[Neurons] 2008 Meta Reflection #37

[Adele Green]

Dear Michael and neurons,

 

It is six o clock and the sun is coming over the horizon in Umhlanga, South
Africa, as I read this beautiful and amazing statement of “over time”
instead of “a moment in time’.  It appears that Dr Michael Hall is very
brave to challenge his own contribution of meta-states to our time as a
thinking pioneer.  Taking a step back it actually appears that he is
refining it with neuro-semantics.

 

Just last week I thought about all this as I saw a new client (60 years with
a very successful law practice).  My client wishes to take his business and
legacy to the next level.  I decided to start the program with a timeline
instead of the usual well formed outcome and it struck me ... ‘how to coach
for an outcome over time”.

 

The client does not what it all to stop when he is 70 and he does not want a
‘ceiling for his outcome’.  So many clients I see wants so desperately to
achieve what they set out for, but this client wants the ‘lifestyle’.

So Dr Hall – well done again.  And when you are ready to share – do tell us
how you tap into the unconscious intelligence to answer all our questions.

 

Proud to be a meta-coach and share this enriching environment.

Adelé Green 
the mind•body coach 
life PHILOSOPHY 

"And the day will come when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more
painful than the risk it took to blossom."   • Anain Nin

  _____  

From: neurons-bounces at neurosemanticsegroups.com
[mailto:neurons-bounces at neurosemanticsegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dr. Hall
Sent: 10 August 2008 09:38 PM
To: Neurosemantics eGroup
Subject: [Neurons] 2008 Meta Reflection #37

 

From: L. Michael Hall

August 11, 2008

Meta Reflection #37

 

THE SECRET OF NEURO-SEMANTIC

MODELING FOR CREATING WEALTH

 


>From the last Meta Reflection #36 "Why Classic NLP Won’t Make You Wealthy"

here is the rest of the story. Now you may think that the rest of the story
is more about ridding yourself of the thought-viruses that I mentioned, or
about adding some new refinement to setting a well-formed outcome, financial
or entrepreneurial know-how, or figuring out "how to get in." And while all
those are legitimate ideas, my focus here is different.

My focus here is on modeling. In addition to the limiting attitudes and
thought-viruses within the original "pure" NLP that some are promoting,
there is a basic problem of limitation due to the original NLP idea of
modeling. Let me put my thesis forth as bluntly as I can:

Modeling something that occurs in a moment of time radically differs from
something that occurs over time.

Modeling "wealth creation" is not, never has been, and cannot be a "moment
in time" experience. It is an experience that occurs "over time."

In the first instance of moment in time experiences, the NLP strategy model
is superb. So, if you want to model how an excellent speller spells, how to
get out of bed in the morning with ease and grace, how to delegate a
responsibility, how to make a decision, and many other things that occur in
a given moment of time, then use the classic NLP strategy model. Interview a
person with that skill and mastery, watch eye accessing cues, listen for
sensory predicates, map out the step-by-step representations as the person
processes from the first triggering stimuli to the final activity. Do that
and you will obtain a pretty good model for how to replicate that competency
and get those results.

In the second instance, however, of experiences that occur over time, the
NLP strategy model will not be very helpful. You can watch eye accessing
cues all day; gather pages and pages of predicates, and map out the
micro-activities of the expert and in the end all of that information will
be pretty much useless. In fact, it will mostly be irrelevant.

Now the surprising thing is that most NLP people, and even trainers, do not
seem to know this. They seem to think that they can model life style
activities that occur over weeks, months, and even years in the same way
they model a micro-activity like spelling or deciding. But they cannot; it
does not work that way. And why not?

The reason is that life style activities involve lots and lots of
micro-strategies embedded within layers of beliefs, belief-systems, matrices
of meanings, and even higher level understandings and concepts. And because
of this—to model complex life-style activities requires some Meta-State
structures; it requires a shift to some of the Neuro-Semantic modeling
tools. Yes, I know. That is an extremely bold statement, so let me see if I
can justify it.

Consider health. If "health" was just a state, just a "moment in time"
experience, and just a micro-activity, then we could find that state and the
strategy for getting into that state. Then we could access "the state of
health," anchor it, and then whenever we don’t feel so well, or feel a cold
coming on, or lack of energy, stress, etc., we could just fire the health
state anchor, and presto! Health! And if we could do that, we would totally
revolutionize the field of medicine!

But obviously, that’s ridiculous. "Health" is not a moment in time
experience or activity. Health doesn’t occur in just a moment, and is not a
"state" like confidence, relaxation, excitement, anger, love, etc. are
states. It is a state as in a condition of one’s overall mind-emotions-body
in relationship to one’s life-style activities—eating, exercising, drinking,
sleeping, getting along with others, work, sense of purpose, and so on.
There are so many variables and factors that go into the overall condition
of being healthy, energetic, free of disease, accident, and illness.

So how would we go about modeling health? After we find some good exemplars
of health and healthiness, we would begin to identify all of the multiple
sub-strategies involved in attaining a state of health. In this instance, we
would specify strategies for eating right, exercising regularly and
properly, adopting attitudes and beliefs that support health, handling work,
effort, relaxation, and sleep properly, and so on. [By the way, I’ll be
presenting the Neuro-Semantics of Health next year in Montreal Canada, May
2009.]

The same considerations applies to the state of wealth. Wealth also is not a
moment in time activity. It is a life-style activity that occurs over time.
And in terms of wealth, it is created not in a day, a week, a month, and
very seldom in a year. Generally it takes a decade. That’s what most of the
leading thinkers and researchers say (not the ‘get rich quick’ gurus). So
when we set out to model "wealth creation" we similarly need to identify
many sub-strategies: 

C The activities that are financially viable in our culture.

C Our skill level and competency of the required activities.

C Our beliefs about ourselves learning and developing those competencies.

C The self-management and discipline of taking our performances to the
higher levels of expertise and eventually mastery.

C Our relationships with and through others in all of the business
relationships (suppliers, customers, clients, employers, partners,
colleagues, employees, etc.).

C Our best states in these many different activities.

C Our skills in handling money (earning, saving, budgeting, investing,
etc.).

C Our skills in marketing, selling, negotiating, seeing opportunities,
seizing opportunities, etc.

C Our skills in adapting to the market, branding, meeting the needs and
wants of clients, etc.

C Our skills in creating a business, the systems required so that the
business operates when we are there and when we are not.

C And so on.

Is that complex? Is it complicated? Yes. And given that it requires multiple
strategies about multiple areas of concern at the same time and holding all
of those together within a larger framework, it requires understanding and
working with multiple meta-levels. And that’s why classic NLP apart from the
Meta-States model is inadequate for modeling a life-style, over-time
activity like "wealth creation." This also explains how and why the
Meta-States Model, the Matrix Model, Self-Actualization Quadrants, etc. does
provide the required tools for effectively modeling how to create wealth
over a decade and becoming financially independent. And because there’s more
to say about this, I’ll do that in next Monday’s Meta Reflection.

To your inside out wealth creation!

 

 

 

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Neuro-Semantics Ltd., Executive Director
ISNS — International Society of Neuro-Semantics
P.O. Box 8
Clifton, Colorado, 81520 USA
www.neurosemantics.com 
www.meta-coaching.org
www.self-actualizing.org 

 

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