The Canal Check: Which of Your Five Memory Channels Is Talking?

✦ CORE PATH

Right now, think of a mildly charged situation from this week (difficulty 3 out of 10). A snub, a worry, an awkward exchange. Bring it up gently…

Now scan the five canals, one by one:

S — SENSATION: where does your body react? Heat? Tightness? Nothing? ______

I — IMAGE: any picture or flash? A face, a room, a moment frozen? ______

B — BEHAVIOR: any urge? To leave, defend, fix, flee, punch, cry? ______

A — AFFECT: what emotion, if named? Anger, shame, fear, sadness, or static? ______

M — MEANING: what’s the story sentence? “He always…” / “I ruined…” ______

Now look at your answers. Which canal carried the MOST charge? Which carried almost none?

Check the pattern against your history: people typically have one dominant canal and one offline canal: the loudspeaker and the dead wire. Loudspeaker-M people analyze everything and feel little; loudspeaker-S people feel floods they can’t narrate. Which are you? Does the pattern show up everywhere once you look: arguments, memories, decisions?

If you feel flooded: feet on the floor, eyes open, name five things you can see, breathe out twice as long as you breathe in. That is skill, not failure. This site is education, not therapy — in crisis, contact local emergency services (US 988 · FR 3114 · QC 811).

The Canal Check: Which of Your Five Memory Channels Is Talking?

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