One technique that any NLP practitioner should master is that of sensory acuity. Understanding eye movement patterns in representational systems involves the ability to read a person's body language through the way they move their eyes in order to determine their mental processing.
In terms of our thought processes, we have thoughts that are either visual, auditory or kinaesthetic. We can either construct thoughts, or remember them (memories). Based upon this information, the following chart has been developed within NLP to determine most types of mental processing -
Vc - Visual Constructed (Made up visual thoughts)
Vr - Visual Remembered (Remembered visual thoughts)
Ac - Auditory Constructed (Made up auditory thoughts)
Ar - Auditory Remembered (Remembered auditory thoughts)
K - Kinaesthetic
Ai - Auditory Digital
When we mentally process information, our eyes will look in a certain direction depending upon the type of mental processing that takes place. The direction that a typical, right-handed person looks in, depending upon the type of thought they're processing, is most often represented as follows -
Vc - Eyes move to the upper right
Vr - Eyes move to the upper left
Ac - Eyes move to the right
Ar - Eyes move to the left
K - Eyes move to the lower left
Ai - Eyes move to the lower right
This isn't exact and can vary from person to person. Left-handed people will typically have their order reversed from right to left (ie, Vc would be upper left, and Vr would be upper right).
In NLP we can use this form of sensory acuity to determine whether or not a person is remembering something or if they're constructing an original thought, and whether or not this thought is auditory, visual, or kinaesthetic in nature.
As one progresses in their NLP studies, this form of "eye reading" becomes more important.
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