Sensory-Based Description

A description of a person's external, observable behavior that is free from interpretation, evaluation, or inference. A sensory-based description reports only what can be directly seen, heard, or measured — for example, 'Her lips are curved upward at the ends and her face is symmetrical' rather than 'She is happy.' In NLP, sensory-based descriptions are used to develop precision in observation and communication, and to distinguish between verifiable facts and the meanings we project onto them.