MindSkills Techniques Basics

What Are MindSkills Techniques?
These short pattern guidelines are about ‘HOW’ to run your business brain to get better results, faster skills learning and lasting life changes. Derived from the fields of accelerated learning, applied behavioural modelling (NLP – neuro linguistic programming) and advances in management psychology.

These next (3G) generation techniques stretch from ‘remedial’ (past) to ‘mindful’ (now) to ‘generative’ (future). They are unique and carefully crafted as a series of regular series of tightly-focused, high-impact mind/body strategies designed to boost personal effectiveness and take your capabilities, skills and traits to the next level.

How to add juice to MindSKILLS Techniques
Unless you are very familiar with the approach this basic skill-builder section will help you squeeze more juice out of each pattern. It provides some suggestions and guidelines for personal practice in developing fundamental skills that will enable you to get the much more out of each MindSKILLS protocol.

1. Thinking and Communications Preferences Quiz – a quick test that converts language into a multi-sensory hierarchy preference of seeing (Visual), hearing (Auditory), feelings (Kinesthetic) and words (Detached) (called modalities/representational system)
2. Discover important differences between 2 experiences – the finer distinctions, qualities or characteristics attributed to each thinking mental structure (called submodalities).
3. How to change your ‘disappointing’ experience into a more ‘exciting’ one – by contrasting and deliberately shifting or ‘mapping across’ key multi-sensory differences will enable you to make real personal effectiveness changes quickly.

Thinking and Communications Preferences Quiz
The senses you prefer to naturally use in thinking (technically called ‘modalities’ or ‘representational system’) directly influence how you communicate with yourself and others, determines emotions you feel, the behaviours you exhibit and finally actions you take (or avoid!).

For each of the following statements, please place a number next to every phrase as follows:

• 4 = closest to describing you
• 3 = next best description
• 2 = next best
• 1 = least descriptive of you

1. l make important decisions based on:

• what looks best to me
• which way sounds the best
• gut level feelings
• precise review and study of the issues

2. During an argument, I am most likely to be influenced by:

• whether or not I can see the other person’s point of view
• the other person’s tone of voice
• whether or not l feel in touch with the other person’s true feelings
• the logic of the other person’s argument

3. I most easily communicate what is going on with me by:

• the way I dress
• my tone of voice
• the feelings I share
• the words I choose

4. It is easiest for me to:

• select rich, attractive colour combinations
• find the ideal volume and tuning on a stereo system
• select superbly comfortable furniture
• select intellectually relevant aspects of an interesting subject

5. I am very:

• responsive to the colours and the way a room looks
• attuned to the sounds in my surroundings
• sensitive to the way articles of clothing feel on my body
• adept at making sense of new facts and data