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Welcome to Ireland, a small
island with a big reputation.
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For such a small country the
Island of Ireland has more than
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its fair share of
great attractions. It's got
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breathtaking landscapes
and fascinating, friendly
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intelligent people. Everything
you've heard is true. Ireland
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is a stunner. It's loaded with
magnificent places to visit;
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cultural areas, cities, towns
and villages, fabulous castles
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medieval monasteries and
spectacular natural wonders.
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But even with all this natural
beauty and rich history it's the
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people here who are the biggest
attraction and provide the
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lasting memories of Ireland.
Ireland has produced a large
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number of world class poets,
novelists, playwrights and
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actors and many politicians in
the English-speaking world and
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beyond might well have inherited
their oratory skills from their
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Irish ancestors. These
politicians that have excelled
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in various countries around the
world have something in common,
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which is the key to their
success and no, it's not just
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their Irish heritage. Each
of these politicians learned
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how to get
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the best out of their brains.
Today we're going to discover
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their secrets. So stay tuned
because you'll learn something
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fascinating about the amazing
human brain and you may even
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discover how to get the
most out of your brain as well.
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Ireland is an island in the
North Atlantic. It's located
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west of Great Britain and
separated by the Irish Sea.
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Although small in size Ireland
is packed full of marvelous
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attractions that include natural
wonders, monuments, and castles.
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One of the most picturesque
and romantic of these is the now
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ruined Dunure's Castle
located on the edge of a basalt
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outcropping in County Antrim
near the most northeasterly tip
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of Island overlooking the Irish
Sea. Nearby is the spectacular
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Dark Hedges, a beautiful avenue
of beech trees planted by the
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Stuart family in the 18th
century. It was intended as a
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compelling landscape feature
to impress visitors as they
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approached the entrance to
their Gregorian mansion Grace
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Hill House. Two centuries later
the trees remain a magnificent
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sight and have become one of
the most photographed natural
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phenomena in Northern Ireland.
Farther along the coast is one
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of Ireland's most impressive
landscapes, the Giants Causeway.
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And it really is an
extraordinary sight indeed.
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Sitting at the foot of steep
cliffs and stretching out into
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the sea is this natural
formation of thousands of
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tightly packed basalt
rock columns. The tops of the
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columns form flat
stepping stones all of which are
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perfectly hexagonal. They
measure about 30 cm in diameter
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Some are very short. Others are
as tall as 12 meters. Scientists
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believe they were formed by
volcanic eruptions and cooling
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lava. The ancients, on the
other hand, believed the rock
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formation to be the work
of giants; hence the name the
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Giants Causeway. All of this
is a reminder of the wonderful
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attractions the island
has to share. But these aren't
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Ireland's greatest gifts to the
world. That truly belongs to its
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people and their culture. In the
past 300 years between nine and
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ten million people born in
Ireland have emigrated. By the
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21st century an estimated 18
million people worldwide claim
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some Irish descent. So Irish
culture has had a significant
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influence on other cultures. The
Irish have taken their talents
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culture, music and heritage
all over the world. The list of
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Irish people who have
excelled and made a significant
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contribution to society just
goes on and on. They've been
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among some of the world's
highest achievers and like all
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high achievers, they've learned
how to get the most out of their
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brain. The bottom line:
Mankind's greatest achievements
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are only possible because of the
human brain. It's been said that
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you can manage something
effectively only when you can
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identify, label and describe it.
How does one do that with the
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human brain? Well today's guest,
a brain function specialist, can
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help us figure this out.
Dr. Arlene Taylor is the founder
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and president of Realizations,
Inc., a nonprofit corporation
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that engages in brain function
research and provides unique
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educational resources. She's the
author of several popular books
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related to brain function
and practical applications to
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relationships and everyday
living and creator of the
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Longevity Lifestyle Matters
program. Let's meet Dr. Taylor.
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Dr. Taylor welcome to
the Incredible Journey. We're
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delighted to have
you on today's program.
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And I'm delighted to be here,
Gary. It's really fun talking
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with you about brain function.
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Everything we do and understand
comes to us through the brain.
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What we see, what we hear, what
we taste. Please tell us about
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the three most important senses
and how they function with the
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brain. There's lots of ways to
define senses but from childhood
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we're exposed to what we call
the three main sensory systems
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and those are the visual sensory
system, which you take in
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through your eyes; the auditory
sensory system, which you take
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in through your ears, and as
sound waves beat against your
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skin. And the third one is
called the kinesthetic sensory
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system and that groups several
things together: The sense of
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smell, the sense of taste,
the sense of touch, the sense of
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temperature perception (are you
too hot, are you too cold, are
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you just right), how you
move your muscles and how your
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muscles feel. And those three
main sensory grouping systems
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take in the sensory data and
decode it for us because it's
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got to be interpreted, if
you will, in the brain before it
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makes any sense. All sensory
data is decoded in the neocortex
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except for one thing and that's
the sense of smell. What's
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interesting about that is that
layer also has emotional memory,
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if you will. So if you're a
true kinesthetic, that is your
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number one sensory system and
you smell an odor, if you have
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any emotional impactful memories
about that you've got them just
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like that because it gets
decoded in that center part.
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Those decoding areas, and this
blows my mind, can absorb and
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decode 10 million bits of
sensory data per second, 10
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million per second! Now we've
talked about bent from time to
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time. You have a sensory bent.
What does that mean? It means
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that for your brain one of these
three main sensory systems,
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visual, auditory or kinesthetic
sensory data for one of these
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groupings tends to register most
quickly and intensely in your
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brain.
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How does sensory preference
or one's sensory bent impact an
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individual?
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Well it basically influences the
type of sensory data that you
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pay attention to, that's energy
efficient for you, that gets
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your attention fastest. It also
has to do with how you learn.
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So there's probably an
individual learning style for
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every person on the planet
but in this grouping how do you
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learn most easily. If you're
a visual you learn most quickly
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and easily by what you can see.
You know, a picture's worth a
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thousand words. A diagram may
be worth two thousand words. If
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you're and auditory you learn
most quickly and easily by what
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you hear and what you read
because decoding speech sounds
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and reading words come out
of the same part of the brain.
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And if you're a kinesthetic you
tend to learn most easily and
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most quickly by picking
something up and manipulating it
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with your hands and holding and
feeling and touching. How you
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communicate with others, your
significant other, your marriage
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partner, your children, your
teacher/student interactions
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have a lot to do with sensory
preference Occasionally a parent
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will bring a child to me and say
my child was doing so well in
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school and he's in a different
room now and he's just not
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learning anything. And the first
thing I want to know is what's
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the child's sensory preference
and what's the teacher's sensory
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preference. Because we tend to
communicate and teach and share
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information in our sensory
preference unless we make a
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different decision. So let's
say the teacher's auditory but
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you've got a visual child and
there's nothing to see. They're
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just supposed to listen. The
child will just not tend to take
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in the data. Or you have a
visual or auditory teacher and a
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kinesthetic child and the chair
isn't comfortable and there's no
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air conditioning and they
just can't learn. So it impacts
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every interaction period.
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Dr. Taylor are there any
estimates about how many people
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fall into the three main sensory
systems in terms of preference?
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There are actually. And you know
estimates are just estimates.
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But the latest data that I
have says that approximately 60
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percent of the population has
the visual sensory preference.
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Now divide that by female
improvising brains and male
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systemizing brains and you find
that more males have the visual
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preference or visual bent than
do females. And it's all about
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how the data look. You know,
they're looking with their eyes
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and taking in that data.
Approximately 20 percent have
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an auditory preference or bent.
I'm clearly an auditory and
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that's a minority. When you
divide that between males and
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females you find that more
females are auditory than males
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and that's all about how
does the data sound and the same
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percentage holds for
kinesthesia. About twenty
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percent of the population
are kinesthetic. Don't have any
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data on more males or females.
Seems to be fairly equally
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distributed and those brains
are interested in how the data
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is sensed. What's you sense
of smell, what's your sense of
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touch, what's your sense of
temperature? You know, what's
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your sense of muscle movement
and so on. And because of that
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you'll often find kinesthetic
make wonderful chefs.
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Dr. Taylor how can you pick up
someone else's bent or sensory
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preference?
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Well I do it by listening. I
pay attention to what they say.
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Because we tend to use
words that match our sensory
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preference. For example,
let's think about someone with a
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visual sensory preference. If
you listen to what they say you
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might hear phrases like
this: Oh I see what you mean. Or
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picture this. Or ah the light
just went on. Or it's crystal
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clear to me. Those are all
visual words and metaphors so
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you can get a sense that they
may be visuals. How things look
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is of paramount importance to
them, especially how they look.
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They tend to feel affirmed
through positive visual stimuli
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You look at them and smile. You
give them a visual gift. I mean
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that be the person who loves
to get a dozen red roses or you
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know a book with pictures in
it or something like that. They
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tend to choose their profession
if they have the option that
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will allow them to use their
visualness in whatever way. They
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might be in television work, you
know. They might be in artistic
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type of work. So auditories,
if you listen you will hear
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auditories say things like that
sounds okay, it's clear as a
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bell, keep your ear to the
ground and tell me what you
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hear. They're very sensitive
to sound, they are sensitive to
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volume, they're sensitive
to pitch. They're sensitive to
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timber. They're sensitive to
vocal inflections and when it
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comes to clothing they'll be one
or two things; they like clothes
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that make noise, but they can't
stand their clothes to make any
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noise. They tend to feel
affirmed when they receive
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positive auditory stimulation.
So they like to be told I love
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you. And sometimes people think
they're showing that by their
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actions and that's true but
an auditory likes to hear that.
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They like to talk with their
friends, you know, share
information verbally.
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They like to read interesting
books. Sometimes an e-book, a
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regular handheld book is a gift
for an auditory. They often like
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music. Not all musicians
are auditory but auditories are
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often very sensitive and like
certain types of music. And they
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actually like to get written
communication because if they
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know the person then up pops
an e- mail. What happens in the
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brain of an auditory is he or
she reads that e-mail, they hear
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the voice of the person in their
head and that's the comforting
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thing. They're often very good
listeners and they sometimes
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choose professions that let them
use sound. And the third group
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are the kinesthetic. If
you listen to them, you'll hear
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phrases like ah that's not
a good fit or it doesn't feel
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right. Or my gut says. Or let's
get out and hammer out a plan.
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So it'll be those kind of words
and metaphors. They're affirmed
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again through positive
kinesthetic stimuli: Odors,
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taste, touch, textures.
It's really important how their
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clothes feel against their skin
Temperature. They often like
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massages. They may like soaking
in a tub with fragrant bath oils
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Maybe not so much for some of
the other sensory systems. And
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they sometimes select
professions that use their
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kinesthesia. So most likely
many top athletes have a lot of
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kinesthesia because they know
how to use their muscles. They
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know what their muscles can
do. They can hone their muscular
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activities. So we
need all of those again.
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Does our sensory bent
or preference ever change?
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Now that's a complex question.
We believe, some of us, that
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you're born with your bent. We
use all three of them, we build
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skills in all three, but one of
them likely gets your attention
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fastest. Sometimes parents
expect their children to be
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exactly like them. They're
not doing this unkindly; they're
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doing it from lack of knowledge.
So sometimes children work
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really hard to develop a sensory
system because that's what's
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honored in their family. That's
not necessarily bad but then
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they become adults, they begin
to really own who they are and
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it's almost relaxing to know
well that's why I struggle so
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hard because that's not what my
brain registers so quickly. The
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other time it might look like
you're changing is you lose one
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of those sensory systems. Let's
say that you develop severe
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glaucoma and lose the sight in
your eyes, but you're a visual.
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Well your other two sensory
systems are going to take over.
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And you're going to become much
more auditorily aware of what's
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around you and you're
going to begin to build spatial,
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kinesthetic skills to help you
navigate. And somebody might say
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my you know you're really
auditory aren't you? Well they
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have developed that system
because their preference is no
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longer able to be used. So we
don't think it changes innately
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but the brain can help you do
what you have to do depending on
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what is, fortunately.
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How you would you
sum up this topic?
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Let me sum it up by giving you
three caveats, just things to
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think about. Number one: You
tend to relate to others in your
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sensory preference unless you
make a different choice. So I
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could sit here with my eyes
closed and talk to you for a
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week and be pretty comfortable
but that's only 20 percent of
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the population. So I need
to have some diagrams and some
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pictures that people who
are visual can relate to and
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hopefully, the kinesthetic are
sitting in a comfortable chair
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while they see this program.
You tend to feel accepted, loved
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most quickly when you receive
affirmation in your sensory bent
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And we alluded to that. If
you know the person's visual and
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you aren't do something visual
things for them. If you know
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they're auditory and you're not
take them to a lovely musical
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program or give them CD's of
books they like to hear on tape.
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Because it's about what gets
their brain's attention that
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makes the gift seem wonderful.
And if you're kinesthetic, do
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they like fragrant smelling soap
or do they like bubble bath and
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things like that. Think about
their sensory preference and the
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third one is you tend to
gravitate toward environments
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that make provision for
your sensory preference and that
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reward your sensory bent, which
means you feel comfortable there
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Dr. Taylor, thank you so much
for sharing this relevant and
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important information that's
going to affect the way we
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behave and even our
relationships with others.
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Thank you very much
for being with us today.
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It's my pleasure, Gary, because
you are absolutely correct.
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Information is powerful and
you can change relationships by
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understanding more
about sensory preference and
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practically
applying what you learn.
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Well isn't' your brain
marvelous. It can use all the
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sensory systems, taste, touch,
smell, sight and sound at the
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one time. And they're the
only way we can relate to other
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people. We can look at them,
talk to them, touch them, smell
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them and listen to them. And
generally we each have one of
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the senses that is strongest,
that we are predisposed to using
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most. One of those sensory types
will get our brain's attentions
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faster. Some of us have
visual, others auditory, others
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kinesthetic. Now it's
interesting to note that when
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Jesus was here on earth he used
these different ways to reach
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people and communicate with them
Some just saw him. Others he
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spoke to, they heard him
and others he communicated with
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through touch. He knew the most
effective way to reach every
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person and he still knows the
best and most effective way to
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reach each of us today. God
communicates with us today and
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every day through a variety
of ways depending on the sensory
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type we are. Here's some of the
ways that he communicates with
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us today and every day. Through
his word the Bible. It's God's
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word and is a lamp to our feet
and a light to our path. Then
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through his Son Jesus Christ.
Through the words of Jesus in
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the Bible. In these last days
God has spoken to us through his
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Son Jesus Christ. And
then through nature and God's
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creation; through the marvels of
nature, the enormity of space,
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the beauty around us we see the
power and love of God. Through
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the food we eat we taste and see
that God is good. Also through
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other people and fellow
believers. God may use a friend,
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a teacher, a parent or a
preacher to convey his message
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of truth to us. Next
through music we can sense God's
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presence and hear his voice. And
then through circumstances and
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experiences we have we can
see, feel and experience the
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providence of God. And then
through his Spirit, through the
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still small voice he
communicates through our
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conscience and finally through
prayer. God communicates with us
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and touches us with his presence
Now if you'd like to know God
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better and experience him
more closely you can invite him
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into your life
right now as we pray.
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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you
for creating us with senses so
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that we can appreciate the
world around us and effectively
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communicate with other people
and most importantly with you.
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Lord, we want our relationships
to be healthy and happy and we
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pray for the peace and
fulfillment that come from
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knowing you. We ask
this in Jesus' name, Amen.
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A human brain is amazing. The
brain can use all the sensory
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systems at one time and they're
the only way we can relate to
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God and to others. If you're
facing challenges in life and
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would like to get closer to
God to experience true peace and
00:25:57.22\00:26:00.96
inner happiness then I'd like
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journey to Ireland and our
reflections on the wonders of
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the human brain, be sure to join
us again next week. Until then
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remember the ultimate
destination of life's journey.
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Now I saw a new heaven and a new
earth. And God will wipe away
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every tear from their eyes.
There shall be no more death nor
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sorrow nor crying. There shall
be no more pain for the former
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things have passed away.
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