Body language is however not an invention of the mind.

Nearly 80% of our communication go through other channels than words.

There is no serious thought to contradict this principle.

Yet surprisingly -today- no rigorous corpus does classify human non-verbal information yet.

Around human non-verbal language is an enigma, a true "white" of knowledge, as if the non-verbal did not exist, as if non-verbal was a real lack of knowledge! It seems almost impossible that that word has been completely forgotten in academic language.

Proceed by finding the antonym, meaning putting a word opposite verbal, but there again we are for our expenses.

Non-verbal is not opposed to verbal like placed combatants and non-combatants or such as voting and not-voting are opposed. The opposite of the word 'verbal' is.... written! 

The non-verbal or non verbal shines conspicuous by its absence in academic life.

This lack of official recognition is probably the reason why knowledge about non-verbal language is so little regulated in scientific community.

Does non-verbal change 100% of our communication?

Rather than a theoretical discourse, let's take an illustrated example.

Imagine a friend from far away visits you, whom you like to tell that you are happy about an unexpected personal event.

You see him/her move towards you in the corridor. You shake hands. Your eyes meet. Her/his face is like: "hello".

Do you still want to share your well-being ...?  No!

Her look has changed the course of your thoughts. You tell her instead: - "You look pensive this morning ... tired?"...

A single glance exchanged was enough to turn the course of your thoughts.

Something much more incredible happened, rather than the fact that of our communication 7% is language through words, and 38% by the tone, timbre and intonation of our voice, and the 55% by body language...

Here, the non-verbal communication of your interlocutor has changed the trajectory of your communication.

You'll change the topic of the conversation, because you unconsciously understood that your concerns are not the same as those of your interlocutor. She understood that her topic of conversation was not adapted to the situation. This phenomenon happens every day. The other changes us by saying nothing!  We change our partner without knowing.

Not only body language gives the tempo in the dialogue, but it also transforms its content.

Beyond the transmission of information, the nature of the information itself has an impact on the body language.

We have never seen anyone receive a sad person while smiling at her and saying she was happy.

One's sadness modifies the expression of happiness on the other and simply his happiness.

We discover together that all of the non-verbal messages do not represent 55% of the communication, the nonverbal message transforms the content of the messages that were send to each other interlocutors. It converts 100% of daily communication!

The information is prioritized based on emotional criteria.

It is the emotions that allow us to understand what is important.

Emotions coming from our partner, consciously or unconsciously, may change up to 100% of the content of verbal communication.

Why do you think some people are deemed to be those to whom all secrets are delivered, while others are never given personal information? Simply because some faces, some humans give confidence. They make you want to be opened. We vaguely feel a resonance with what we are. Some have a greater capacity for empathy.

Without knowing these people have certain attitudes, movements, micro-movements, when they watch us and communicate with us, and it looks like they know how to open doors that we would have thought closed.

These people send others tangible evidence likely to see open. Tangible body-evidence translated their emotions.

From birth our emotions have features that will be decoded at all stages of life. Their training as as well as their decoding is universal.