[Neurons] 2017 Neurons #44 Are You Pleased with Your Programming?

Sun Sep 24 22:07:29 EDT 2017

From: L. Michael Hall

2017 Neurons #44

September 25, 2017

ARE YOU PLEASED WITH

YOUR PROGRAMMING? 

Look at the things that you do today-the things that you do everyday in a
regular and systematic way, the things that you can count on yourself to do.
Look at getting up and dressed, having breakfast (or skipping breakfast),
brushing your teeth, driving, etc.  When you do, you are observing some of
your programs.  Yes, you call them habits.  That's because you habitually do
these things and do them in certain ways, and you can do them without
thinking.  It is as if you have a "brushing your teeth program" inside you.
Now, what will trigger this program?  Perhaps the time of the day will
trigger it, perhaps walking into the bathroom, perhaps looking in the mirror
and smiling.

.        A word about "programming."  The idea of programming entered into
NLP at the same time when computer programming was beginning to reach
popular consciousness.  The communication theories of that day had been
working for couple decades in conceptualizing how to program a machine so
that it could process information and by the 1970s several programming
languages had been developed and gigantic room-size computers had been
built.  It was in that context that the metaphor of "programming" came to be
applied to human processing of information, hence the name Neuro-Linguistic
Programming.  In those days, it had nothing to do with brainwashing, and
everything to do with the code for how to install a systematic and
stabilized response.

Let's ask a series of questions about your habits, alias programming:

How did you program yourself to behave in this way?  

How did you get yourself to do so in such a regular and dependable way?

Were you born with this program?

If you were not, then at what time did you develop it and how did it become
so dependable, so regular, so systematic?

These questions explore is a very powerful resource that you have within
you-within your neurology and in your mind-body system.  As a habit, you
don't have to even think about it.  You just do it.  It is as if you are on
automatic and as if the habit has a life of its own.  Think about this with
your eating lunch habit, your morning coffee break habit, your looking over
a desert menu after dinner habit, your smoking habit, and so on.  Somehow
you have programmed yourself to automatically do certain things and now you
can efficiently do them without a lot of physical or cognitive effort.

Another question: When you look at the automatic actions that you engage in-
does it bring out your best?  If you consider some habits that are now
unhealthy and unproductive for you, have you ever tried to change them?  Did
it work?  Or did you revert to the old habit?  Maybe you changed your mind
about smoking and decided to stop smoking and you did ... for a little
while, but then the old habit re-emerged and you found yourself doing it
again.  Habits are powerful that way.  They can seems to programmed in that
they seem hard-wired, part of "who you are," and your "second nature." 

Yet your own personal programs or habits are similar to those of a computer,
they are functions of a code.  That is, there's a code that informs your
mind-body system how to operate and how to function, in the face of a
particular trigger.  The trigger starts a sequence of activities so that
somehow you just seem to "know" how to respond, and so you do.  You get on a
bike and your body just seems to know how to ride even if it has been years,
or roller-skates, or a thousand other habitual patterns.  They are part and
parcel of your programming.  You have a habit (program) of feeling afraid in
elevators or even seeing snakes on TV.  You have a habit (program) of biting
your nails, of impulsively buying things, of cursing when someone cuts you
off in traffic. 

Now something this powerful could be powerfully used for the good if only
you knew the code, could it not?  What if you set up a program for reading
regularly, studying, exercising, spending time with your loved ones, etc.?

Now here's the thing- the code to any habit is no longer in the front of
your mind.  If it was, it would not be very deep or systematic and it could
be more easily changed.  No.  The code involves what's deep within, in the
back of your mind, and has been created by your self-reflexive
consciousness.  That is, as you applied second thoughts and emotions to some
first level thinking, you meta-stated the sequence of action with higher
level frames, this deeply embeds the habit within you.  In terms of
persuasion, you now have a deep meta-level program (sequence of thoughts)
that influence you systemically so that you do not have to consciously think
about it.

So the code is a meta-state or meta-level code.  It is made of beliefs,
decisions, identities, permissions, understand#ings, etc. that essentially
locks the program in so that you are not only free to not think about it,
you may not be able to think about it.   Several consequences fall out from
this.  One explains the difficulty of modeling an expert who is
unconsciously competent- the program is automatic and outside-of-conscious
awareness.  Another is that in changing an undesirable habit, you have to
get to the code in the back of the mind since those thoughts are the ones
most deeply influencing you.

In terms of self-persuasion, if you want to truly learn to persuade the
hardest person of all to persuade (yourself), you have to be able to climb
the layers of your meaning-making to find the program.  That's what we do
with the Matrix Model in Neuro-Semantics.  And if you want to establish a
new healthy habit as a new program for your effectiveness in a given area,
you have to be able to set the required meta-levels so that you lock them
in.  That's what we do with the Meta-States Model.  

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

               Neuro-Semantics Executive Director 

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