@Lance — Your comment reminds me that men in my generation were taught from infancy to only show emotion during a sports event. I always thought it unfair that they weren’t allowed to really express what they were feeling.

I remember at my dad’s funeral, my brother sat stoically without shedding a tear and people told him how brave and strong he was! Fortunately, that’s changing. Now, more and more men are free to express their emotions. I appreciate your comment.

@Barbara — I enjoyed the tweeting also. It is hard for me sometimes to keep up, but I’m starting to get the hang of it.

Thanks for your nice comment about my post. I can really appreciate your story about the Japanese management team. It’s so cool that you were able to understand them, even though you weren’t fluent. That’s what is so amazing to me…our need to communicate with each other is so important that we will find a way to connect! Tweet to you soon!

@Liara — You are so right. We are evolving to a deeper understanding of each other and exploring our emotional communication is part of this. Thank you, Liara, for the thoughtful comment.

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Hi Lance.
I’m glad you enjoyed Sara’s guest post. She did a great job!

Hi Barbara.
It WAS fun tweeting this morning. We had quite a thing going for a while. It reminded me of a game of tennis :-)

That’s a good point. I imagine it would be easier to learn a language by focusing on the emotions, expressions and body language to support the words. I’m guessing that this would combine right brain and left brain learning.

First, it was great “tweeting” with the two of you this morning.

I totally agree we can understand others via emotions. Years ago I worked for a company and most of the management team were Japanese. I didn’t speak the language, but ended up taking a class so I could learn the basics. When they would talk I would study their emotions, expressions, and body language. Between knowing a little bit of the language and tying it together with their emotions, etc, I could almost always figure out what they were talking about. It proved to be a wonderful experience and from taking the time to “hear” them, I gained respect and made some awesome friends. Just as I learned from them, they too, learned from me. Good memories.

Thank you Sara for sharing the importance of taking the time to hear and see what others are trying to communicate.

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Davina – thank you for having Sara as your guest – awesome!

Sara – What a wonderful look at emotions, and the role they really can play in our language, and how we communicate. I wonder how I do sometimes, as though I fall victim to the mentality of not showing emotion – especially that of sadness or grief. And so I’m reminded here of just how important it is to let our emotions out… Thank you, so much, for that Sara.