[Neurons] 2021 Neurons #32 WHEN META DIVES

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2021 Neurons #32

June 7, 2021

A Meta Series #3

 

WHEN META DIVES

 

The concept of "going meta," and the self-reflexive process of actually
moving to a higher cognitive awareness about your thinking and feeling,
while it goes meta, goes upward, transcends, it doesn't stay there.  It
dives.  With your self-reflexive consciousness and your prefrontal cortex,
you have the ability to think again and again about previous thoughts,
ideas, beliefs, emotions, etc.  Incredible things happen when you do.  From
all of these dynamic processes which occur are all the results of
civilization, beginning with science.

 

The meta drive within us enable us to set goals, plan, monitor our progress,
focus our attention, sustain that attention, make thoughtful decisions, etc.
These are the executive functions of your higher cognitive processes.  But
they do not stay higher.  They do not stay meta.  What goes up must come
down, and so it is in your neurology.  As you think at the higher levels, so
you thereby send messages and commands to the lower parts of your brain to
thereby activate your motor programs.

 

Higher and lower brain anatomy and functions are all inter-connected.  And
they are interconnected in such a way as to set up multiple circular
systems.  In systems language, we input information, process that
information, and then output it as energy- emotions, reflexes, behavioral
responses, speech, actions, skills, etc.

 

So while at any time you may "go meta" to a thought or feeling or experience
that you've had, going meta is not a static thing.  It's not that you climb
up some inner mental stairs and now live there.  It's not like that!  All of
the brain anatomy and functions are operating at the same time.  It is more
the case, that one aspect of you has inputted and is processing some
thoughts-and-emotions and while you are doing that, another aspect of you
are stepping back to think about your first experience.

 

You learn a new concept, you discover a category, you detect a pattern-
these are high level processes that transcend and go beyond mere
representation.  Yet once you have gone meta to create these, the
information that you processed and created then takes a dive.  It dives into
your memory banks as your long-term memory.  It dives into your cognitive
unconscious as your perceptual filters- your thinking patterns.  And that
includes your meta-programs, your beliefs, your values, your biases, you
cognitive distortions, etc.

 

When meta dives, you have "programs" for how to respond and how to function.
You have your automatic procedural programs like typing, driving a car, and
doing a hundred mindless things from dressing to fixing your eggs for
breakfast, etc.- things that you don't have to think about.  You also have
your unconscious and unthinking learning programs which support numerous
biases - especially the Confirmation, Availability, and Status Quo biases.

The big myth to this day in NLP is the equation of "meta" with
"dissociation," auditory-digital, and mere intellectualization.  Actually
each misunderstanding shouts aloud that the person does not even know about
self-reflexivity or has forgotten to take it into account.  When I first
discovered and presented the Meta-States Model, I included the fact that you
can go meta with a kinesthetic representation.  That led a dance therapist
in Chicago to develop a meta-state dance fas part of her dance therapy.  And
from that I developed several kinesthetic meta-state patterns.  Why?  What
explains that?  Namely one thing- meta dives.  It dives into neurology so
that it becomes a felt reality- something that you can then know in your
body.

 

If you think about meta or "going meta" as a static thing, then you generate
a picture of a static hierarchy or you use a metaphor like a ladder or a set
of steps.  But it is not like that.  Not at all!  It is dynamic.  And as a
dynamic process, moving to a meta-position about other internal experiences
(thoughts, feelings, ideas, memories, decisions, imaginations, and on and
on) then puts them into new categories and classes and creates an internal
psychological-logic.  That's another aspect of "going meta."

 

 

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director 

Neuro-Semantics 

P.O. Box 8

Clifton, CO. 81520 USA                             

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