Effective Communication With NLP & The Enneagram

Although eye movements and usage of words are the more common ways of accessing a person’s Representational Systems, there are other accessing cues as well. The way we think will always show up somewhere in our behaviour.

For example, a visual person who is constructing images as they talk will then to speak faster and possibly at a higher pitch. This allows them to keep up with the images in their brain. In addition, their breathing will be more shallow, and their muscles will be more tensed.

Auditory people who think in sounds breathe more evenly over the chest area, unlike visuals who breathe higher up in their chests. Their tonality is often clear and expressive. Usually, their heads will be well balanced on the shoulders or tilted slightly, as if they are listening to something.

A feeling or kinesthetic person will breathe low in their stomach area, and have more relaxed muscles. Their heads tend to tilt down and their tonality is deeper, with pauses in their slightly slower speech. Those who talk to themselves are also likely to look down. Sometimes, they may lean their head on a side using their hands. For some, they even repeat what they just hear to themselves, so you might spot a bit of lip moving.

Of course, this is a general description of how other parts of our body will react according to the way we think. When you are observing others, it is always good to be flexible since we are not produced from a factory assembly line.