[Neurons] 2016 "Neurons" A Belief as Meta-States
L. Michael Hall
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Mon Feb 29 01:58:03 EST 2016
From: L. Michael Hall
2016 "Neurons" Meta Reflections - #9
February 29, 2016
Meta-States "Genius" Series (APG) #14
A BELIEF IS A META-STATE
Not only does an attitude partake of the structure of a meta-state, so does
a "belief." Now beliefs are actually pretty strange things. Well, not
"things," because they do not really exist, but phenomenon. That's because,
on the one hand, we all believe, and we all believe in thousands of things.
Philosophers have even called us humans "homo credo" (believers). As human
beings we have to believe in things. We don't have another choice. And yet
on the other hand, our beliefs don't seem like beliefs. Nor does anyone
actually think of them as beliefs. Instead we experience them, and we think
of them, as just what's true and right and real. Then again, that's an
operational definition of a belief- what you consider true, right, and real
is what you "believe."
>From Thought to Belief
Because NLP never really distinguished thoughts from beliefs in a really
clear way, we took the opportunity in Neuro-Semantics to do precisely that.
So today, in our flagship training of APG, that is one of the first things
we do on day one- we present how a thought differs from a belief. And, how
does a thought differ from a belief?
The meta-state structure distinguishes the two by the multi-ordinality of
"thought." At level one a thought is a representation (visual, auditory,
kinesthetic, words, diagrams, etc.) of an awareness. At level two, a
thought is embedded inside of another thought so that it is much richer.
The higher thought is a frame for the lower-a classification, category,
assumption, etc. When at level two, the higher thought is a confirmation
thought that validates the first, then it transforms the "mere thought" into
a belief-a command to the nervous system.
Diagram
--- Confirmation Thought ---
about
A Primary level Thought (an awareness of
something)
By transcending the first level thought to a confirmation thought about it,
you are putting the first level thought into the class of things Validated
and Confirmed as Real, True, and Right. That makes the thought more than
just a thought, more than just a signal to the body. It transforms into a
command to the nervous system. In systems language and thought, the higher
thought as a "belief" sets up a self-organizing attractor so that it
operates like a self-fulfilling prophecy. That's why we have known for
thousands of years that beliefs are very power things. People tend to see
what they believe. What they believe, they see in the world and it confirms
the belief over and over.
In believing what you are really doing is empowering a mere thought with
meaning-and that meaning is energizing the thought so you treat it as if
real, right and true. Now you no longer question it, now your perceptions
and behaviors keep reinforcing it, now you are inside of a belief system
that validates itself. No wonder Jesus warned us to be careful what we
believe, "Be it unto you according to your belief."
Given this semantic and representational structure of a belief, the essence
of changing a belief involves removing it from its classification. That is,
remove it from the class of Confirmed Things, that is, change the meaning so
it is "just a thought." Do that you and you will de-energize the belief and
limit its ability to be a "command to your nervous system" to try to
actualize it.
This explains the so-called "magic" in the Mind-Lines Model. Remodeled from
the old NLP "sleight of mouth" patterns and extended, Mind-Lines gives you
seven directions to send a person's mind in thinking about something and
twenty-six linguistic patterns for reframing the meaning of a belief that
creates limitations. Knowing how we build up beliefs, and the essential
structure of a belief as a meta-state, now you can pretty easily change
beliefs and update them with more empowering beliefs that will support your
development and self-actualization.
What's the bottom line? Where you have a belief, you have a meta-state.
When you meta-state, you are setting beliefs in place. "Beliefs" are
meta-level confirmation-ideas that describe an understanding that we treat
as real and true and which thereby send "commands" to our nervous system to
make real. And where you have one belief, you almost always have an
embedded set of beliefs-a belief system. Knowing this, you can now
meta-state new beliefs into existence, beliefs that you want to believe.
Knowing this also means that you can suspend a belief that no longer serves
you well.
An example: If you believe that "criticism can hurt you," then you have a
cause-effect belief. You believe that when something you call "criticism"
can influence your mental and emotional state and result in what you call
"hurt." Thinking about words and their effect on you is the primary state;
confirming that this is true and real turns it into a belief. Then it
orders your breathing, muscle tension, throat, etc. to respond in a way that
makes this actual (actualize). When you meta-state questions and doubt
about this as "real and true" the belief begins to loosen up, when you bring
the meta-state of realizing the idea is just a mental map, the belief
fragments even further. When you bring the idea that "words" are just
words, you undermine the old limiting belief even further.
Beliefs can be at your command- when you know their meta-state structure and
have developed the skills of confirming and suspending. This is what we
mean by "running your own brain" in order to manage your own state.
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