[Neurons] 2021 Neurons #36 SELF-RENEWAL AT THE META LEVEL

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2021 Neurons #36

June 21, 2021

A Meta Series #5

 

                SELF-RENEWAL

AT THE META LEVEL

 

When you go meta, you rise up above your current experience so that you can
then reflect on your experience.  And when you do, you then think-and-feel
about that first level experience.  You're now engaged in second-level
thinking and feeling.  If you do that again, you arrive at a third level of
thinking and feeling, and so it goes all the way up the levels.   I say
"levels" but that's not exactly the right word because there are no levels
as static things.  There is the process of leveling- that is, layering more
ideas and emotions upon ideas and emotions.

 

Now we call this meta process, meta-stating.  Yet it is so much more than
just bringing "a state" to a state.  Yes, you can do that.  You can fear
your fear, get angry at your anger, become afraid of your anger, etc.  Yet
because "a state" is comprised of thinking- that means that the particular
kind of thinking you are doing at any given moment may be a whole range of
different kinds of cognitions.  You could be believing, valuing, evaluating,
judging, imagining, remembering, prohibiting, permitting, modeling, and on
and on.

 

Additionally, each and every kind of cognitive idea that you bring to your
previous ideas sets off particular kinds of emotions.  That's why I
hyphenate thinking-feeling.  It's a system and it works systemically.  We
can only separate these words linguistically; they do not actually operate
separately.

 

Now with each meta move that you make, you establish the next-higher level
psycho-logics for your mind-body-emotion system.  That is, the logics or
reasoning that you do in bringing any particular cognitive idea to yourself
sets an interpretive frame.  This explains why healthy, empowering beliefs,
values, decisions, permissions, identities, etc. give you the power for
productive change, transformation, and renewal.

 

In Mind-Lines (2007) we call this outframing.  You move above all of your
current framing and layering of thoughts-and-feelings and you set up a
higher and more enhancing one.  Most of the NLP presuppositions are
enhancing outframes.  When you set them, you establish an empowering frame
of reference that enables self-renewal.

              The map is not the territory, but if it corresponds
structurally, it can provide a good guide.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get regardless of your
intention.

              Mind and body are a single system.

              You cannot not communicate.

 

Renewal, change, transformation, empowerment, learning, development, etc.
all originate from the meta-level, not the primary level.  It is at the
primary level that the change or enhancement occurs.  That's only where it
shows up at.

Now when you know that, it gives you entrance into the secret of how nearly
every single NLP pattern works its "magic."  The patterns are ways to
influence the way you think (and therefore feel) and with the new mental
mapping inside, you are able to create new skills and competencies on the
outside.  Transformation is, after all, inside-out.  Inner game first, then
outer game.

 

By the process of going meta, you are able to step out of the old mapping,
the old framing, the currently layering of thoughts-and-feelings and set up
better and more productive frames.  By stepping out, you move to choice
point.  This is the place where you truly have choice.  You can now make new
decisions, empowering decisions, that will set up the new "rules of the
game."  And when you win the inner game in this way, the outer game becomes
a cinch.  It becomes a piece of cake.  Details about how all of that works
is in the book, Winning the Inner Game (2007).

 

What prevents self-renewal and the true choice for change is being caught up
and captivated by content.  This was the failure of first psychologies that
were developed- they focused on what you were thinking, rather than on how.
The same problem arose in the education system as the focus went to teaching
children what to think, rather than how to think.   Yes, content is
important, but it is not the whole story.   When I work with someone as a
client, 15 to 20 percent of the focus is on content and 75 to 80 percent on
structure- on the code.

 

Content is important because it grounds the conversation in the real world
and actual referents.  Structure (or process) flushes out the hidden
meta-levels of interpretative frames that controls the experience.  And when
you get there, you're in the land of transformations. 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Neuro-Semantics 

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