[Neurons] 2022 Neurons #23 OUTSIDE-IN SOLUTIONS

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2022 Neurons #23

June 6, 2022

 

OUTSIDE-IN SOLUTIONS

 

This past week President Biden wasted his "address to the Nation."  I say
that because he apparently does not understand the principles of change.
Namely, for lasting change, the change has to be inside-out.  If we have a
problem with crime (and we do), if we have a problem with mentally ill
people (and we do), and if we have a problem with gun violence (which we
do), then the problem itself is an inside-out problem.

 

This is actually true of all problems.  They are all inside-out.  That's
because it is the person who  plays the most determinative role in crime,
mental illness, and gun violence.  Therefore any so-called solution that
ignores the person, or that thinks we can control the person by laws, that
solution will be inadequate.  During Prohibition in the 1920s, laws did not
solve the problem of alcoholism.  It actually created additional problems,
namely the black market.

 

The solution to human problems, all human problems, is inside-out.  It
begins with the person- his or her thinking, emoting, speaking, acting, and
relating.  The solution has to start there-with the person.  In the US, the
democratic party or leadership has seemed to have gone over to the
outside-in approach.  This is the approach of controlling the outside, the
externals.  "Control the guns as the instruments of the violence, then the
violence will go away."

 

But if external control was the answer, then prisons would be one of the
safest and most loving places on this planet.  After all, there's lots of
rules and regulations and controls in prisons.  They are not allowed to have
guns or knives or weapons.  But, of course, prisons are not one of the
safest places, not at all.  And why not?  Because you can take away all of
the external instruments and a violent person will find another way!

 

External outside-in approaches to gun violence, are at best only band-aides
to the problem.  They deal with a symptom, not the cause.  Control has to
come from within.  Control that truly controls for violence has to be
self-control.  Imposing it from without is the approach of Socialism and
Communism, which we have seen in China in recent days in how they are trying
to "control" covid.  The problem with imposing from outside is that you need
bigger and bigger government, and more and more intrusive government.

 

Conversely, true control such as self-control, self-management,
self-leadership, E.Q., self-determination, etc. is inside-out.  That means
the solution goes to non-controlling and non-manipulative responding.  It
goes to teaching, coaching, training, enabling, empowering,
self-actualizing, etc.  It goes to new approaches to mental illness.  It
goes to cultural change in terms of cultural values.  It goes to healthier
families, parents who take parenting serious enough to be trained in how to
parent, how to communicate to teenagers, how to demonstrate the respect of
human life.  It goes to teachers and administrators to teach basic morals
and ethics, to demonstrate care and respect.

I expected Biden to promote the outside-in approach in his speech.  As a
politician who wants more and more big government, what else would we
expect?  But he is wrong, dead wrong.  True and lasting change has to come
from within.  A person with a heart of violence- hate, angry, rage, fear,
inadequacy, etc., will find a way to be violent and won't care about gun
laws.  Look at Chicago- laws that totally ban guns and yet shootings and
killings every week.  What needs to change are the hearts.

 

 

            For more, check out-

                        Inside-Out: Empowered From Within

                        Coaching Change

                        The Crucible and the Fires of Change

                        Inside-Out Persuasion

 

 

 

 




 

 

 

L. Michael Hall, PH.D.

International Society of Neuro-Semantics (ISNS)

Executive Director

P.O. Box 8

Clifton CO. 81520 USA

(970) 523-7877

www.neurosemantics.com 

 

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