Understand and Learn How to Read Body Language

From infancy, we begin to use body language to express ourselves, from everything between needs and feelings. It’s how we learn to get our needs met. As we age while learning to talk, we continue to use a series of body language signals along with a grunt here and there to entertain, have a need met, or show an emotion we’re feeling that we’re not yet able to express verbally.

If, while we’re young, our caretakers pick up our body language signals easily, as we age we are more apt to continue to refine the skill of using body language. However, when our body language signals go unnoticed as an infant or throughout childhood, in adulthood, the use of body language often goes to the wayside. Those are the adults you hear people refer to as “hard to read”. Although they can make great poker players, it does little for the art of subtle communication. Like the saying goes, if you don’t use it, you lose it, or in the least, get real rusty at it.

Life is a game of sorts. There are no guarantees in anything, however, you can higher your odds in the game of life if you practice, and not just your body language skills, but your ability to read body language, and all other aspects of life. Communication through all forms is vital in life. It can make the difference between landing a dream job, or that dream mate and many other factors. People use on an average of 50% body language to 50% verbal language when communicating.