The science of nonverbal communication takes the face as the most crucial part of the body to relay implicitly unspoken messages. A person’s face, in turn, has the eyes as the most important portion, along with the eyebrows, eyelids, and the other peripheral areas of the eyes.
As a medical fact, since your pair of eyes is the only component in your nervous system that is able to initiate contact with the external entities of your body, it then justifies the basis of the memorable saying, ‘The eyes are the windows to the soul.’
The practice of applying eye contact in social interactions is just a single dimension of the huge nonverbal worth of this mysterious and precious body organ. Staring directly or switch gazing back …show more content…
When feeling pressured saying ‘YES’ or accepting something without protest will let you feel easier and more comfortable than resisting it, ponder intently over your ‘YES.’
If submitting yourself to something would mean spending lesser quality time with your family, then placing and concentrating your attention on this disrupting reality will encourage yourself more to say ‘NO’ while maintaining your core priorities without compromises.
Pause to ponder for a day – Ask for a day’s reprieve to mull over your impending denial or acquiescence prior to providing your definite answer. Like rendering any major decisions, weigh its pros and cons and see to it how your decision will affect your life. Either you feel strongly saying ‘YES,’ or feel having doubts, make it a habit to request pausing and studying your final decision several times.
Normally, it will be much easier for you saying ‘NO’ soon as you exhausted enough time for considering all your options and commitments, and whether the matter on hand is a realistic or doable inclusion to your lifestyle or daily …show more content…
You just have to stand firm so that the other party can understand your intentions.
Never lament for not being a natural socially confident individual; rather, always seek ways to develop and enhance your social skills towards living a better life. When you have anything to say, build your social skills to express and convey it effectively. This only denotes learning and practicing constantly, no matter how you feel discontented with the outcome.
"It takes just as much training to get along with people. Only, training by yourself in the mountains will not do you any good. You need to surround yourself with others. As you get to know them, of course, you take the chance that you will end up hurting them, or they will end up hurting you. One of those things might very well happen. That is the only way we learn... about others, and about ourselves. You are a black belt in martial arts, but I would guess you still a white-belt in social skills. Someday, you are going to meet someone that truly wants to be your friend, and you, his or hers. But it if you don't keep training, you won't be ready when that happens."
—Shigure Sohma, fictional character in the manga and anime series, ‘Fruits Basket,’ created by Natsuki