The process of transmitting messages without spoken words is referred to as nonverbal communication. Such messages can be conveyed through facial expressions, gestures, and posture. Nonverbal communication can also be conveyed by clothing, shoes, hairstyles, jewelry, and even architecture and symbols. Additionally, nonverbal communication is intertwined within speech through intonation, vocal variety and volume, inflection, quality, speed, and fluency.

Stress is one of the easiest human conditions to detect through body language because it makes its presence so obvious and easy to read. A person in stress will display a noticeable change in breathing pattern. These changes can either be displayed as panting and rapid intake of air due to accelerated heartbeat or attempts at prolonged inhaling with a widely open mouth to relieve shortness of breath.

Who among us, young and old, male and female, does not want to be romanced? The path to romance is flirting. Body language and its versatility are evident in flirting as a means to romance and the following are examples of the body language utilizing the five senses that feed directly into the primitive part of our brain, the limbic system, where emotions and sexual responses are initiated.

Body language is a nonverbal means of communication through body movements, gestures, and facial expressions. It is not an exact science and reading and interpretation are often tricky and imprecise. There are, however, classic signs and recognized guidelines one can follow.

Body language is a term used to name and describe communication that utilizes body movements, gestures of the extremities, and facial expressions instead of vocal and verbal speech or in conjunction with them. Body language ranges from the minutest of involuntary and unconscious gestures to the very big and boisterous deliberately voluntary movements and the very wide array in between.