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Communicating
Human communication is the exchange of information, verbal or nonverbal, between a sender and a receiver (a rather cold description for what could be poetry or lovemaking). Because we humans are so fantastically complex, despite what you may have experienced from your high school biology teacher, it is virtually impossible for us to communicate isolated bits of data. Every time you speak to (or write to, or look at) someone you are revealing yourself. You can't avoid it. Your tone of voice, selection of words, facial expression, even the clothes you wear and the way you comb your hair, are all messages in themselves, messages about you. Furthermore, the people you are addressing interpret what you share in the light of their own beliefs and values. Sometimes there are so many variables, so many hidden messages, that the original information is deeply buried, and a map is required to recover it.
When you are not busy communicating with someone or something else, you are carrying on a running conversation with yourself, even though you may not be aware of it. These internal conversations are as vulnerable to distortions and misrepresentations as any other conversation. Because internal conversations direct the way you view the world and the way you view yourself, they have momentous impact on your health and happiness. If you tell yourself enough times that the world is a vicious rat race, if you tell yourself enough times that you are weak and susceptible, then very likely your reality will be just that.
This section focuses almost exclusively on verbal communication, exploring the dynamics of how people talk to themselves and one another. It also looks at the breakdowns in communication that can occur. As you come to understand and appreciate this process, you may simultaneously understand and appreciate yourself. The clearer the channel (you), the better the possibilities for a meaningful encounter--a dynamic energy exchange.
Communicating is the 9th of the 12 dimensions of wellness in the Wellness Inventory.
See the wellness wheel below which represents the Wellness Energy System.
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