What is Body Language?

What is Body Language?
A detailed examination of body language gestures and the importance of body language in business and in personal life. Learn body language today.

Body language is the most important area of communication, a fact for which it is given much attention across diverse fields, from presentation skills training courses and business communication courses to show business and modelling, from family and marriage therapy programs to assertiveness training courses. But what exactly is body language?
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Some of the ways body language communicates information include

•  Our general posture when standing or sitting
• The way we move our hands to gesture when talking
• Our facial expressions
• How we orient ourselves in our environment (for instance, whether we stand in the middle of a group on the outside) .  . ..  .
• The way we hold our legs and the direction our feet point.
• Characteristics of speech
• Personal space (Proxemics)

On the home page (and at the bottom of this article) you will find a comprehensive guide to body language in our Body Language Online Course. But before we get to that, let’s take a look at why body language is so important.