[Neurons] 2022 Neurons #9 DISTINGUISHING CONTENT AND PROCESS

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2022 Neurons #9

March 7, 14, 2022

Distinctions #9

 

DISTINGUISHING

CONTENT & PROCESS

 

Here is a distinction that is at the forefront of the NLP and Neuro-Semantic
models and it is this distinction that makes both meta-fields.  It is this
distinction also that is key to problem-solving and transformation.

Content.  Regarding whatever you are talking about, this is the story or the
details.  Content  defines what you are talking about.  Content focuses on
what is immediately on "the theater of your mind," what you represent and
what you think is critically important.  When we ask for more content, we
need more sensory-based information: where, what, when, with whom, how,
which, etc.  We need the factual evidence and the contextual references.

Process. Similarly, whatever you are talking about, process refers to the
structuring which governs the content.  And because mental-and-emotional
structures are dynamic, it refers to the controlling processes of the
content.  This takes us to a higher level-the hidden frames that make up the
assumptions and premises governing the content.  Process speaks about how
the information, the data, is being formulated and interpreted.  

 

Now both of these deal with the same message, but at different levels.  One
is at the primary level (content), the other is at the meta-level (process).
Whenever you are not aware of the higher level structures, you can get so
caught up in content that you entirely miss the hidden, and usually
invisible, influence of the over-arching frames.  Then you cannot discern
what is going on above and beyond and behind the content.  The content fills
your mind and seems all controlling and dominating.  Yet this actually
describes the mind  of a child.

 

Learning about the structuring of the processes above content takes you to a
meta-level where you discover a great many hidden and invisible influences.
Here "whoever sets the frame controls the game."   Here meaning can be
formatted in many different ways.  Here framing and reframing occurs.  This
also is the mind of an adult- someone who has learned to "step back" (go to
a meta level) and pay attention to the formatting or the code that is being
used.

 

Content is the story of the fear of a big dog that a person develops as a
child.  It involves the details of where one was, what happened, and how the
person responded.  Details.  Content.  Process refers to how a person
encoded that memory and what he is doing with it today.  If you remember it
as if you are still there- you are associating into the story so that the
experience seems like it is current.  It is not.  But you are cuing your
body to respond as if it is.  Process is also the place where you can make
transformative changes.

              Put the content of the story up on a movie screen and step
back from it several rows.

              As you see it, feel the distance, it is about you, but a much
younger and inexperienced you.

Make the picture a black-and-white snapshot.  That will cue your brain that
it is an old picture, not current.

Index the time of that story, what you were wearing, was the sun shining or
was it raining that day.  Identify as much as you can about that event.

Run that movie to the end .... then firward on to a time of delight and joy.
Step into the movie at the scene of pleasure and rewind it backwards while
you are in it and do it in two seconds.  Really fast.

 

All of these process instructions gives you a chance to change the frames,
the formatting, and the code that determines how you interpret and
experience the content.  The principle is simple, yet profound: Change the
code and the experience changes.

 

And there's always a code.  That's what the processes reveal. Changing
content is much more difficult because whatever happened in the past,
happened.  And you can't change what happened.  But you can change how you
interpret it.  You can change the code and how you store it and what you use
it for today.

 

NLP revealed the two levels in the Spelling Strategy back in the 1970s.  At
the content level are the details of how a word is spelled. At the
meta-level are the processes: You hear the word (auditorially) and you make
a picture of the letters (visually).  You then compare the picture of the
word you create with a memory of what the word looks like (visual
remembered).  If they look the  same, you feel a sensation of congruence
(kinesthetic positive) and you are ready to spell it.  If the picture does
not look the same as the remembered picture, you feel a sensation of
incongruence (kinesthetic negative) and you cycle back around to try to make
a better picture. 

 

Discovering the hidden processes is in the back of your mind, or the back of
someone else's mind is not always easy.  The structures hide.  They are
comprised of dynamic structures that are hard to see ... hard to see, that
is, until you have been trained to see them.  And, of course, that's what
NLP and Neuro-Semantic trainings are about-learning to see what's invisible
in the back of the mind.  Then if you are running some old programs that are
no longer relevant, you can upgrade your programming.  Welcome to the world
of transformation!

 

 

 

 

 

Heidi Heron, with WorldWide NLP (Sydney, Australia) is holding an intensive
NLP Practitioner Certification.   It will be July 13-19 in Denver, Colorado
- www.nlpworldwide.com/learn-nlp-usa.  You can reach Heidi at
heidi at nlpworldwide.com 

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Neuro-Semantics

P.O. Box 8

Clifton CO. 81520 USA

www.neurosemantics.com 

 

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