Here is the follow-up to yesterday?s article on detoxifying your communication. JoJo Tabares, Healthy Communication Expert, brings you tips today on how to develop healthier communication in your relationships?let?s read:
3. How can you detoxify your communication?
* Check your attitude
The first step in detoxifying your communication or your words is to check your attitude before you speak. Are you angry with someone right now? Make sure you don?t take it out on those around you. Take care not to spill your venom all over the innocent.
* Soften your voice
Whether you are upset, hurried, harried or just naturally gruff, make your voice soft and gentle. The Bible has a lot to say on this topic. Here are a few scriptures: ?Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.? Colossians 4:6 ?Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.? Proverbs 16:24
* Relax your face and smile
There saying, ?Notify your face? comes to mind. Some people don?t mean to look mean but they just don?t naturally go through life with a big fat grin on their face. Others are in a bad mood. Simply relaxing your face and smiling will help you soften your voice and help your attitude.
Those smiley faces are a great invention for email and social media. Use them! They help to soften the written word where our ?listeners? cannot see our face, hear our tone of voice or see your sparkling eyes and gestures to help them evaluate the meaning behind our words. Use any characters at your disposal to soften and detoxify your words.
* choose your words wisely
Finally, choose your words wisely. Avoid words that inflame: hate, always, never, stupid, idiot, etc.
?You never take me anywhere!?
?You always do this to me!?
?I hate that song!?
Words like always and never imply that the person does evil things on purpose or has never done anything good. If you search your heart, you?ll probably find that just isn?t true, but if you use those words, it will always inflame the other party. ;D
Our words can be toxic whether we intend for them to be or not. Unfortunately, the effect is the same either way. Our words can inflame, accuse, blame and convict. However, there is a way to detoxify our communication by checking our attitude at the door, softening our voice, relaxing our face, smiling and choosing our words wisely.
What do you think, did any of these tips help you as you consider your communication? Let us know in the comments below, where you can also ask JoJo any questions you may have about this very important area of your health: your relationships!
JoJoTabares
JoJo Tabares holds a degree in Speech Communication, but it is her humorous approach to communication skills which has made her a highly sought-after Christian speaker and writer. Her articles appear in publications such as Homeschool Enrichment Magazine and The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. You can read more on communication FUNdamentals and Christian-based communication skills for the whole family, at http://www.ArtofEloquence.com. You can also find JoJo here in our community, sharing her expert communication skills and gifts with us!
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