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Hey there Agents of Change!

It’s time to delve into the world of the Kinesthetic processors. We have started to gain an understanding of Visual and Auditory systems so lets look into one of the systems that is often misunderstood.

In NLP, kinesthetic refers to our sense of feeling. In truth, we  have internal feelings, emotions, and we also feel and touch externally.

Our kinesthetic system is our bodily sensations and feelings. These feelings are not the names we give to our sensations that we call emotion. Emotions are mostly evaluations of a set of sensations or learned responses, originating in our brains and translated into body sensations.

Kinesthetic processing is much slower than the visual system processing where a lot of information is available all at once. It is also slower than auditory system processing, where information is sequential and sometimes like a train on tracks.

Generally, it is one of our primitive types of processing, and can be simultaneous and conflicting.

Having said all that, it can be very fast, for instance in emergencies. When there is a tiger nearby, it is more useful to pay attention to what your stomach is telling you and run like crazy.

Kinesthetic processors enjoy using manipulatives. They:

• speak with their hands and with gestures.
• remember what was done but have difficulty recalling what was said or seen.
• will try new things.
• rely on what they can directly experience, do or perform.
• are outgoing and expressive by nature.
• tend to be messy in habits and dress.
• are uncomfortable in classrooms where they lack hands-on experience.
• like physical rewards.
• need to be active and in motion.

Kinesthetic preferences tend to  like the outdoors, athletics and will choose a career where they use their hands, like a carpenter, mechanic.   Will make statements like, “Even when I feel the pressure at work, I handle the stress well”  or “I typically feel pretty relaxed”.

Or: “Yes I noticed, you’re a smooth operator, even when something slips your mind, when it boils right down to things; you’re sharp as a tack”. “I noticed when there’s a moment of panic or when things get heated, you just hang in there, pull a few strings and it all seems to calms down”.

Kinesthetic Words & Phrases

• I will get in touch with you.
• He got the sharp end of her tongue
• I’m surfing the Internet.
• I feel it in my bones.
• There was tension in the air.
• He is a warm-hearted man.
• The pressure was tremendous.
• The project is up and running.
• Heated argument
• That feels right to me.
• I can’t get a grip on this.
• That doesn’t sit right with me.
• I have good feelings about this.
• My gut is telling me.
• I follow your drift.
• Pull some string
• Sharp as a tack
• Smooth operator
• Make contact
• Throw out
• Firm foundation
• Get a handle on it.
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I’m excited and grateful to be sharing this part of the journey with you!

Let’s Do This!

Peace,

Kim