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All humans have a sense that dominates their sensory processing. Society has focused on the visual and many of us who have other sense dominant properties often feel the discomfort of being forced to use just the one. Those who are sight sense dominant have the advantages simply because others of other sense dominant primary sense input will always be left at a disadvantage to those of sight sense dominance abilities. It is like being in a constant state of reactive ability while those of sight sense dominance hold fast to the active abilities putting them ahead in the OODA loop.
Do you know what sense dominates your life? I can tell you that mine is a touch sense dominant sensory processing machine that makes good use of sight and sound and taste but the touch sense always has and always will drive my actions, deeds and beliefs. How do I know, well long ago I found a resource that spoke to this sense dominance ability and I did the work studying it always hitting points that gave me this "oh shit" moments. It was that time that opened my eyes to why so many things happened in the way they did without my knowing and realizing and understanding of it.
Example, in all things physical I always exceeded because once I felt something it stuck in my mind, as a concept and trigger, that always took over when the need hit seemingly without my conscious logical mind intervening. It was a true eye (not pun intended) opener and shift my paradigm with an understanding that has led me to this time and place in my life for which as you can imagine I am grateful.
I, as a karate-ka and fighter, found that I naturally applied fundamental principles of physiokinetic's in the dojo much like all other physical things to include those encountered in my Marine Corps life and career. I found when I finally started to take karate, Isshinryu, very serious I was able to encode things like basics and kata much, much faster than others except a few exceptions who now I assume were also touch sensitive/dominant.
In the old days those who were stationed in the Marines on the island of Okinawa when tours were around thirteen months there bouts earned their sho-dan in that time using the standards of the mid to late fifties and early sixties that I was not surprised when I suddenly found a black belt around my waist in about eight months. Yes, I had other martial-esque experiences along with my natural physical abilities enhanced and supplemented through various sport like endeavors including all the physical stuff we Marines are subjected to and take up on our own do to excel as Marines, ergo why I earned the right to be a Staff NCO in short order, about 5.5 years of active duty.
Being touch sense dominant provided me many advantages including how I achieved dominance over many who were natural socially dominant visual sense oriented. I learned how to bring my sight sense up to just a smidgeon under touch sense abilities, i.e., when I see something that triggers my perception I found that I naturally and instinctively reached out, sometimes literally, to touch and feel and therefore sense using both sight and touch to encode concepts and triggers that gave me a huge advantage.
I suspected that in a sense dominant social reality those with sight sense dominance, in most cases, never came to realize just how sight and touch together provided such huge advantages to those who could. In short, my touch sense dominance put in my mind the discomfort that later brought the paradigm shift that many others of sight sense don't perceive thus don't make efficient and proficient use. I have always, mostly, dominated when on the dojo floor even with many seniors.
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Notes: Remember, all of our senses are tied to our mind-state through an accumulated body of concepts and triggers set through experiences, perceptions, beliefs, culture (social, family and personal), and previous unreliable memories all affected in the same way. For instance, don’t ever rely on touch alone because according to past and present memories, etc., you may feel something different than reality. Ever hear the story of the blind guys and the elephant in the room?
Note: Lets not forget, as you are already thinking, that stress/stressors and the following chemical/adrenal stress-conditions and effects all much around with all of our senses and that as you can imagine can run havoc on what is seen, heard, touched and smelled with occasional taste issues when we face aggressions and violence and more so in self-protection self-defense defense.
Note: It is the one lesson imperative a person learn, that it is not just the sense that dominates one’s life but all our senses and it is critical that a person learn about sensory, especially sense dominant, processes then take that understanding and open the mind, the conscious logical mind, to accept that and then work diligently to train the mind-state to use all combined senses equally and effectively and at the same high level as the dominant sense to achieve objectives, goals and concepts with triggers, etc. All too often we assume since our sensory systems work on auto-pilot that we don’t need to see, hear, touch, taste and smell them equally, etc., and we, as we are and were socially driven and trained, stop relying exclusively on sight sense and embrace all our senses to work wholeheartedly as ‘one’!
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