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     Communication entails many aspects.

     We   perceive/conceive messages in various  ways  for
various reasons.   Our messages are formulated with one or
more persons as  our intended audience---perhaps with some
specific response as our intended effect. How we formulate
our messages depends upon: what we have perceived, what we
have conceived,  our intentions,  our hoped  for  response
from the recipient,  our  ability  to  articulate  in  the
language of choice; and our  state  of mind, heart, spirit
and soul.

     Often  our messages are changed a bit here and a  bit
there  in  the process of formulation,   articulation  and
transmission.  The received text/message is not quite what
we intended it to be;  even before the recipient(s)  start
to  try  to  interpret and understand it.    Our  intended
recipient(s)   and perhaps some un-intended recipients are
likely to change our message bit by bit as they work  with
it  and  try  to intuit our intentions  and  perhaps  some
presumably hidden motives.

     How  our  messages  are  received,   interpreted  and
understood   depends  as  much  upon  those  who  receive,
interpret  and  understand  it---as  upon our perceptions,
conceptions, intentions, articulations, and transmissions.

     How  recipients of our message respond to them depend
as much upon their own personal histories, states of mind,
intentions, language skills, fears, hopes and aspirations-
--as upon any factor  over which we may (or may not)  have
influence and/or control.

     We  may be disappointed in how others respond to  our
messages.    We   may  feel  that  they  lack  skills   of
understanding  our "clear"  messages;  and blame them  for
carelessness.   We may feel that we did our job well,  but
they  did not do their job well.   Such a response on  our
part  due  to our disappointment suggests that we  do  not
understand how complicated effective communication is.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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