“Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, the heal, the hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.” These inspiring words of the international best-selling author of The Power of Kabbalah, Yehuda Berg, speaks mountains of truth. The way people use words will reflect their life, and will mold the path that they pave. The way we use these words, and in other methods of communication (body language, facial expressions, tone of voice), determines the people we keep in our lives, how others see us, and the effect we will make on people in all aspects of our lives. The way each person perceives themselves aids in the way they interact with other people. For example, for a more confident person, talking comes second nature. For someone more closed-in and shy, they are less likely to start talking …show more content…
7.5 BILLION! That’s 7.5 billion different perceptions, different personalities, different appearances. One’s own self-perception is an important factor of communication, but the way we perceive other people paves the way we live. Sometimes our perception of another person can be wrong, or prejudged. This doesn’t make us a bad person or cruel, it just means we need to take the time to get to know a person before assuming things. A prime example of this is using stereotypes. While many people find this to be a horrible thing, we don’t realize that it happens every day. It’s in our minds, whenever we look at someone. We look at their sex, their hair, their clothes, shoes, make-up, skin, and we make assumptions about them. We don’t mean to or intend any harm by it, it just comes naturally. We perceive this image of a person and how we see them can either hinder or facilitate the way we communicate with