[Neurons] 2011 Meta Reflections #56

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2011  #56

Dec. 5, 2011





NEURO-SEMANTICS - THE BOOK



ACTUALIZING MEANING AND PERFORMANCE





For years and years I have wanted to write the Book on Neuro-Semantics.  But
each time I sat down to do that, I had the sense that I just was not ready.
Even a few years ago, when one of our Neuro-Semantic trainers wanted to
write a simple book on Neuro-Semantics and began writing some chapters, I
always felt that it was not on the right track and in the end, that project
ebbed out and was never completed.



So when people would ask, “What can I read about Neuro-Semantics?” I
always referred to Meta-States and to Mind-Lines and to Winning the Inner
Game (Frame Games).  And while those books and several trainings manual
(Advanced Modeling with Neuro-Semantics, Cultural Modeling, etc.) presents
Neuro-Semantics, there was no one volume that provided an overview.  There
wasn’t until now.



Earlier this year, I sat down again and bingo!  I found the “right track”
and so the book came together pretty quickly.  So now, after 17 years of
Neuro-Semantics, there is a book that presents Neuro-Semantics as a model.



What is in the book?   Here is an overview of the content:



Neuro-Semantics



Introduction:
f

                The Book of Neuro-Semantics



1: What is Neuro-Semantics?
1

A description of what Neuro-Semantics means, list of elements in the model,
and a description of the Neuro-Semantic model in terms of its key premises.



Part I: The Dimension of Meaning

2: Meaning-Making - The Human Adventure
22

A description of how meaning-making works from the unspeakable level to the
level of association as you become conscious of our world and the things you
are referring to.  As you use experiences and events as references for how
you think about it, you then bring that world inside to create
representational meaning.  You make meaning by creating frames-your internal
contexts for understanding.



3: The Kinds of Meaning
42

The different kinds of meaning as well as the different levels of meaning,
explains how you create your Matrix of Meaning Frames and the psycho-logical
structures that emerge.  Your meaning-making occurs in all of these
different ways and yet these are just different descriptions, different maps
about these things.  Knowing all of this, you can now begin to simplify the
complexity of your meaning system.  All of this generates your unique
Neuro-Semantic landscape.



4: The Levels of Meaning
61

There are levels of meaning-meaning-making moves from the primary level to
the layering of meanings upon meanings.  Using your self-reflexive
consciousness, you create logical levels which are actually not so logical,
but psycho-logical.  You can discover these levels via the meta-questions.



5: Embodiment - The Feel of Meaning
83

Meaning arises from your neurology and is grounded in your body.  There are
several ways that you embody the meanings that you create.  This chapter
describes how you embody your meanings and how you feel meaning via your
emotions.  Emoting then provides you one way to embody meaning, state is
another way you embody your meanings, believing is a third.



6: The Quality of Meaning
105

Because meaning comes in many degrees of quality, we can gauge the quality
on a Meaning Scale from meaningless to meaningful.  After all, the quality
of your meanings determines the quality of your life.  You can gauge the
richness of your meanings.  You can also quality control the cognitive
distortions that makes up your cognitive thinking style.  You can also
create ultimately rich meanings about yourself and your world as you learn
to sacrilize meanings, that is, construct such high levels of meaning that
you can sacrilize anything you choose.



7: The Flexibility of Meaning-Making
128

How much choice do you have about attributing meanings to things?  The more
flexibility, the more choice you have, and the more creativity.  So as a
meaning-maker, how is your flexibility in inventing multiple meanings?  With
increased flexibility you can operate with an ∞-valued semantics.  Dong
this now gives you many choices for choosing the highest and richest
meaning.



8: Contexts and Cultures of Meaning
141

Meaning occurs in contexts- contexts that we generally take for granted as
we assume them as “the way things are.”  Yet over time, you internalize
these contexts.  You are also born into certain contexts, cultural contexts-
family, school, nation, religion, etc.   These cultures of meaning work to
cultivate your mind-and-emotions so that you fit those cultures.



Part II: The Performance of Meaning
151

9: Actualizing Your Biological Needs
155

“You are an animal, so be a good animal!”  To perform your highest and
best meanings, give to your basic needs accurate and enhancing meanings.
Then your understandings and beliefs will allow you to effectively cope with
your biological needs thereby creating the vitality and energy you need for
living fully and humanly.

10: Actualizing your Self as a Person of Value and Dignity
170

Core meanings that enable your full self-actualization involve how you
identify yourself and the beliefs you create about your self.  Do it well
and you can actualize your best self.  Paradoxically, you can then get your
self or ego out of the way. It takes a lot of self-esteem to be humble and
self-forgetful.



11: Actualizing Your Higher Self
180

You are not only a biological creature, but a semantic class of life who can
and does transcend your primary experience.  To live a self-actualize life
requires that you identify and gratify your highest being-values and
being-motives.  It requires that you develop your ability to ultimate peak
experiences, sacrilize at will, develop your meta-needs, expand your
Meta-Programs, etc.



12: Actualizing Reflective Mindfulness
195

To enact your highest and best meanings entails the process of developing a
reflectiveness about your states as a higher level of awareness.  It’s this
reflective mindfulness that gives you choice and control over your meanings.
Now your meanings can truly be at your command.



13: Actualizing De-Construction
208

Frequently you have to deframe old limiting meanings or suspend them in
order to create the space for inventing new empowering meanings.  And as
there is an art to framing, so there is an art to deframe.



14: Actualizing Creativity
225

As a meaning-maker, you most essentially create new meanings as you set
frames and reframe.  Framing lies at the core of all creativity.  The
semantic skills of inventing and re-constructing meaning describes what it
means to be human.



15: Actualizing Narrative Meaning
242

Meaning often hides in stories- the stories that have been told you about
you, your family, your background.  And as a form of meaning- some stories
are toxically limiting.  So enacting meaning often takes the form of
narrating a new story that you then tell yourself and others which you can
then embody as a new way of being in the world.



16: Actualizing Communication Excellence
255

Since we negotiate meaning and do so via communicating with ourselves and
others, as you learn how to actualize your own communication excellence, you
access and use the highest of your meaning-making skills.  There communion
occurs.  Then you connect and raise the quality of the relationship.



17: Actualizing Excellence (Modeling Experiences of Excellence)
265

The ultimate in meaning-making is to identify and create meanings that
enable you and others to perform excellence.  Where there are best practices
or human experiences of excellence, there is a structure.  And where there
is a dynamic structure of meaning and frames- we can identify them and
replicate them to pass on the excellence.



18: Becoming a Skilled Neuro-Semanticist
276

If you want to grow up to become a competent Neuro-Semanticist, here are
some of the required insights and skills you’ll need.








>From the Back Cover:                                    Neuro-Semantics


Actualizing Meaning and Performance

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.  (2011)



What is Neuro-Semantics?  Are you ready to discover what it is?  Here in
this book you will explore the key models that govern this
inter-disciplinary field.  Here you can experience many of the essential
patterns for using Neuro-Semantics to actualize your highest meanings
(values, visions, beliefs) into your best performances (competencies and
actions).



Neuro-Semantics, as the field that today is continuing the work of Abraham
Maslow and the first Human Potential Movement, is articulating the principal
processes for facilitating the self-actualizing life in the new Human
Potential Movement-Neuro-Semantics.  Neuro-Semantics is also taking NLP to a
whole new level as an ethical profession.



In this first definitive work on Neuro-Semantics, Dr. Hall introduces you
first to the Dimension of Meaning and then to the Performance of Meaning so
that you will be enabled to think and communicate like a fully competent
Neuro-Semanticist.




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