observe facts and realities or pay attention to ideas and possibilities? Identifying your personality preference for sensing or intuition helps in understanding how you choose to focus your attention.
One is not better than the other and, at times, everyone uses sensing and intuition to become aware of realities and ideas. However, one of these describes your preferred approach to the world. Highlight your personal brand by letting people know who you are and how you like to function in the world of work.

Using your personality

Personality type theory tells us there are two qualitatively different ways in which people take in information and become aware. People who prefer Sensing focus first on realities and data gained directly through using the senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling. People who prefer Intuition focus first on links between facts to generate new ideas.

For example, if you ask a sensor what time it is, they may say “2:13 PM”. Ask an intuitive what time it is an they may say, “It’s still early.” Or “We have lots of time.” The sensor is sharing the facts, as they exist, while the intuitive is immediately focusing on what the facts might mean.

Of course, all work requires you to use sensing and intuition. Everyone needs to pay attention to facts and possibilities. If you have a preference for sensing you will learn to use intuition to conceptually organize what you know. If you don’t anticipate the future, you may find yourself heading down the wrong path.

If you have a preference for intuition you will learn to use sensing to attend to the important realities and facts, otherwise you might set unrealistic goals.

Both sensing and intuition are equally valuable and necessary ways of paying attention to data and ideas.

To promote your personal brand, you will need to understand, relate to, and convince people who have either sensing or intuitive preferences.

Here is a description of the two preferences as well as tips for how to effectively communicate with people who have each preference.

The sensing approach

People who prefer sensing are most comfortable and at their best when they can draw on experience to deal with current situations. They observe the world, as it is, through their senses.

Words to describe people who prefer sensing include: observant, practical, realistic, experiential, and factual.

If you want to convince someone who prefers sensing:

Address immediate problems or opportunities
Draw on experience as a guide for next steps
Focus on realities, facts, and relevant details
Share information in a step-by-step manner
Find practical applications

The intuitive approach

People who prefer intuition are most comfortable and at their best when paying attention to abstract patterns and possibilities. They prefer to see the world as it could be, rather than as it is.

Words to describe people who prefer intuition include conceptual, imaginative, insightful, original, and inspirational.

If you want to convince someone who prefers intuition:

Address long-term problems or opportunities
Draw on ideas and possibilities as a guide for change
Focus on connections between and meanings of data
Show them a “big picture” overview
See future applications and implications

Understanding your preference for sensing or intuition helps you figure out your work style and create a brand that highlights who you are. Communicate your brand using language that appeals to and convinces both sensing and intuitive types.

Author:

Donna Dunning, PhD, is a psychologist, certified teacher, member of the MBTI ® International Training Faculty, and director of Dunning Consulting Inc. She is the author of more than a dozen publications, including her two newest books, 10 Career Essentials and What’s Your Type of Career? 2nd edition. Donna’s guiding principle is: Know yourself, respect differences, learn and grow. Follow Donna on Twitter and Facebook and visit her website.

Solution for Developing Your Intuition

Developing Your Intuition Intuition is the process of perceiving or knowing things to a high degree of certainty without conscious reasoning. Researchers with the Institute of HeartMath and many others who have conducted numerous controlled and scientifically validated studies over more than half a century have expanded the definition of intuition to include not only conscious perception by the mind alone, but also by the body's entire psychophysiological system. This perception often is evidenced by a range of emotions and measurable physiological changes exhibited or detected throughout the body, according to the study Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: McCraty, Atkinson and Bradley, 2004.

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

—Albert Einstein, 1879-1955.

Taking into account the array of intuition research, along with findings from years of experimentation at its research facilities in Boulder Creek, Calif., and elsewhere in the U.S. and abroad, HeartMath theorizes that intuitive abilities we're unable to attribute to subconsciously stored memories and experiences or to the conscious brain's analytic processes, make sense in another context: The body is connected by sensory perception to a field of energy that enfolds the information we attribute to intuition.

What the Heart Knows

What we know today about what the heart knows is truly exciting and the implications are great. Relying on a variety of data from numerous studies and experiments, particularly heart-rhythm-pattern measurements, IHM's findings point to the human heart as playing a key role in the intuitive process, and a recent study concludes the heart actually receives intuitive information faster than the brain – by a second or slightly more. This would seem to attribute some independent intelligence to the heart: In fact, the concept of a "heart brain" is widely accepted today.

It has been established that the heart has a powerful electromagnetic field and its own complex nervous system and circuitry that generates up to an estimated 60 times the electrical amplitude of the brain. The electromagnetic signal our heart rhythms produce actually can be measured in the brain waves of people around us. It is no wonder that the findings by researchers at HeartMath and elsewhere conclude the heart has its own organized intelligence network enabling it to act independently, learn, remember and produce feelings – all attributes which, until recently, were nearly universally held to be solely in the brain's dominion.

"… but it is wisdom to believe the heart."

—From a poem by George Santayana, 1863-1952.

You and Your Intuition

Perhaps the knowledge that the heart possesses this intuitive intelligence doesn't mean much for you because your experience has been that although some people seem capable of tapping into their intuition, you haven't been able to do it. As far as you know, you've never experienced intuition, or it is such a rarity that you readily dismiss all such instances as mere coincidence or sheer luck. What would it mean if you could fine-tune this intuitive ability? Is it even possible? The Institute of HeartMath's extensive scientific studies indicate you can develop and enhance your intuition. In tandem with its years of research, HeartMath also has engaged in comprehensive development and testing of tools and programs to help you develop your heart's intuitive intelligence and use it advantageously.

"Heart intuition or intelligence brings the freedom and power to accomplish what the mind, even with all the disciplines or affirmations in the world, cannot do if it's out of sync with the heart."

—The HeartMath Solution, 1999, Childre and Martin

The Rhythm of the Heart

After years of research, the very core of HeartMath's findings regarding the ability of human beings to improve their lives emotionally, physically and mentally is the revelation of what is known as "heart-rhythm coherence." In simple terms, here is what heart-rhythm coherence and incoherence mean, followed by a description of what happens when the heart is in or out of coherence:
A coherent heart is one that has smooth, ordered heart-rhythm patterns such as might be seen in an electrocardiogram.
An incherent heart is marked by jagged, disordered or irregular heart-rhythm patterns.
As testing has shown, events, sights, sounds and other stimuli in the environment around you contribute to your heart-rhythm patterns, and regardless of the favorability or unfavorability of these patterns, the heart transmits them to the brain for processing. This process includes storing and remembering these patterns for future use. When heart-rhythm patterns are coherent, the heart's ability to perceive intuitive information is heightened. Stress chemical pathways reverse, paving the way for increased synchronization between the heart and brain. It is in this synchronized state, which athletes call being "in the zone," that you can achieve optimal mental clarity, cognitive performance and perception of intuitive information.
When you have a coherent heart, you are at your best. If you are accustomed to being appreciative, caring, compassionate, all of which lead to a coherent heart.
Your heart processes your caring attitude and responses into coherent rhythm patterns and these are sent to the brain, which in turn triggers remembered responses appropriate to or learned from previous similar situations.
When heart-rhythm patterns are incoherent – disordered and irregular – your heart sends these unfavorable patterns to the brain, which then searches its stored heart-rhythm patterns in search of a match and simply triggers a remembered emotional response – what you might call learned behavior. When things irritate or anger you and more often than not you respond by shouting or slamming a door the brain is likely to recommend the same emotional response the very next time something angers you. Anger leads to incoherence, which leads to a negative response, which leads to continued incoherence.
The Coherent Heart (Heart-Brain Interactions, Psychophysiological Coherence, and the Emergence of System-Wide Order). McCraty, Atkinson, Tomasino, and Bradley

Your Subconscious: A Reservoir of Intuitive Wisdom

We all have access to a giant data bank containing all the information we could possibly need. This vast reservoir known as the subconscious contains stored memories, creativity, and wisdom. Wisdom in the form of an intuitive flash or insight comes from the subconscious. Your intuition operates to uncover the truth and wisdom within you. There are times when most people allow themselves to be spontaneous and allow pearls of wisdom to roll out.
The logical mind, or thinker, would have a difficult time telling you exactly where the subconscious resides and the intuitive mind graphically show how the subconscious works.
Somehow the straight facts, and that the logical uses becomes “MORE”.

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