Happy National Body Language Day! During the first Friday in October, today recognizes the significance of nonverbal communication in your day-to-day life.
In 1872, English naturalist, geologist and biologist Charles Darwin (best known for his contributions to the science of evolution), detailed his observations of nonverbal behavior.
This was in his 1872 evolutionary theory/human behavior book The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals. He noticed that both people and humans use body language to communicate.
Long before Darwin, however, primitive people relied on body language – hand motions and gestures, facial expressions and paralanguage (grunts and sounds) to communicate their needs, wants and concerns.
Depending on the signals, trust or distrust was developed based on body language signs.
Forms of Expression and Communication
Body language is a form of survival when you can’t use words. Whether you are aware of it or not, your minute movements reveal any and every one of your unspoken thoughts.
To overcome language barriers, you use body language to talk to and to understand people when you don’t speak the same language.
Couples use body language as a silent communication to express their emotions for their partner. Parents use body language with their infants and young children until they can learn how to speak.
Using facial expressions, gestures, movements and speech sounds, babies communicate their wants and needs. In the same way, they also read their parents’ emotions to know when they are happy, sad, mad, et cetera.
Many people use body language to read other people so that they can understand what they’re feeling as well.
People who suffer from strokes or have partial paralysis and other medical conditions where speech is difficult, use body language to communicate. They use eye movement such as blinking or looking at an object to communicate needs and wants.
HOW TO OBSERVE
On National Body Language Day, take a look at some of the ways others are talking to you through their body language.
And pay attention to your own body language, too. See if what’s said matches what’s shown in body language.
Be sure to look at all of the movements, glances and muscle tension, and gestures from head to toe. Identify what caused the body language to change.
Think about the conversation and what happened right before you noticed the change. What are you seeing?
Describe the feelings different body languages show by who it is or what position they hold. Try using body language to emphasize your message or to complement your words.
Use #NationalBodyLanguageDay to share on social media.
HISTORY
American CEO of TruthBlazer LLC. Blanca Cobb, M.S., founded National Body Language Day to be on the first Friday of every October. She founded today to encourage people to understand each other through unspoken language.
She is also an Internationally recognized American body language expert, dynamic, engaging and high-energy keynote speaker, coach, author, media personality.
The Registrar at National Day Calendar® proclaimed National Body Language Day in 2018 to be observed annually.
DATES
October 01, 2021
October 07, 2022
October 06, 2023
October 04, 2024
October 03, 2025
October 02, 2026
October 01, 2027
October 06, 2028
October 05, 2029
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