THE ART OF COMMUNICATION — A SENSE BEYOND SPEECH
Every 12 years, if one lives consciously, life turns into a new possibility.
In today’s world, human beings are struggling with the simplest of things — to communicate.
You may have grown up being trained in a hundred different manners —
“Say thank you.”
“Say sorry.”
“Stand like this.”
“Smile like that.”
You learnt how to act polite, but nobody showed you how to feel another human being.
When you borrow your words from culture, society, or textbooks, and not from your own awareness, your speech becomes hollow. It has sound, but it lacks substance.
That is why, for most people, the moment they open their mouth — it becomes an argument.
Not because they want to fight, but because the head is talking without the heart listening.
Communication is not a thinking thing — it is a feeling thing.
When you shift from heart to head, when every response becomes a calculation, a debate, an opinion — naturally connection disappears. Then even a hello sounds like a threat.
People think communication means:
Learning polished words
Improving accent
Learning English
Attending workshops
No, no.
If you truly want to communicate — stop talking.
Just listen.
Do not read books on how to speak.
Do not practice mirror conversations.
Do not rehearse phrases.
Simply be silent.
Because silence is not empty —
Silence is pregnant with perception.
Look at the trees.
A tree cannot walk, cannot talk, cannot give a TED Talk or post motivational quotes.
Yet it communicates better than you and me.
Not through words, but through a deep network of perception.
Because they cannot run anywhere, they became absolutely still.
Because they are still, there is attention.
Because there is attention, there is intelligence.
Plants warn each other of danger, share nutrients, nourish the weak, and create entire ecosystems — without uttering a syllable.
Animals can fight, run, or howl — yet no tiger has ever built a community garden.
Silence is not lack of communication — it is the foundation of communication.
If you want to feel another human being, do not sharpen your language — sharpen your perception.
A boy and a girl go on a first date.
Until they open their mouths, there’s magic — stars are shining, hearts are blooming.
The moment they begin to talk… phew — all the romance evaporates.
Not because they are bad human beings, but because they have not learnt to speak from the right place — from within.
Today, people say “The world is a terrible place. People are selfish.”
No, no.
There was a time — in Bihu, Pongala, harvest festivals — when people cut vegetables together, ate together, washed dishes together, cleaned houses together.
Don’t see it as chores.
That was communication — without a single word.
Only when the tongue quietens, your perception switches on.
Only when you stop consuming information from everywhere, a higher intelligence begins to work from within.
When you learn to simply be, communication happens naturally —
through your presence, your breath, your attention.
Otherwise, anything you try to convey will feel like pushing, persuading, arguing, attacking — and then you wonder why success is running away from you.
You may have a wonderful degree, a powerful CV, branded clothes, shining shoes — but the moment you speak, life says “Next!”
Not because life is unfair — but because your communication is off-tune.
Why Silence Heals
A truly good communication leaves you lighter.
After a genuine connection, you breathe easy, your eyes shine, your mind is clear.
It is fresh like mountain air — not polluted with insecurity and noise.
Have you noticed?
At celebrations, at gatherings, even before the food arrives, everybody feels alive.
Not because of biryani or disco lights —
but because people are available, ready to listen, ready to feel.
Most people are blissful only when they are alone and silent.
The moment they open their mouth — gone!
Yoga says,
“If you can walk one full 12-year cycle consciously, you master the art of communication without speaking.”
There are people who walk into a room without a single word —
yet the whole place aligns around them.
Not because they’re bodybuilders —
but because silence has made their presence potent.
Takeaway
To communicate:
Do not train your tongue — sharpen your attention.
Do not fill your mind — empty it.
Do not force words — cultivate presence.
Silence first. Speech later.
When silence becomes your soil, your words will naturally become a blooming fragrance — not a weapon.
That is true communication.
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