Try: The ability to understand and use nonverbal communication is a powerful tool that will help you connect with a Care recipient (cr) nonverbal communication or body language is a vital form of communication it is a natural unconscious language that broadcasts our true feelings and intentions in any given moment and clues us in to the feelings and intentions of those around us when we interact with others we continuously give and receive wordless signals often we do not even recognize these actions all of our nonverbal behaviors, the gestures we make the way we sit how fast or how loud we talk how close we stand how much eye contact we make, send strong messages these messages don’t stop when you stop speaking either even when you’re silent you’re still communicating nonverbally oftentimes what we say and what we communicate through body language are two totally different things when faced with these mixed signals the listener has to choose whether to believe your verbal or nonverbal message and in most cases they’re going to choose nonverbal nonverbal communication can be a helpful tool when working with a cr this is especially true if the cr struggles with other forms of communication information references helpguide org

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Keywords: Communication body language nonverbal

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