[Neurons] 2015 "Neurons" Meta Reflection #55 Genius 'R Us
L. Michael Hall
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Mon Dec 21 10:10:44 EST 2015
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections #55
December 21, 2015
The “Genius” State #7
Written in 2009
GENIUS ‘R US
When was the last time you thought of yourself as a “genius?” Audacious,
right? Well, have you ever entertained such audacious thoughts? What would
have to happen in order for you to begin to believe that you are a budding
genius? In our culture, we simply do not easily or lightly use the term
“genius,” especially for ourselves. On the other hand, we are a bit more
comfortable with attributing genius to a specific idea or behavior. At
times we say or accept the compliment about an action or idea, “That was a
stroke of genius!”
Genius speaks about an attendant spirit of a person or place, a strong
inclination, a marked capacity, and finally a high intelligence quotient
(Webster). Genius speaks about being in an especially resourceful state,
being completely engaged and present and with all of one’s resources full
available. Psychologist Csikszentmihalyi has describe this as being in a
flow state. That is a state where you become so completely engaged in an
activity that you get lost in it.
Now, what if we could learn and habituate this engagement state of flow,
genius, or being “in the zone” so that we could turn it on at will? Would
you like that? What if there is a pathway to genius, to awakening and
unleashing your own budding genius? What if there is a process for stepping
in and out of a genius state so that when you are in that state you
experience a laser-beam focus so much so that the world, time, others, and
self go away? Would that enable you to do some things that could enrich the
quality of your life and empower you for accessing your resources? Would
that be a great Christmas gift to yourself?
I found the pathway to the genius state in 1994. Upon that discovery, I set
out to apply it to myself to see if it would really work. My first choice
was to set up a genius research and writing state. Since that day I have
not experienced “writer’s block.” After years of misery with writer’s
block, suddenly that interference was simply no longer there. Gone. And
the result of that? Since then I have written 60 books, many of which are
best sellers in the field of NLP. To this day I write 2 books a year and a
100 articles. And whereas once writing was “hard” and “a struggle,” now it
is a source of play and fun. After that I established some genius states
for reading, doing business, being with a client, being present to a loved
one, training, etc.
So what is the big secret? Simple: discover how to use your mind-body
states, run the movies in your mind, and handle the thoughts-and-emotions
“in the back of your mind.” All of this is part of what we call in NLP
state management skills—skills for managing your mental and emotional
states. Actually, you already know and regularly experience flow states.
>From time to time when you are doing something valuable that you enjoy, you
get lost in that experience. Perhaps you’re watching a movie, talking with
an intimate friend, engaged in a game, a sport, gardening, almost any
enjoyable activity will do. Then suddenly you’re gone. Well, that’s how it
appears on the outside.
On the inside you are so completely engaged in something and present to
something that you are more fully you and completely un-self-conscious. To
state that in the positive— you are absolutely engaged in one thing. And
because you are out of the way, you are self-forgetful. You’re in the zone.
Yet at that time you don’t notice. It is only later when you look back on
it that you realize how you were “right on” and how enjoyable it was. Even
things that might otherwise seem unpleasant become enjoyable and pleasurable
when you were “in the zone.”
This explains, in part, the runner’s high, the mountaineer’s or rock
climber’s thrill, the high performer who finishes an eighteen-hour sprint on
some project and feels totally energized and thrilled. What’s going on in
this? At the neurological level there are the endorphins and other
neuro-transmittors conveying the buzz. Yet what activates that neurology?
Csikszentmihalyi said that to get into “the flow channel” you have to have a
balance between two things: challenge and competency. Competency speaks
about your abilities and skills. You have to have some basic skill to do
something (cooking, gardening, cycling, etc.). If the activity is too
demanding, you will go into the panic zone rather than the flow zone. This
invites too much self-consciousness, fear, and other interfering states.
Challenge speaks about meaning, purpose, vision, and value. You have to
feel that the activity is meaningful, that it contributes to yourself or
others, and that it is not too easy. If there’s no challenge, then you
enter into the drone zone and fall asleep.
Competency without challenge, without feeling a call to tap into more
resources, to learn more, to discover more, to become more, etc. creates a
satisfaction so that you lose “the eye of the tiger.” It takes both a
meaningful challenge to your inner capacities and competencies to step into
a flow state of engagement. This is the state that geniuses and high
performers live in and operate from.
Those who we think of as geniuses are typically those who find their talents
and follow their passions creating new things, innovating new processes,
producing the highest quality products, and achieve high performance in
their area of expertise. Like world-class athletes, when they get into the
zone, they are all there. They are extremely focused. Time, the world,
others, even self disappears. They are alone with the engagement. And in
this ecstatic state their competencies are challenged at an optimum level
thereby unleashing more and more of their hidden potentials.
All of this describes what top performers naturally do. Somehow or in some
way they have found a way to access their best states and to be fully
present. This is what gives them their edge in business, wealth creation,
entrepreneurship, relationship, health, sports, etc.
Now, what if this highly focused state where skills and meaning interface is
precisely that which unleashes your potentials as it mobilizes your
resources for becoming more of who you are and contributing more of what you
have to offer? What if this describes the innate transcendence that most of
us long for as we move toward self-actualizing and truly making a
difference? What if that’s why even our bodies and neurological wiring is
designed to massively reward us with inner pleasure when we experience these
flow states (the endorphin rush)?
If so, then wouldn’t you like to take charge of this process and put it at
your command? That’s what the training Accessing Personal Genius or APG is
all about. In three short but intense days, you learn the basic state and
meta-state management skills to rise up in your mind-body system and from
the executive level of our mind set the frames of mind that free you to
access your genius states. You will learn how to create specific genius
states for yourself, states that you can step in and out of so that even
interruptions will not stop you.
Accessing personal genius is based on the cognitive-behavioral sciences,
developmental psychology, and self-actualization psychology. The larger
framework that holds all of this together into a practical system is called
Neuro-Semantics. This refers to how you translate great ideas, values,
visions, and principles in your head (semantics, meaning) into your body so
that your neuro-physiology can “know” it in your muscle memory thereby
in-forming your everyday actions for higher quality performance.
Why do this beside having incredible focus, the foundation for high
performance, and the neurological rush of massive pleasure? I’d recommend
that you do it also to live more intentionally, to blow-out all excuses from
selling yourself short, to become all that you can become, to facilitate
your own self-actualization, to fulfill your life vision and specific goals,
to enrich your relationships, to create wealth in your business, to enjoy
your passions more fully, and to make a difference in the world.
In Neuro-Semantics, “Genius R Us.” Come and see. There are APG trainings
run all around the world (see below). Here’s to your budding genius!
2016
MODULE II — META-COACHING – APG
March 18-20, 2016: APG — Santa Cruz, Ca. USA
Sponsored by The NLP Gym — Damon Cart and Logan Christopher.
<mailto:Demoncart77 at aol.com> damon at nlp-gym.com and
<mailto:logan at nlp-gym.com> logan at nlp-gym.com
<mailto:testering55678 at gmail.com> mailto:testering55678 at gmail.com
Accessing Personal Genius. Intro to the Meta-States Model.
Trainer: L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
January 23-25, 2016
Title: Self-Leadership
Place: São Paulo, SP - Brazil (In Portugese)
Trainer: Huáras Duarte
Venue: Hotel Adágio Itaim - R. Prof. Carlos de Carvalho, 168 -
Itaim Bibi
Contact: email <mailto:huaras at fom1.com.br> huaras at fom1.com.br /
Phone +55 11 2369-9518
January 22-24, 2016 (Raquel Couto)
Title: Self-Leadership
Place: Belo Horizonte/MG - Brazil
Venue: Mercure Vila da Serra – Alameda da Serra, 405
Contact: Raquel Couto – Tel.: +55 31 99266 0009
raquel.couto at taocoaching.com.br
January 22-24, 2016
Title: Accessing Personal Genius
Place: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MALAYSIA
Venue: ATNLP Centre, No 113-1 Jalan PJU 1A/41B, Pusat Dagangan NZX , 47301
Selangor, MALAYSIA
Contact: Andrew Tham, <mailto:ndrew at andrewtham.co>
andrew at andrewtham.com Phone: 6012-288-1813
February 15-17, 2016 México
Title: Coaching Genius APG
Place: Monterrey
Venue: (Not defined yet)
Trainers: David Murphy and Armando Cadena
Contact information: <mailto:armandocadenat at gmail.com>
armandocadenat at gmail.com
February 19-21, 2016 México
Title: Coaching Genius APG:
Place: Tuxtla Gutiérrez Chiapas
Venue: Hotel Holiday Inn
Trainers: David Murphy and Luzmen Gómez
Contact information: <mailto:luz_7805 at hotmail.com>
luz_7805 at hotmail.com
February 26 - 28, 2016
Accessing Personal Genius
Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MALAYSIA
Venue: 76-1 Jalan PJU 5/21, Encorp Strand, Kota Damansara 47810 Petaling
Jaya, Selangor, MALAYSIA Trainer: M. Marzuki Mohamed
Contact: M Marzuki Mohamed,
<mailto:marzukimohamed at icloud.com> marzukimohamed at icloud.com, 019 3876167
February 29 –March 2, 2016
Title: Coaching Genius
Lene Fellheim, Trainer
Place: Oslo, Norway (in Norwegian)
Venue: CoachTeam as – House of Leadership, Nydalen
Contact: <mailto:info at coachteam.no> info at coachteam.no + 47 4000
4500
March 16-18, 2016 — Manilla Philippines
Trainer: Aldem Salvana
Venue: University of Asia & the Pacific, Philippines
Contact: <mailto:brkthru.consulting at gmail.com>
brkthru.consulting at gmail.com
March 18-20, 2016: APG — Santa Cruz, Ca. USA
Sponsored by The NLP Gym — Damon Cart and Logan Christopher.
<mailto:Demoncart77 at aol.com> damon at nlp-gym.com and
<mailto:logan at nlp-gym.com> logan at nlp-gym.com
<mailto:testering55678 at gmail.com> mailto:testering55678 at gmail.com
Accessing Personal Genius. Intro to the Meta-States Model.
Trainer: L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
April 15-17, 2016 (Colin Cox and Lena Gray)
Title: Self-Leadership
Place: Belo Horizonte/MG - Brazil
Venue: Mercure Vila da Serra – Alameda da Serra, 405
Contact: Raquel Couto – Tel.: +55 31 99266 0009
<mailto:raquel.couto at taocoaching.com.br> raquel.couto at taocoaching.com.br
April 21-23, 2016 Panamá
Title: Coaching Genius APG:
Place: Panamá City.
Venue: (Not defined yet)
Trainers: David Murphy and Gumersindo García
Contact information: <mailto:ggarcia at mcf.com.pa>
ggarcia at mcf.com.pa
May 13-15, 2016 Dominican Republic
Title: Coaching Genius APG:
Place: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Venue: (Not defined yet)
Trainers: David Murphy and Frank Anibal
Contact information: <mailto:frankanibalmontero at gmail.com>
frankanibalmontero at gmail.com
May 20-22, 2016 México
Title: Coaching Genius APG:
Place: Querétaro, México
Venue: Hotel Miramar
Trainers: David Murphy and Javier Vargas
Contact information: <mailto:javier_vargasm at yahoo.com.mx>
javier_vargasm at yahoo.com.mx
May 27-29, 2016
Title: Accessing Personal Genius
Place: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MALAYSIA
Venue: ATNLP Centre, No 113-1 Jalan PJU 1A/41B, Pusat Dagangan NZX , 47301
Selangor, MALAYSIA
Contact: Andrew Tham, <mailto:ndrew at andrewtham.co>
andrew at andrewtham.com Phone: 6012-288-1813
May 29-30, June 1, 2016
Title: APG or Self-Leadership
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
Trainers: Colin Cox & Lena Gray
Contact: Jairo and Coaching Essentials.
July 8-10, 2016
Title: APG - Accedi al tuo Genio Personale
Place: San Marino
Venue: Grand Hotel, Viale Antonio Onofri, 31, 47890 Città di San Marino
Trainers: Nicola Riva and Lucia
Contact: <mailto:nicola at blessyou.me> nicola at blessyou.me
September 2-4, 2016
Title: Accessing Personal Genius
Place: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MALAYSIA
Venue: ATNLP Centre, No 113-1 Jalan PJU 1A/41B, Pusat Dagangan NZX , 47301
Selangor, MALAYSIA
Contact: Andrew Tham, <mailto:ndrew at andrewtham.co>
andrew at andrewtham.com Phone: 6012-288-1813
October 21-23, 2016
Title: Coaching Genius
Place: Sydney, Australia
Venue: Sydney University Village, Newtown, Sydney, Australia
Trainer: Jay Hedley
Contact: Jay - <javascript:press_email('jay at thecoachingroom.com.au')>
jay at thecoachingroom.com.au +61 2 9216 9096 or +61 414 369 363
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