Pan Representation: Ultimate Flexibility

We all have a dominant or preferred representational system we  use to experience our World through sensory perceptions. Some of us interpret the World through a VISUAL system (in images and mental image pictures), some thru an AUDIO system (in sound and sound memory),  some thru a KINESTHETIC system (feeling and emotion), and still yet others thru an AUDIO/DIGITAL system (internal mental comparisons and evaluations).

Although we all have access to each of these representational systems, we have unknowingly conditioned ourselves to mostly utilize only one; hence, some people are "visual," while still others are "audio" or "feeling" types. If you accept this model of perception and experiential interpretation, then what interest is best served by prioritizing one system at the expense of the others? Why do we default by forfeit of conscious choice to ONE preferred mode at neglect of the others? Like so many of the patterns, strategies and mechanisms in our lives, it IS just a matter of reacting to what has been thrown at us. Our predominant system, as our values, habits and  socio-philosophical framework represent our best efforts of struggling at an unconscious level to cope with the influences that have impacted our lives. In other words, we have, for the most part, forgone our conscious responsibility of control over the creation, development and ongoing evolution of our representational systems; and by pure laziness, or lack of  better understanding that we enjoy CONSCIOUS CHOICE, have instead slipped into the un-inspected and unevaluated coping pattern that has emerged.

The analogy of the mother vs. foreign language: Consider your predominant, default representational system as your "mother tongue," the language your language of choice. If you speak visual, are you most likely to be understood by audio or kinesthetic persons? Are you likely to experience diminished understanding when a kinesthetic person speaks to you using feeling predicates? The prospects of misunderstanding simply increase when you communicate with those who speak a different language. While such analogy to language is self-evident, it still holds truth when applied to representational systems. If we select to focus on greater mastery over and success in life, developing the skill sets to recognize, shift and express ourselves in all representational systems would be where our greatest power and freedom lie, do they not? Do I enjoy greater potential for understanding, cooperation and accomplishment when I am able to speak, listen and process in all four representational systems, as opposed to only one? Of course, being able to do so requires first the knowledge that such an ability and the conscious choice to exercise it exist: an insight of which 99% of the population unfortunately lack.

We can change immediately when we begin to access the exceptional levels of personal power and flexibility that are available when we chose to become pan representational.