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Session 3: How Do The Messages Come?
Now you have an understanding about how the human mind works, and who it is that you are talking to, we will now move on to how the messages will come.
In this session we will learn about:
- Section A: The Internal Representation System
- Section B: An Exercise - Identifying Your Primary Modality
If at any time you need help or have any questions regarding this Session, you can email me at Jennymolan@y7mail.com and I will get back to you within 48 hours with an answer to your query. You are not alone!
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Session 3 - Section A: The Internal Representation System
Why do some people think and act in a certain way?
Why do we just ‘click’ with some people and not others?
Why do some people frustrate us?
Why do some people get it when we explain things, and others struggle?
It all comes down to our internal representational system – how we represent the world using our senses.
It influences:
- How we learn
- How we process information
- How we interpret the world around us
- How we come to decisions in our lives
We all think and act in a certain way due to the ‘filters’ (modalities) that we see our experiences through. Take for example witnesses of a car crash. There may be ten different people all witness the same car crash, but when the Investigating Officer asks those ten people what they saw, they will generally get ten different answers! This is because everyone sees things differently, dependant upon their prior experiences, how they interpreted those experiences, what meaning they gave to those experiences, their beliefs, values, thoughts, emotions etc, but most importantly, what representation system they primarily use.
When we process information, humans have the following modalities (or senses) to rely upon:
- Visual (what we see)
- Auditory (what we hear)
- Olfactory (what we smell)
- Kinaesthetic (what we sense or feel)
- Gustatory (what we taste)
- Auditory Digital (what we tell ourselves)
Taste and smell are:
- Secondary to the other senses
- Generally not used on their own to come to any sort of conclusion about experiences in life (unless you are unfortunate enough to be completely blind AND deaf)
- Are generally only used in conjunction with the other senses
So, we have four primary modalities or representational systems that we use to make sense of the world:
- Visual modality – what we see
- Auditory modality – what we hear
- Kinaesthetic modality – what we sense/feel
- Auditory Digital modality – what we tell ourselves
We all use a combination of these modalities, but we each have a primary modality.
Finding out what your primary modality is important, as it will enable you to discover what your primary extra-sensory modality is – ie how you are going to receive your inner voice's messages!