There are five basic “languages” by which the body expresses itself and processes information. These languages are the manner in which we interpret ideas and communicate them to ourselves and to other people. Understanding these languages and how to use them will empower you to understand yourself at a whole new level.

The languages are as follows:

• Visual: having to do with visual stimuli such as shapes, colors and degrees of darkness or brightness.
• Auditory: having to do with auditory stimuli such as pitch, volume and timbre.
• Kinesthetic: having to do with sensations of touch such as whether something is soft or hard, smooth or rough, hot or cold, dry or wet etc.
• Olfactory/Gustatory: having to do with sensations of smell and taste such as sweet, sour, salty, bitter, tangy, rotten, pungent etc.

While these are all sensations which we experience in the physical world, they are also used to interpret and express our ideas, thoughts and emotions.

For example, when someone is communicating an idea using the visual communication style they might use a lot of body language and phrases like “You see” or “It looks like” or “Look at it this way.” They may also use visual types of words in order to express ideas or concepts which are not visual in nature such as referring to something as “brilliant,” “dark,” “shady” or “bright.”

On the other hand, when someone is communicating an idea using the auditory communication style they might say: “sounds good” or “I hear you” or “end it with a bang.”

Kinesthetic communication might use terms like: “That has a nice feel to it” or “He’s slimy” or “Woah, that was rough.” They might describe a person as being “cold” or say that someone has a “hot temper.”

While the Gustatory (taste) and Olfactory (smell) are less common, they are a great way of expressing ideas using terms like: “something stinks about this situation,” or “that left a bad taste in my mouth,” or “She’s sweet.’

Now there is certainly a tendency for each person to express themselves and to interpret their experience based on one specific style. In fact, learning to communicate with a person using language patterns which are consistent with their communication style is a great way to relate with them and to build understanding and rapport.

However, when it comes to fully understanding yourself these communication styles can have a whole new application.

In the workbook to “A Genius Awaits You,” you are encouraged to gain a better understanding of yourself using the law of Clarity to interpret the things that your body is communicating to you. These are normally interpreted as emotional states.

Most of the time, when people are experiencing a negative vibration in their nervous system they say that they are: depressed, sad, angry or frustrated. The problem is that all of these emotional states are interpreted as “bad” and therefore people try to ignore them or eliminate them.

On the other hand, there are the emotional states of bliss, excitement, sexiness, comfort or love. All of these are interpreted as “good.” The problem with this kind of interpretation is that it does not lend itself to understanding as to what is causing these emotional states. This lack of understanding is what makes our emotional states our masters instead of our servants.

The law of Clarity is all about having a better understanding or your emotional states by becoming more familiar with these sensations in your body. This gives you the option of using them to compel you towards positive action and of breaking false emotional associations.

How is this possible ?

In my coaching experience I have found that using the traditional labels for these emotions is much less effective than using the “Languages of the Body” to describe them. This is because these languages are much more effective in helping you to tie an emotional state to the memories and experiences which are associated with it.

Once you have this level of clarity you have the option of redirecting your emotions towards positive action and breaking patterns which might have been dominating your life for years.

Think about Pavlov’s Dog for instance, the same phenomenon happens with human beings as we store memories and experiences. We associate our experiences with emotional states and those experiences become deeply in bedded into our subconscious minds.

As a result, our memories are stored as a combination of emotions as well as the visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory or gustatory stimuli associated with them. If enough of the stimuli from a specific memory are experienced in the present, the emotions associated with that memory begin to arise along with it.

This is where false emotional associations are formed.

For example, if you have a memory where you felt a great degree of anger and there was a certain smell in the room and a certain song playing on the radio at the time, those sensations become associated with that feeling of anger. If this experience is played enough times in the mind it begins to become deeply imbedded.

Think about it: most of the time, when a memory is associated with anger or another “negative” emotion we replay it as an attempt to make sense out of it or even relive it imagining how we might respond to the person who hurt us.

Nevertheless, after a long enough period of time, the details of that memory are buried so deep that they seem to have been forgotten. However, since the mind still associates the smell of the room and the song on the radio with the emotion of anger, those stimuli continue to invoke that emotion.

Meanwhile the details of the memory are buried so deep that the person is no longer aware of where the anger is coming from. Most of the time, they simply respond to it without realizing why. Either that or they associate the anger with something else in their environment….which leads to misplaced or irrational anger.

The same could be true with any emotional state or any memory. So before we can break these false emotional associations, we must recognize them for what they are.

This is the function of the law of Clarity.

The next time that you are feeling something….anything at all, stop and pay attention to where that feeling is located in your body. Once you zero in on it, go through the four “Languages of the Body” and describe the feeling that you are having. Write down your answers.

• What does it “look” like? (Think of shapes, shades of color and degrees of light or dark etc.)
• What does it “sound” like? (Think of low or high pitches, volumes, timbre etc.)
• What does it “feel” like? (Soft or hard, dry or wet, smooth or rough, hot or cold etc.)
• What does it “smell” like or “taste” like (Think of flavors or odors, salty, sweet, sour, fresh, rotten, bitter, hearty, tangy etc.)

At first, you may not get anything or you may only get a few answers that don’t make sense when you put them together. Keep doing it; think of it as uncovering a fossil one bit at a time.

With enough practice entire memories will begin to arise and you will understand yourself in a way that will open up a whole new world of options for positive change and breaking patterns of the past.

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