Hello Quent,

Here's one for you. The other day, July sixth to be exact, I was visiting a good friend of mine. In fact there we were, the six of us, Joe, Elfie, Carl, Rosemary, Kaelin, and myself sitting around the dining room table enjoying a really great meal. Joe and Elfie live here in Atlanta. Carl and Rosemary are from Texas and were visiting Kaelin and myself. Joe invited the four of us over for dinner.

Well anyway, I was sitting at one end of that table, Joe on the other. The other four people that were there were sitting perpendicular to where I was sitting. Two on my left, Elfie and Kaelin, and two on my right, Rosemary and Carl. With Kaelin being nearest on my left, and Rosemary being nearest on my right.

Now, Joe was engaged in a rather heavy conversation with Carl. They were discussing data modeling and were really into that conversation. Rosemary on the other hand was too busy enjoying the feast to be wanting to talk about anything. But all of a sudden I became aware of a sudden state shift that Rosemary was going through. I turned to her, and before she could say a word, I said up the stairs, first door on the right.

Then, I realized that Joe had three different bathrooms in the house, and that I might check with him before sending her off. So, again, without a single utterance, I signaled Rosemary to wait. It was almost as if she stopped in mid-air, as she was already getting out of her chair. Then, and again without uttering a single sound, I asked Joe if that was the bathroom he wanted the guests to use. He came out the heavy conversation he was having with Carl, signaled me with a nod, and went right back to the point he was making just before I signaled him. I then shifted my energy back to Rosemary, letting her know it was OK, and off she went.

Later, Joe and I discussed what had occurred. And agreed that it was as if time stood still in that moment. And even though Joe and I had full awareness for the level of communication that occurred between us, and between Rosemary and myself, no one else there did. We even took the time to ask the other people there if they had any conscious awareness of what had occurred. They didn't.

As far as I am concerned, the possibility for an intelligible nonverbal only communication more than exists. Granted Joe may have an edge here. As he has assisted me in over a dozen trainings, with two of those trainings being designed specifically for learning how to utilize non-verbal communication. But then again, this experience was a sign of just how successful we were with those trainings. I believe anybody can learn how to sort nonverbal information in this manner.

Stay well my friend

Carmine Baffa