Be A Better Communicator (Week2)

Communication is a part of our lives on the daily basis. Misinterpreted or understood, it lies there; verbally, written, or nonverbal. To understand ones communication and messages to yourself, is similar to understanding the other and their meaning of which they’re trying to get across. The better one is at communicating and listening, the better one could be at understanding another.
We communicate to get our ideas and thoughts across for another to see it our way. Some people are better at communicating than ourselves and some feel that communication can only be written or spoken verbally. They’d be wrong; we do have nonverbal communication as well. Though, verbally and written could sometimes be the easiest to spot to interpret, it does not make it the only way or even the most sufficient way. The nonverbal communication in-between the lines and done at the same time are just as important and should be taken into communication that we use everyday.
“Nonverbal signals make up a huge portion of our interpersonal communications” Kendra Cherry, about.com. She feels that it could help us communicate even more effectively if we could just learn how to signal properly our own nonverbal communication as well as how to read the signals of others nonverbally. As well as making good eye contact and using your tone of voice to reinforce your message.
I agree with nonverbal communication being just as important as verbal communication to help us all better understand the message being sent and how to better send our message. If we could all become a better communicator we could learn to be a better interpreter and to better understand those around us. Psychology is all about understanding the mind and understanding others, so I think learning to better effectively communicate is better understanding yourself and others. So, becoming a better communicator is using psychology in everyday lives.