Body language is the process of communicating nonverbally through conscious or unconscious gestures and movements, or the simple definition is communicating without words. It’s important because it has a lot of functions, examples:
- To express our feelings about what are we discussing. Body language can help us determine how someone feels about what they are saying.
- You can now when someone is lying to you.
- To understand how we come across to other people and be able to send the right message.
- Be able to read the signals that another person is sending back.
When we communicate, 7% of the messages are comes from the words we use, 38% from the tone we use, and 55% from our body language.
2. Nervousness
Nervousness means …show more content…
The most important tool for reducing nervousness is exercise. Exercise is more than just something you do for your own physical fitness. It allows you to easily reduce your nervousness because it increases production of relaxing neurotransmitters while simultaneously burning hormones caused by stress and tiring the muscles so that anxiety symptoms are less severe. If you do nothing else for your nervousness, you still need to start exercising.
- Desensitization. Are you someone that is nervous in specific situations? For example, are you nervous when you talk to someone of the opposite sex? You can try desensitization. Desensitization is the act of reducing the amount of nervousness you experience with each part of an activity until the activity itself doesn't cause anxiety. For example, let's say you are a young man that wants to talk to single women, and you find yourself very nervous talking to these women. You can combat your fears by:
a. Getting Used to Embarrassment. Go out in a public place and do something purposefully embarrassing, like handing lemons to strangers for no reason. You'll be embarrassed, but eventually you'll get used to it and won't find it as …show more content…
Sleep deprivation may not seem like an anxiety issue, but it has a profound effect on nervousness. In fact, sleep debt (regular loss of sleep over time) can actually cause significant physical and mental symptoms that may lead to profound nervousness and stress. It's been proven that significant time without a full night's sleep increases anxiety. Remember, anxiety and stress actually change thought processes. So when you're nervous because you're sleep deprived, you may have no idea that your nervousness is unnatural. It is likely to feel completely natural. Try making sure that you get more sleep and see if a full night's rest for multiple nights in a row reduces your nervousness.
3. Signposting
Signposting is the way you signal the path you have taken though an assignment. In other words, it’s the information you give about what topics are going to be covered, the order in which they come and the angle or focus of the discussion or argument. There are two types of signposting:
- Major signposts. These are the words and phrases that tell your reader the purpose, structure, your position, main points, direction of the argument and signal your conclusion.
- Linking words and phrases. use these to connect your sentences and paragraphs, showing the ‘route’ through your work. Examples: accordingly, as a result, consequently, for that reason, for this purpose, hence, therefore, etc.
Signposting is important because it can help you to continually capture the audience’s