[Neurons] 2010 Meta Reflections #37

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2010 - #37

August 10, 2010

 

WHERE DO YOU GET ALL YOUR ENERGY?

 

As you probably know or can imagine, I often get a lot of personal questions
at trainings and/or in interviews.  And I'm fine with that.  After all I
have made apply to self one of our key distinctions in Neuro-Semantics and
have been proclaiming for years that "apply-to-self" is built into the
recursive and reflexivity of the Meta-States Model.  In addition to that, we
have made the theme of implementing what you know, and closing the
knowing-doing gap another key facet of everything we're doing in
Neuro-Semantics.  So getting personal questions about how I do things, or
handle various facets of life, seems par for the course. 

 

Now of all the personal questions that I receive in trainings and
interviews, the energy question comes up a lot.  "Where do you get all your
energy?" or "How do you keep your energy up?"  People seem surprised that I
easily handle 12 to 14 hour training days, or do them 8 days consecutively
(Meta-Coaching) or 14 days (NSTT).

 

Now for years I have not really understood these questions.  I suppose it is
like anything that habituates.  Once you get use to the habituation of
something, you don't notice it.  That's what habituation means-it is outside
of conscious awareness and so just assumed as "the way it is."  And that's
how generally the way I experience my "energy."  For years also, the only
way I knew how to answer the question was to say something on the order of
taking care of the basics of health, fitness, and energy:

"Well, I eat moderately, simply, stay with what I know and like, I get some
cardio-vascular exercise as well as some weight training everyday, and I
always aim to get seven to eight hours of sleep every night."

 

More recently, with the development of the Self-Actualization Assessment
Scale, I have begun to discover and understand other facets of my energy.
The Self-Actualization Assessment Scale is the scale that I created in
partnership with Tim Goodenough after the Self-Actualization Workshop,
Unleashing Leadership, in South Africa last year.  Tim began the
conversation by asking how to assess each and every level of the hierarchy
of needs so that we could obtain pre- and post- measurements to enable
people to effectively assess where they are and their next step.  Then at
the NS Leadership Summit in San Francisco this past January, we ran our
first prototype run of the assessment scale. 

 


>From using the assessment scale now with a lot of people, I began realizing

that a person's sense of physical-emotional-motivational vitality is first
and foremost a matter of adequately finding and using the "true satisfiers"
for the biological-psychological needs.  And that's what lead to the
development of the newest Self-Actualization Workshop, Unleashing Vitality.

In Self-Actualization Psychology we begin from the premise that human beings
are innately motivated.  You don't need to "motivate" people.  That
presupposes they are not already motivated.  But they are.  We all are.  We
are born with all kinds of motivational energies within us.  The problem is
never "Why aren't you motivated?"  It is, 

"What are you motivated to do or not do?"  "How are you handling your
motivational energies?"  "How effective are you in satisfying your innate
biological-psychological needs with true gratifiers?"

 

With us humans, since we are without instincts, we do not know innately or
instinctively how to accurately and adequately gratify our needs, we have to
learn.  And because of that, we can mis-learn.  We can then waste a lot of
energy trying to gratify our needs with things that will not satisfy them
and when that happens, then you truly have a problem-one of wasting energy.
Conversely, when you discover how to gratify the basic needs, you release
all kinds of energies for the higher needs.

 

That's what I've been discovering about myself.  Over the years I've
happened upon some effective ways of gratifying the basic needs via my
eating and exercising (Games Fit and Slim People Play, 2001).  That has
enabled me to avoid needless waste of energy with psycho-eating,
psycho-spending, and other psycho-activities.  That has also allowed me to
tap into some of the higher needs and to experience at least some of the
vitality of those needs.

 

Above and beyond the basic needs, vitality is a function of vision,
intention, and actualizing your highest and best.  That's because when you
move to the higher self-actualizing needs, you enter into another domain.
You move from the realm of deficiency (the mechanism that governs the lower
needs) into the realm of abundance.  And a sign of this is that you don't
burn out with activities.  Now you are so awakened to your own unique
contributions and creativity that you find yourself experiencing more and
more energy and vitality for the things that truly matter to you.  At the
higher levels, there's an ongoing energy infusion from the peak experiences
that your synergy of meaning and performance produces.

 

"Where do I get all of my energy?"  Well, I think it is a fortunate
combination of getting to work in this field with Self-Actualization
Psychology.  I think it is from having to happened upon and discovered some
of the basic principles that govern the unleashing of vitality and
potentials.

 

If you're interested in increasing your own personal energy and vitality, my
recommendation is to get to the first two Self-Actualization Workshops- 




Unleashing Vitality - learn how to use the Hierarchy of Needs as embedded in
the Neuro-Semantic Matrix Model so that you can develop your base, seek your
peak and then live the vitality.

Unleashing Potentials - learn how to use your Construct of Meaning-Making to
create great meanings, suspend old meanings, and actualize your meanings in
behavior, enter the Crucible to transform needs, emotions, and old meanings,
and then synergize your meanings and performances for peak experiences and
performances in the genius state of flow (the Zone of self-actualization).




 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, International Society of Neuro-Semantics

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