Chapter 4
Seeing, Hearing and Feeling Your Way to Better Communication
In This Chapter
Exploring the amazing power of your senses
Noticing how people think differently through their preferred language
Fine-tuning your senses
Making a difference to your way of life
Think back a moment. In Book One we introduce you to the four main pillars of NLP. One of these elements is what NLP labels sensory awareness, the ability to understand how people make meaning of the world and create their own realities through their senses.
Just for a minute, imagine a special creature with highly developed personal antennae. Well, actually that’s you. You come tumbling into the world as a new human baby ready to discover all about the surrounding world. Unless you’re born with difficulties in some way, you arrive as a mini learning machine with eyes and ears, and a sense of smell, taste and touch, plus that most distinctly human quality – the ability to experience an emotional connection with others.
As you develop, you form mental maps of the world and get into habits of thinking and behaving during ...
