[Neurons] 2019 Neurons #23 DESIGNER STATES #1

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2019 Neurons #23

May 13, 2019

 

DESIGNER STATES

 

Suppose you could texture your mental and emotional states... Suppose you
could add various tastes, feels, qualities to your current frame of mind...
Suppose you could make the way you move through the world richer and fuller
so you beam with delight...  Suppose that you were no longer stuck or
limited in a bland or boring state... 

 

These questions focus attention on the quality of your everyday states.
They suggest that you could design the very quality of your life.  How about
that!  This is one of the most exciting feature of the Meta-States Model.
As you consider the quality of the following states, take a moment to
explore their quality.  You can do so regarding their-

                             __ Intensity and strength           __
Accessibility and development

                             __ Features and feel                    __
Ecology and balance

 

When you think about your basic states- confidence, anger, joy, fear,
playful, anxiety, respect, courage, sadness, excitement, curiosity, relaxed,
etc.-how are they currently textured?  What are their qualities?  Here are
some possibilities: 

Hesitating confidence, courageous confidence, foolish confidence, playful
confidence, bold confidence.  Slow awareness, dull awareness, bright
awareness, brilliant awareness, curious awareness.   Fear of commitment,
stressful commitment, playful commitment, miserable commitment.  Aggressive
curiosity, rigid curiosity, humorous and silly curiosity, serious curiosity.
Hostile anger, dreadful fear of anger, shame about feeling guilty for being
angry

              Shameful fear, bold fear, curious fear, playful fear.

 

Meta-Stating to Texture a State

When you apply one state to another (meta-state), the second state qualifies
the first state.  As you transcend the first state and apply a second state
to it, the first becomes a member of the class of the second.  Now the
higher level state coalesces into the first state and textures it.  In this
way your meta-states get "into your eyes" and coalesce into your muscles.
They become the governing frame-of-reference which is usually hidden from
your view.  To find them, you have to tease out the higher levels.  To flush
out the hidden meta-states ask about the quality of a state.  

              What's the quality of your anger?  Would I like you angry?

              Are you respectful and thoughtful when you're angry?

              Or, do you lose your head and go ballistic when you get mad?

              Do you maintain civility and patience when you're feeling
upset and angry?

              Or do you become impatient and insulting?

 

The answers about the quality reveals the higher frames.

What do you believe about anger?

              What memories in your personal history informs you about this?

              What values or dis-values do you have about experiencing
anger?

              How does this affect who you are?

              How does anger play into or fail to play into your destiny,
mission, and vision?

              What do you expect about anger?  About people when they get
angry?

 

"Seeing" Meta-Levels in Your States

These questions reveal the meta-levels of your states.  As textured states,
they have properties, features, and characteristics.  Over the years, you
have qualified your states. You have set your states inside of various
frames.  Using "anger" as a prototype, you experience your
thinking-and-feeling and neurological somatic sensations about the state of
anger.  You like it or dislike it.  You fear it or love it.  You dread it or
long for it.  You believe it can serve you; you believe it turns things
ugly.

 

Structurally, a meta-state relates to a primary state as a higher state
about it.  The lower state is a member of that class.  The higher meta-state
is a category for understanding the lower. 

That's why "fear of our anger" (fearful anger) differs in texture so much
from "respect of our anger" (respectful anger).  

That's why "shame about getting angry because it only turns things nasty"
differs so much in texture to "appreciation of my powers to get angry
because it informs me that some perceived value feels violated and allows me
to respectfully explore the situation anger."

 

As a higher logical level, the mental and emotional frames that you bring to
your primary experiences represent a governing influence in your life.  The
higher frame is a message about the lower experiences and so modulates,
organizes, and governs it.  No wonder your meta-states are so important!  In
your meta-states, you have values, beliefs, expectations, understandings,
identifications, etc.

 

Knowing all of this gives you choice about your states, your emotions, your
attitudes, etc.  You can choose the quality of your experiences and thereby
create richer, fuller, happier, more fulfilling, and more robust states.
Interested?  That's what the Meta-States Model offers as it takes the basics
of NLP to a higher level.

 

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Neuro-Semantics

P.O. Box 8

Clifton CO. 81520 USA

www.neurosemantics.com   look for the special offer

 

Author of the stunning new history of NLP--- NLP Secrets.  

Investigative Journalism which has exposed what has been kept secrets for
decades. 

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