EMC280 Images Part 2
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By:   Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS) of the
      California Governor's Office of Emergency Services  

EMC280  Images Part 2        Release 3/12/01

If you have NOT read bulletins 276-278 and done the exercise
in bulletin 279, PLEASE stop and do that before reading this. 

What is being described is a course (and book) by Wally Minto
and most of what follows is from Wally's work with permission. 

When did the group exercise there were 25 people present. 24
saw images, 1 did not. EACH persons vase was different. Each
flower, coloring and shape were different, no two alike. 2
felt the flower, 3 tasted or smelled the flower. Significance
of color, taste, fragrnce, shape were described and will not
be covered here. The more important element imagery type.

For some, the colors,flowers or type vase kept changing; for
others, once the image was there it never changed. Only one
person saw no image. After each shared in detail what they saw,
Wally explained the three general types of inner-mind response: 
"fixed imager", "changing imager", and "non-imager".
 
The non-imager is usually the type person a company hires to take
different ideas of a project and put them together in a logical
manner. One of their greatest talents is to take random ideas and
form logic because they are not distracted by mental pictures. A
child who does not image needs to learn through rote. An adult
non-imager will easily remember anything that makes sense; that
seems logical, yet it can be very difficult to remember something
that does not make sense. (Research for the course was in the
l970's and showed 5-10% of the population were non-imagers.)

Non-imagers may not be self motivators because they do not see
pictures in the mind. However, each person is different and any
of "type" can blend into another. Types are tendencies, not cast
in concrete, and can be changed with determination once they are
recognized. Non-imagers are great communicators and put ideas
across by comparing them with something they are already familiar
with. They constantly use examples and comparisons. They also
make a good jack-of-all-trades, which must be why I can enjoy
fixing almost anything, for, as it turned out, my inner-mind
process was that of a non-imager.

The exercise showed my wife was a very vivid fixed imager (which
was an enlightening discovery to a non-imager after 30 years of
marriage!) Wally described the non-imager's inner mind process to
those who _do_ image in this way: "the non-imager's mental screen
is blank, not that of what imagers see at all. They reason by
association and logic." 

In the next several months I discussed this with a number of
clients. If one was a non-imager, once they learned the vast
difference, it became clear why they often were frustrated with
each other. It also explains why an employer and employee may not
"see eye-to-eye" if their inner imagery process is so very
different!

An application of recognition of different inner-mind abilities
is that major companies have deliberately used talents of three
different type people to do a project or promotion: One to put
the ideas together, make an outline or blue print; a second to
put the project in motion and iron out the kinks until is works
smoothly, then a third to manages the project to its completion.
(continues next week)

 Cary Mangum, W6WWW        E-mail: cary.mangum@macnexus.org
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