Communication

Communication is an essential part of everyone's lives and a part that a lot of people struggle with.  There are the people who can't communicate how they're feeling and then the people who say way too much, but it's still not what they really mean.  In this world of total confusion, I am glad that I have this class to help me sort through all of the nonsense.

In class I learned about the communication between two different people.  There are of course thoughts and feelings on both sides of the equation because this equates to each person.  When one person is communicating something they are encoding, but then there is media that gets in the way, so when the other person tries to decode the information they have a higher chance of being wrong.  The encoding is usually done subconsciously, so we have to make sure that we check back and make sure that we understand and decode the right information.

There are three different types of communication: two are verbal which consist of the words itself, and the tone or emotion that comes out when using those words, then there is the non-verbal which could consist of gestures, face expressions, eye contact, touch, or proximity.  Out of a 100% scale, words are only 14%, tone is 35%, and non-verbal is 51%.

One of the biggest problems that happen through stress is finances which causes a lot of stresses with the family.  Another huge issues in families now is sarcasm.  Sarcasm is sending two different messages in two different directions.  One is the words and the other is tone.