[Neurons] 2011 Meta Reflections #1

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2011 - #1

January 3, 2011

 

 

NEURO-SEMANTICS

AND NEURO-SEMANTICISTS

 

 

Another brand new year has arrived and with that another set of
Meta-Reflections for this egroup that we call "Neurons."  For four years now
I have written an article each week to reflect on some aspect of
Neuro-Semantics, NLP, Meta-Coaching, and/or Self-Actualization.  You can
find the previous years of these Meta-Reflections at
<http://www.neurosemantics.com/> www.neurosemantics.com.

 

And why?  Why am I doing this?  What are these posts on this egroup all
about?  Simple, they are to describe what Neuro-Semantics is, how it is
similar-and-different from NLP, how it takes NLP to a higher level
ethically, theoretically, and practically, why this is important, and to
provide an idea of how Neuro-Semantics can be applied.

 

In terms of application, for those who are licensed under the ISNS, there
are more specific egroups- I write a Meta-Coach Reflection each Wednesday
and along with Colin Cox and Omar Salom, I write a Trainers' Reflection each
Tuesday.  The design is to provide ongoing support, new ideas, and
community.  And as far as I know, The International Society Neuro-Semantics
(ISNS) is the only NLP-based community that provides this level of ongoing
support.

 

What is Neuro-Semantics?   It is a positive, strength-based psychology
designed to model the highest and best in human nature in order to transfer
it to our everyday lives.  That explains why our tag-line under the logo is
Actualizing Excellence.

 

What else is Neuro-Semantics?  It is the exploration of meaning (semantics)
and how we humans as meaning-makers make meaning.  Exploring the structure
of meaning and how we construct, construe, and interpret the events of life
endowing them with meaning, Neuro-Semantics focuses on expanding a person's
ability detect meaning frames, the processes of meaning-making, quality
controlling meanings, enriching limiting meaning, suspending dis-empowering
meanings, and taking charge of one's meaning-making instinct.

 

What are the sources of Neuro-Semantics?  Several.  Neuro-Linguistic
Programming, General Semantics, Bateson's Anthropology, Self-Actualization
or Humanistic Psychology, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology,
Developmental Psychology, Constructionism Philosophy.

 

What are the applications of Neuro-Semantics?   Lots.  In fact,
Neuro-Semantics applies to every aspect of human experience.  That's because
the meanings you create are the meanings you live.  Your experiences are
functions of your meanings, so every experience that you find limiting,
dysfunctional, ineffective, painful, or undesirable exists as it does due to
the meanings you give it.  And every experience makes sense, it makes
psycho-logical sense within your structures (systems) of meaning.  However
you framed the experience is how you experience it.  That's why we say, you
are never the problem, the frame is the problem.  And that why we focus on
the skills that make us competent to enable you to identify, quality
control, and transform the frame so that it gives you more quality
experiences.

 

What do Neuro-Semanticists do?   Chiefly, they are change-agents.  As
modelers of experiences, detectors of meanings, and framers and re-framers
of meanings, they teach, train, coach, and facilitate change.  When you
contact a trained Neuro-Semanticist, you have someone who can help you with
your frames, someone who can empower you to win the inner game.  And, of
course, when you win the inner game, then winning the outer game becomes a
cinch!  You can now win the game of being a great lover, mastering fear,
becoming fit and slim, becoming a business expert (to quote the name of four
Neuro-Semantic books).  You can also win the game of learning, leading,
coaching, writing, being resilient, mastering your emotions (to mention the
theme of a few of our key trainings).

 

How can Neuro-Semantics help you?  If you are reactive and have "buttons"
that people or events can push and "get you," rattle your cage, and trigger
a reactive response in you, then these semantic reactions "have" you instead
of you "having" (choosing) them.  So if you want to change that, a
Neuro-Semanticist can help you detect your meaning frames that set up the
structure of this semantic reaction and provide you patterns for changing
it.

 

If you have semantically over-loaded something- given something too much
meaning- so that it controls you, and you want to change that, then a
Neuro-Semanticist can facilitate your discovery of how you have created that
structure.  If you have over-loaded food so that you eat for psychological
reasons, you can change that.  Then winning the fit and slim game will
become a piece of cake! 

 

If you have semantically over-loaded dysfluency and given "speech" that does
flow easily limiting meanings like "I am inadequate," "Others will reject
me," "My future is doomed," then you will probably develop a semantic
reaction such a "trying hard not to be dysfluent" which as a "command
negation" will make it much worse.  The result will be stuttering and
blocking.  Then using your self-reflexive mind, you will jump logical levels
and set even more limiting frames about the stuttering that will lock it in.
Then live in that distressful state for a period of months or years and your
meaning frames that govern this will drop out of conscious awareness and
become embodied.  And because this creates the semantic reaction of fear,
sense of threat and danger, it will become a phobia in your throat and
breathing.  The problem is not you.  The problem is your frame. [Dr. Bob
Bodenhamer has detailed all of this in Mastering Blocking and Stuttering, a
very powerful Neuro-Semantic book].

 

What can a Neuro-Semanticist do or what can Neuro-Semantics do about all of
this?  Lots!  That's because the problem is always the frame, never the
person, and every semantic reaction makes sense- to the meaning-system out
of which it comes.   All we need to do is find the frame and then invite a
choice- will you keep how you are currently structuring your meanings or
not?  It's that simple; it's that profound.

 

Can you have an empower Neuro-Semantic year?  Yes, you can!  And I hope you
will.  If you are new to this newsletter, you can find over 5,000 pages of
information about Neuro-Semantics on the basic website (
<http://www.neurosemantics.com)./> www.neurosemantics.com).  That's the
equivalent of 15 full-size books!  And it is all free!  If you want more,
there are approximately 50 books on Neuro-Semantics and increasingly more by
various Neuro-Semanticists around the world and in numerous languages.

 

So as 2011 begins, may you have a great transformational Neuro-Semantic
year!   May you have a year of transformative change and growth so that you
unleash your real self, that you unleash more of your potentials, and that
you actualize your highest visions and best performances!

 

 

 

 

 

For more about Neuro-Semantic NLP --- 

          See www.neurosemantics.com 

 

Details for the First International Neuro-Semantic NLP Conference is now on
the website.  Click "Trainings" and "NS Conference" for the information and
video .

 

 

            Registration will begin in January 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 




 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Neuro-Semantics Executive Director  ----   <http://www.neurosemantics.com/>
www.neurosemantics.com

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