[Neurons] 2013 "Neurons" -- Meta Reflection #51

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall


Meta Reflections 2013  #51

Dec. 2, 2013


 

NLP AND META-STATES

Meta-States Informs and Transforms NLP

 

After the last post (#50) on "Meta-States as NLP on Steroids" my original
business partner in NLP, Dr. Bob Bodenhamer wrote the following two
paragraphs to add yet another point to how Meta-States adds so much Ummph to
the basic NLP model.   Bob liked my question: 

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

 

And from that question he decided to add yet another answer.  Now Bob writes
with more than two decades of practical experience in using NLP in the
context of therapy and after co-authoring 9 books with me and especially our
book, Sub-Modalities Going Meta.   Back in 1999 we first co-presented our
discovery about sub-modalities at the Canadian NLP Conference. 

 

What is this "inner secret truth about sub-modalities"?     Shhhhhh!  The
secret is that they are not really sub-, that was a mistake Richard Bandler
made.  But calling it "sub" does not make it "sub."  And it those
distinctions are not at a "sub" level to the representations.  The truth?
They are meta to the representations as Todd Epstein indicated in his
original term for these cinematic features of a person's movies
-Pragmagraphics (that is, graphics that have pragmatic applications).   The
story then goes, Bander thought that was too big and complicated of a word,
so he called them sub-modalities (as if that was not a big and complicated
word!).  This is what Bob said opened his eyes so much in the early days of
Meta-States.  "It is simple: The Meta-States Model enables the NLPer to know
up-front which NLP Pattern will work and which one won't work.  And, the
Meta-States Model clarifies in our minds 'Why?' some Patterns do not work
yet, many do.  An example is found in the sub-modality mapping across
processes.  Early in my practice I discovered to my dismay that some of the
sub-modality mapping across  patterns just would not work in some
situations.  The explanation is found in the Meta-States Model for it will
recognize whether or not the frame where the problem state is mapped across
to the desired state is indeed a "higher frame" to the problem state thus
bringing about a positive change in the problem state - in this case you can
say that the problem state has been reframed.

 

An example where it will not work is when you attempt to change your
negative thoughts to positive thoughts when you map across an image of
Mother Teresa onto that of Adolf Hitler.   Rare indeed is the person who
will experience positive feeling from this.  Why?  They will have higher
frames of reference in place that will shout from the roof top, 'No way!
There is no way to put the sub-modalities of  Mother Teresa in with those of
Adolf Hitler.'"

 

Without an understanding and study of the Meta-States Model, one would not
know that it is a model that actually governs the core models of NLP- from
the Meta-Model of language, to the Meta-Programs model of perceptual
filters, to the sub-modality model, to the Strategy Model, etc.  That's why
several of the early reviewers of the Meta-States Model (i.e., Graham Dawes
in London) commented that this model would consume NLP itself (the actual
quotation, "Meta-States will be the model that ate NLP").

 

Now over the years, one of the unexpected and unintentional things that have
happened with the Meta-States Model is that it has indeed allowed us to
explain the other models of NLP in terms of how they actually work.  That's
why Bob says that with it you can identify which pattern to use and predict
which pattern will work and which will not and the reasons for this.  If you
don't know this, please get to an APG training and discover this incredible
secret.  Or read one of the books on the Meta-States Model.

 

If I were to identify the principle that explains that pretty outrageous and
stunning conclusion, I would say that it goes to the principle of
self-reflexivity within the human system.  As a description of how our
mind-body-emotion system works, reflexivity is dynamic, fluid, moving, and
"alive."  Reflexivity is the systemic process whereby products already
created by a system re-enter the system and so feeds the process of a
self-organizing system.  And when you have reflexivity, you have iterations
and that means the same process (with different content) will be going round
and round until new emergent properties arise- gestalts.  And that's why you
cannot explain the gestalts of these new emergent properties by adding up
all the parts.  The whole that emerges is more than and different from the
sum of the parts.

 

That's why the Meta-States Model can model the structure of richly complex
states like courage, self-esteem, resilience, and hundreds of other states
that are the most precious and powerful (as well as those that are the most
pathological) in human experience.

 

Another person, a system analyst for 13 years, Rodrigo Santiago who lives in
Rio de Janiero, Brazil wrote and said that he had the suspicion of
Meta-States and mapped out the core idea as best he could until he came
across the Meta-States model.   Just this year he has become a
Neuro-Semantic Trainer in addition to being a Meta-Coach.  When he read last
week's article, he wrote this about what he had written before finding the
Meta-States Model indicating that he knew the secret of human function had
something to do with thoughts-about-thoughts: 

"People are suffering without needing to because they don't have any clue
that 'their ideas are in control of them.'  They are people who identify
themselves with their thoughts and culture.  They tell everyone else, 'This
is who I am: I am my ideas.'  And we know that's far from true.  We're more
than our ideas."

 

Here is meta-states in its simplest form- an idea about other ideas, an idea
that sets a frame and that locks people into a prison, identifying with
one's thoughts.  And that meta-state as a belief, a value, an identity, a
prohibition and so on then reeks all kind of damage in the lives of people.
Yet now, seeing and recognizing the structure, the meta-state structure, we
now know what to do and how to proceed.  Want to find out the Model that has
been and continues to consume NLP?  Check out Meta-States!

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

                Neuro-Semantics Executive Director 

                Neuro-Semantics International

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