Sounds like a lot of work to me. I don't do much of anything when I am in front of a room. At least not in any conscious way. As far as the energy of the room is concerned, it's all a matter of what is useful that supports what you are doing in a given moment, second, or even fraction of a second. The task is way too large to attend to in any conscious way. To have to stop and read people's auras as a way of setting up a particular response would be a conscious act. Unless you were doing it at an other than conscious level. But then, if you were using your consciousness as an appropriate feedback loop, you wouldn't even be aware that you were reading auras in the first place. Thus the discussion becomes academic.

Unless of course I wanted to appeal to you at an other than conscious level by offering you the metaphor of bringing all the auras of the people into the room into a certain light. Yet, when we talk about auras, we risk the chance of thinking about the matter more visually. Sure, you could use, unconsciously, the visual realm of auras, or you could set up a feel, letting your unconscious work from there.

If you stop and think about it, we have a kinesthetic system. In fact, when you break it down perhaps, in a sense, that is all we really have. Although we think we see what's there, we actually sense light waves and translate them into what we perceive as images. We then project those images externally as we make sense of what we are perceiving. When we hear a sound, are we not really converting sound waves, or vibrations into some intelligible form of perceived information?

Talking about auras is just that, a way of talking about it. But doing is far different than talking. And if you are wanting to know what to do, that would be a different and more useful question. You once posed the question of the crystal ball. There are things we can do unconsciously that we have yet to identify, let alone code verbally. When people tell you what they are actually doing, they are offering a metaphor - always! The conscious mind has yet to develop the kind of ability that can discern with pinpoint accuracy what actually did occur while in the middle of any communication. And I don't know if we will ever develop our conscious ability to that point. Nor do I think we have to. That is why we have other than conscious processes.

It's not that we have two minds. The conscious and the unconscious. We have one mind which does certain things in different ways. If you want to be the best you trainer you can be, it comes down to learning at what level of consciousness you do what. To be maximally effective in front of a large group of people, you just can't operate from what we call the conscious mind. But then again, that goes for anything you want learn to do well. It's only when you have reached a certain level of unconscious competence that you can perform the task skillfully, and with ease.

Sure, reading auras is a great trip, but one trip better than that is building a thorough rapport with your own other than conscious processors. When I am in front of a room it never comes down to paying attention to any single part of what is being offered to me in the way of feedback. And when you are building in recursion, the recursive loop is based on that feedback. The loop then becomes one of feed-forward. With the external perceptions, the nonverbal responses of the person, or persons you are communicating with, then becoming the driving factor for your own future output. With all of the computations happening at an other than conscious level.

The idea is in going into any communication with a direction in mind. Where do you want to lead this person, or group of people? Then, you set up an unconscious feed-forward loop, a feel if you will. Using all of the different ways you have of gathering information as a means of guiding your own output channels in a way that continues moving in that direction. If you have to stop and think about anything, even the aura of the person, or people you are communicating with, you then take the risk of using your own internal information as the feedback that drives your output. This is why so many professional communicators, educators, teachers, trainers, are not getting the kind of results that are possible to get inside of their communications. They are too busy paying attention to what is going on in their own heads, and not what is occurring on the outside.

Maybe I am reading a bit too much into your question, but then again maybe not. But this is something I certainly know how to do well, and always have. It's just building in ways of talking about it without in fact doing it that is my biggest challenge. To me there is a difference. Why bothering talking about it when you can do it? Unless of course talking about it leads someone into being able to perform the activity. I learned more of value in only one year of living on the streets than I did all those years of school. And when I discovered NLP, what I found was a way of talking about what it was I already knew how to do. But even without that I was still able to teach others how to do what I could already do. The point of breaking it all down into tiny digestible bites is for the purpose of transferring skills. But that is still only one way of doing it. The menu is not the food. You wouldn't eat the menu, would you?

Saying that RB uses auras to bring a room into any particular energy is just a way of talking about something. And not what is actually happening inside of what he is doing. It may be a part of, but a very tiny part indeed. The issue is far too complex to narrow down into any one piece, or set of pieces. It is only broken down as a method for teaching. Whenever you focus on only one aspect of anything, you are taking the chance of missing everything other than what you are focusing on.

Learn everything you can about NLP and DHE(TM), let it become a part of you. Build in the kind of intuitions that allow you to operate effectively, and without effort. And any time you feel the process of communicating with another human being becoming an effort, chances are you have shifted your own awareness internal. Stop, and realize that when you are wanting to be effective with another person, you need to be paying attention to that other person, and not to some technique. Even if that technique is one as cool as reading auras.

That is what I think. At least as a response to your question. And if you asked me what I had written in that response? I don't know! Didn't think about it -- just wrote it down. Yet I will enjoy reading it when I do read it. It's kinda like poetry. Try constructing a really great poem consciously. It just doesn't work all that well. But when that poem flows from the inside out. . .

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Carmine Baffa