[Neurons] 2013 Meta Reflections #14

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2013  #14

March 18, 2013

Modeling Excellence Series #7

 

 

HOW TO MODEL WITH META-STATES

 

In the last article I described the modeling that discovered Meta-States,
now for an overview of how to model using the Meta-States Model.  This was
actually the surprise that I experienced after discovering Meta-States.
While I was absolutely delighted to identify the meta-level structures of
resilience (#6), I really had no ideal how extensive the Meta-States Model
would apply.  And how extensive does it apply?

In any and every experience where a person's self-reflexive consciousness is
operative. 

 

Now if you are new to Neuro-Semantics and to Neurons, self-reflexive
consciousness is the kind of consciousness, the kind of mind that you have,
that we humans have.  What does it mean?  It means that you never just
think.  You never just feel.  As soon as you think-and-feel (create an
emotional state), you think-and-feel about that first state.  You do not
just get angry, you get afraid-of-your-anger or you get angry-at-your-anger,
or you feel ashamed-of-your anger.  And that's just the first level.  Then
you think-and-feel something else about that first meta-state.  And so it
goes.

 

This explains the complexity of your states.  This explains why it is often
very difficult to answer the question, "What do you feel about X?"  When you
think about that X, there is your first level thinking-and-feeling, then
your second level, third level, and so on.  Up the levels it goes.  Nor do
these "levels" stay separate.  It is their nature to combine and integrate.
We call it coalescing in Neuro-Semantics.

 

So if you meta-state your learning state with joy, fun, or delight and you
create the meta-state of joyful learning, if you do that repeatedly, then
after awhile the joy and the learning so coalesce that they operate as if
they were a single primary state- joyful learning.  Then try as you will to
pull the joy out of the learning and you will find it next to impossible.
Why?  Because your mind-body neurology is designed to make-actual
(actualize) your thinking-and-feeling and so when you keep meta-stating
learning with joy, you generate a new gestalt state so that a new emergent
property arises- joyful learning.

 

For modeling, this is crucial.  It lies at the heart of every complex and
dynamic "state" that we humans are able to generate and this goes far beyond
the linear modeling of basic NLP.  And if you want to model the rich,
robust, powerful, and complex states that characterizes experts- resilience,
self-efficacy, seeing and seizing opportunities, entrepreneurship,
leadership, etc., then you have to model out the meta-levels within the
meta-states of the expert.  Ignore that and you only get the surface first
level and you will never tap into the rich layered qualities that lie behind
it.

Now years ago I wrote a whole book on Modeling with Meta-States, I gave it
the title of NLP: Going Meta (1997) and wrote it after the formatting that
Robert Dilts used in Creating NLP: The Study of the Structure of Subjective
Experience, Volume I.   So I also titled it, NLP: Going Meta - Advanced
Modeling Using Meta-Levels, Volume II.   Here are the book's chapters: 

 

                I: STRATEGIES FOR MODELING 

   Ch. 1    NLP: Identifying the Pieces of Subjectivity            19

                   Ch. 2    The NLP Strategy Model
33

                   Ch. 3    Strategies for Modeling
47

                II: ADVANCED MODELING USING META-LEVELS                68

                   Ch. 4   Why Introduce Meta-Levels to Modeling?
69

                   Ch. 5    Logical Levels: What are They?
80

                   Ch. 6    Models of Logical Levels
97

   Ch. 7    Bateson's Logical Levels of Learning                        132

                   Ch. 8    Korzybski's Levels of Abstraction
149

                   Ch. 9    Dilts' Levels of Outcomes and Beliefs
167

                   Ch. 10   Levels of Perception  (Meta-Programs)
193

                   Ch. 11   Levels of States (Meta-States)
213

                   Ch. 12   Systemic NLP: Meta-Layering Consciousness    242

                III: ENHANCING STRATEGIES WITH META-LEVELS  

                   Ch. 13   Integrating Meta-Levels With Strategies
261

                   Ch. 14   Elicitation: Unpacking Multiple Layers
278

                   Ch. 15   Utilization: Meta-Level Resourcefulness
303

                   Ch. 16   Design: Meta-Level Design Engineering
336

                   Ch. 17   Installation: Meta-Level Installation
363

                Epilogue
380

                Appendices

                   A:    When Levels Coalesce
384

                   B:     Logical Levels in Emmanuel Kant
385

                Bibliography
386

 

So just how do you model using Meta-States?  The answer lies in detecting
and identifying the meta-levels that a person has reflexively brought to him
or herself that now qualifies the experience and operates as a frame to the
experience.  What this means is that as you and I access another
thought-and-feeling about our first state, that second state operates
dynamically to do several things- 

           It brings another mind-body state to it and so adds qualities or
qualifies the first.

           It sets the cognitive ideas within that state as the frame for
the first. 

           It puts the first as a member of a class, the "class" being the
classification that the second one creates.

 

The second bullet point means that all of the so-called logical levels
(beliefs, values, identity, mission, spirit, intention, permission, memory,
imagination, meaning, etc.) are dynamically inside of the second state (the
meta-state) and set the frame of meaning for the first.  Back to the example
of "joyful learning."  Is that a belief?  Do you believe you can joyfully
learn?  Is that a value?  Do you value learning for the joy it gives you?
Is that an identity?  Are you a joyful learner?  Do you have memories of
joyfully learning?  Do you imagine it in your future?  Do you anticipate,
expect, desire, give yourself permission, etc. to learn joyfully?

 

So what is it?  It is all of those things at the same time.  It is we with
our linear thinking who want to separate these things and make them
different phenomenon.  Yet are they really?  Could they all be aspects of
the same thing?  That's our position in Neuro-Semantics.  We look at all of
these "meta-level phenomena" and view them as facets of the "diamond of
consciousness." 

 

What does this mean for modeling?  It means that when you discover a
meta-level that's qualifying an experience- there are beliefs in it, values
in it, identities within it, intentions, permissions, prohibitions, and all
of the other 100 logical levels.  Oh yes, there are one hundred logical
levels (actually more).  I made a list of 104 of them in the book,
Neuro-Semantics (2011).

 

There's more to describe about this - especially the third bullet point on
classes and categories as well as how to detect and call forth the
meta-levels.  I'll write about that next time.  To your effective modeling!

 

 

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