We listen primarily with our emotions. Keep the following several facts in mind when trying to convey messages to children, fellow workers, and friends:
1. The right brain works in sensual imagery……. No words.
2. The right brian works in pictures not words.
3. The right brain, to a great extent, determines what gets to the left brain (reason, abstract symbols like words).
4. Right brain gets the big picture and creates memories of feelings about things.
5. The right brain is inclusionary and relational…the left brain is exclusionary and detects categories.
If you’re going to communicate you’d better be good at using stories and pictures and sensory images. Word pictures that stimulate positive feelings are the key to the right brain gateway. If someone feels badly about what you are saying they aren’t likely to change or to apply what you say. If someone can see what you are seeing, you’re changes are more likely to make an impact.
Improve you ability to use images and stories and you will improve as a communicator and leader.
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I’ve often wanted to bust out laughing at our congregation that will wake up from a collective Sunday morning coma—not for the word of God—but by way a story about my Grandfather connects with them. You are precisely right-on. Thanks.