[Neurons] 2010 Meta Reflections #58

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2010 - #58

November 29, 2010

 

 

 

META-STATING AND EMOTIONS

Part III

 

 

In the previous two Meta Reflections I've described a theory and
understanding of "emotions" from the Neuro-Semantic and NLP perspective.
And if you've read any of the Frame Game Books or Sourcebook of Magic, or
Unleashed, or The Crucible, you will have seen that before.  What you have
not seen before is the following.  It is only in the Training Manual,
Emotional Mastery although I have talked about it at numerous times.

 

There's another unique and fascinating feature about emotions- emotions
occur along a range and have varying degrees of intensity.  And because of
the natural range of an emotion, we have numerous terms for emotions as they
increase or degree in intensity.  We also can now gauge an emotion's
intensity on a scale and distinguish emotions at different levels of
significance.




What is the range of the emotion and on what scale?

            When is the emotion more intense or less intense, what is it?
What do you call it?

            What is the significance of being able to scale and gauge an
emotion?

 

The significance is that because an "emotion" as a process of thinking and
feeling (somatizing your meanings), we can now create an emotional scale for
any given emotion and begin distinguish the emotion at different degrees of
intensity.  What this means is that there are typically a constellation of
emotions around an area of emotionality.  An example is the Dislike Scale.
Here you will see a list of the range of emotions that's involved in
"dislike" which makes up the Anger or Displeasure Scale:

                                    Displeasure Continuum

                                                                Violence

                                                                Out-raged

                                                                  Rage

                                                                  Wrath

                                                                  Fury

 
Indignation

                                                                Anger

                                                                  Ire

                                                                  Offended

                                                                  Stress

 
Frustration

                                                                  Agitated

                                                                  Upset

                                                                  Vexed /
Irked

                                                                  Dislike

                                                                  Annoyed /
Bothered

                                                                  Peeved

 

So, what do you feel?  Oh, you feel "angry?"  Okay.  Is your anger an ire?
Or is it a sense of being offended?  Or is it stress?  Frustration?
Agitated?  Upset?  Vexed / Irked?  What would take your anger down to a
frustration so that it is a strong "frustration," just before it comes
"anger?"   What would turn your anger up to an indignation?  Or fury?  Or
rage?

 

The fact that every emotion sits on a range of emotions- and can be located
in a continuum of emotions speaks about how what we call and experience as
one emotion can become another emotion, more or less of the same
emotionality that creates the emotion.  This highlights how emotions change.
As neurological processes of mind-body, they are forever changing and
altering and shifting and changing.  And with a little bit of meta-stating,
you can easily and effectively and powerfully become a change-agent to
yourself so that you manage these processes rather than be a victim of them.

 

Here is another set of emotions- fear, sadness, joy, and guilt.  And you
view them form the perspective of a range, a continuum, think about how the
cognitive- meaning mechanism that creates them (in the italics underneath)
generates the emotion and your experience of it.  And when you know this,
you know the leverage point for transformation, do you not?

 

          Fear                                    Sadness
Joy                       Guilt / Wrongness

                │ Terror                               │ Depression
│ Ecstasy             │ Overly conscientious

                │ Panic                                 │ Bitter, victim
│ Happiness       │ Guiltiness

                │ Paranoia                          │ Emptiness
│ Delight              │ Self-betrayal

                │ Fear                                   │Grief-stricken
│ Mirthful           │ Pained Conscience

                │                                             │ Grief
│ Joy                     │ Guilt

                │ Worry                               │Sadness
│ Playful              │ Shame 

                │ Apprehension               │ Loss, miserable             │
│ Embarrassment

                │ Stress                                │
│ Pleasant           │ Remorse

                │ Upset                                │
│ Content           │ Disappointed

                │ Out of sorts                    │ Hurt
│                             │ Feeling bad

    Avoidance

Danger/Threat/ Possibility           Sense of Loss of Value     Fulfillment
of    Conscience about "bad"

of Hurt
Value

 

For example, with "guilt" many people are quick to feel guilty whnever
anything goes wrong.  "Wrongness" is translated into "guilt" rather than
"feeling bad or sad," disappointed, having some remorseful feelings,
embarrassment, or shame.  All of a sudden, the person jumps all the way up
to "guilt" which is much more intense and series than just embarrassment or
shame.  Now the person has made a moral issue out of something that might be
a communication issue or a social etiquette issue.  Having toilet paper
dragging on your shoe is not a "sin" for which you need to feel "guilty."
Just feel embarrassed!

 

So I always ask, "What law have you violated?"  Embarrassment would be your
rules and social rules, shame would be societal rules, and that leaves guilt
for true moral rules, God's rules.  Ah emotions, we all have them and we
have them everyday and we have them just about everything!  Well, we're
fallible human beings who register our meanings in our bodies- we somatize
what things mean to us, and when we do our feelings (kinesthetic sensations)
turn into emotions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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