Using Your Brain —for a CHANGE

Appendix I Submodality Distinctions

The list below is not complete, and the order of listing is irrelevant. What distinctions do you make internally that you can add to this list?

One useful way to subdivide kinesthetic sensations is the following:

1) Tactile: the skin senses.

2) Proprioceptive: the muscle senses and other internal sensations.

3) Evaluative meta–feelings ABOUT other perceptions or representations, also called emotions, feelings, or visceral kinesthetics which are usually represented in the chest and/or abdomen or along the mid–line of the torso. These feelings are not direct sensations/perceptions, but are representations derived from other sensations/perceptions.

Olfactory and Gustatory (smell and taste)

The terms used by psychophysics experimenters (sweet, sour, bitter, salt, burnt, aromatic, etc.) probably won't be useful. The fading in or out (changes in intensity and/or duration) of a particular taste or smell that you identify as relevant in someone's experience may be quite useful. Odors and tastes are very powerful anchors for states.