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00:26 Welcome to Ireland, a small island with a big reputation. 00:30 For such a small country the Island of Ireland has more than 00:36 its fair share of great attractions. It's got 00:39 breathtaking landscapes and fascinating, friendly 00:46 intelligent people. Everything you've heard is true. Ireland 00:49 is a stunner. It's loaded with magnificent places to visit; 00:54 cultural areas, cities, towns and villages, fabulous castles 00:59 medieval monasteries and spectacular natural wonders. 01:04 But even with all this natural beauty and rich history it's the 01:09 people here who are the biggest attraction and provide the 01:14 lasting memories of Ireland. Ireland has produced a large 01:18 number of world class poets, novelists, playwrights and 01:23 actors and many politicians in the English-speaking world and 01:27 beyond might well have inherited their oratory skills from their 01:31 Irish ancestors. These politicians that have excelled 01:35 in various countries around the world have something in common, 01:39 which is the key to their success and no, it's not just 01:44 their Irish heritage. Each of these politicians learned 01:49 how to get 01:50 the best out of their brains. Today we're going to discover 01:54 their secrets. So stay tuned because you'll learn something 01:58 fascinating about the amazing human brain and you may even 02:02 discover how to get the most out of your brain as well. 02:09 ♪ ♪ 02:29 Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It's located 02:32 west of Great Britain and separated by the Irish Sea. 02:36 Although small in size Ireland is packed full of marvelous 02:43 attractions that include natural wonders, monuments, and castles. 02:48 One of the most picturesque and romantic of these is the now 02:51 ruined Dunure's Castle located on the edge of a basalt 02:57 outcropping in County Antrim near the most northeasterly tip 03:01 of Island overlooking the Irish Sea. Nearby is the spectacular 03:08 Dark Hedges, a beautiful avenue of beech trees planted by the 03:12 Stuart family in the 18th century. It was intended as a 03:17 compelling landscape feature to impress visitors as they 03:23 approached the entrance to their Gregorian mansion Grace 03:25 Hill House. Two centuries later the trees remain a magnificent 03:32 sight and have become one of the most photographed natural 03:35 phenomena in Northern Ireland. Farther along the coast is one 03:40 of Ireland's most impressive landscapes, the Giants Causeway. 03:45 And it really is an extraordinary sight indeed. 03:49 Sitting at the foot of steep cliffs and stretching out into 03:53 the sea is this natural formation of thousands of 03:58 tightly packed basalt rock columns. The tops of the 04:03 columns form flat stepping stones all of which are 04:07 perfectly hexagonal. They measure about 30 cm in diameter 04:12 Some are very short. Others are as tall as 12 meters. Scientists 04:18 believe they were formed by volcanic eruptions and cooling 04:23 lava. The ancients, on the other hand, believed the rock 04:27 formation to be the work of giants; hence the name the 04:32 Giants Causeway. All of this is a reminder of the wonderful 04:37 attractions the island has to share. But these aren't 04:41 Ireland's greatest gifts to the world. That truly belongs to its 04:46 people and their culture. In the past 300 years between nine and 04:54 ten million people born in Ireland have emigrated. By the 04:59 21st century an estimated 18 million people worldwide claim 05:04 some Irish descent. So Irish culture has had a significant 05:10 influence on other cultures. The Irish have taken their talents 05:15 culture, music and heritage all over the world. The list of 05:20 Irish people who have excelled and made a significant 05:23 contribution to society just goes on and on. They've been 05:28 among some of the world's highest achievers and like all 05:33 high achievers, they've learned how to get the most out of their 05:36 brain. The bottom line: Mankind's greatest achievements 05:40 are only possible because of the human brain. It's been said that 05:48 you can manage something effectively only when you can 05:51 identify, label and describe it. How does one do that with the 05:58 human brain? Well today's guest, a brain function specialist, can 06:02 help us figure this out. Dr. Arlene Taylor is the founder 06:06 and president of Realizations, Inc., a nonprofit corporation 06:12 that engages in brain function research and provides unique 06:16 educational resources. She's the author of several popular books 06:21 related to brain function and practical applications to 06:25 relationships and everyday living and creator of the 06:29 Longevity Lifestyle Matters program. Let's meet Dr. Taylor. 06:34 Dr. Taylor welcome to the Incredible Journey. We're 06:39 delighted to have you on today's program. 06:41 And I'm delighted to be here, Gary. It's really fun talking 06:45 with you about brain function. 06:48 Everything we do and understand comes to us through the brain. 06:51 What we see, what we hear, what we taste. Please tell us about 06:56 the three most important senses and how they function with the 07:01 brain. There's lots of ways to define senses but from childhood 07:06 we're exposed to what we call the three main sensory systems 07:12 and those are the visual sensory system, which you take in 07:15 through your eyes; the auditory sensory system, which you take 07:20 in through your ears, and as sound waves beat against your 07:26 skin. And the third one is called the kinesthetic sensory 07:31 system and that groups several things together: The sense of 07:36 smell, the sense of taste, the sense of touch, the sense of 07:40 temperature perception (are you too hot, are you too cold, are 07:43 you just right), how you move your muscles and how your 07:49 muscles feel. And those three main sensory grouping systems 07:54 take in the sensory data and decode it for us because it's 08:01 got to be interpreted, if you will, in the brain before it 08:04 makes any sense. All sensory data is decoded in the neocortex 08:12 except for one thing and that's the sense of smell. What's 08:17 interesting about that is that layer also has emotional memory, 08:24 if you will. So if you're a true kinesthetic, that is your 08:28 number one sensory system and you smell an odor, if you have 08:35 any emotional impactful memories about that you've got them just 08:40 like that because it gets decoded in that center part. 08:45 Those decoding areas, and this blows my mind, can absorb and 08:52 decode 10 million bits of sensory data per second, 10 09:00 million per second! Now we've talked about bent from time to 09:05 time. You have a sensory bent. What does that mean? It means 09:10 that for your brain one of these three main sensory systems, 09:18 visual, auditory or kinesthetic sensory data for one of these 09:25 groupings tends to register most quickly and intensely in your 09:30 brain. 09:31 How does sensory preference or one's sensory bent impact an 09:36 individual? 09:38 Well it basically influences the type of sensory data that you 09:42 pay attention to, that's energy efficient for you, that gets 09:46 your attention fastest. It also has to do with how you learn. 09:54 So there's probably an individual learning style for 09:56 every person on the planet but in this grouping how do you 10:02 learn most easily. If you're a visual you learn most quickly 10:07 and easily by what you can see. You know, a picture's worth a 10:11 thousand words. A diagram may be worth two thousand words. If 10:16 you're and auditory you learn most quickly and easily by what 10:20 you hear and what you read because decoding speech sounds 10:26 and reading words come out of the same part of the brain. 10:31 And if you're a kinesthetic you tend to learn most easily and 10:36 most quickly by picking something up and manipulating it 10:40 with your hands and holding and feeling and touching. How you 10:47 communicate with others, your significant other, your marriage 10:52 partner, your children, your teacher/student interactions 10:57 have a lot to do with sensory preference Occasionally a parent 11:02 will bring a child to me and say my child was doing so well in 11:07 school and he's in a different room now and he's just not 11:11 learning anything. And the first thing I want to know is what's 11:16 the child's sensory preference and what's the teacher's sensory 11:20 preference. Because we tend to communicate and teach and share 11:26 information in our sensory preference unless we make a 11:31 different decision. So let's say the teacher's auditory but 11:34 you've got a visual child and there's nothing to see. They're 11:36 just supposed to listen. The child will just not tend to take 11:40 in the data. Or you have a visual or auditory teacher and a 11:45 kinesthetic child and the chair isn't comfortable and there's no 11:50 air conditioning and they just can't learn. So it impacts 11:55 every interaction period. 11:57 Dr. Taylor are there any estimates about how many people 12:01 fall into the three main sensory systems in terms of preference? 12:06 There are actually. And you know estimates are just estimates. 12:11 But the latest data that I have says that approximately 60 12:18 percent of the population has the visual sensory preference. 12:23 Now divide that by female improvising brains and male 12:27 systemizing brains and you find that more males have the visual 12:32 preference or visual bent than do females. And it's all about 12:37 how the data look. You know, they're looking with their eyes 12:43 and taking in that data. Approximately 20 percent have 12:47 an auditory preference or bent. I'm clearly an auditory and 12:52 that's a minority. When you divide that between males and 12:58 females you find that more females are auditory than males 13:02 and that's all about how does the data sound and the same 13:06 percentage holds for kinesthesia. About twenty 13:10 percent of the population are kinesthetic. Don't have any 13:14 data on more males or females. Seems to be fairly equally 13:19 distributed and those brains are interested in how the data 13:24 is sensed. What's you sense of smell, what's your sense of 13:27 touch, what's your sense of temperature? You know, what's 13:31 your sense of muscle movement and so on. And because of that 13:35 you'll often find kinesthetic make wonderful chefs. 13:40 Dr. Taylor how can you pick up someone else's bent or sensory 13:45 preference? 13:46 Well I do it by listening. I pay attention to what they say. 13:51 Because we tend to use words that match our sensory 13:57 preference. For example, let's think about someone with a 13:59 visual sensory preference. If you listen to what they say you 14:04 might hear phrases like this: Oh I see what you mean. Or 14:08 picture this. Or ah the light just went on. Or it's crystal 14:14 clear to me. Those are all visual words and metaphors so 14:18 you can get a sense that they may be visuals. How things look 14:24 is of paramount importance to them, especially how they look. 14:30 They tend to feel affirmed through positive visual stimuli 14:36 You look at them and smile. You give them a visual gift. I mean 14:42 that be the person who loves to get a dozen red roses or you 14:47 know a book with pictures in it or something like that. They 14:52 tend to choose their profession if they have the option that 14:56 will allow them to use their visualness in whatever way. They 15:02 might be in television work, you know. They might be in artistic 15:06 type of work. So auditories, if you listen you will hear 15:12 auditories say things like that sounds okay, it's clear as a 15:19 bell, keep your ear to the ground and tell me what you hear. 15:26 They're very sensitive to sound, they are sensitive to volume, 15:29 they're sensitive to pitch. They're sensitive to timber. 15:34 They're sensitive to vocal inflections and when it comes to 15:41 clothing they'll be one or two things; they like clothes that 15:42 make noise, but they can't stand their clothes to make any noise. 15:46 They tend to feel affirmed when they receive positive auditory 15:52 stimulation. So they like to be told I love you. And sometimes 16:00 people think they're showing that by their actions and that's 16:03 true but an auditory likes to hear that. They like to talk 16:08 with their friends, you know, share information verbally. 16:12 They like to read interesting books. Sometimes an e-book, a 16:18 regular handheld book is a gift for an auditory. They often like 16:23 music. Not all musicians are auditory but auditories are 16:27 often very sensitive and like certain types of music. And they 16:31 actually like to get written communication because if they 16:35 know the person then up pops an e- mail. What happens in the 16:39 brain of an auditory is he or she reads that e-mail, they hear 16:43 the voice of the person in their head and that's the comforting 16:48 thing. They're often very good listeners and they sometimes 16:53 choose professions that let them use sound. And the third group 16:58 are the kinesthetic. If you listen to them, you'll hear 17:03 phrases like ah that's not a good fit or it doesn't feel 17:10 right. Or my gut says. Or let's get out and hammer out a plan. 17:18 So it'll be those kind of words and metaphors. They're affirmed 17:23 again through positive kinesthetic stimuli: Odors, 17:29 taste, touch, textures. It's really important how their 17:33 clothes feel against their skin Temperature. They often like 17:39 massages. They may like soaking in a tub with fragrant bath oils 17:44 Maybe not so much for some of the other sensory systems. And 17:49 they sometimes select professions that use their 17:53 kinesthesia. So most likely many top athletes have a lot of 18:00 kinesthesia because they know how to use their muscles. They 18:04 know what their muscles can do. They can hone their muscular 18:08 activities. So we need all of those again. 18:12 Does our sensory bent or preference ever change? 18:18 Now that's a complex question. We believe, some of us, that 18:25 you're born with your bent. We use all three of them, we build 18:31 skills in all three, but one of them likely gets your attention 18:35 fastest. Sometimes parents expect their children to be 18:39 exactly like them. They're not doing this unkindly; they're 18:45 doing it from lack of knowledge. So sometimes children work 18:52 really hard to develop a sensory system because that's what's 18:55 honored in their family. That's not necessarily bad but then 18:59 they become adults, they begin to really own who they are and 19:05 it's almost relaxing to know well that's why I struggle so 19:11 hard because that's not what my brain registers so quickly. The 19:16 other time it might look like you're changing is you lose one 19:22 of those sensory systems. Let's say that you develop severe 19:25 glaucoma and lose the sight in your eyes, but you're a visual. 19:30 Well your other two sensory systems are going to take over. 19:34 And you're going to become much more auditorily aware of what's 19:39 around you and you're going to begin to build spatial, 19:44 kinesthetic skills to help you navigate. And somebody might say 19:48 my you know you're really auditory aren't you? Well they 19:52 have developed that system because their preference is no 19:56 longer able to be used. So we don't think it changes innately 20:03 but the brain can help you do what you have to do depending on 20:09 what is, fortunately. 20:10 How you would you sum up this topic? 20:16 Let me sum it up by giving you three caveats, just things to 20:21 think about. Number one: You tend to relate to others in your 20:27 sensory preference unless you make a different choice. So I 20:32 could sit here with my eyes closed and talk to you for a 20:37 week and be pretty comfortable but that's only 20 percent of 20:41 the population. So I need to have some diagrams and some 20:44 pictures that people who are visual can relate to and 20:49 hopefully, the kinesthetic are sitting in a comfortable chair 20:52 while they see this program. You tend to feel accepted, loved most 21:01 quickly when you receive affirmation in your sensory bent 21:04 And we alluded to that. If you know the person's visual and 21:09 you aren't do something visual things for them. If you know 21:13 they're auditory and you're not take them to a lovely musical 21:17 program or give them CD's of books they like to hear on tape. 21:22 Because it's about what gets their brain's attention that 21:27 makes the gift seem wonderful. And if you're kinesthetic, do 21:32 they like fragrant smelling soap or do they like bubble bath and 21:38 things like that. Think about their sensory preference and the 21:42 third one is you tend to gravitate toward environments 21:48 that make provision for your sensory preference and that 21:53 reward your sensory bent, which means you feel comfortable there 21:57 Dr. Taylor, thank you so much for sharing this relevant and 22:02 important information that's going to affect the way we 22:05 behave and even our relationships with others. 22:09 Thank you very much for being with us today. 22:11 It's my pleasure, Gary, because you are absolutely correct. 22:16 Information is powerful and you can change relationships by 22:22 understanding more about sensory preference and 22:24 practically applying what you learn. 22:26 Well isn't' your brain marvelous. It can use all the sensory 22:32 systems, taste, touch, smell, sight and sound at the one time. 22:38 And they're the only way we can relate to other people. We can 22:42 look at them, talk to them, touch them, smell them and 22:46 listen to them. And generally we each have one of the senses that 22:51 is strongest, that we are predisposed to using most. 22:56 One of those sensory types will get our brain's attentions 23:00 faster. Some of us have visual, others auditory, others 23:04 kinesthetic. Now it's interesting to note that when 23:07 Jesus was here on earth he used these different ways to reach 23:11 people and communicate with them Some just saw him. Others he 23:16 spoke to, they heard him and others he communicated with 23:20 through touch. He knew the most effective way to reach every 23:25 person and he still knows the best and most effective way to 23:29 reach each of us today. God communicates with us today and 23:33 every day through a variety of ways depending on the sensory 23:38 type we are. Here's some of the ways that he communicates with 23:42 us today and every day. Through his word the Bible. It's God's 23:47 word and is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. Then 23:52 through his Son Jesus Christ. Through the words of Jesus in 23:57 the Bible. In these last days God has spoken to us through his 24:01 Son Jesus Christ. And then through nature and God's 24:06 creation; through the marvels of nature, the enormity of space, 24:10 the beauty around us we see the power and love of God. Through 24:16 the food we eat we taste and see that God is good. Also through 24:23 other people and fellow believers. God may use a friend, 24:26 a teacher, a parent or a preacher to convey his message 24:31 of truth to us. Next through music we can sense God's 24:37 presence and hear his voice. And then through circumstances and 24:42 experiences we have we can see, feel and experience the 24:47 providence of God. And then through his Spirit, through the 24:52 still small voice he communicates through our 24:55 conscience and finally through prayer. God communicates with us 25:00 and touches us with his presence Now if you'd like to know God 25:05 better and experience him more closely you can invite him 25:09 into your life right now as we pray. 25:12 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for creating us with senses so 25:19 that we can appreciate the world around us and effectively 25:22 communicate with other people and most importantly with you. 25:27 Lord, we want our relationships to be healthy and happy and we 25:33 pray for the peace and fulfillment that come from 25:36 knowing you. We ask this in Jesus' name, Amen. 25:41 A human brain is amazing. The brain can use all the sensory 25:48 systems at one time and they're the only way we can relate to 25:52 God and to others. If you're facing challenges in life and 25:57 would like to get closer to God to experience true peace and 26:00 inner happiness then I'd like to recommend a free gift we have 26:04 for all our viewers today. It's the booklet Reaching Out to God 26:10 in Prayer. This book is our gift to you and is absolutely free. 26:15 There are no costs or obligations whatsoever. 26:18 In addition you'll receive Dr. Arlene Taylor's Sensory 26:24 Assessment so that you'll be able to quickly identify your 26:27 own sensory strengths. So make the most of this wonderful 26:32 opportunity to receive the gift we have for you today. Here's 26:35 the information you need: Phone or text us at 0436333555 in 26:45 Australia or 0204222042 in New Zealand or visit our website 26:54 www.tij.tv to request today's free offer and we'll send it to 27:01 you totally free of charge and with no obligation. 27:05 Write to us at: 27:24 Don't delay. Call or text us now If you've enjoyed today's 27:31 journey to Ireland and our reflections on the wonders of 27:34 the human brain, be sure to join us again next week. Until then 27:40 remember the ultimate destination of life's journey. 27:44 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth. And God will wipe away 27:48 every tear from their eyes. There shall be no more death nor 27:52 sorrow nor crying. There shall be no more pain for the former 27:56 things have passed away. 27:59 ♪ ♪ |
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