The Eye Movement (NLP) by Marta Gomes

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The Eye Movement

Neuro- Linguistic Programming

  Firstly, talking about the eye movements in Neuro- Linguistic Programming, we need to understand what Neuro- Linguistic Programming means. By Neuro- Linguistic Programming, we mean a communicational approach, that describes the fundamental dynamics between mind, neuro, our language, linguistic, and how their interplay influences our body and its behaviour, programming. This epistemology, was first developed by John Grinder and Richard Bandler, as a form of psychological therapy, thinking there was a theoretical connection between neurological processes, neuro, language, linguistic, and behaviours learned through life experience, that could be used to achieve certain goals, programming. ("Social Engineering & Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Profiling", 2018) Therefore, our neurological system regulates how our body functions, our language defines how we interfere and communicate with other people and our programming determines the kind of world’s model we create. ("What Is NLP?", 2018)  
  Proceeding to the eye movements in Neuro- Linguistic Programming, Ian Mann, the writer of the book “Hacking the Human”, 2008 about social engineering, had the idea of observing eye movements to indicate current thought processes. This means, that we make certain expressions with our eyes, when someone asks us certain questions. ("Social Engineering & Neuro-Lingustic Programming (NLP) Profiling", 2018)

  
Image1: ("eye movement neuro linguistic programming - Google Search", 2018)
Video1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=Rl9sOYPT5UY 
("Eye Paterns (NLP)", 2018)
In the image (Image1) and video (Video1) above, we can see the different eye positions in certain timings, for example if someone asks us to remember a specific visual object, we tend to roll our eyes to upper right corner, but if someone asks us to imagine a certain sound, we tend to look to the middle left side. So, using Neuro- Linguistic Programming will enable you to codify how a person may be thinking, meaning that you can have better communication skills with people. ("The NLP Eye Movement clues - Pegasus NLP", 2018)
Furthermore, this theory also depends a lot of the primary representational modality of the person you are communicating with. If you ask the same question to a highly visual person, to a kinaesthetically oriented person and to a strongly auditory person, they all will have different reactions. The visual oriented person will probably look up, in order to think how it looks like, the kinaesthetically oriented person will look down to ponder how it feels like and the auditory oriented person will look straight forward to reflect how it sounds like. ("Article of the Month Page", 2018)
  Finally, there are some studies, that refute the theory of Neuro- Linguistic Programming eye movements, because many people don’t have this instinct to do this eye movements when they are thinking. Also, it is proven, when thinking about certain events, that are very familiar, some people don’t move their eyes at all. But this subject is still being researched and tested and there are many people that really do these eye movements when thinking, this is why we can’t be sure if this theory is right or wrong. ("The NLP Eye Movement clues - Pegasus NLP", 2018)

References


1.    Article of the Month Page. (2018). Nlpu.com. Retrieved 4 January 2018, from http://www.nlpu.com/Articles/artic14.htm

2.    Eye Paterns (NLP). (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 4 January 2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=Rl9sOYPT5UY
3.    eye movement neuro linguistic programming - Google Search. (2018). Google.pt. Retrieved 4 January 2018, from https://www.google.pt/search?q=eye+movement+neuro+linguistic+programming&client=safari&rls=en&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0wcnRgb7YAhXB1RQKHQRxD9EQ_AUICigB&biw=1264&bih=616#imgrc=SmG3FzQ2sGZ4JM:
4.    Social Engineering & Neuro-Lingustic Programming (NLP) Profiling. (2018). Defensive Depth. Retrieved 3 January 2018, from http://defensivedepth.com/2009/11/22/social-engineering-neuro-lingustic-programming-nlp-profiling/
5.    The NLP Eye Movement clues - Pegasus NLP. (2018). Pegasus NLP. Retrieved 4 January 2018, from https://nlp-now.co.uk/nlp-eye-movement-clues/
6.    What Is NLP?. (2018). Nlpu.com. Retrieved 3 January 2018, from http://www.nlpu.com/NLPU_WhatIsNLP.html

Marta Gomes 
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PhD Patrícia Araújo
Interpersonal Skills



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