[Neurons] Meta Reflections 2010 #25

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta  Reflections 2010 - #25

May 31, 2010

 

 

"HIGHER BUT SO WHAT?"

 

 

That's what he said to me.  I was in Hong Kong and we were doing a
promotional workshop on Meta-Coaching and Mediation.  And we had several
guys from various NLP Schools, several who had read some of my books and
several who were "interested, but unconvinced."  They were unconvinced that
Neuro-Semantics had "anything" to offer that was actually different from
NLP.  At least that's what they said.  So they wanted to know.

"What's new and what different in Neuro-Semantics?  And you can't say that
it is higher because NLP has higher or meta-levels and positions."

 

"You're right!" I immediately acknowledged.  "Dilts has introduced four
meta-levels in his Neuro-Logical Levels pattern and even Bandler and Grinder
had the 'meta-position' in their original model as well as they acknowledged
that language is a 'meta-representational system,' and so developed a
'Meta-Model of Language in Therapy' as they called it to address that higher
level.  So in all of that, you are right on.  NLP modeled higher levels."

 

"But while NLP has that, there's one thing that NLP did not have, not until
I introduced the Meta-States Model.  Only then did NLP obtained a model of
the very special and unique kind of mind that man has, well, women also."

"And what is that?"

 

I threw in the humor bit and paused, all designed to facilitate some
"response potential" as Milton Erickson would have said.  "Okay, so do you
want to know what it is?"  I said that in the tone and tempo that Morpheus
uttered the same line to Neo in The Matrix movie, knowing that they would
like that.  One of them had read my book on The Matrix Model and had spoken
about that when we began.

 

"What NLP does not have, apart from the Meta-States Model, even to this day,
is a model of the self-reflexiveness of the human mind, and that's the most
unique feature of human consciousness.  NLP began as a modeling of
consciousness, of how our brains operate and of how to effectively run your
own brain, and yet NLP from 1975 to 1994 completely ignored the
self-reflexivity of our minds.  And that's what the Meta-States Model added
to the NLP Communication Model that was so revolutionary." 

 

I paused for a moment ... there was an awkward silence, so I added.  "Where
in NLP is there anything, one comment, one note, one pattern, one anything
about the self-reflexivity of the human mind except in the Meta-States
Model?  Do you know?  Have you ever seen it?  Has any NLP trainer ever even
mention the fact that there is structure to our meta-cognitive skills and
that our meta-cognitive abilities, processes, and competencies is what
enables us to not only think, but think-about-our-thinking?"

"That's a good point that you're making." one of them said.  And when he
did, another looked at him as if he had just betrayed their alliance!
That's when he said in a challenging way, "So it's all about thinking,
conscious thinking, and that's the biggest problem with Meta-States!"

 

"Well, I hate to disappoint you, but because a meta-state is first and
foremost and ultimately a state, yes it is a mental state, yet it is also an
emotional state and a somatic state.  And that's why when you meta-state,
you not only bring one thought-to-another-thought, you also bring one
feeling, one emotion, one physiological state to another.  And that's why
meta-stating has nothing to do with the so-called 'dissociation,' and
everything to do with creating the more complex and riches emotional states
possible to human beings."

"But I heard that a Meta-State is a dissociated, non-feeling state and that
that is why you are so academic and non-emotional."

 

"And who did you hear that one from?"  Well, he couldn't say.  "Do you mean
you cannot or that you don't want to say?"  He didn't want to.  "And why
would you not acknowledge the source of that rumor?  Why hide what someone
has obviously communicated to you and probably to others?  They made it
public, so why protect them against the truth?"

 

"So tell me, if you love learning, does that make the state of learning more
or less emotional?  What about joy of learning, passion about the joy of
learning?  And what about such meta-states as gloriously fallible,
uninsultability, robustly resilient?  Do those sound like academic and
non-emotional states?"

 

"And do you think that the 'higher' states in Dilts' list- mission, purpose,
identity, spirit are less emotional, do you think they are dissociated
states?"  Well he didn't.

 

"So now you know the difference!  And knowing this difference, and realizing
that to step back in your self-reflexive awareness can enrich your knowing
with appreciation or joy or wonder, how do these delightful and playful
states now transforms what you use to know and give you that broader and
more comprehensive competency to explain to anyone who asks you about the
revolutionary difference in Neuro-Semantics, and I'm wondering, just
wondering if you were able to track all of the levels in this statement?"

 

Ah, now he knows about the "so what" of the higher states!  I hope you do
too.

 

 

 

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