Do you want to communicate better? It may be simpler than you think.
Your natural movement shows up in the nature of your thoughts. And thoughts are a precursor to communication. So, if you want to communicate better with others, you need to understand your own thought process—and theirs. The very nature of your thoughts could be different.
In the first video of this 4-part series, I talk about the thought process of the Type 1, upward, light, buoyant person—the first of 4 Types in my Energy Profiling system. If misunderstood, a Type 1′s thoughts can cause disharmony in life and relationships.
Watch the video and find out why an upward, light person might have a challenge putting ideas into words. And learn some tips to better communicate, either as a Type 1 yourself or with a Type 1 you know:
What do you think? How will this help you communicate as a Type 1? How does this help you understand an upward, light, buoyant person in your life? Remember, the Type 1′s natural thought process is not a weakness, just a tendency. Please share your positive comments.
The rest of this series will help you achieve more harmony between your inner realm and your outer expression, no matter which Type you are. Be sure to catch next week’s video about the Type 2′s flowing, connected thought process.
Your thought process is just 1 of 5 assessments I use in my Energy Profiling system to help you discover your true nature. When you discover your true nature, you are free to align with your natural gifts and talents and more easily optimize successful outcomes in your life. Discover more patterns to help you better understand yourself and others with all the information in my Energy Profiling Bundle. Change your life for the better by purchasing it for yourself or a friend at myenergyprofile.com.
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June 7th, 2011 at 9:04 am
Hmmm, I’m still trying to determine my type (I’m waffling between 1 and 4…I think I’m probably a 1-4 or a 4-1)…but I didn’t super relate to this video. Now i DO speak very very fast and many people tell me “Whoah!! Slow down!! I can’t keep up with how fast you’re speaking!” but I don’t feel like it’s because my THOUGHTS are fast…but maybe I just don’t know how fast or slow other people’s thoughts are? I also do often say “What?” to my type 4 friend after he just said something and he pauses for a moment to allow me to catch up and then I say “Oh, haha you said x”. He’s learned that if he pauses I actually DID hear what he said, but for some reason I almost have a tick of asking “What? What did you say?” before allowing myself time to think about it. Ok, maybe i AM a type 1! Lol…I guess I relate more than I realized…I just never really thought of my thoughts as unstructured or random or “too fast” before…hmmmm…::still thinking::
June 13th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Your post makes me think you’re a Type 1!
Not long ago, I couldn’t decide if I was a 4/1 or a 1/4. My friend was trying to figure me out, too. And then at an event, we both had an a-ha. I said, “I talk too much to be a 4.” And she said, “I was just thinking the same thing.”
June 7th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
I love type ones!!! I’m a 4 and they really balance me out. I have 2 type 1 kids and a type 1 husband. They always refresh my world.
June 11th, 2011 at 9:37 pm
I absolutely agree with you! My type one husband really balances me and brings out the lighter side of my personality…I too am a type 4. I too have had many challenges with my husband’s type 1 nature, but after learning about energy profiling I have really grown to appreciate him and understand him. I can’t wait to forward this video to him and hear what he has to say about it!
June 7th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Wow! I prayed for confirmation on my type, and am getting more & more affirmation EVERYDAY. & once AGAIN it arrives…
I have very recently gone through the on-line ‘Beauty Profile Course’ and am concluding I am a primary Type 1. This was a shock, now it is getting very exciting. I now realise I have suppressed my nature since as long as memory.
Carol & Anne, thanks for the further affirmation – ” … they can’t speak as fast as the thoughts come to them.” After being told continually as a child to “Speak slower”, those are the exact words that came to mind as I got a little older as to why I spoke so fast.
Am loving this. It makes so much sense. I am extremely appreciative this insight has come my way.
June 8th, 2011 at 5:51 am
I love this! Um….I need to watch it again, though. I got so excited about how much better I feel now that I’m valuing all of my 1-ness, and then I remembered that I need to send a DYT link to another T1 friend of mine who is still burying her bright nature, so I rushed off to do that annnnnd I missed half of what Carol and Ann were saying! Let’s try this again…
Seriously, though, you would be amazed at how many people are sincerely thanking me for the brightness and hope I bring to them, now that I’ve embraced this aspect of myself. There really IS a need for our bubbly randomness! THANK YOU CAROL!
June 10th, 2011 at 10:06 am
@Tori: I’ve been having the same experience! People in my life continually thank me for “being a breath of fresh air” or “being so happy” or “being such a joy angel” or “being so much fun”. The cool part, for me, is that I’m just “being” me! My Type One self and loving it!! Like you said, “There really IS a need for our bubbly randomness!”
June 8th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
Great job describing whats happening in a type 1 mind! I used to worry that there was something wrong with me because my thoughts were so all over the place and fast. In conversation (or just conversation in my head!) I will jump from one idea to the next, often saying things that may not relate specifically to the topic at hand, but in my mind there is a connection.
I get questions like, “what do grape popsicles have to do with doing the laundry?” Then I explain all the little brain jumps from laundry -> wanting to wear that shirt to the party tomorrow night -> we need to take chips and salsa -> I need to get that from the store on my way home from work -> I was craving grape popsicles yesterday so Im going to get them when Im at the store! Ta Da! And that all happens in my head in a single pop of thought. Speaking is just short-hand abbreviation of thought!
And I close and cover my eyes with my hands if I really need to focus on what im trying to say.
I also quickly scribble down thoughts in the form of keywords if I want to try to remember it later. Ideas come and go so quickly that writing is my only way of capturing them long enough to let a full thought really come together and develop.
June 13th, 2011 at 7:21 am
That describes me perfectly too!! I think so fast that I sometimes wish I had someone following me around all day to jot down all the things that come into my head because I don’t want to forget them and they come often at times when I don’t have a second to act on them. I also often close my eyes and put my fingers on my temple to get out the thoughts I want to communicate, or close my eyes to gather my thoughts before I write them down.
June 9th, 2011 at 6:34 am
Very appreciative of this series and look forward to the rest!
Recently experiencing some communication difficulties and know this will be very helpful!
June 9th, 2011 at 8:41 am
I am a type 4 and my husband is a type 1. I’ve always wondered why my husband would jump from topic to topic without finishing the conversation. It has been somewhat frustrating to me because I would want to talk a little more about a certain issue and before I could finish up he would change to a different subject. But now knowing what I know about type 1′s, I can understand that it’s the way he is and if I tell him he brain jumped (love that term) he can go back and explain how it all connected together. It’s all so amazing! I don’t get so frustrated any more.
June 10th, 2011 at 11:10 am
This was so fun. It totally explained how I think. I have four grown daughters, one of each type. My type 1 daughter and I both loved your description of how we think. It brought to mind something that happened to me many years ago. My last name used to be “Dill”. When I introduced myself to a group of women in the town I had just moved to, I said, “My name is Cheri Dill”. One of the women said “Bill?”. I said “no, it’s ‘D’ as in ‘Pickle’.” Everyone laughed more than I expected them to. The name is different and I always got some giggles from it. But I sensed this laughter was different. It was YEARS before I realized why they laughed so hard. My mind just jumps like that!!
June 10th, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Cheri – my mind mush have immediately jumped too because it took me 3 times of reading your post to get why they would have laughed so much…
June 13th, 2011 at 6:33 am
Cheri and Kelly, I, too, had to re-read to figure out why D=pickle would be funny…made perfect sense to me! I’m a 1-sub3 and have said for decades that my brain works like a pile of cooked spaghetti and have often described my husband & a best friend (type 4′s) as two people with noodles that stayed in place, lined up and straight, whereas my noodles were all convoluted and i could easily jump from one noodle to another and keep going, and i might never get back to the first noodle, unless someone asked, and it would all make sense in my head. This part of energy profiling has been very helpful to me, because i did often wonder if there was something wrong with my mind. Because i appear to function very much like a 3, in that i accomplish a lot and move quickly, most of my friends originally thought i was a three. Only my husband knew within 20 minutes of watching the intro video that i was a #1. His proof to me was, “Well, yeah, you gets lots of things done fast, but you always have to make a game out of the grocery shopping, picking weeds, or whatever else it is we’re doing, and I’ve always wondered, ‘Why does it matter to her if it’s fun or not? It just has to get done.’” And now that my friends and i have gone through the course together, we all see that my thoughts are VERY INDICATIVE of my leading “1-ness.”
June 28th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Cheri-
Just laughed and laughed at that. My maiden name sounded like “deal”, but people would get dill out of that and connect to to dill pickle all the time.
I could totally see how your brain came up with D as in Pickle, lol.
June 13th, 2011 at 6:56 am
This came at a very appropriate time! I was arguing with my husband last night, and it became a bigger argument because I am a Type 1 and my husband is a Type 4, and it has been a real challenge trying to express myself to him and him have any idea of what I’m trying to say! I am so glad to have seen this video, because it gives ME a better understanding of why I have such a hard time communicating with him! I am going to try to get him to watch this so that hopefully he will get a better understanding. THANK YOU for this!
June 13th, 2011 at 7:15 am
Thank you for posting this! I am a Type 1 and that really helped me accept myself! I usually like this about myself as long as I keep it “tamed” with my secondary 4. When I don’t keep it tame, I have felt guilty! I think my guilt comes from the belief that others are perceiving this as a weakness. I love that as type 1′s we have so many thoughts and ideas.. it keeps things fun and interesting! I love that pace.. and love having others who can keep that pace with me! If I judge this I will hurt the beautiful process of ideas flowing abundantly and quickly. My daughter is a type one also and I am always amazed at the brilliant mind she has that she can so quickly talk about so much and have so many creative ideas.
June 13th, 2011 at 7:52 am
I appreciate this today! All morning I’m trying to physically keep up with my mental shorthand memory bursts & I’m feeling relief realizing this is normal… sales is easy, accounting is not so easy. Watching videos is easy, trying to apply what I learn, not so easy… alway wondered how I could be soooo fast & sooooo slow at the same time. It is about alignment, ratcheting up my actions to match my mind… takes more time than I’m patient for.
June 13th, 2011 at 8:11 am
I’m almost a 50/50 type 1/2… you’re so right. It’s terribly frustrating to try say out loud what happening in the head since I see the whole package at once… I suck at verbal dialogue…. oddly enough though I can write my thoughts way better because that’s when my 2 surfaces and OMG do I dribble on…. I’ll stop now to save you all.
June 13th, 2011 at 10:02 am
Carol, thank you as now I can email this to my 31yr.old Son who never understood my thinking patterns.
I have found that writing proposals, new ideas etc.helps me to reread & edit so paragraphs make sense to people. I see where I skipped into the future without explaining how I got there!
It is still a challenge in the workworld as I must restrain how fast I’m thinking and seeing solutions long before others. I’ve been a pioneer in integrating alternative medicine into mainstream & now energy medicine. It is a lifelong restraining myself which makes me sick/low energy, and I must come home in peace to repair. With Quantum Physics and evolved Light Beings I feel more at home; and have always felt at home with nature and Indigenous peoples as they have high perception and literally we feel thoughts without talking which helps. Being a 1 with a 3 ‘let’s just do it!’ has not been easy, but I do believe the Light is speeding up humanity to more instant manifestation to equalize the 1′s energy. Would appreciate your ideas on this Carol.
June 13th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
As a Type 2/1 I totally recognize the brain jumping in myself. As Emily illustrated above, it’s good to be able to backtrack and explain my stepping stones when necessary. My 3/2 husband sometimes is perplexed or annoyed by my intuitive leaps, but when I explain in shorthand, he is amused that my thoughts are connected but flow in a different way than his. (Perhaps it’s his secondary 2 that gets upset at feeling disconnected.) Great video. Can’t wait to see Type 2.
June 13th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
I love this! ya, the thought bubbles is totally on! It’s like my brain actually bypasses “thinking” altogether sometimes (okay a lot of times) – and things just come and i know. People go – how do you know?
Eg. At work, how do you know which facility to send people for these test? (i thought they will never believe me, but whatheheck) – i said i use my intution. They thought i was weird.. ha! they are not longer with the company ~ weirdness rocks!
Now in the office, the lady next to me must be a four, because she has never intiated a conversation with me or asked my anything about myself. It was like sitting next to a black hole i thought. I was quite upset. Then when i realized – she never will! give it up! – i found i could, during work, make conversation of a couple short brief sentences and get from her a “chirpy” response. Also teasing her on occasion worked too (about her ‘secret life’ – coz she doesn’t really have one).
I think the toughest thing about being a one, is that the rest of the crowd just isn’t as happy for no reason and i am.. that’s why i love answering the main line on the phone – i never know who i am going to get or why they are calling.. it’s like a new puzzle to solve with each call, and then i get to radiate fun to them, no matter why they are calling ~ yes, fun, great for rapport – everyone wants to laugh!
p.s. i had this friend where i used to live – i could follow her “vapour trails” if i ever lost her in the mall, and could find her again. With her, we’d have conversations where when we couldn’t put stuff into words, she would make stamping motions with her foot and say “one for yes, two for now”… or when i couldn’t get what she meant I would just say just picture it, and then i would close my eyes and “look” at it and “get” it. Are we one or wot. ha ha ha
Now the more i start realizing i am okay as i am – when i have achieved something in the moment – i find myself making comments to myself “are we good or wot”… or “hey what’s not to like, everybody like me”
Well that cheered me up just writing it
June 14th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
I was having a conversation with my Type 1 husband and he was going to call his mom to ask her to babysit for us this week or next week. He pulled out his phone and we said a few more things like we are too busy this week, lets plan for next week. He put his phone away and went over to do the dishes… I was so confused, I said, “So you decided to not call your mom to babysit for us?” and he said, “I just thought it was too far away to plan and ask her.” Haha, I missed that whole thought cause he didn’t verbalize it; thinking it was obvious that it was too early to ask her. However, I think the earlier the better with planning (I’m a type 2), so I thought he was going to call her still! Kinda funny.
June 14th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
How insightful! I’m constantly amazed by energy profiling.
Today, I submitted a children’s story after procrastinating for a very long time. My fiance was with me when I sent it off and I made the comment, “There, I actually got something done today!” He said, (and keep in mind he hasn’t seen any of the videos on energy profiling) “You do something every day whether you know it or not. You inspire me and you give me hope. You’re doing exactly what God wants you to be doing. You’re giving hope to someone who really needs it. And you do that just by breathing and being who you are.” I thought it was so sweet of him to say and I loved that he used the exact key words Carol used to describe Type 1 power.
And you were spot on, Anne, when you said that 1′s tend to ask a question about something they heard and got, but still have to ask because the thought came to them to ask. I always do that. Especially when watching movies which tends to annoy other types. I’ll blurt out, “What happened?” Or “What did she say?” When I saw exactly what happened and heard exactly what was said. It’s like a tick. To me it’s kind of a joyful, excited question that is just a way of connecting with the people I’m with. But then everyone stops to explain it to me like I just didn’t get it. Embarrassing.
I’m wondering if anyone else has this trait. I’m a 1/4 and I’ve never been told to slow down my speech. I’ve always been told to “hurry up!”
The reason I’m told to “hurry up” is because I go off on so many tangents and side thoughts it’s hard for me to stick to the point. And, when I’m really comfortable, like with my family, I sometimes even stop mid-sentence and just go inside to listen to my thoughts without realizing what I’ve done. I’ve left my audience hanging. My mother and sister get very impatient waiting for me to finish talking about what I started out to tell them when I do that, but I can’t help it. It’s just how I’m wired. The thoughts are coming too fast and I can’t put them all in words so I stop and then get so caught up in those thought bubbles I forget that someone was listening to me. It’s like being woken up out of a dream when they say, “Hurry up! Finish what you were saying!”
June 15th, 2011 at 8:16 am
People tell me I talk too fast or don’t “get” what I’m saying. What’s funny is if I’m talking with another T1, we complete each other’s sentences. Or we just totally understand what we each are trying to say even though we miss whole words or chunks of sentences. My T1 son and I have these weird convos where no one else understands what we’re talking about.
My son also does the ‘brain jump’ thing, and though I’ve learned how to slow down so others can understand where I’m going, I do this all the time as well. Perfect description of a T1′s brain.
I’ve learned that blogging can help tremendously when I have thoughts I need to articulate. I just put it all out there as it comes, then can go back and edit it (drawing on my T4 secondary). It’s made me a better communicator when talking too. The practice of getting it all out in one seemingly disconnected purge (and this is soooo important for a T1…the release doesn’t come until everything is all out! I think this is why we ramble really fast, and won’t let others interrupt us), then going back and connecting the dots for ourselves and others listening or reading has helped me appreciate how my brain works. I’ve been amazed by how a rambling post on some topic I care deeply about will eventually come full circle in a brilliant way that everyone can relate to. I’ve been told I’m a ‘natural’ writer, and I believe it’s my 1/4 energy that makes it so.
One other thing…as T1′s like to weigh all our options, my hubby has noticed that I’ll spit out lots of thoughts (sometimes as strong opinions), sorta sifting through them or trying them on before committing to one. He used to tell me I couldn’t make up my mind, or that I changed my mind. Now he understands that I sometimes have to say out loud all the different thoughts that come to me before discarding what doesn’t fit. It’s like the thoughts have to get out of the tumble cycle and into the fresh air so I can try them on for size. What a gift to know this isn’t me being flakey or non-commital, but simply the way I process thoughts, feelings, and opinions. Thankfully when something doesn’t ‘fit’ I can easily discard it…disconnect!
Looking forward to hearing more in this series. GREAT stuff.
June 21st, 2011 at 9:32 am
Certainly the thoughts can be hard to verbalize, but I find it’s often because I realize it’s because I have to get the other person to where I am in my mind. It’s like handing them a box and discussing what is drawn on the top but telling them to flip it upside down so we can better discuss what the top looks like. It’s going to make no sense to them, so how do I get it make sense?
June 23rd, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I am a type 1 and I’ve noticed a pattern around my type 4 family members. I often feel uncomfortable and conversations are very awkward. Do you have any advice or insight as to why that may be?
Thanks!
August 18th, 2011 at 3:29 am
I really needed this today. Thank you so much for sharing with us the differences in thought processes. As a Type 1 I’ve been having trouble making myself clear and communicating with some of the people in my life recently. This really helped me to realize why my thoughts and communication patterns are different and how to better communicate. Thank you so much!
April 24th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
I think it’s important for others to realize that a type 1 may give you a “snapshot” of a thought, and we think it sums it up pretty well but it may leave someone else confused or having to assume things about it. A lot of times if the “snapshot” leaves something unclear, ask the type 1 to clarify! They probably don’t even realize what it sounded like they meant!