Five senses: smell, taste, sight, touch and hearing. As people, we receive information about the environment around us through these five senses; they are the ones that allow us to interact with others and the environment, they are the ones that bring us beauty, discomfort, pleasures, fears.
The current of Neurolinguistic Programming says that, in the world as we see it, it is we who “reinterpret” it according to our personality and the predominance of one sense over another.
- This also has to do with the dimension of brain dominance (if our dominance is on the left side.
- For example.
- We will tend to use logic and control more.
- But if we use more the right.
- Our skills will be more creative.
- Innovative and flexible) In NLP theory.
- Each person has a sensitive channel to understand the world and connect with people.
Do you want to discover your own?
Let’s take an example. When you’re introduced to a person, how do you react normally?According to the NLP, people who use the ear canal generally prefer a “Hello, how are you?”; those who lean towards smile or gesture of courtesy use the visual channel more, finally those who use a hug are more kinesthetic.
Of course, we can all have a small mixture of these three dimensions, and we use them in different situations, but we will always have one predominance or another, depending on the meaning we have developed later, will determine how, for example, we acquire knowledge and new learnings. Our tastes and interests are also linked to these dimensions, since, in a way, they also have to do with our personality.
You may like to listen to music while driving, but it’s possible that when you get to town and notice that traffic becomes more intense and complicated, the radio starts to annoy you, and more if instead of the music you word what you hear. You can’t concentrate. It would be a simple example of people who use it to a greater extent.
These people have a high level of energy, are restless and attentive, capture details and many small aspects that, for others, go unnoticed, often see images in their minds to remember them and it is common for them to have to write small notes. They need quiet places to concentrate.
Are you one of those people who usually express their thoughts aloud?Do you always prefer other people to explain things to you rather than read them yourself?Do you usually follow people’s conversations easily, even if you’re looking the other way?If so, the way you process information is auditory.
According to the NLP, they are more relaxed, communicative and with great gifts of expression; they like to speak and remember every word they hear in great detail.
What are your passions?Do you like to cook, do sports, work outdoors?Would you rather try things before you find out? The NLP says that filmmakers, while calm, have a special taste for emotions and everything to do with manual things, with the experience of touch, taste and smell. Are they very socially expressive, of those who seek personal contact, hugs?physical contact.
They have no particular interest in details like the most “visual” people, so they are more spontaneous and tend to look for emotions first.
In conclusion, we want to emphasize that we all have characteristics of all these dimensions, but what is interesting from the point of view of the NLP is that the way we understand reality is intimately related to our personality and also to our senses. get to know each other, another interesting perspective with which to turn the key to self-awareness.