Session 3 - Section B: An Exercise - Identifying Your Primary Modality

In this section, we are going to identify your primary modality. By identifying your primary modality, 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! There are a series of questions to answer. There are no right or wrong answers as everyone is different.

The following questions will help you to work out which modality you primarily use. They are all multiple choice. Write down the answer that most fits (A, B, C or D). Your first choice is usually the most appropriate, so don’t think too hard about it and go with your first instinct. If you are having trouble deciding between two or more preferences, then think back to a relevant circumstance in your life that relates specifically to the question, and select the most appropriate answer.

Question 1: I make decisions based more on:

Which way sounds the best to me
What looks best to me
Gut feeling
Studying and reviewing the issues at hand

Question 2: I find it easier to select:

Attractive colour combinations
The most comfortable furniture
The most relevant point in an interesting piece of text
The ideal volume or tuning on a radio

Question 3: The sentence that describes me best is:

I like music and talking on the phone and am easily distracted by noise
I am a thinker, I need to be certain of facts and don’t like being rushed into a decision
I move and talk slowly and respond to physical rewards and touch
I am organised, neat, well-groomed and orderly

Question 4: I will generally be interested in something that I am being sold if:

It feels right
It looks right
It makes sense
It sounds good

Question 5: I communicate what is going on with me more by:

My tone of voice
The words I say
The feelings I convey
The way I dress and look

Question 6: I memorise things best by:

Seeing pictures
Following steps, procedures and sequences
Doing or walking through something
Talking it through to myself and making sense of it

Question 7: In an argument with another person, I am more likely to be influenced by the other person’s:

True feelings
Logic
Point of view
Tone of voice

Question 8: Which is most true for you?

I have a strong response to colours and the way a room looks
I have strong response to how clothes feel on my body
I am very adept of making sense of new facts or data
I am very attuned to the sounds of my surroundings

Question 9: When speaking or writing, I would be more likely to use words like:

‘I feel’, ‘get in touch’, ‘make contact’, ‘get a grasp’, ‘pull some strings’
'I’m certain’, ‘everything considered’, ‘thinking logically’, ‘it makes sense’
‘Looks good’, ‘clear picture’, ‘take a peek’, ‘glimpse’, ‘bright’, ‘brilliant’
‘Loud and clear’, ‘it rings a bell’, ‘it sounds like’, ‘I’m all ears’, ‘that clicks’

Scoring:

Go through each of the nine answers, and alongside, write down the modality that your answer falls into (you can simplify them to V, A, K and AD to make it easier and quicker).

QUESTION NUMBER	VISUAL	AUDITORY	KINAESTHETIC	AUDITORY DIGITAL
Question 1.	b	a	c	d
Question 2.	a	d	b	c
Question 3.	d	a	c	b
Question 4.	b	d	a	c
Question 5.	d	a	c	b
Question 6.	a	b	c	d
Question 7.	c	d	a	b
Question 8.	a	d	c	b
Question 9.	c	d	a	b

Tally up the number of Auditory, Kinaesthetic, Visual and Auditory Digital’s that you got.

The one with the most is your primary modality.

You may be among the few that find they have pretty even scores over two or more modalities. That is fine, you haven't done anything wrong. You may have been born with one primary modality and developed other modalities that were not your natural dominant ones, or you could have done a lot of internal work, or have done personality profiling work in the past. Do not despair, it is a good thing. You may find that you receive messages in many different ways, by seeing and hearing and feeling and knowing, or a combination of all four. When you are doing the next sections, just read the information that is relevant to both/all of your primary modalities, or choose one that you feel is most relevant/easy to you to start working with. Over time everyone is able to develop all four modalities.

The following are general characteristics of the different modalities. Do any of these resonate with you?:

Visual primary modality

Learn by seeing it done
Memorise by seeing pictures of that which they wish to remember
Will be primarily interested in how something ‘looks’
Appearances are important to them
Respond to what they see either in their minds or in reality
‘See’ the world by remembering or constructing ‘mental images’
Will often use words and phrases like see, look, focus, picture, snapshot, glimpse, view, clear, bright, brilliant, colour, tunnel vision, looks good to me, observe, watch, gaze, show, reveal, imagine, naked eye, short-sighted, sight for sore eyes, an eyeful, take a peek, paint a picture, birds-eye view, foggy, dim, hazy, murky, lacklustre, go blank and any other words pertaining to the eyes and seeing (or not seeing)

Auditory modality

Primarily construct their thoughts and feelings based upon what they hear
Learn by listening to it being explained how it is done
Memorise by steps, procedures and sequences (sequentially)
Will be primarily interested in how something ‘sounds’
Respond to certain tones of voice or sets of words
Likes to be told how they are doing
Typically talk to themselves, often moving their lips when they do
Are easily distracted by noise
Like to tell themselves what is happening or how to interpret an event
Often use words and phrases such as I hear you, listen, quiet as a mouse, rings a bell, loud and clear, purrs like a kitten, clear as a bell, that clicks, music to my ears, voicing an opinion, on another note, talk over, I’m all ears, tune out, sound, hear, silence, mute, quiet, deaf, hush, accent, resonate, recall, melody, harmonise, call, say, tell, announce, jingle, squeak, sniff, babble, roar, clash, crash, discord, amplify and any other phrases or words relating to sounds and hearing

Kinaesthetic modality

Interpret their world through their feelings and touch
Learn and memorise by doing something or ‘walking it through’ themselves
Will be primarily interested in how something ‘feels’ or if it ‘feels’ right
Respond to physical rewards and touching
Often use words and phrases like it feels right, I get what you mean, my gut feeling is, I’ll pull some strings, it slipped through my fingers, hang in there, I’ll get in touch, smooth operator, it’ll catch on, tap into, it was a heated argument, it needs to be set in concrete, you’ll get a hold of it, firm foundation, or other words that relate to the feel or touch of an object, such as grasp, heavy, solid, slimy, firm, tight, scrape, bounce, sticky, sharp, stumble, warm, rub, texture, pressure, handle etc

Auditory Digital modality

Are primarily thinkers
Need to be able to make sense of their world, through data, statistics and facts
Learns and memorises by ‘working it out’ themselves
Will be primarily interested in ‘how it works’
It is important to them that it ‘makes sense’
Spend a lot of time talking to themselves
Often use words and phrases such as I think, I’m certain, thinking logically, everything considered, the foreseeable issues, this needs clarity, good sense, I need, identifiable issues, results driven, accurate, direction, overhaul, projections, outcome, methodologies, procedures, data, progression, process, projections, analysis, constructed, capabilities and any other word relating to with thinking things through and analysing information

No one modality is better than any other. The world needs some of all four modalities to make it go around.

Your primary modality will indicate how you are likely to receive messages and will help you to tune in a lot easier:

Visual - you will likely have stronger clairvoyant abilities (clear-seeing)
Auditory - you will probably be more clairaudient (clear-hearing)
Kinaesthetic - you will likely have stronger clairsentient abilities (clear-feeling)
Auditory Digital - you will more than likely receive messages that appear as thoughts, or a ‘knowing’ (claircognizant)

Congratulations! You have now finished Session 3: How Do The Messages Come? Well done!