Why The Eyes Are The Power Of A Speech

Speech, whether it's a private conversation or the public-speaking can be brought to life by the immense potential hidden behind the lids, yes the eyes.

Eyes can speak and impart fragrance to the body language of the speaker. Literature has evidenced it since long. Even today, a child until learns to speak communicates with eyes only and when the child grows, the world speaks to them with eyes. Looking into one's eyes itself, much of the picture gets designed in the minds before even the actual speech takes into words. One can harness the power of eyes to impart weight and value to speech. The audience can be of any size and eyes are the best way to get connected.

What role do the eyes play during a conversation?

1. Persuade the audience:

Using eye contact effectively during public speeches or even as a part of any communication can persuade the listener to see things as the speaker himself sees or wants them to see. They are most likely to be stepping and fitting well in the shoes of the speaker. Expressions in eyes are more persuasive than the expressions in the words or the speech itself.

2. Value-added speech:

The effective and right use of eyes imparts weight and value to the speech which makes the speech more relevant for every ear. The more attentively the speech is heard, the more learned it is. A valuable speech creates a better understanding of both the speaker as well as the listener/s for the mutual benefit.

3. Keeps the listeners engaged in your speech:

Not looking at people in the eye while speaking makes them less likely to look at the speaker. They might get disinterested if emotions in eyes speak different from what the body language is speaking or the words are trying to convey or persuade.  When the listeners stop looking towards the speaker, they start thinking about something else, and when that happens, they stop listening. While a perfect balance of emotions in eyes, words and the body language can keep the listener/s engaged and mentally present with alertness. No speaker would like the listener to be present there only physically and not mentally. Listeners feel encouraged to signal and respond to an effective speech with nods, frowns, or sceptical raisings of their eyebrows. They speak with gestures and facial expressions.

Direct eye contact and an effective one too reduces the time taken for reflex action. Moreover, moving faces are dynamic in nature and capture attention more strongly than static faces.

Ever since birth, even the children try to seek attention by their gaze. Infants remember those faces more with which they have spoken with eyes or got connected just by looking.

4. Emotional connection:

Eyes speak what the words cannot.  Eyes can speak what even the words cannot.  Emotional touch and expressions in the eyes can be felt while words can be left heard, unheard, unfelt without concentration. A confident speaker acts more assertively and confidence drives in if he can speak with eyes and words simultaneously.  He is more likely to turn an opposing view too into his own basket. Even if a listener is only physically present and not paying attention to what you speak. Still, he can feel the speech and react in accordance with what he will witness through his eyes sharing a look with the speaker's eyes.

5. Transforms listeners:

Looking into the eyes, listeners can get transformed from passive receivers to active participants. The presentation gets converted to a conversation. Speaker and listener both get engaged and are able to understand and respond better. A better understanding develops between the speaker and the listener/s. Eyes can even speak the unspoken words by adding the fell to the conversation.

The number of words received by the listeners through eyes is directly proportional to their participation level of the listeners, whether the listener is an individual during a private conversation or a whole lot of individuals in a public gathering. They are more likely to choose to participate during the activity. 

6. Every listener is a visual learner:

Every single person who can see is in some respect a visual learner. We sense the outer world with our eyes. The eyes are sophisticated, yet incredibly powerful. The arrival of electrical impulses from the eyes into the visual cortex of the brain makes it attentive enough to act spontaneously with immediate effect. Similarly, if the eyes see something that the brain understands as a threat, a signal is quickly generated and transmitted to a special reflex system that allows us to react soon enough even before we can actually realize the happening.

7. Makes the speech more memorable:

The message spoken with eyes is more memorable than the one spoken in words.

8. Immediate feedback:

Speaking with eyes brings in immediate feedback. Speaker can notice whether listeners/s is/are listening if they are interested, worried, excited, bored or delighted. The speaker can then change and modify his/her presentation, ask questions or shift into a more resourceful state, so as to meet the requirements of the moment and bring about the paradigm shift.

9. Keeps up the speaker's concentration:

Focusing eyes helps the speaker to concentrate. When eyes wander, they take in random, extraneous images that are sent to the brain, slowing it down.

However, eyes can create the most meaningful connections and can bring positive outcomes benefitting both the speaker as well as the listener.

10. The motion of the eyes:

Eyes and words may speak different languages. Coordination and synchronization between both can lead to an effective conversation.

CONCLUSION:

So, the whole power behind a speech is harnessed behind the eyes. "Words may lie, while eyes might not"; take its meaning only from the power in the eyes to make a speech effective and a listener interested or the opposite. To make a speech louder, speak it with eyes along with the words.