[Neurons] 2013 "Neurons" Meta Reflections #50

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall


Meta Reflections 2013  #50

Nov. 25, 2013


 

 

NLP AND META-STATES

"Meta-States is NLP on Steroids"

 

When speaking to NLP groups, I often ask, "How many of you know about the
Meta-States Model?"  Now with some NLP groups, I will sometimes find that
nearly 90% have studied, learned, or read about Meta-States and then there
are times when I'm with an NLP group where almost no one has studied
Meta-States.  Typically that's because even the NLP Trainers who have taught
them do not know about the Meta-States Model!  So even though the model has
been acknowledged, validated, and generally accepted in NLP since 1996 (for
17 years!), some trainers do not seem to stay current about what's going on
in the field of NLP. 

 

I recently encountered a group that somehow had been sheltered from the new
developments in NLP during the 1990s and beyond.  As I introduced
Meta-States to them, they had some questions, "Why is the Meta-States so
important?  What does it enable you to do?"  As I explained, one of the
things that I said was the following:

"The Meta-States Model models NLP and it does so to such an extent that it
is the model that enables you to consciously understand NLP-how it works.
Anyone who is able to do NLP effectively does so by using the Meta-States
structure.  Without the guidance of the Meta-States Model, much of what you
do in NLP is guesswork.  But with the Meta-States Model, you can operate in
a systematic and explicit way."

 

Then this past weekend at the NLP Conference in London I presented a
workshop on Systemic Coaching (based on the 2012 book by that title).
Afterwards several experienced NLP Trainers commented that the Meta-States
Model and the Matrix Model restored to NLP a systematic precision like the
precision that they originally learned.  When I asked them what they meant
by that, they said that Meta-States enables them to move vertically as the
Strategy Model enabled them to move horizontally.  They then commented that
the Meta-States Model was like an amplifier of NLP and one said, Yes,
Meta-States is like "NLP on steroids."

 

Now there's an image for you!  It jarred me a bit and I think that's because
I'm so used to the Meta-States Model, I tend to take it for granted.  I
forget how radical and empowering and revolutionary it can be for people
when first learned.  The Meta-States Model is radical and revolutionary
because it addresses a different aspect of "mind" or "consciousness" than
what the NLP model addresses.  Whereas NLP studies the structure of the
representational mind and models by following the direction and orientation
of where that mind goes (using the Strategy Model), the Meta-States Model
focuses on the distinctive kind of mind that most uniquely describes human
consciousness- self-reflexive consciousness.

 

That's why the NLP model offers a more linear understanding of consciousness
beginning by noticing the "languages" of the mind (the representational
systems of visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc.) and following where mind
goes as it processes information.  It simplifies the first level complexity
of consciousness using the TOTE model (test-operate-test-exit) from the
cognitive psychologists (George Miller, Karl Pribram, Eugene Gallanter)
which in NLP has become the Strategy Model that we use for modeling
subjective experiences.

 

Yet human consciousness is more complex and more systemic.  Not only do we
think step by step, we also reflect back onto our processing and layer
thought-upon-thought, feeling-upon-feeling, belief-upon-belief, etc.  This
is how we create what's called "logical levels."  Actually, there is no such
thing as Logical Levels.  That's not a thing or object.  It's a process.
The two nominalizations ("logical" and "levels") actually refers to a
singular process, using our reasoning powers to layer thought-and-emotion
upon itself.  So using verbs, it is layering and reasoning and so as we
reason our inner logic creates our psycho-logics (Korzybski's emphasis). 

 

These are our meta-states- our states about our states.  Our joy about our
learning, our worry about  our fear, our fear about scarcity, etc.  This is
what your self-reflexive consciousness creates as you
think-feel-decide-identify, etc.  What the Meta-States Model provides is the
ability to track, detect, and work with these psycho-logical levels as you
layer them (meta-state them, set them as the frames in your mind).  And when
you can do that, you are seeing the meta-level structures and structuring
and your mind and/or the mind of another person with whom you are working
and conversing.

 

What is the Meta-States Model?

It is a model about how you simultaneously reflect on your thoughts and
feelings as you are thinking-and-feeling (experiencing states).

It is a model about how you set the "logical level" frames in your mind that
determines your inner world (your Matrix of Meanings).

It is a model about these unconscious frames that drives your mind-body
system.

It is a model that details out the meta-move (the m in a strategy sequence)
that's within the structure of any and every subjective experience.

 

How does the Meta-States Model empower NLP, amplify NLP, extend NLP, and
makes NLP explicit  in a systematic way?

The Meta-States Model compliments the representational mind with the
self-reflexive mind.

The Meta-States Model identifies how self-reflexivity occurs. 

The Meta-States Model shows the process for how "beliefs" (a meta-state)
arises from mere thoughts and emotions.

The Meta-States Model identifies the layers of beliefs-upon-beliefs that
creates a belief system.

The Meta-States Model shows the structure (structuring) of "logical levels."

The Meta-States Model shows how different logical levels are facets of the
same holoarchy and that they are not a hierarchy.

            And much, much more.   

Interested?  See Meta-States (2007), Wining the Inner Game (2007), Secrets
of Personal Mastery (1997), and Neuro-Semantics (2011).

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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