the communicator.

Most of us failed to realize, or probably ignore, that in communicating, our actuations, facial expressions, emotions, our appearance, our bearing, and even the way we live serve as contexts for our message. They are inseparable. Edwin H. Friedman said it aptly:

"The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech."

Learn to communicate effectively by being conscious on how, when, where, what and why you are saying what you are suppose dot be saying. So, are you really communicating? What? I cannot hear you. You were saying…

Okey, have your say now please. ^^,