[Neurons] 2016 "Neurons" -- #10 When You Frame, You Meta-State

Mon Mar 7 08:38:48 EST 2016

From: L. Michael Hall

2016 "Neurons" Meta Reflections - #10

March 7, 2016

Meta-States "Genius" Series (APG) #15

WHEN YOU FRAME, YOU META-STATE

What else can I say about Meta-States and the meta-stating processes?  Here
is something.  When you frame you are meta-stating.  Conversely, when you
meta-state, you are setting a frame.  Most NLP people don't know this
because they don't know the Meta-States Model or don't appreciate its depth
and it is here that the Meta-States Model takes NLP to several new levels
and dimensions.

Let's start with the idea of frames and framing.  The person who really
developed this and popularized the language was Gregory Bateson.  He
developed this in the 1950s in his research in schizophrenia and looking at
the levels of awareness and the power of a higher level to influence and
even govern a lower level.  Then, developing the levels of awareness into
his levels of learning, levels of change, he and his research team provided
many new approaches to therapy and business.

NLP picked this up and, as a discipline, talked directly about frames and
reframing.  This led to the list of ways to reframe ("Sleight of Mouth")
which we turned into Mind-Lines: Lines for Changing Minds (1997).  In doing
that, I was able to create a systematic way to frame.  That gave us seven
directions to frame, i.e., to send a brain.  And in each of those seven
directions there were many framing formats available. 

Today, framing is a critical distinction and skill in Neuro-Semantics.  It
is so critical, that we benchmark the competency in Group & Team Coaching
and in the PCMC level of Meta-Coaching.  We also benchmark it in
Presentation skills for trainers.  It is critical because "The person who
sets the frame governs the game."

Framing inevitably occurs when you bring one state to another.  That's
because within a state are thoughts, feelings, and physiology and these are
the component variables of a frame.  If you bring the state of "respect" to
your anger and set respect over your anger, you generate "respectful anger."
In doing that, "anger" now becomes a member of the class of "respect."  So
all of the thoughts and beliefs about "respect" of people is inside of,
incorporated within, and now the governing frame for how you think about and
experience "anger." 

If you bring a state of "resilience" to a state of "disappointment,"
"frustration," "worry," etc., you set a frame of "I'll get through this," "I
won't let this defeat me," "I'll bounce back," etc.  that's because these
ideas are inside of resilience.  So in meta-stating resilience to
disappointment, you do not just bring the new feeling to primary feeling,
but you also are setting a reference frame that re-calibrates the
disappointment.  Now the disappointing thoughts-and-feelings are inside of a
new category-that of resilience.  This changes everything!  Talk about a
very, very powerful transformational process.  And you can do it in such a
simply profound way, by accessing and applying one state to another.  So
simple in process, and yet so profound in effect!

This explains in part why that when you attend any training in
Neuro-Semantics, you will hear a lot about frames, framing, reframing, etc.
That's because no matter what experience you have or want to have or want to
stop having, that experience is what it is due to the frames that comprise
it.  The experience is what it is because of the frames.  The frames create
it.

It is not the case that you have not been framed, you have!  The questions
are: How have you been framed?  What framing (or whose framing) are you now
living?  Do you like those frames?  Are they serving you well?  Do they
bring out your best?  Or your worse?  Or what is mediocre in you?  Do you
even know the frames?  Would you like to?

Neuro-Semantic NLP focuses on enabling people to detect frames.  Can you
detect the frames that others are offering you?  Can you detect the frames
within yourself?  Or can you detect the levels of frames in others?  Can you
detect the frames that hold other frames in place?  How much mental
flexibility do you have to play with the frame one you detect it?  Or do you
tend to let "the frame that be" hypnotize you into compliance and
non-questioning obedience?  Do they enslave you into their frame world?  

We also focus on reframing.  That's because if there's a frame and it does
not bring out your best, do you know how to reframe it?  Have you developed
your skill to reframe it in dozens of ways so that you can then choose the
best reframe?  Do you know how to figure out what frame will out-frame it
the very best?

Why?  What do all of this?  Because when you set a frame, you control a
brain.  So start with your own!  Precisely because brains operate according
to their frames, when you work with your frames, you learn to "run your own
brain."  So, just as a computer's mainframe controls the processes for how
the computer operates, your frames govern how you interpret things, draw
conclusions, create your mental maps, and experience your world.  Your
frames are that influential in your life experience!

No wonder then that we speak a lot about winning the inner game of our
frames in Neuro-Semantics.  If you want to become a winner in life-that's
where it begins.  And to become a winner in your frames, we recommend you
start with learning the foundations of NLP and Meta-States.

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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