[Neurons] 2023 Neurons #40 TALK REVEALS THINKING

Sat Sep 16 23:36:11 EDT 2023

From: L. Michael Hall

2023 Neurons #40

September 18, 2023

TALK REVEALS THINKING

"I wish I knew what you're thinking!"  Really, would you like to know the
inner thinking and thinking patterns of a person?  Easy!  Listen to how the
person talks.  His talk reveals his thinking.  So does mine and so does
yours.  That's because the source and foundation of everyone's communication
abilities and skills arises from the way they think.

NLP bean with this assumption.  It was not even a discovery; the discovery
had been done long, long before the beginning of NLP.  You will find it in
Alfred Korzybski's work in General Semantics.  How you think determines how
you speak and how you speak reflects how you are thinking- the quality or
lack of quality of your thinking.

This idea is also the basis of the linguistic work known as the Sapir-Whorf
hypothesis.  This states that the structure of a language inherently
influences a person's perceptions, worldview, and cognitions.  Your language
determines your thoughts, your thinking, and your linguistic categories
which, in turn, can limit your cognitive categories.  Nor was that idea even
new at the beginning of the 20th century.  In the previous century, the idea
was first expressed by 19th-century thinkers Wilhelm von Humboldt and Johann
Gottfried Herder, who saw language as the expression of the spirit of a
nation.

What does this mean?  It means that we can diagnose your thinking by your
way of talking and communicating.  When you open your mouth, we can peek
into your mind!  You reveal yourself via your words and your language
patterns.  They are not neutral.  Now, does that scare you?  It shouldn't.
Well, it should not if you have nothing to hide, no one to deceive, and if
you are an open human being-open to your fallibility.  You not only know
that you are fallible, and not perfect, you don't expect yourself to be so.

At the heart of communication is the paradox that you cannot not
communicate.  To say nothing is a communication.  So when Biden will not
answer reporters' questions (which is now nearly all of the time), he is
communicating.  And when he lies (which is increasingly more and more as he
is getting more and more Pinoche's by the press), he actually is
communicating in those lies.

For example, on 9/11 he said that he was at the twin towers the day after
September 11, 2001 and saw "the hell" of the destruction.  But of course, he
was not.  There's a Sept. 12 video now playing in which he stood up as a
Senator in the Senate and gave a speak on Sept. 12 about the terrorist
attack.  So he was not there.  He did not see what he said he saw!  Did he
just forget?  Is that part of the cognitive decline that he's experiencing?
Or did he see an hallucinatory imagination which he can no longer
distinguish from reality?

Question.  What does he say when presented with evidence he has been caught
in a lie?  That's happened numerous times even recently.  He denies, he
blames, he engages in name-calling, he goes into storytelling to deflect,
etc.  And all of that communicates defensiveness about a person's inner
world, the world of their mind and heart.

If you use the Meta-Model linguistic distinctions, you can discern how
people think.  For example, you can discern how people think things are
connected.  It fits the structure of linear Cause-Effect thinking: "X causes
or leads to Y."  "Victims" think and talk that way.  "He made me so mad I
couldn't help myself."  "She disgusts me when she acts that way." 

You can also learn to discern when something thinks that one thing is equal
to another thing.  This structure fits the linear equivalence format: "X is
or equals Y."  "Abortion is murder."  "MAGA republicans are racists."  Here
differences are confused (fused together) and treated as if they are the
same thing when they are not.

These inadequate ways of thinking show up in the inaccurate ways of
communicating when you hear these vague and ill-defined statements, you know
that the person is not thinking very clearly.  Her communication is
ill-formed rather than well-formed.  If he uses lots of the deletion
linguistic distinctions, his thinking will be vague, fuzzy, and unspecific.
If she uses lots of the generalization linguistic distinctions, her thinking
will be over-general, global, conceptual, and lack precision.  If he use the
distortion linguistic distinctions, his thinking will also be distorted in
various ways. 

Verbal vagueness reveals problematic thinking and creates a way of mentally
mapping that will result in pain, distress, confusion, and all sorts of
problems.  With such you cannot develop well-being with ill-thinking,
ill-communicating, and ill-behaving.  For greater self-awareness, begin
listening in to your own talk and communications.  Use your words and
language patterns as indicators to detect the quality of your thinking.
Next listen in on the talk of people around you, of people on TV, and those
using social media.  How they talk is revealing of their inner Meta Place if
you know what to listen for and how to interpret it.  Welcome to the world
of Neuro-Semantics. 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

ISNS Executive Director

738 Beaver Lodge

Grand Jct., CO. 81505 USA

(970) 523-7877

meta at acsol.net 

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