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Connirae: I’ll be inviting you to make some changes, and you can notice what happens in your experience when you do that. We’ll start with Visual. Sometimes aligning one system allows other systems to change automatically.
First, let this whole scenario swing around (gesturing in a half-circle) so that you see Bob and the other person interacting out there in front of you... Now you are in Observer Position, watching Bob and the other person. Make it so that both Bob and the other person are exactly the same distance from you as the Observer. You can also let these people move to eye level. (Bob’s breathing, expression, and color change considerably.)
(To Audience, with a smile) In NLP, one of the skills we develop as practitioners is called “sensory acuity,” which means when someone’s inner experience shifts, a trained observer will notice “subtle” external shifts.
Bob, what happened in your experience as you played around with that?
Bob: Most of the feelings drop out! There’s a lot more clarity, a lot more sense of perspective and distance. It’s more egalitarian.
Connirae: That makes sense. Before, more than half of the available information was missing.
(To the group:) While Bob was looking at the situation from outside his body, the viewpoint was so close that he couldn’t really see himself clearly. Without that, he couldn’t see the communication loop between himself and the other person clearly, either.
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