[Neurons] 2008 Meta Reflection #48

[Dr. Hall]

From:  L. Michael Hall

Oct. 26, 2008

Meta Reflection #48

(Apology---

Part II of the Art of Living in Language

Was left in Colorado . and not on the lap top

here in South Africa.  I'll send it out next week.)

 

             SYNERGISTIC META-STATING

 

 

 

When you work with The Meta-States model and particularly when you work with
the meta-stating process for running your own brain, you are working with a
system-a living, dynamic system.  It is a system of interactive parts that
all work together in a synergistic way.  That's because the "parts" are only
"parts" in language, in the way we think about, classify, and punctuate the
experience, and not in reality.  In reality, there is just a single thing-a
single system, namely the person with his or her mind-body-emotion system.
There is a system of interactive variables and in this case, of a
mind-body-emotion state processing some content in some context.

 

Is this important?  You bet it is!   Okay, so how is it important?  It's
important if you want to understand and work with the mind-body system.
It's important if you want to tap into the power of the human system to
create some great states.  It's important if you want to think and work
systemically and get the highest responses from the system.  It's important
if you want to know some of the basic rules and processes of the system and
especially if you want to quickly get to the leverage point for change and
unleashing.  So what are some of these basic rules?  Here are a few.

 

1) When you think and work systemically, you are working with the principle
that "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts."  We use the term
gestalt for this system principle.  As a system operates, properties arise
from within that system that cannot be explained by adding the parts
together.  It is not summative.  The property is more than that, it emerges.
It is an emergent property.  And that emergence cannot be reduced to parts,
elements, or components.  Something more has arisen.  In Meta-States we
speak about these emergent properties as a gestalt state.  Courage is an
example.  So is a solid sense of self, self-esteem, proactivity, and many,
many other complex states.

 

2) When you think and work systemically, you use the process of iteration.
This is the process of repeating a process again and again and again.  This
is the process of iteration.  That's because systems have loops of
information and energy.  There is the feedback loop and the feed forward
loop.   In the mind-body-emotion system, information enters into the system
and goes round and round reflexively until it is then fed forward and is
transformed into energy.  This feed forward loop takes the energy and
incorporates it by activating neuro-pathways and embodying it in muscle
memory and then feeding it forward into the world in speech and behavior.
The information and energy go round and round the system and with each
iteration, the system responds to itself.

In the field of Meta-Cognition, the lower levels in a system are governed by
the "feedback loops" of the higher level iterations.  In this way a
thermostatic governs the temperature of a room or house.  The loops of the
system feed information about the temperature which then evokes pre-set
biases of the system which then activate a furnace or an air conditioner.
Later, more data about the temperature of the room is fed back into the
system which leads to other responses.  The data of the lower loop
(registering the temperature) is fed into the higher loop (the thermostat
biases) which governs the lower loop.

 

We have iterations in Meta-States.   And because we are self-referential in
our thinking-and-emoting and responding, we can send the same information
back onto ourselves and our experiences again and again to create a
self-organizing influence.  We can take fear and become afraid of our fear,
and then fear our fear-of-our-fear, and so on.  We can appreciate ourselves
and then appreciate our appreciation, and so on.  And depending on the
structure, this can create positive self-reinforcing loops or negative
loops.  The state can spiral upward positively or downward negatively.  It
can create rich and empowering resourceful states or limiting "dragon"
states that undermine health and well-being.

 

In Meta-States, what and how you use iterations determines whether you are
running your own brain at the higher levels or whether you are the victim of
some higher level frame that's running the show.  We can set frames or allow
frames to be set that can become a self-organizing meta-state so that
through the repeated iterations, it organizes a self-similarity of the
diminishing frame over and over and over.  And with each iteration of those
thoughts and feelings, the mind and state becomes more complex and
solidified. 

 

3) When you think and work systemically, look for the direction of the
system.  Which way is the system spinning?  What direction is the system
going and evolving?  Toward health or illness?  Toward enhancing life or
diminishing your life forces?  Toward empowering resources or limiting
resources?  Direction also refers to whether the system is open or closed,
whether the system is spiraling upward or downward, whether the system is
healthy or toxic and pathological.  And to address this we need to step back
from the system to run a quality control of the system itself.  In this way
we can check the congruency, ecology, quality, and direction of the system.

 

When you meta-state you have the possibility of creating synergistic
experiences and the richest mind-body states possible that bring out your
highest and best and/or those of others.  And this can open up a whole new
world of possibilities.  So here's to your synergistic meta-stating!

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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