NLP Techniques Are Effective in Reading Body Language - But Can it Be Used to Read Minds?

Imagine how the quality of your professional lifenotice things? It's true that some of the best
will improve if you have the ability to read yourways to do this are taught in seminars.
prospects, clients, colleagues' body language andNonetheless I truly believe that the NLP
study their real thoughts?Practitioner program may provide one of the best
Imagine how you can take your relationship withplatforms for individuals to improve their general
your loved ones to a whole new level when youcalibration skills.
master the ability to read their body languageFor instance, these are a few of the many signals
accurately and give them what they truly need.that you will be learning during our NLP Practitioner
In the context of learning NLP, how well youprogram for calibration when you are conversing
"calibrate" to another person, and their state ofwith other people: pupils' dilation, tone of skin, eye
mind, and what's going on inside their minds,patterns, breathing patterns, posture, lip
determines to a significant degree how effectivemovement etc.
your communication will be with them.Most people tend to focus too much of their
The quality of your communication, regardless it isattention on the words while communicating with
in your personal or professional life, is dependentothers, and tend to neglect the more important
to a large extent your ability to calibrate toclues that other people are giving them through
another person's emotional states, behavioraltheir tonality (38%) and body language (55%).
preferences, and thought patterns.Of course, bear in mind that studying body
As a NLP Presupposition states, effectivelanguage is not just about learning to attach some
communicators accept and utilize allarbitrary meaning to a specific type of body
communication that has been presented to them.gesture etc.
In this article, you will be learning more about thisThat is bound to lead to lots of misunderstanding.
powerful NLP technique, calibration, so that youThe typical example is in watching people who like
can begin to develop a stronger rapport withto cross their arms, and making the assumption
anyone around you or to influence them.that that behavior must mean that they're not
But first, there's a need to understand thatreceptive to you or the ideas that you propose.
communication comprises of 3 parts: words,Once, that happened to me while I was doing my
tonality and body language.sales call.
According to Albert Mehrabian, who is today bestWhen I initially met my prospect, I was feeling a
known by his publications on the relativelittle concerned when she was constantly folding
importance of verbal and nonverbal messages,her arms. It was later did I discover that my
we communicate the meaning of our message topotential client was just feeling a little cold and
anyone merely 7% through words, 38% throughuncomfortable, while seated inside the unbearably
tonality, and 55% through body language.chilling air-conditioned room.
Thus calibration is your ability to study otherBottom line, the more we calibrate, we will find
peoples' behavior by paying attention to both theout what each signal or set of signals means to
verbal and non-verbal cues.each unique person. And then we can much more
So how can we go about developing oureffectively read & understand another person's
calibration skill? How do we improve our ability tobehavior.