[Neurons] 2016 Neurons --- Meta-Stating Meta-Muddles

Mon Feb 15 15:02:43 EST 2016

L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections #9

February 15, 2016 

Meta-States "Genius" Series (APG) #13

META-STATING

META-MUDDLES

Last week someone asked me, "What is the heart-pulse of the Meta-States
Model and why is that so important?"  I liked that question because it made
me stop to think about how to answer it.

If there's a heart-pulse of the Meta-States Model, it concerns reflexivity.
It concerns with how your self-reflexive consciousness works and how you can
work it to your health and effectiveness.  It is about how you constantly,
inevitably, and forever reflect back onto yourself.  It is about how you
reflect back onto yourself with more thoughts, emotions, and physiology.  It
is about how you apply one state to another of your states.  Yes, I know,
stating it this way doesn't sound very sexy.  Stating it this way may even
sound technical and boring.  Yet actually it is magical.

Reflexivity is the most peculiar feature of human consciousness and it is
the very essence of our consciousness that causes it to differ from that of
every other creature on this planet.  That's because when you reflect back,
you move to a position above what you just thought or felt and as such, this
means you have just stepped up to a meta-position.  Now you are no longer in
reference to the world, you are in reference to your interact state.  You
are in reference to your thoughts, to your beliefs, to your understandings,
to your memories, to your imaginations, and so on.  You have turned inward.
You are inside the Matrix.  And because of this, whatever you think and feel
at this higher or meta-level sets a frame about everything below it.

Ah, and with that, the magic begins.  With that, you classify the lower.
You catagorize the lower, you embed the lower thoughts and feelings inside
of a higher frame that defines the lower, that positions the lower, that
determines what you will feel about the lower and how you will respond.  And
with that you enter into the magical land of framing and reframing.

Here's an example.  Say you have an experience wherein you worry about
someone or something.  Do you know that one?  Recall a time when you worked
up a good case of worrying.  Shouldn't be too hard to do.  Most of us are
pretty skilled at worrying, especially about things that never happen.

Black Magic

Now to create a meta-muddle out of worry-worry about your worrying!  That's
right, worry that your worrying is irrational and that maybe you're losing
your mind or perspective, and that if this continues, you'll create an
ulcer.  Now fear that this may happen.  Now dread it.  Now hate that this is
happening to you.  How's that for a sick, morbid, and very, very un-useful
meta-state which is a real meta-muddle!

So far you have categorized your worry in the class of Worry (Worrisome
Things).  Then you classified your worry-of-your-worry in the class of
Dreadful Things.  Then you put all of that inside of the frame of Things to
Hate.  Do that and you will create some black magic.  You will create a
complex meta-state that will undermine your health, peace of mind, and
effectiveness.  And with it you just might send enough messages to your
nervous system to actually create an ulcer.

White Magic

But what if you want to create some white magic?   Okay, let's start with
worry again.  Got it?  Now step back and bring a state of Witnessing to the
worry so that you categorize worry in the class of Things to Observe and
Witness.  How's that?  Now given that most worry is silly and un-useful and
an unrealistic exaggeration, bring Exaggeration to the Witnessed-Worry.
Exaggerate it to the most extreme situation that you can.  Doing that you
categorize witnessed-worry in the class of Humor.  How's that?  This
describes how frames work, how meta-stating works, how reflexivity works.
And it is magical.  Yet, you ask, How can I say that?  What does that mean?

It is "magical" in the sense that you can put almost anything in any
category that you want - no matter how unsane, insane, crazy, irrational,
stupid, idiotic, etc. that it may be.  Consider fanatics who take a
fundamentalistic attitude to and believe in their belief.  They are great
examples of this.  A fanatic fundamentalist is someone who forgets, or
doesn't know, that "the map is not the territory" and so a fundamentalist
actually thinks that his or her belief is true.  So above the meta-state of
a belief (a validity thought about a first thought), they believe in their
beliefs.  They believe in the belief of their beliefs.  All of this, of
course, closes them off to new or different information.  It doesn't matter
if the person is a Christian fundamentalist, a Muslim fundamentalist, a
Science fundamentalist, etc.  The structure is the same.

The problem is not that these people have beliefs.  Believing is fine.  We
all believe.  The problem is that they believe-in-their-beliefs which leads
them to assume that they cannot be wrong, cannot be corrected, and cannot
have an open explorative conversation.  In their meta-muddle, they cannot
simply believe.  Having over-loaded their beliefs with so much meaning and
significance, even a question about their belief triggers them to feel
attacked and so they get defensive about ideas in their heads or the heads
of others.

The process of meta-stating involves bringing thoughts-and-feelings to an
experience, to a state, and that creates categories of the mind
-classifications, frames, contexts, meaning structures, etc.  When you do
this without awareness that they are not even dealing with the world, just
their own levels of thinking-and-feeling -they confuse their internal
mappings with the territory.  They then think their conclusions are real.
Getting to this point reveals that they are in a very deep meta-muddle.

What is the solution?  First and foremost is to become aware of this.  What
categories have you created as you have meta-stated some primary experience
that has become semantically loaded and now creates limitations and problems
for you?  Second, dis-identify with the map, that is, your belief.  You are
more than what you believe.  Your beliefs are just human maps trying to
figure something out.  The problem is never you as a person, the problem is
always your frames.  Stop identifying yourself with your frames and
categories - dis-identify yourself and that will begin to give you some
perspective.

Now most meta-muddles build up and get created in lightning quick speed.
Really.  In a nano-second you jump logical levels and bring various
thoughts-and-feelings to your experiences (to your primary states or to some
level of a meta-state).  Just as soon as you do, the next thought-there you
go again.  Again, this is your reflexivity at work!  Now if you can begin to
just observe it, you will be able to catch the process without judging and
evaluating.  And doing that, you begin to develop an incredible skill that
few humans have- the meta-skill that enables you to unleash potentials like
no other skill.

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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