By the time you've read this post you will be able to correctly identify what a person is thinking about from their eyes alone. Everyone uses the same eye movements when they are thinking of certain things. To completely understand this concept I'll walk you through some background first.

What is NLP?

NLP is a fantastic development from American psychologists Grindler and Bandler. It is known as neuro-linguistic-programming, or NLP for short.

Mind Reading Technique

Eye movements can reveal great information and with the technique I'm about to teach you, you will be able to read some of it very easily.

What to Look For

If a person is remembering something they saw, their eyes will move upward. If they are recalling something they heard, they look to the side and tilt their head as if their listening. If they are recalling a feeling or emotion, they'll look down and to the right. When a person is mentally talking to themselves, they look down and to the left.

Now you know what to look for, you can tell exactly what a person is thinking about.

Difficulties of Reading Eye Movements

Another NLP Technique

Since we're on the subject I thought I may as well throw out some more interesting information collected from this fascinating area.

Sell Anything to Anyone Through Their Dominant Sense

People generally choose a certain sense and use that in their communication process.

To explain what I mean, 35% of people prefer the visual information channel and will use visual phrases such as " I see what you mean", "That's perfectly clear" or "Can you show me that?".

You will get the visual dominant people's attention by showing them pictures, charts, graphs and asking questions such as "Get the picture?".

25% of people prefer the auditory channel and use words such as "That rings a bell" or "That doesn't sound right" and you can communicate to them with phrases such as "Does that sound good?".

The other 40% of people prefer the feeling channel and will say "Let's kick that idea around" or "I can't quite grasp what your saying". This group of people love to test drive things and be involved in a demonstration so they can "Grasp the idea".

Summary

• NLP means neuro-linguistic-programming and was created by Grindler and Bandler.

Mind Reading Technique

• Remembering what they saw - Looks upwards

• Recalling what they heard - Looks to the side and tilts as if listening

• Recalling a feeling or emotion - Looks down and to the right

• Mentally talking to themselves - Looks down and to the left.

Difficulties of Reading Eye Movements

• Can occur in a fraction of a second and appear in clusters.

Sell Anything to Anyone Through Their Dominant Sense

• People generally choose a certain sense and use that in their communication process.

• 35% of people prefer the visual information channel and will use visual phrases such as " I see what you mean"

• 25% of people prefer the auditory channel and use words such as "That rings a bell"

• The other 40% of people prefer the feeling channel and will say "I can't quite grasp what your saying".

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