Rabu, 04 September 2013

Non-Verbal: Will It Improve Your Relationship? (Danny Kojima)

Have you ever watched Lie To Me series? No, not Korean Drama, but the American Crime Drama one. Lie To Me series is about Dr. Cal Lightman and his colleagues in The Lightman Group assisting investigation for the police by looking for the microexpressions to show the truth they're hiding. Microexpression is a universal language that everyone show
Why is it important? Well, imagine that you can always know if someone is lying or not by only looking their gestures, body language. Isn't it convenient? It seems convenient, However, how would you know why someone is lying? What is the reason that make someone want to hide the truth, no matter how small the truth is? You can't know about it if you only look at their microexpression. 

Before we talk about that, let's talk about men and women first. We want to discuss about relationship between men and women, right? Well, there are differences between men and women in perceiving the non-verbal communications. Women is more perceptive than men. Sometimes, we men, don't understand what our girls want when they only sit down and do nothing. If we getting closer to her, they will mad. If we try to leave her alone, they also will mad. However, when women interact with another women, they know how to take care each others, they know about their own non-verbal. Then it is true that, women know more about the non-verbal communication rather than men.

In the Lie To Me series, Dr. Cal Lightman lead his colleagues to learn about microexpression. But, to do that, he needs to learn the microexpression for years and then he can master it. In the first episode, he is scouting a woman called Ria Torres. Different from Dr. Cal Lightman, Ria Torres is someone called 'natural' in microexpression. Why is it become different? Is it because of the ability of women? It is told in later episodes that Ria actually have a traumatize past as an abused child in her family. She was abused, probably by his father. While Dr. Cal Lightman, he want to study about the microexpression because of the dead of his mother. So they both have a kind of same traumatic event that make them learn the microexpression either by naturally, or by studying it.
But, what is actually the connection between the microexpression and the non-verbal communication? Well, it's true that we don't really need to learn about microexpression only to know if our partner is lying or not. We only have to learn our partner's non-verbal to know what they want, when they just sit down quietly. Well, this is especially needed for men rather than women. So non-verbal, will it improve our relationship with others? The fact is yes. Even we learn languages, know what they said, but our non-verbal is actually already been there since we were born, and non-verbal is having more effect than the verbal itself. So non-verbal communication, if we can use it right, we will improve our relationship with our partner. We don't need to learn about microexpression to know our partner, we only have to be with our partner, learn about them, care about them, love them.
When some commercial said, "Because women want to be understandable," remember that it is not because they need make up or anti-aging cream, what they need is our attention to them, and remember, we can't do it instantly, we need to learn it step by step while we knowing our partner.
If you girls get angry only because your boyfriend don't understand you, get realistic that men is different from you and don't understand about your gesture well. Men are more like a 'news' creature that tell everything in order and what they need to tell. While women more like a 'relationship' creature that want to be better with everyone.
So men, women, please be concern with what each other said and not said. Love them just the way they are, take care of them.
 But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. - Abraham Maslow
 
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