[Neurons] 2023 Neurons #2 NEW YEAR POWER

Sun Jan 8 15:22:29 EST 2023

From: L. Michael Hall

2023 Neurons #2

January 9, 2023

Experience Series #1

NEW YEAR POWER

As we are beginning a new year, now is a great moment to refresh your
awareness of your innate powers.  Why?  Because your innate powers is your
key to your self-management and mastery of your engagements.  After all,
while you do have these innate powers and you can't lose them, still ... in
order to make full use of them, you need to be fully cognizant of them.
Otherwise you could forget them or overlook them or even minimize them.
People who do that then make the mistake of thinking that they are victims
without any power to effect change.  When you refresh your mindfulness about
your powers and utilize them, you become a victor over life's circumstances
and can no longer be a victim.  How's that for a goal for 2023?

The truth is that you have the power to do all kinds of wild and wonderful
things!  But that is true only if you're willing to tap into your innate
powers, activate them, develop them, and then put them to good use.  That's
up to you; you have to do that.  Default on doing that, then any competency
that you have will actually atrophy.

I recently came across the following a quotation from Ralph Martson who
first, vividly expressed the powers that we all have and then provided a
challenge about using them for your highest meanings and values.  It might
be a good idea to print it off and put it on your bathroom mirror and read
it every morning as a way to awaken the spirit of possibilities in yourself.

"Right here and now, this very day, you have the power to think, the power
to dream, the power to make decisions, the power to act, the power to
create, to learn, to influence others, to change things, to experience and
enjoy.  On top of all that, you have the power to invent, to innovate, to
change your mind, to understand, and to move into a new direction.  You have
the power to persevere, to work with discipline and focus, to manage your
time, to recognize your opportunities, to take responsibility and to act
responsibly, to solve problems, to effectively utilize your resources, and
to make a positive difference in your world.  Some people take these very
same powers and achieve great things.  How will you make use of your power
today?  It is an incredible opportunity and an awesome responsibility.  It
is real and it is yours.  Challenge yourself to transform that power, with
your thoughts and actions, into your own special greatness."

Talk about power!  That is a powerful description of a person who is in
touch with his or her powers and knows out to put them to good use.  When
you refresh your awareness of your innate powers, then when there is an
opportunity, you are able to take advantage of it.  Your powers give you the
capacity to make good use of opportunities.  It's important that you know
that an opportunity is not a "right."  You can't claim that as a right or
demand it.  Instead, think of it as a chance.  It's your chance to seize the
possibilities in an opportunity and see what happens.  And that requires an
active mind and body.

The most obvious aspects of your innate powers are those by which you
express yourself externally, namely your linguistic powers of speech and
your behavioral powers of action.  When you develop these inner capacities,
you increase your ability to make a difference in the world and to be
effectively productive.   The internal powers are much more subtle.  These
are in your meta place and here you have to activate your thinking and
emoting, your brain and body.  Then you can create a lively and rich inner
world.  In Neuro-Semantics, our new focus on thinking and the thinking
series in the Brain Camps, are designed to richly enhance these internal
powers. In NLP, when Richard Bandler spoke about this as running your own
brains, he identified a common problem that people have in taking charge.

"Most people don't actively and deliberately use their own brains.  Your
brain is like a machine without an 'off' switch.  If you don't give it
something to do, it just runs on and on until it gets bored.  If you put
someone in a sensory deprivation tank where there's no external experience,
he'll start generating internal experience.   If your brain is sitting
around without anything to do, it's going to start doing something, and it
doesn't seem to care what it is.  You may care, but it doesn't." (1985, p.
7)

That's the problem.  Apparently, your brain needs direction.  It needs to be
told what to do.  That's where meta-thinking comes in.  Above and beyond
thinking, is instructional thinking.  That's where you tell your brain (or
focus your mind) so that you think about things that make your life better
and more resourceful.  In both NLP and Neuro-Semantics, we enable people to
learn to take control of their lives and change their experiences, by
showing how to control what happens in the brain.  Speaking about control,
Bandler uses the metaphor of driving.

"Most people are prisoners of their own brains.   It's as if they are
chained to the last seat of the bus and someone else is driving.   I want
you to learn how to drive your own bus.  If you don't give your brain a
little direction, either it will just run randomly on its own, or other
people will find ways to run it for you-and they may not always have your
best interests in mind.  Even if they do, they may get it wrong!" (1985, pp.
7-8)

So, just as you go to a gym to develop your body, if you want your innate
powers to be well developed, to be sharp and ready to put you into action,
you need to develop those innate powers.  Then your zone of power will be at
your ready access as opportunities arise.  Then, your experiences in life
will be under your control and not the environment, the culture, or someone
else's.

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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