Be A Baby Again!

"Good communication is stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."

How true! These are the words that arrested me just now. These are not my words. It is of one Anne Morrow Lindbergh. But the words define not what communication is. It defines what communication be like. Good communication should linger in you. Imagine drinking a good cup of black coffee . Enjoy every sip of it. It keeps you awake late night. That is how good black coffee works for late-night-enthusiasts.

Without communication it is like living in a dark cave. With over communication it is like sleeping in a battle field.

It took years for me to learn what good communication is. I am still learning it. I still have to master the techniques of communicating effectively. I am watching the baby.

It takes a baby some time to call you with your first name. Imagine your young baby calls you with your first name all on a sudden. You get a kick! You love it! You feel happy that your baby can call you your first name. and you will reward him with a sweet kiss. That is how communication works. That is how communication should work.

The baby has loaded its love in the word when it pronounced your first name! That is why you got happy. That is the basis of good communication. Charge the messages with emotions. Make it seep into the bottom of one's heart. Let it remain there, for ever.

As the baby in you grows into manhood, he looses his inborn art of communication.There is no feelings in any messages you get from him. Where does that baby's feelings go? If he calls now you in your name, you feel annoyed. what happened to those sweet feelings? such is the sort of communication you get now from your surroundings. such is the messages you receive from newspapers, books, TV or radio. Plenty of "drama" spoils the communication today. Plenty of gimmicks erode the communication today. In communication you can't go back to your baby-state.

The baby in you is dead. And you never could communicate to the other baby in someone. Everyone around you are same as you. Communication sinks. Only dramas float. Messages get dilapidated. Only dust remains. what happens? Your over-communicated brain does not allow you to talk like a baby as you did years back. There is no room in the brain for "feelings". Feelings are for the heart. Communication is mixing heart with brain.

You become a battery now; with two poles. The positive and the negative. You have no emotions left in your heart to complete the circuit with the battery. Your communication seldom gets 'sweet-wrapped' when your brain rules you.

If you put heart into brain, the circuit works and you get the pleasant shock. To connect to your communication battery you need to be a baby again. You need to put your feelings behind each word you say. You need to lift the meanings with vehamence to get your messages across. that is how communication works like. Can you be a baby again to talk like a baby?