#Twisted Communication

One of the most frequently quoted statistics on nonverbal communication is that 93% of all daily communication is nonverbal. Popular science magazines, students and media outlets frequently quote this specific number.

So where does the number come from?

When we go to the broader aspect we may end up losing ourselves. Everyone has a different categorization on the whole, but fairly to match to the most they have split it into two…

Verbal

Non-Verbal

Verbal as defined by the name has the usage of our Voice, Written Communication in which our Emails / Social Networking Interactions are all placed.

Non-Verbal gets segregated as Body Language, Sign Language, Emotions, Silence, Violence, Dance, Touch. In short where the voice has no role to play.

The current stats of 93% of Non-Verbal makes me wonder in amazement to its authenticity. Where we have our ever growing cyber world social platforms visibility to be placed as Verbal Communication refuses to show any increase in its stats. Which earlier was 23- 27%...has slided to 7%.

Further search I realized, the bifurcation done of Verbal & Non-Verbal seems to be not done in the right light. Before going deeper in it, One thing at the onset of it was crystal that no way can we compartmentalize the system into Verbal & Non-Verbal as you will always find them overlapping with each other. A speech, a conversation will always be ruled with silence in between where they both are placed in opposites. Emotions can never be part of any category but only a part of human which are in both category. Humans don’t exist without emotions Verbal & Non-Verbal both will see it. Interestingly a serious person also is showing his emotions. A person dancing can be talking & a person who is violent can be also doing the same. A person may be cajoled while talking, blending the voice & touch together. One without other & the other without the prior is incomplete. When the parameters seem to be all shaken, where does the stats authenticity stand.

I strongly feel the way things are routed in Verbal & Non-Verbal has not been done in the right way. Where I feel Non-Verbal should simply be part of our written communication without making it more complex, as the word also rhymes & states the same. Verbal should have things ruled by voice, sight where body language is visible, sign language & dance. As where even voice is not a part through signs also a person is being verbal, which holds same for a dancers postures. Let emotions not be a part of any as while writing also a person is sharing his side, but see it as a balance in both.