Tattoos and Piercings | Playful Touch Communication

Tattoos and Piercings

Tattoos and Piercings 

Body adornment. And when I'm talking about body adornment, obviously I'm talking about jewelry. But I'm going to talk about another thing as well. Your jewelry gives very much an impression about you. If you'll notice me, I don't wear a lot of jewelry. That's my style. That is how I communicate non verbally with that artifact. I kind of don't. But other people do. Some people wear, and guys and girls, old and young, big earrings or little earrings or two earrings or nine earrings or jewelry all over your face, or necklaces and bracelets and rings. That is an expression. That is a way to communicate and give an impression about yourself. Now another body adornment in addition to body piercing in general, is tattoos. Tattoos are very much a form of communication, very much give an impression whether good or bad. Tattoos are very popular in society today, so I don't think people really think about them. But they are very aware of them and it is a way through artifacts that you express yourself. Now again, similar to clothing, the only time you want to maybe alter your non verbal artifacts, might be depending on the situation. If you are going for a job interview at a bank, and that's a very conservative environment, you might want to tone your jewelry down or remove some of your body piercing jewelry or possible cover up your tattoos. So, again it’s not anything you need to change or be aware of. Just be aware of circumstantially it does form an impression.

Playful Touch Communication

Playful Touch Communication

We express through touch, something that we communicate with each other is playfulness. And usually these are positive relationships in which touch comes in and creates playfulness. You might think about children and how they are very playful, you know, they wrestle and they run and they chase and they tag and they do all of that. But we as adults can do that as well. And this has a whole lot to do with male-female relationships or you know, relationships, we see a lot of playfulness, especially in the early stages of relationships. You know wrestling, or you know, chucking on the arm, or things where, you know, "I'm going to hit you, but I'm not really hitting you, I'm playfully hitting you". That is a real important thing that we see in, as positive communication in relationships. So playfulness is a good thing. It's completely okay to express yourself physically in that way...