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SENSORY ACUITY
Sensory acuity is placing your attention on your physical sense experience
and noticing things that you had not previously noticed. Sensory acuity is
recognizing the difference between subjective evaluations and objective
information. This is a requisite skill for rapport. Pattern recognition
is fundamental in sensory acuity skills.
With the development of sensory acuity skills you can identify and
recognise micro-behavioral shifts in yourself and ohters and through this
knowledge gain additional choices in any interaction. In other words you
will better know what is happening.
Sensory Acuity observations are descriptive of the experiences that can be
verified through physical senses. You can see another person folding arms,
crossing legs, blushing; you can hear another person changing voice tempo,
you can see and hear another person tapping foot.
Non-sensory observations are your interpretation of what is going on and it
may or may not be true. For successful communication it is important to
verify that what you think is happening with another person is actually
happening.
In one of the workshops I participated a trainer told us a story.
During one of his earlier workshops which was taught over a period of four
days, a participant was present who would, ever once in a while, sigh and
shake his head. By the third day, the trainer could take it no more,
convinced that the man is so disappointed with the workshop and is
definitely going to ask for a refund - he pulled the man aside, and
actually offered him a refund. The man responded that he thought the
workshop was brilliant and every once in a while he'd hear something at the
workshop, he'd realize how useful it would've been having all this
knowledge before, how much trouble it would've saved him, and how his life
would've been different now.
CALIBRATION
Calibration is an important key in successful communication.
Calibration is the recognition of a certain internal state in a person by
non-verbal signals.
When you are astute in your observation (calibration) you begin to know
more accurately what is going on in another person's experience.
Calibration is a means of checking the process of rapport.
You can calibrate (pay attention and notice the changes in) the following:
Voice
Breathing
Eyes
Skin Color
Physiology
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P.S. Guys who play poker games are fully aware of the importance of
calibration.
The first act of a teacher is to introduce the idea that the world we think
we see is only a view, a description of the world. Every effort of a
teacher is geared to prove this point to his apprentice. But accepting it
seems to be one of the hardest things one can do; we are complacently
caught in our particular view of the world, which compels us to feel and
act as if we knew everything about the world. A teacher, from the very
first act he performs, aims at stopping that view. Sorcerers call it
stopping the internal dialog and they are convinced that it is the single
most important technique that an apprentice can learn.
"Stopping the internal dialog is, however, the key to the sorcerers'
world," he said. "The rest of the activities are only props; all they do is
accelerate the effects of stopping the internal dialogue."
Casteneda, "Tales of Power"- 1974.
NLP corresponding presupposition:
1- The "map" is not the "territory".
2- People respond according to their internal maps.
Our beliefs act as neurological filters that determin how we perceive
external realities. Our beliefs about what we value as important or not,
powerfully shape our perceptions. Try as we may our perceptions are
consciously held stead fast. Contacting our unconscious, is the true key to
our own sorcerers' world.