[Neurons] 2013 "Neurons" -- Meta Reflections #53

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall


Meta Reflections 2013  #53

Dec. 16, 2013


 

 

THERE'S META-STATES HIDING

IN YOUR EVERYDAY LANGUAGE





When you know how meta-states manifest themselves, you will discover that
they are everywhere in your life- and in the lives of everyone around you.
Why is that?  Precisely because of the special and unique kind of human
consciousness (self-reflexive consciousness) is dynamically active every
moment of our lives.  And that means that you never just think and leave it
there.  Ah, if only life was so simple!  No, you think and then you think
about your thinking.  And then about that thinking-of-thinking.  And that's
not the end of it.  There's yet more after that.  You feel about your
thinking, you think about your feelings, and you do so level upon level upon
level.

 

Okay, so good for theory.  That's the theoretical framework for
understanding how the layering of self-reflexive consciousness works.  But
how does it show up in our lives?  How does it show up in your life?  Ah,
this is actually where the magic occurs.

 

When you bring one state to another state in your thinking-and-feeling, you
texture the first state with the second.  Bring joy or fun or delight to
your learning and you create a layered experience- joyful learning.  What's
the quality of that learning?  Joy.  You could bring impatience for
impatient learning.  You could bring seriousness for serious learning.
Whatever state you bring to the state of learning (the first state), that
second state textures it, qualifies it, and sets the frame for it.

 

And if you noticed - this shows up in language: joyful learning.  In
grammar, this is an adjective, it could just as well be an adverb, joyfully
curious.  Here then is one place where meta-states hide.   Today I
supervised and benchmarked a coaching session.  The client wanted a change
in his concentration.  It was too intense.  He said he wanted to be less
stressed because he is good at focusing, but then when he gets focused, it's
too much.  His head starts to hurt, he gets headaches.  So eventually
talking it out, he said "I just want a relaxed concentration."  Ah, there it
is.  A meta-state and one hidden in language.

 

Along this line, in an article in Rapport: The Magazine for NLP
Professionals (London), Joe Cheal wrote an article that he titled, "The
Impact of Language" (2012/2013).  There he wrote and described primary and
secondary qualities.

"Primary qualities are said to be the qualities that something has that are
'independent' of a perceiver.  This might include shape, solidity, movement,
and location.  Psychologically, these primary qualities are what we
experience when we imagine nouns and verbs."

"Secondary qualities are dependent on a perceiver and are more about our own
personal experience of the thing/relationship.  This might include color,
brightness, focus, and loudness.   Secondary qualities tend to be more
descriptive, adding detail to the framework of primary qualities.  Secondary
qualities are akin to adjectives and adverbs and are likely to be more
comparative and subjective than primary qualities." (p. 24)

"Adverbs describe the quality of the verb and hence will likely affect the
internal representations."  He illustrates with 'quickly' 'comfortably,
disastrously, curiously.

 

I wrote to Joe and noted that he had just described how meta-states show up
in language in these secondary qualities.  And that as qualities that we
bring to our experiences in the world, what we had always assumed were
sub-modalities are actually meta-modalities.  After all, "color, brightness,
focus, and loudness" are not things, they are all nominalizations of the
categories that we invent in our minds as concepts.  Blue as a color arises
from how our eyes interpret the light that strikes our eyes.  But "color" is
a concept, it is not red, or brown, or yellow, or any color; it is a
category of these colors.

"Secondary qualities are akin to adjectives and adverbs and are likely to be
more comparative and subjective than primary qualities." (p. 24)

 

Yes, and that's because we invent these qualities and then frame the primary
qualities or events with them.  Translated: We meta-state experience.  And
we do it every single day.  Yet most of the time, we never notice.  But you
can.   What meta-states have you heard today?

            A brilliant idea.                                   Ashamed of
my brilliance.

            Lazy learning.                          Sad about being
embarrassed.

            Playfully serious.                                 A
stressed-out vocation.

            Fearful of my anger.                           Curiously
learning.                  

            Generously sad.                                  Enjoying being
depressed.

            Frustrated about being upset.
Procrastinating about my procrastination.

            Valuing hatred.                                   Hating the
value of hating.

            Playfully prejudiced.                           Seriously
prejudiced.

            Courageously resisting prejudice.      Prejudiced against being
prejudiced.

 

 

 

References:

 <mailto:Joe at gwiznlp.com> Joe at gwiznlp.com NLP Master Trainer.  Rapport: The
Magazine for NLP Professionals.  article   "The Impact of Language" Joe
Cheal, Winter (2012/2013)

 

For more about the language of Meta-states, see the Book, Meta-States:
Managing the Higher Levels of the Mind (2005) in both paperback and
hardback.  Also, Secrets of Personal Mastery (1997).  www.neurosemantics.com
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