[Neurons] 2015 "Neurons" Meta Reflection #48
L. Michael Hall
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Mon Nov 9 05:50:42 EST 2015
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections #48
November 9, 2015
The “Genius” State #2
(Originally written in 2009)
THE FLOW STATE IS ABOUT
ENGAGEMENT
Several years ago (2002) I showed up at 7 am one morning to do an hour
interview at a radio station. I did that as part of the process of
promoting two trainings that I was promoting locally where I lived, Prolific
Writing and Accessing Personal Genius (APG). The interviewer, Kevin, was
very personable and had a gift of gab. Before we began I watched him do his
magic with the microphone in a small room full of electronic equipment. He
seemed almost to have a relationship with the microphone.
Kevin also knew how to ask great questions and get to the heart of things
quickly. I don’t know if this was a natural gift or if he had developed it
as a style. Wherever it came from, it was certainly one of his strengths as
an interviewer. All too often I’ve been interviewed by people who didn’t
seem to know what they were doing or what an interview was for.
Consequently, they would ask either placid questions which had no energy
which weren’t worth answering or such conventional questions that would only
bore people to sleep.
But not Kevin. Kevin intuitively went for the passionate center of things
to see if there was any core. He also knew that to ask such fierce
questions, he had to do his homework. So before showing up at the radio
studio, I sent him some of the promotional material on Accessing Personal
Genius and Neuro-Semantics. On the day that I met Kevin I noticed that he
had marked up the written materials, had circled words and statements, had
written large question marks by some words, and that he had even been to the
website and downloaded materials.
Seeing that, I felt excited. I knew this would not be a humdrum interview.
I then discovered that Kevin knew about framing. He didn’t call it that,
but that’s what he did when he introduced me, mentioned the trainings, and
then set the structure of the interview: he would ask questions for the
first half and then invite the audience to ask questions. With that, he
delved right into it.
“The first thing I think when I hear ‘Accessing Personal Genius’ is
over-sell, that you are over-selling and over-promising. Surely you don’t
mean that you can create geniuses or that everybody can become a ‘genius,’
do you?”
“That’s a great question! It’s great because what we call ‘genius’ is not
something that’s created, it is something that is accessed and released.
That’s because ‘genius’ is not so much about I.Q. intelligence as it is
about being fully present.”
“You mean we are already geniuses? Is that what you’re saying?”
“Yes and no. No if the word ‘genius’ means high I.Q., but yes if you mean
being at your best, being fully engaged in whatever you’re doing so that you
are ‘in the zone,’ and fully ‘on.’ We call the genius state ‘a state of
flow’ because when you are in it, your activities just flow. It’s as if all
of our mental, emotional, and personal resources are fully available.”
“That’s a different way of looking at ‘genius.’ So genius is more of an
experience than a status. That must be why there’s no Universities that
give degrees in ‘genius.’ So if it is an experience, then how do we
experience it or as you say, ‘access’ it?”
“Suppose I told you that you were born for genius, that everyone listening
to us right now was born for genius? Have you ever noticed how little
children can get so lost in a toy or game as they play? Then they become so
engaged in that activity that you have to almost shout to get their
attention? If genius is being all there, then that child is in a genius
state of full engagement, of one mind —single minded about that activity.”
“So genius is about focus and concentration? So it is the opposite of
multi-tracking? Is that why we think of some geniuses as absent-minded and
lost in their thoughts?”
“Yes, exactly. They are of one mind about something and because they are
not splitting their awareness, but focusing it. They have a laser-beam
focus and that’s what makes them so present, so engaged, so much in the
zone.”
“That’s the best golfers do. They get in the zone and are able to stop all
the mind-chatter so they aren’t disturbed by the things going on around
them.”
“You’ve got it. Genius is a natural state of mind, we were all born for it.
The challenge we have is not in creating it, but in getting back to it. Our
problem as adults is that we have too many things on our mind, we have too
many things going on in the back of our mind. We need to ‘Lose our mind and
come back to our senses’ so that we can be present and enter that zone of
focus and flow.”
[Laughing] “That’s good. When I’m working at my home office on some of my
projects, my wife is always telling me that I’ve lost my mind because she
can call me for supper over and over and I never hear her. Now I’ve got the
best excuse ever— I’m in my genius state!”
“That’s a great example. When you’re in that state, what enables you to be
so lost in your thoughts? How do you get so involved that you don’t hear
the call for supper?”
“Well, I’m just doing what I love, usually searching for songs and clips
that I can use on the radio. . . . And then it’s like I’m lost in my own
world.”
“And when that happens, what happens to time, to your sense of time?”
“I don’t know, it’s gone.”
“And what happens to your environment?”
“Gone.”
“And to other people?”
“Gone.”
“Well, Kevin, sounds like in that context you already have accessed your
personal genius state!”
“That’s great. Of course, the problem is that I can get lost in that state
for hours and hours and then miss appointments, or not get sufficient
sleep.”
“So how would you like to be able to switch that genius state of flow on and
off at will? How would you like to be able to step into it and step out of
it and to do so whenever you want to?”
“That would be great. I’d like that.”
“Glad you asked! That’s precisely what the training and the books about
Accessing Personal Genius are all about. When you can do that, you have the
state instead of it has you. That’s what I did with the states of both
reading (researching) and writing. Prior to doing that, I suffered from
writer’s block, but now that I can simply step into my writing genius state,
I have not suffered from writer’s block since. Now, I can turn that state
on for an hour or five minutes or however long I want it.”
“Now that would be different. Sometimes when I get into flow, I fear that
if I stepped out of it, I couldn’t get it back.”
“Yes, that’s very typical. Because it’s such a joyous and powerful
experience, when we are there we don’t step out and when we are not in it,
we feel that we have to wait until it happens again. But once you recognize
how you do it, then you won’t have to wait around for the genius state to
occur. Because it is your state, you created it. And if you create it,
then you can learn to turn it on and off at your choice.”
“So this is not more over-selling, is it? Just how can we just turn it on
and off? How does that work?”
“Have you ever watched the Olympic athlete turn it on and off? Have you
ever seen a gymnast, a diver, or a sprinter just step up to the time of
their performance and just turn it on. When we watch them, we see them take
their stand, access the state, and then explode into the activity.”
“Yes, that’s fantastic, but are you now saying we all can be Olympic
athletes? That we can be or do anything we want to be or do? Does it go
that far?”
“Perhaps. But who really knows? What I’m really saying is that we can take
charge of the focus state itself—that we can learn to run our own brains so
that we can get the best attitude, mood, and performance out of ourselves.
Wouldn’t that in itself be enough to make your day? What if you could
simply step into a highly focused state when you are here in the studio or
when you are creating a new show or when you are with a loved one . . .
wouldn’t that make your life a little bit more wonderful?”
“Yes it would. That really would. . . . And you will teach how to do this
in the training?”
“Definitively.”
“And what about you? Are you able to step into . . . what did you just call
it, ‘the genius writing state?’”
“Yes, people often ask how I can write so much or how I come up with so many
new models . . . and I can only say that since experiencing the genius
pattern which I ran with myself in 1995, I have not had writers block.”
Consequently I’ve written two or three books a year and hundreds of
articles. All because of a simple pattern that is now taught all around the
world by Neuro-Semantic Trainers.
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