From: L. Michael Hall
2022 Neurons #28
July 11, 2022
Super-charging Your Attitude #4
ATTITUDES AND META-PROGRAMS
How do you create an attitude? So far the process involves a meta-state
structure involving two or more states with their frames of mind. This
creates something more than just a thought or just an emotion, it creates a
holistic experience, one comprised of physiology s well. Yet the
meta-structure of an attitude not only implies meta-stating as a process for
generating new and better attitudes, it also implies the presence of
meta-programs. So as meta-states create meta-programs, in the meta-stating
process, meta-programs will inevitably be created or implicated. Yes,
sometimes an attitude is made up of various meta-programs!
Now a meta-program is a perceptual filter that enables you to see or
perceive things in a certain way and, at the same time, thinking and
feeling. Many meta-programs, in fact, not only describe an attitude but
they are an attitude.
Consider optimism or pessimism-these are both an attitude and a
meta-program (#6)
Similarly, trusting or cynical are attitudes and meta-programs
(#42).
Toward and Away From (#35), as the motivation direction
meta-program, become attitudes when they are driver meta-programs.
So also many others: Judging/ Perceiving (#37); perfectionism/
Optimizing (#40); Competitive/ Cooperative (#43).
Further, a great many of the meta-programs, while not attitudes themselves,
lead to and participate in particular attitudes. That is, there are
meta-programs which are required for some attitudes. Global and/or detail
are not "attitudes" per se, but play a role in many attitudes. Many other
attitudes require both sides of a meta-program. For example, the attitude
of emotional well-being implies having full choice for either associated and
un-associated (#20). To be holistic in taking care of yourself and others,
you will need both attention to self and others (#24). To be healthy in
your sense of self-authority and going along with authority, you need to
reference both internally and externally (#23).
Conversely, there will be some meta-programs that will actually interfere
and even prevent some attitudes. They contradict it or counter-act it.
This is especially true if they are a driver meta-program. If you want a
friendly rapport-building attitude, you have to give up mismatching.
Mis-matching will interfere with building rapport. If you want a dynamic
attitude of being proactive, then you'll have to switch from Perceiving
(#37), Options (#36), or Reflective (#27). Those meta-programs will prevent
you from actualizing your meanings into actions.
A non-screening (#9) meta-program will stop you from developing a laser-beam
focus and therefore from any genius state. And a screening meta-program can
prevent you from being in sensory-awareness. The either-or (#7)
meta-program inevitably stops systemic thinking which builds up a holistic
attitude.
If attitudes are sometimes comprised of certain meta-programs, the question
then for any attitude that you desire to create in yourself is: "What
meta-program will you need in order to experience X attitude?" And if a
meta-program is a way of thinking and/or perceiving, then it is quite
learnable. Simply ask a question that presuppose it and then use that
question to keep directing your mind to that distinction.
How do meta-programs then relate to attitudes? In three ways. Some
meta-programs 1) are attitudes, 2) some make up the components of other
attitudes, and 3) some prevent certain attitudes. Knowing this and being
able to discern for this will become really important when we discuss
changing attitudes, decommissioning negative attitudes, and developing some
great attitudes. Then as you will need to look inside the meta-stating
process, you will also need to look into the role that meta-programs play.
New
For the list of new Meta-Programs, see "List of New Meta-Programs" on the
Shop.
www.neurosemantics.com/shop/page/3/
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Executive Director, ISNS
P.O. Box 8
Clifton COLORADO 81520 USA
meta at acsol.net
136330.NS.PredictiveThinkingCvr FRONT
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