Sunday, January 27, 2008

Telling Tones

After studying the way people communicate for nearly two decades, I have discovered that the tone of one’s voice may be the most important factor in determining how someone really feels about himself and about you.
What goes on in one’s head and in one’s heart is clearly reflected in the tone of his voice. Before discussing what voice and speech pattern may reflect about how people feel about themselves or you, note that many speech and vocal conditions result from genetic conditions or learned behaviors. For example, those who sound nasal may not be lazy, snobby, or condescending people, instead they may be suffering from a cleft on their palate (the roof of their mouth). On the other hand, they may be from an area of the country where the only way they learned to speak was nasal.
For the most part, those who speak in boring, monotonous tones are closed off emotionally and have many unresolved psychological issues. These people have difficulty initiating and maintaining intimate relationships because it is so difficult for others to “get a read on them” and communicate openly and freely with them.

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