[Neurons] 2019 Neurons #25 DESIGNER STATES #3

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2019 Neurons #25

May 27, 2019

 

DESIGNER STATES #3

 

Given the last two posts on Designer States, when you meta-state yourself
and one of your states, you not only are able to give it the texture and
qualify that you want, but you simultaneously do a lot of other things.  You
set a meaning frame, you classify it, you transcend it and include it in a
higher experience, and you establish a self-organizing attractor.  That's a
lot for a single action - applying one state to another state.  Yet there is
more.

 

Here's another thing.  Your states are holons.  That is, you experience your
states as a whole within itself and simultaneously as a part of another
whole.   Research scientist Arthur Koestler introduced the term "holons"
many years ago to describe reality as composed of "whole/parts."  This
concept rescues us from unhelpful dichotomizing and enables us to understand
something in a more holistic way.  And whole/parts is the way it is with
every meta-state.

 

These whole/parts holons refer to any "entity" that is itself a whole and
yet simultaneously a part of some other whole.  When it comes to states such
as confidence, courage, commitment, playfulness, joy, flow, etc., they are
also a part of a larger whole.  While you experience them as a whole and can
deal with them as a whole unit or experience, they are also inside of higher
level wholes- meta-levels of beliefs, decisions, permissions, memories,
anticipations, etc.

 

If a mind-body state operates as a holon in that it is within many higher
mental-emotional frames (beliefs, values, expectations, etc.) which support
it, then when you detect a meta-state, you have a part of a greater whole.
Like a hologram-if you know how to read it, you have a lot more than what is
immediately obvious.  And that can give you a heads up on the structure of
the experience.

 

Ken Wilber also speaks about holons.  He uses such terms as agency and
communion and then transcendence and dissolution.  He says that a holon has
identity and autonomy-it has its own agency (activity, energy) and identity
as a whole.  Yet as a holon within a larger whole, it also communicates and
has communion with other wholes.

In joyful learning, learning has transcended itself and gone beyond to
become more than mere learning-to become joyful.   The
transcending-and-including process adds novel components to the original
state.  Or, on the other hand, it can dissolve qualities and change the
nature of the state.  That happens in calm anger and in respectful anger.

 

When a state, as a holon, moves up to transcend itself, something new
emerges.

This happens when you are in a state of fear- facing something potentially
dangerous - and you transcend your fear as you go into commitment and
responsibility so that courage emerges.  Now the person goes into the
burning building to rescue a child.  Courage-the ability to face a fear in
spite of the danger.   Here the lower is transcended and included in the
higher to produce something new.

 

In systems, a gestalt is "more than and different from the sum of the
parts."  So a gestalt state is more than just a meta-state, it is a
meta-state that has transcended its components and formed a new
configuration.  Merely adding the parts together (the primary states) does
not, and cannot, explain the new emergent state.  The leap upward invites a
higher structure of an experience.

 

Wilber offers another description: "holons emerge holarchically" (p. 27).
Originally Koestler also created the term holoarchy to replace "hierarchy."
This means that the meta-levels (logical levels) that you and I experience
do not comprise a hierarchy.  They are not hierarchal.  They are
holarchical.  That's why we cannot say that one logical level is higher than
another.  Values are not higher than beliefs.  You can believe in a value.
You can believe in an identity or a vision.

 

Holarchies describe an order of increasing wholeness.   Particles to atoms
to cells to organisms.  Or letters to words to sentences to paragraphs.  The
whole of one level becomes a part of the whole of the next.  Each higher
level embraces and engulfs the lower.  That's why when we take a primary
state like anger and set frames about it (respect, calmness) to create new
emergent properties as a larger holon.

Imagine embracing your anger with acceptance, appreciation, and then wonder.
Imagine engulfing it in love, respect, and honor.  Imagine applying
mindfulness, values, and patience to it.  Imagine bringing ecology concerns,
moral uprightness, and honor to it.  Mix well.  Put into the oven of your
mind, let it bake for awhile... 

Imagine embracing your power to take action in the world with acceptance and
appreciation.  Imagine engulfing it with ownership, excitement, and joy.
Imagine applying hope, desired outcomes, willingness to take intelligent
risks, love, and concern for others, to it.  Mix all of these well in a
state of contemplative relaxation.  Let it bake as you learn and explore and
develop...

 

How's your holographical set of states?  Are they structured so that you
have the most optimal qualities to your states?

 

 

For more reading:

Hall, L. Michael (1995/ 2012). Meta-States: Reflexivity in Human States of 

Consciousness.  Clifton, CO: Neuro-Semantic Publications. 

Wilber, Ken. (1996). A Brief History of Everything.  Boston MA: Shambhal.

 

 




 

 

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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