How to Utilize Your Personal Learning Style to Enhance Your Manifestations
Something I struggled with a lot when I began my journey to become a master manifestor was the expectations around various techniques, specifically around visualization. There were so many different voices, all saying different things: you had to see it vividly; or you had to feel it; or you had to hear the sounds clear as day. Each person had a different way to describe a “successful” visualization, and they were all different answers.
Now I understand that the reason for these many different answers is that, despite our oneness, we all have distinctly different minds. Different minds visualize differently, and in the same way, different types of senses impress our minds differently.
I spoke about this in my article, “Do I Need to Visualize in First Person?” where I detail that the images in my mind do not present the same as they do for a lot of people; my visualizations are superimposed over each other, with many thoughts occurring at the same time in a mix of visuals and touch-based sensations. This collage of images, touch-feelings, and emotions come together to form a scene that resonates effectively with me. But when I imagine a scene, it is stressful and overly-restrictive to force myself into even a single image – forget maintaining first person visuals.
While I attribute the collage-type visualization mostly to my attention disorder (which I plan on speaking on more in the future, as I think it might help others whose brains function similarly), the types of sensations that make my visualizations effective for me are touch and sight.
If you are already familiar with learning styles, I am a visual and kinesthetic learner, with kinesthetic learning being the most dominant. When I visualize, I see from several angles and points of view, and I would describe the visual vividness as medium-high. But in addition, I also feel the textures of my environment, the heat or cold, even the way I carry the weight of my own body. The kinesthetic input is incredibly vivid, like I am actually having the experience in a physical reality.
Things clicked when I realized my learning styles directly correlate with the types of visualizations that are most vivid for me.
By the Walter Burke Barbe model, there are three main learning styles or modalities. This model is often given the acryonym VAK, for the three styles: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. It describes the model’s three learning types, and the approaches to learning that might suit each modality best. While anyone can learn any number of ways with time and persistence, there are ways we can better our learning experience by including content that appeals to our preferred learning style.
Visual learners absorb information best through sight. Specifically this means pictures, visual media and video, shapes, colors, etc.
Auditory learners absorb information best through sound. Audio, verbal cues, and sound recall are ideal learning tools for them.
Kinesthetic learners absorb information through touch, and by doing. Any sort of physical interaction with a learning activity heightens their ability to learn.
What do they each have in common? They all relate to how our brains absorb information.
And, what else relies on absorbing new information? Manifesting.
We manifest things and experiences by experiencing them in our mind, by repetition and memorization. These imaginal acts are really just future memories, after all. By choosing techniques that appeal to the ways we most vividly experience our existing physical world, we can increase the perceived realness of our imaginal acts, and therefore more effectively saturate our minds with the experience.
If you are a very visual person, techniques like vision boards, visualizations, SATS, and setting visual reminders in your environment might have additional benefit. If you’re very auditory, you might prefer verbal affirmations, guided meditations, scripting, and inner conversations. As a very kinesthetic person you might prefer multi-sensory visualizations, making creative works around your desires, or by pursuing physical activities that give you the sense of physically embodying your desire.
Consider taking a look at your own preferred methods of learning, and applying them to your chosen techniques. You might find that the techniques that work best for you have something in common!
