10 Steps to Create Your Own Positive Communication Environment
About the book...

Communication Is Connection takes you on a delightful, enlightening, powerful and compelling journey about connections: connection with your own soul, connection with a positive power beyond yourself and connection with others. At each moment in life, you have a choice of how to respond: positively or negatively, honoring or dishonoring yourself, sensitively or insensitively to others. In ten steps, you learn to create your own "positive communication environment," a safe haven, where positiveness permeates every conversation. Family, neighbors, students, patients, clients, constituents and colleagues trust they can express their feelings and concerns with you and you with them. Communication is connection. In connection there is trust. In trust, learning takes place, problems are solved and needs are met.

Communication is the essence of humaneness and the soul is the essence of a person. You learn how to make the connection with your soul, your "source-connection" and how to find a commonality with all other people so you connect and communicate with them. Talk is talk; communication is connection. In communication, there is trust. In trust, learning takes place, problems are solved and needs are met. When you communicate, there is no limit to what you can do! You transcend what you once thought impossible!

Communication Is Connection . . . changes your life! This reader-friendly book presents a step-by-step, down-to-earth, comprehensive approach to the challenges of communication. It is infused with innovative analogies, resourceful color-coded charts and fascinating anecdotes of people from a wide spectrum of life-styles and cultures. These help you identify your own communication problems and how to overcome them. They inspire you to succeed where you once failed, transcending what you once thought impossible!

As you reach into the depth of your soul, you create your "source-connection." You begin to honor your uniqueness and strengths, and identify and respect your boundaries and limitations. Your "source-connection" becomes your strongest, most positive force inspiring you to be your best and communicate your best. You gain ease and confidence as you move from role-to-role, never losing touch with who you are. The concept of the "hand-dome" gives insights into why you and others feel, think, act and talk as you do. You learn about yourself in ways you never knew before. As you begin to consider the hand-dome of others, you also become more sensitive to them.

Enlightened by new spiritual insights, your personal barriers and the barriers that prevent you from connecting with others come down. Enjoying new communication skills, you find a commonality to connect and communicate with all people regardless of their age, ability, gender, race, creed or culture. To help you accurately convey the meaning and intention of your message, over 40 facets of non-verbal communication, voice tone and verbal communication are presented. An extensive and insightful chapter on cross-cultural communication with informative tables highlights the different communication styles of people from different cultures. These easily understood insights and techniques help you to include all people into society. With each of the ten steps, you gain insights and tools to evaluate your own communication style, rediscover yourself and take responsibility to create your own "positive communication environment." You learn to recognize other people's communication needs as well as your own and how to express yourself positively, effectively and appropriately. These insights and skills become your "communication toolbox" that you use to achieve your professional goals and fulfill your personal desires. You may have been told to "listen better," "talk nicer," "speak slower," "be persuasive," "work smarter," "teach better," "find solutions," "convey confidence," "show compassion," "embrace diversity" or "be nice" but never knew how. Now you will!

This book is an outstanding tool and resource for parents, spouses, teachers, counselors, administrators, doctors, nurses, healthcare providers, therapists, clergy, law enforcement and probation officers, high school and college students, business people, pilots, people working with people from other cultures and anyone who wants to improve their communication with others.

As you journey through life, situations, goals and desires change. This 250 page book, chock full of humor and wisdom, will be your communication guide and friend along life's way. If you want to feel better about yourself, strengthen relationships, be more connected with others, communicate better with people from other cultures or dream of a better tomorrow for humanity, this is the book for you!