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clear.gif (807 bytes) The eye position chart below gives you an idea about the Modality being used by the person when they are processing information. This pattern is followed by most right-handed people and many left-handed people.

In some cases the left and right positions are reversed.

Eye positions and modalities

Eye Positions and Preferred Modality

The pictures on the left illustrate the eye positions and the preferred modality. When constructing visual images in the mind, you will notice that people tend to look up and to their right.

When making up sounds, they look directly to their right.

When remembering visual images or sounds, they look to their left. If the image is visual, then they look up and to the left. If auditory, they look directly left.
A person visualizing may look straight ahead as if gazing at something that isn't there.

Internal dialogue is indicated by the person looking down and to their left.

Kinesthetic by their looking down and to their right.

When modelling another person, you should pay attention to their eye positions as they explain things to you.

The first rule of eliciting a strategy is to get the person inside the state. You can do this by asking the person to recall a time when they were extremely motivated. You do, of course, have to check they are really there and being motivated. You note this by seeing how they behave and speak. If they do so in a motivated way, then they are in that state now.

You ask them what was the very first thing that got them motivated. Was it something they saw, heard or felt? Internal or external?

Watch the eye movements to check what they say.

Then ask for the very next thing they did.

You can get the person's strategy and then test it out. You may need to go through the procedure several times to get it right, especially with a complex strategy.