[Neurons] 2015 "Neurons" Meta Reflections #51
L. Michael Hall
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Mon Nov 23 09:07:51 EST 2015
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections #51
November 23, 2015
The "Genius" State #4
THE REFLEXIVE HEART OF META-STATES
The Meta-States Model is a model of the special kind of consciousness that
we humans have- self-reflexive consciousness. NLP modeled representational
consciousness-how we represent sights, sounds, sensations, etc. as well as
words by which we create our basic "model of the world." This form of
consciousness operates as our basic code for understanding things. By way
of contrast, self-reflexive consciousness defines and creates the deeper and
more unconscious frames of our model of the world.
When I first discovered the reflexivity of meta-states, I knew that I had in
hand a structural format / code for the complex human states. Similar to
the primary colors and all of the secondary and triary colors that arise
through the mixing of the colors, so with states. We begin with primary
states and then through the mixing of them, we create scores of first-level
meta-states, then hundreds of second-level meta-states, then tens of
thousands of third level, then millions of multiple layers of meta-states.
Reflexivity is a function of reflecting back on ourselves. As we reflect
back onto ourselves, our experience, our thoughts, our emotions, even our
physiology (the component elements of a mind-body state), we then entertain
other thoughts-and-emotions about our first experience. On the surface,
this sounds simple. It is not. As a system of interactive parts, when we
step back and reflect on ourselves, we move to a higher or meta level and we
set the second thoughts-emotions as the classification or category for the
first. Now we have some system complexity at work.
Stepping back to reflect on ourselves is known in NLP as "going meta." Ken
Wilbur and Integral Psychology call it as "transcending and including."
>From logical levels, it is known as classifying and categorizing. From
Korzybski's General Semantics it is not as "abstracting at a higher level"
and creating our human "psycho-logics."
Wow, it entails all of that! Yes, and even more, but that's enough to bite
off for this Reflection on Meta-States. When we meta-state by going meta,
we transcend the state of mind and body that we're in and move to a level
higher from which we then include the first state inside of it. In this we
are embedding our states inside of higher frames.
As we transcend our first state and include it inside of a higher thought or
emotion, that higher or meta-thought and feeling becomes the governing
frame. It is in this way that we create layers upon layers of meaning.
Let me give an example.
Start with the primary mind-body state of learning. Now step back to
entertain some thoughts-and-emotions of delight, pleasure, even fun and joy
about the learning. Do so by thinking about what the learning will do for
you. Consider what the learning will open up for you, what it will unleash
inside you. As you now transcend your learning experience and step up into
the delight and pleasure feelings about it, notice how you include your
learning experience within the frame and category of joy.
And with that, you have now created the meta-state of joyful learning.
Ready for another "step back?" Then go meta and access passion about your
joyful learning. Transcend joyful learning to the state of passion,
excitement, and love for so that joyful learning becomes embedded inside of
passion. Now you have passionate joyful learning. What class is learning a
member of for you? Fun things. And what class if joyful learning a member
of? Passion. Is this logical? Probably not. But is it psycho-logical?
You bet it is.
The process of meta-stating is the process of transcending and including,
going meta, setting higher frames, abstracting to create beliefs and belief
systems, and abstracting to set up psycho-logical structures. Pretty
profound, wouldn't you say? All of this is also a higher and different
facet of "running your own brain." In NLP, running your own brain mostly
means managing the representations on the screen of your mind. This is the
genius of NLP. NLP focuses mostly on representation. By zooming in to the
movie theater of our mind, NLP looks at the sensory representation systems
(visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc.) and the meta-representation of
language, mathematics, etc.
NLP also discovered that there are even finer cinematic features within each
of these systems and so developed the domain of sub-modalities. Yet the
cinematic features like an image being close or far, clear or fuzzy, big or
small, two-dimensional or three-dimensional, etc. are actually how we edit
our movies and so operate as higher frames to our movies. The Meta-States
Model takes this further as it expands and enriches it by recognizing the
meta-levels of the mind-that, is, the multi-dimensional nature of our
thinking-and-feeling matrix.
Consider "sub-modalities," as an example. Prior to the Meta-States Model,
all of us in NLP thought that the cinematic features of our movies were
somehow at a "lower" level, a "sub" level. Then one day we began to realize
that to make our pictures closer or further away, we have to step back,
notice this feature of our representations, and then edit it in a new and
different way. In other words, we had to go meta to detect and alter the
close-far "sub-modality. This led to the Aha! Discovery that
"sub-modalities" are meta-frames, that is, meta-states.
Nor does it stop there. Because of the infinite regress (or progress)
dynamic, we can always step back, transcend and include, go meta, and
meta-state yet one more level up. It's this unending process that allows us
to always outframe to get leverage on managing the meta-levels of our mind.
The art of learning Meta-States is that of learning to handle and manage the
meta-levels that we dynamically create through the going meta process. And
when you know this and become skilled in this process, you'll understand
that nearly all of the "magic" of NLP occurs at meta-levels- which is what
Meta-States makes explicit.
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
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