[Neurons] 2015 "Neurons" Meta Reflections #34

Mon Aug 10 09:06:30 EDT 2015

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections #34

August 10, 2015

Creating Response-Able Persons #1

Unleashing Your Response-Abilities 

ARE YOU RESPONSE-ABLE?

If you want to unleash your potentials and live a self-actualizing life, if
you want to make the most of your possibilities and live life as fully as
possible (and who doesn't?)-then you have to unleash your responsibility
powers.  It's required.  No one can give you this.  You have to choose it
and then you have to act on it.  You have to begin to unleash within
yourself living a more responsible way of life.  Self-actualization is that
simple and it is that profound.

In Neuro-Semantics we train and coach this subject by beginning at the
core-with identifying and accessing your innate, inevitable, and inescapable
powers.  This is pattern number one in APG (Accessing Personal Genius, also
known as Self-Leadership and Coaching Genius).  We identify these powers
because so many people live their lives and talk as if they are completely
unaware and unconscious that they have these innate personality powers.
They talk victim talk.  They talk as if they are helpless.  They talk
depression talk.  They talk as if they are hopeless.  They talk as if they
are not human beings with these innate powers, but helpless victims living
in a deterministic universe where they are fated and controlled and forced.

Now the profound simplicity of what follows will elicit in some people
yawning boredom and in others "Aha!" eureka moments.  Yet whether you yawn
or go Yahoo! it all depends on the meanings you construct.  And the
"problem" with the meanings we construct is that because our innate powers
are so simple many will discount them.  Yet the implications are incredibly
profound for your everyday experiences and how you can create actualize so
much more of your potentials.

What are your innate powers?  They are your powers of mind, emotion, speech,
and behavior.  They are your mental powers for thinking, representing,
framing, evaluating, imagining, remembering, and much, much more.  They are
your emotional powers to "move" yourself "out" (ex-motion) from your current
state to your desired states and to feel the full range of human emotions,
to develop your emotional intelligence (EQ) and live with love, joy, peace,
passion, compassion, appropriate fear and anger, hope, excitement, etc.
They are your linguistic powers of speech which enables you to inquire to
understand, assert to explain, explore to learn, invite in and set
boundaries to keep out, bless and curse, heal and wound, to tell stories,
make music with poetry, create hypothesis, etc.  they are your behavioral
powers to gesture, take action, plan, converse with others, create
partnerships, do risk management, practice, persist, bounce back (be
resilient), etc.

In other words, you have incredible powers within your very person.  How
amazing!  Are you amazed?  Are you impressed?  In these powers, you have all
of the foundational resources to actualize your potentials.  These powers
give you all the resources that you need for almost every skill on Planet
Earth.  After all (and here is a tremendous secret), every skill is
comprised of these four powers.  Where we are talking about doing surgery,
dentistry, driving a car, flying a plane, deep sea diving, building a
generator, being a general manager, leading a company, managing your budget,
exercising regularly, being a loving partner, parenting, teaching, coaching,
whatever- all skills are comprised of these four powers. 

When you identify and become aware of these powers, you create the
meta-state of awareness of your powers.  That's first, but that's not the
end.  Next you need to take ownership of this awareness and these powers.
That creates the next level frame-of-mind or meta-state, ownership of your
powers.  By then owning your responses and deepening that so it becomes
fully embodied, you begin to feel you innate powers- hence the gestalt
meta-state of responsibility.  From this other meta-states are now able to
emerge: proactivity, taking the initiative, openness to action, bias to
action, courage, risk-taking, etc.

In Neuro-Semantics, trainers frequently use the quotation from Viktor Frankl
to drive home the power of being response-able.  When in the concentration
camp that Hitler set up to kill those who he hated, Frankl lived on a meager
eight-ounces of soup and a piece of bread every day.  As a young doctor and
psychiatrist he was stripped of his clothes and possessions, he was
imprisoned for no mis-deed except he for Hitler's hatred.  His mother and
father were killed, so was his wife and sister.  And yet ... in the midst of
that hell, in the midst of that unjust cruelty he later wrote in Man's
Search for Meaning: 

"They can take everything away from me, but they cannot make me hate them."

Talk about power!  He maintained to the end his power to respond as he
chose.  His thinking and feeling was his and they could not control that!
In fact, within the hell of that camp he developed Logo-Therapy and came out
basically unscathed because he gave his experience meaning.  Another of his
powers that he refused to relinquished.  He owned his power to construct
meaning about things and would not let them set the frame-he set the frame
for himself.  He identified and owned his response-powers and embodied them
so that he did not feel-even in that situation-that he was not in charge of
himself and had the freedom to live life as he wanted to.  Did I mention
this was profound?

No wonder he was later recognized in the field of Humanistic or
Self-Actualization Psychology as one of the pioneering thinkers for his
development of Logo-Therapy.  The amazing thing is that he came out of the
concentration camp showing no signs of having been traumatized.  Now how
fantastic is that?  This means that even trauma is not merely what happens
to you, no matter how hurtful, it also involves what you do with it.  So,
what do you do with things not being fair?  With disappointments, hurts,
accidents, disasters?  You can think and feel and talk and act like a
victim- that's within your power.  You can also think and feel and talk and
act like a person with response-powers at your command.  Then you can forge
the kind of life you want- and make the most of things.  And it all begins
by identifying and owning your four foundational powers.  Read more about
your response-ability powers in Secrets of Personal Mastery (1997).

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

               Neuro-Semantics Executive Director 

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