A LOOK IS MORE THAN A THOUSAND WORDS

The other day I was having a conversation with my wife as I was trying to catch up with my mail on my laptop. At some point my wife went quite as I was engrossed in my toy oblivious of her having gone quite on me. When I suddenly kicked back to the conversation I noticed from the look on Gracie’s face that she wasn’t amused with me at all. As much as I tried to reassure her that I was actually listening to her, she wasn’t as convinced.

They say a look as worth a thousand words. Eye contact plays a big role in effective communication. You see, your eyes according to author and clinical psychiatrist Dr. Ross Campbell are the visible evidence of the connection between you. They link you together in a moment of shared understanding, the precious communication we all crave. He goes on to state that we even see that God designed the child’s eye to make contact with her mother during-breast feeding. As she feeds physically with her mouth, she feeds emotionally with her eyes.

Remember those days when you were dating and you could spend all that time looking into each other’s eyes, eyes filled with the “look of love”, you didn’t have to say much. Those eyes said it all. This is why it is important as you communicate to maintain eye contact thus listen with not just your ears but your eyes as well.