[Neurons] 2022 Neurons #53 KNOWING THE META LANDSCAPE

Mon Dec 26 00:28:46 EST 2022

From: L. Michael Hall

2022 Neurons #53

December 26, 2022

KNOWING THE META LANDSCAPE

When it comes to your mind, and mine, there's always a lot going on in the
mind, sometimes so much you can hardly keep track of it all.  So we ask
about the processes going on upstairs: "What am I thinking?"  "What kind of
thinking is this?"  "What is this that I'm experiencing and where did it
come from?"  These are but a few of the questions we ask ourselves, trying
to understand ourselves.

Yet understanding your own mind is not the easiest thing to understand.
With the large number of factors involved, it's often hard to know precisely
what you are feeling or thinking or how to interpret what you are
experiencing.  To figure that out, you need some landmarks of the
mind-landmarks that can help define the inner landscape of your mind.  These
are not brain anatomy landmarks.  Generally knowing about brain anatomy
tells you very, very little about what you are thinking, or why, or what
effect it will have.  Knowing the mind requires a whole different set of
landmarks.

As I've been working to identify the meta place, I've been thinking of the
mind as a space with certain processes.  To know this enables us to sort out
and separate the different processes of the mind-body system.  And while I'm
using a solid and stable metaphor (landmark) it is actually a dynamic
landscape, not of solid 'things,' but of dynamic processes which are always
moving and changing.  Learning to see this landscape in action enables you
to see your mind in action-how it does what it does as it creates your inner
experiences.  And, of course, what happens there then transfers to the
outside.  That's why winning the inner game makes winning the outer game a
walk in the park.  After all, your outer world experiences are functions of
your inner world experiences.

Seeing this dynamic landscape in action equips you in systemic thinking.
Now you can see the system in action.  And when you can do that, you will be
able to know where in the system to intervene to create systemic change and
transformation.  Then what will seem magical or impossible to others, will
be regular and normal to you.  You will be able to get to the heart of
things in a few minutes, not hours, days, or months.

Begin with learning and knowing the landscape features-the ten basic
processes (state, stimulus -response, thinking patterns, representations,
beliefs, reflexivity funnel, background knowledge, imagination, ecology, and
feedback loops).  Then learn to recognize them in action, as mind processes
something.  Once you do that, you'll begin to see the dynamic functions in
real time and be able to intervene in real time.

While I can now do that, I'm not the only one, others in Neuro-Semantics can
do it as well, and before long, there will be a great many more who can do
that.  Now if you know how to see and how to work in the meta place, then
whenever you hear even a small slice of a conversation, you will be able to
identify where a person is in his or her meta place and how to open it up
for them so that they can gain a perspective of the whole.  And to do that
is actually quite a gift.  The following is the beginning of a conversation
as an example of opening up a meta place.    

[Just in case the formatting does not come through in email, I have attached
it as a file, meta 

place dialogue.]

"Yes, I'm stressed about this project, but it just comes with the territory,
because I need to do my very best."

Landmarks         Conversation
Feedback: Questions to open up the

                                                                    [Read
from the bottom up]                meta place.

Reaction                      "Me?  You are blaming me for feeling stress?"
I'm actually assuming that you are

from back-
responsible for your thinking, believing,

ground knowledge
and intentions. Because if not you, who?

"Well, yes."                               Okay, so I now understand how you
are stressing yourself out.

Intention                      "Yes, I want to do my very best."
The first time out?  With no build up or development or feedback?
[introducing missing pieces.]

Belief5                                         "No, I mean everyone,
shouldn't everyone         So is that your intention, to do your

                             do his best?"
best?

Belief4                                        "Well, shouldn't you do your
very best every     Who me?  Are you talking about me?

                            day?

Feed-                   "No, it just sounds weird."
What's weird about it?

forward              "It sounds funny when you say it like that?"       So
you are seeing the humor in it?

Belief3                                         "I will be sloppy and
careless and            So your thinking pattern is that it is

fear                                             unprofessional."
either excellence and your best or being sloppy, careless, and
unprofessional.

[Either/or thinking]

Rules                   "It means eliminating mistakes, carefully 

                             going over things again and again."
Or what?

Belief2                  "That's what is required for excellence."
Excellence, the best mean what?

Belief1                                        "I need to do my very best."
Why?   [Thinking pattern: necessity]

Primary state     Stress, a project.

To open up the meta place -

              1) Identify the landmark in the meta place that the person is
indicating.

              2) Explore that landmark with questions.

3) Look for what's above it, beside it, and below it.  Find all of its
connections and associations.

4) Identify the feedback loops.  The person is responding to what?  He is
responding how?  When his responses come back, they come back how?

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

ISNS Executive Director

P.O. Box 8

Clifton Colorado 81520 USA

(970) 523-7877

drhall at acsol.net  

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