1 November 2012

Why do I feel so tall

Did you wake up one morning and adjusted your bathroom mirror, your rear view motor mirror or even bended your legs to fit into that reflective surface you always look yourself into while on your way to work perhaps..

This is to do with how you sleep at night. A straight posture style of sleeping at night makes you stretched out at morning time, hence making you feel tall and just want to adjust that mirror so that you can see the remaining part of your head.

Cognitive dissonance

Ever wondered why you feel so uncomfortable at a certain time, times where you want to do something or have that feeling, yet something is just making you uneasy about it...

This feeling known as cognitive dissonance is when a person holds at least two ideas or feelings at the same time, thus causing this uncomfortable feeling.

An example to this is intimate relationships. One partner feels happy and in love, yet at the same time feels spending to much time and being to close physically with the partner makes him/her uneasy.

The implications of this is, and not only restricted to this, would be speedy replies on a mobile phone, and then no or very late replies which are accompanied most of the times with an explanation of a task they started with, prior to your communication to them. Their behavior is a kind of trend, and the intervals between interacting with the partner and being repelled by the partner thus also follows a pattern.
Another example is, "I like you so much", to " I miss you so much", then it changes (above mentioned trend) to "I'm so tired", and I'm so busy". If you wonder now whats wrong with the last two quotes, try looking at the "I's". First person expressions are more direct and used to affirm oneself. With that the person can succeed in being alone (the other feeling) for some time, and then feel too lonely again and initiate discussions with the partner. A cycle....

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16 October 2012

Getting noticed

Struggling to get noticed by someone?

Frequent interaction
Repeating the message
Rephrasing the message
Vary your voice tone

Are but some of the techniques to use if you cannot get your message across and get noticed by someone.

5 June 2012

Intra Communication

Communicating with yourself!


Your thoughts, and the nature of it can either enhance or destroy your life.


 Straight forward, but it is the case.

7 May 2012

So you feel upbeat about completing your assignment..


Now you wonder why you have a bad mark in it and your lecturer is criticising your work.

There are elements which communication specialists look at to conclude that your work was rushed and just got done with.

Those include alignment of text
Proximity of text
Word choice
Grammer
Spelling
Punctuation

4 May 2012

Group Dynamics and Communication

In what group(s) are you??


GROUPS- Consisting of three and more people



-Has the ability to shape characters
-Improve standards of living
-Empower individuals
-And change perceptions

Imagine what benefits you can get from joining a constructive group!

3 May 2012

Interactive discussions


Do you sometimes ignore listening to people? Do you also avoid looking to their side?


Guess how easy it is for another person to do that to you.

When we elect to speak there are factors that makes people face our side and then listen to us. These factors may include our personality, our knowledge on a topic and our looks (physical presentation).

If you are to speak and have an advantage on the factors earlier mentioned, the change is higher to be followed in discussion and then to get a message across.

11 March 2012

Non-verbal Communication



 You can define your relationship with a person by looking at the spacial distance between the two of you.


 If there is a high liking of each other, the tendency to be more close physically with the person is greater. The opposite is also true, but is varies from disliking the person to not knowing the person.

Non-verbal Communication




How do you walk?


Remember the way you walk/how you carry yourself, is a reflection of what you are.

10 March 2012

My first blog. What an experience it will be. Presenting my knowledge on communication would be beneficial to the viewers out there.