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Eye Accessing Cues

Eye Accessing Cues in NLP Are Movements of the eyes in certain directions that indicate visual, auditory or kinaesthetic thinking.

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People make movements with their eyes "Eye Accessing Cues" that will indicate which representational system they are using.  They go inside and access information by eye movement.  People store information in a certain way so that they use their eyes to locate the information either visually, auditorally, or kinaesthetically. When you ask a question, you can determine which representational system a client is accessing by the way they move their eyes. In addition, people may move their bodies to indicate in which quadrant of their brain they are searching to locate information.

Normally Organised Eye Accessing Cues

The Eye Accessing Cues are presented in what is called a Normally Organised pattern. This has nothing to do with being normal; it is merely terminology that indicates what you will find in the majority of your clients following this chart. For those who don’t, it is called Reverse Organised.

Reverse Organised Eye Accessing Cues

A reversed cerebral organisation.  There is no right or wrong. There is only the way that your clients store information. There is some, but no proven correlation between right and left handedness and normal and reverse organisation.

In order to determine whether a person is normally or reverse organised you ask them questions and watch which way their eyes move. In the case of working with clients you can begin immediately to determine their organisation through the questions you ask during the Client Profile or the Outcome Achievement Steps of the initial part of the interview.

NLP and Transderivational Search

NLP shows us that some individuals look through several or all the representational systems for the same piece of information.  When this is done, it is called a Transderivational Search.  Also some clients may have a “look to talk” rule and will make minimal or no eye movement.

What is the Lead System in NLP

The Lead System is the representational system used to lead information from unconsciousness to consciousness and is observed through eye patterns.  A Synaesthesia is an automatic link between one representational system and another where both are accessed simultaneously.  When this occurs, the client may appear to stare into space.

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