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APGACCESSING

PERSONAL GENIUS

META-STATESCERTIFICATION TRAINING

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

www.neurosemantics.com


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1996, 2000 L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. Library of Congress, Washington DC.

Number: TXu 604-899 Based on the bookMeta-Statesas well asDragon Slaying.Registered with the United States Copyright Office in Washington DC:Updated 2007You can find the content ofAccessing Personal Geniusin the book Secrets of Personal Mastery (1999).

All Rights Reserved.

No part of this may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by anymeans (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, etc.) Without the prior written permissionof thepublisher (Neuro-Semantics of Colorado)..

Meta-States Training is designed to provide training in developing skills and competence with meta-level

phenomena and the model of reflexivity in the field of Neuro-Semantics.

Neuro-Semantics PublicationsP.O. Box 8Clifton CO. 81520-0008 USA

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

ISNS International Society of Neuro-Semantics

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Clifton, CO 81520 0008 USA (970) 523-7877

Web Sites: www.neurosemantics.com or www.runyourownbrain.comwww.self-actualizing.org www.neuro-semantics-trainings.comwww.meta-coaching.org www.metacoachfoundation.orgwww.wealthcreationmatrix.com www.ns-video.com

Disclaimer:This Training Manual has been designed primarily for training and education in communication, self-understanding, self-development, and interpersonal skills. It is not and should not be used as a substitutefor psychotherapy or psychiatry. Although I am a psychologist and a Professional Licensed Counselor(LPC) in the State of Colorado, I designed and wrote this for use at live trainings in self-development.

I do not recommend that it should be used in the place of professional psychological and psychiatricassistance by anyone needing that kind of assistance.

Recordings:For video and audio CD products, see this website by Tom Welch. Tom has been creating video

and audio tapes and now DVDs of Neuro-Semantic trainings for several years.

[email protected] www.nlp-video.comor www.ns-video.com

Title Page


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THE APG SCHEDULE

Day 1: Welcome to the Matrix of your Mind

1) Introducing Meta-States A Model of Reflexivity

C Introduction to working with meta-cognitive abilities, recognizing and monitoring your

self-reflexive awareness, stepping out of the muddles and closed-ended loops.

C Meta-Stating Learning: Accessing the experience of accelerated learning.

2) Meta-Stating Awareness and Ownership of your powers for Personal Empowerment.

C Using our four basic powers or ways of responding to things: mind-emotion, speech and

behavior.

C Awareness of these powers and ownership of them generates a foundational sense of our

own abilities to take effect action in the worldthe foundation of personal genius.

C Creation of your personal Power Zone for taking a proactive stance in the world.

3) Meta-Stating Self to create Self-Acceptance, Self-Appreciation and Self-Esteem

C The Neuro-Semantic approach to self-esteeming: accessing acceptance, appreciation, and

esteem and applying these to Self.

C A quick route to deal with the dragons of self-contempting, self-depreciating, etc.C Distinguishes your value and esteem as a human being from your confidence in what you

do and achieve.

4) Meta-Stating Confirmation and Disconfirmation for commissioning and decommissioning Beliefs

CCCC Meta-Yes-ing as a Belief ChangePatternfor turning mere thought into beliefs.

CWe can think, and even fully understand, lots of things that we dont believe. When webelieve, we move up a level and confirm or validated the thoughts in some way.

Validating a thought says Yes to it.

C Dis-conforming involves saying No to our thoughts. It involves dis-validating them to

downgrade a belief to a mere thought again.

C Since limiting beliefs get in the way and define therapeutic dysfunction, the ability to

quickly and even conversationally transform beliefs gives a therapist a very powerful

therapeutic intervention.

C This empowers us to manage the levels of our mind, the commands to our nervous system

that we commission, and the flexibility to have our beliefs rather than our beliefs having

us.

5) Meta-Stating Pleasure for higher levels of Motivation and Joy

C Pleasure at the primary level of experience essentially involves stimulating the nervous

system and all of the sense receptors.

C Yet there are higher level pleasures, the meanings and values that we endow things with.

Discovering our strategy for pleasuring puts this dynamic into our hands so that we can

take charge of it, rather than living as a passive victim who demands that others and things

make us happy.

C This also details the structure of addictions and in De-Pleasuring, we can undo the

semantic damage that occurs when we over-load an event with too much meaning.


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Day 2: Clearing the Path for Mastery Frames

1) Meta-Stating Emotions for higher emotional intelligence

C An e-motion is the energy for motionthat arises from the difference between map and

territory; what we have mapped in our heads about the world and what we experience in

our bodies in the world.C This makes all emotions right to the map from which they arise and so valuable

information about our mapping and our skills for coping with the world.

2) Meta-Stating Concepts: Conceptual De-Programming.C We make meaning at many levels. We create associative meanings (Stimulus-Response

meanings), representational, linguistic, contextual or frame, evaluative, metaphorical,

intentional meanings, etc.

C We can have a poor relationship to a concept so that our conceptual thinking

undermines our personal mastery. Now we can work more efficiently with conceptual

states and build up a new Matrix of Meaning.

3) Dancing with Dragons: Transforming the Energy of Unresourceful States

C To the extent that we turn our psychic energies against ourselves, we put ourselves at odds

with ourselves and create dragon states as unresourceful, limiting, and sabotaging states.

The power of meta-stating not only creates our highest and most profound states, but

misused can create layers of negative thoughts and feelings about our states.

C Taming, transforming, and sometimes slaying dragons involves meta-stating our negative

emotions and taboos with acceptance, appreciation, and understanding. This clears the

path and creates room for new constructions and for transformation.

4) Meta-Stating Implementation for closing the knowing-doing gap.

C Concepts and high level principles can be turned into muscle memory as we recognize

when our fingers know a keyboard or function keys, or when our body knows how to

drive. To take great ideas and to put them into neurology transforms and empowers us

so we can effectively handle the challenges of everyday life.

C TheMind-to-Muscle Patternempowers us to close the Knowing-Doing gap so that we

can turn our principles into neuro-semantic states so that we can actualizein everyday

life the things that we know, believe in, intend, desire, etc.

4) Meta-Stating Possibility Thinking to give ourselves a chance to think out of the box.C Utilizing the Miracle Question, we use a meta-stating process to spatially anchor

possibility thinking in a chair to give ourselves a chance to step aside from the kind of

thinking that created the problem and to think outside of the box

C This kind of think is essential for genius states, creativity, entrepreneurship, etc.


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Day 3: Qualifying and Texture Your Genius States

1) Meta-Stating Intentionality: Taking an Intentional Stance.

C The synthesis of the two dimensions of mind, attentionand intention,creates will and

focus and human consciousness.C By strengthening our highest intentional meanings, we can begin to live more purposefully

as we access and use the higher levels of our mind to direct our everyday attentions.

2) Meta-Stating the Flow state: Accessing Personal Genius

C Entering into a commitment state of focus, develop more ready access to it, strengthening

it, and containing a focus state of flow.

C Accessing the personal genius of impeccable state shifting, focus, self-trust, commitment,

and ability to get lost in the moment.

3) Meta-Stating Execution of Goals by Blowing-Out all Excuses.

C Excuses, masquerading as legitimate reasons and explanations, stop us from succeeding

and seduce us to sell out our values and visions to stupid and silly excuses.

C Distinguish true explanations from silly excuses and learn to use all of your stubbornness

to make up your mind to refuse to tolerate excusing yourself from excellence!

4) Meta-Stating Wholeness and Congruence to resolve internal conflicts.

C The "Spinning Icons pattern offers a process for congruence to bring an end to internal

conflicts that may undermine ones focus and clarity. Using a non-propositional

approach, Spinning Iconsenables our larger mind to bring resources to conflicts we

cannot figure out.C Meta-stating the higher levels of our mind from a non-linguistic point of view enables a

transformative process to begin.

5) Meta-Stating Integrity.

C Integrityis doing what we say and aligning all of the many facets of our mind-body-

emotion system. This ends internal conflict that could otherwise undermine personal

efficacy and power.

C Clearing incongruence via alignment of everyday activities with our highest values,

purposes, and beliefs. This is great for anyone who wants more mastery and congruence

in the way he or she works, plays, or moves through the world.


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PREREQUISITES OF PERSONAL GENIUS

C What are the characteristics of mastery or genius?

C How does one go about accessing and developing these prerequisites of genius?

C To what degree have you accessed your own personal genius?

C What other qualities do you need to texture in your focus state?

In this training, you will discover how to meta-state your way to personal geniusC We start with the premise that there is a structure to mastery and genius.

C Next we identify the structure so we can replicate it as a highway to excellence.

C We will access, amplify, and apply the component variables that make up the larger gestalt of

genius to make genius accessible.

C The structure of genius is made up of numerous mental-and-emotional states which we layer them

one upon the other.

The Prerequisites of Genius:

Grinder and DeLozier identified some of theprerequisites of genius in Turtles All the Way Down(1987):C Intense focus or concentration (a state of flow)

C Single tracking or first-level attention focus

C Multiple perspectives that gives one wisdom of the whole

C Development of commitment states

C Clean state accessing and shifting in and out of the commitment states, impeccable state shifting

C Crystal clarity of purpose and direction

Using Logical LevelsC How well have you commission the executive level of your mind to do the tracking so that you can

get lost in your genius state?

C Genius as the enhanced ability to make highly refined distinctionswithin and about the qualities,

features, and properties of the sensory representation systems of thought while simultaneously

making appropriate and empowering frames-of-references and meta-frames now becomes more

possible for us. This description suggests a two-fold focus for a genius. Namely, a

distinguishing detailed awareness which knows how to specify the key differences.

Prerequisites of Genius:C Passionate Focus. A clearly focused passion about something we really care about. What do you

really love or care about? What is compelling and inescapable for you? Have you given yourself

to it even in your mind? What are some of your commitment states in which you feel passionate

and easily move into a first level attention focus? What are the positive flow states for you

wherein time, the world, your self, etc. goes away? Are you now able to fully step into a state of

being of focus?

C Control of Focus. Have you meta-stated your focus with control, control of the focus? Can you

turn your focus state on and off at will? What level of self-management or self-discipline do you

have? What stops you from having more? Have you taken responsibilityfor yourself and to

others? Have you established collaborations with others?

C Flexibility of Consciousness. How well can you take numerous perceptual positions (first,

second, third, third-reverse, etc.)? How much mental and emotional flexibility do you have? How

well do you adapt to change? How fluid is your genius state?

C Creative. How creative are you? How well do you mix and merge different things? How flexibly


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can you shift back and forth between similarity and differences?

C Playfully passionate learning.How much have you accelerated your learning skills? How much

is your learning characterized by curiosity, playfulness, openness, what ifs...?

C Firmness of a clear vision. Do you have a larger passion as a meta-frame that works like a self-

organizing attractor? How much mental strength does your passion have? Enough to bring it tocompletion via dedication, perseverance, discipline, efficiency, etc.? Have you taken an

intentional stance yet?

C Proactively active. Have you textured your genius focus with initiate, action, efficient work

habits, mind-to-muscling your principles, etc.? Do you have a good relationship to failure,

mistakes, errors, problems, and challenges? Are those things feedback for you? How well do you

just explore and experiment when something goes wrong? How well do you do in implementing

and following-through?

C Congruently aligned in the focus. Have you textured your focus state with alignment of your

higher levels? Congruency for personal alignment with your values and beliefs.

C Socially connected. Are you aligned and connected to others as collaborators, colleagues, etc.?

C Meta-Detailing. Do you have a clear vision of purpose and the proactive power to follow-

through? Do you have a powerful efficiency that handles the critical details without getting

caught up in details? Do you have a healthy balance of meta-detailing in your engagement? Can

you see, hear, or feel salient differences that others miss?

C Empowering decisions for focus and clarity.

C High level state management skills for stepping in and out of states of flow

C Resilience: letting nothing get you down. Using negative results as positive feedback about how

to proceed in a smart way.

C Synergizing with others who will become a friend to your genius.

C Have you cleared your path of internal conflicts and every sabotaging dragon?


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WELCOME TO THE MAGIC

OF THE META-LEVELS OF YOUR MATRIX

This training manual has been designed to facilitate training and re-training your brain and nervoussystem so that you can work more methodically with your mind at all its levelsand when you cando that, you can achieve the kind of states of excellencethat will enrich your life and create a high

quality of personal mastery. We have two primary objectives in this introduction training in Meta-States:

1) To introducethe Meta-States model.The materials here will acquaint you with a methodical model of how your mind

works, the levels of your mind, and the Matrix of beliefs and frames that governsyour everyday experiences, your outer games.

2) To facilitate the discovery ofyour own Personal Geniusormastery.NLP began in giving people a Users Manual for the Brain, Neuro-Semanticscontinues at the higher levels of your mind.

Learning Meta-States involves a different kind and quality of thinking.

It goes beyond the linear thinking of NLP and involves non-linear thinking. So get readyfor a real shock to some of your current beliefs and models. Get ready to be confused andbewildered . . . especially at first. Why? Because the meta-states of your mind involve

non-linear thinking and processing. We have minimized this by sequencing andorganizing the material to build from simple to complex. Yet still, because systemic

consciousness involves non-linear recursive moves that go up and down the levels of themind, it will frequently take you for a spin when you least suspect it. When thathappens enjoy the ride! Learning Meta-States involves discovering how to thinksystemically, how to track a spiral of thought around loops, and to manage the Matrix offrames occurring simultaneously.

What is the best way to manage this? Lighten up and play with it. Allow yourself to get lost at

times, to feel confused, to become disoriented. Its part of how youll discovery the magic of themeta-levels. You will come out on the other side more empowered and resourceful than you haveever before.

We will first ascend the steps of understanding and experiencing statesand then meta-

states. From there you get to play around with state-upon-state structuring, and with thewild and wondrous idea of building designer states. The meta-stating processes forframing, reframing, and outframing your neuro-semantics. Here you will find some

incantations for dancing with dragons. Yes, dragons have been known to roar and whinein the background as people explore this realm of mind. But fear not. As you trust theprocess, youll come out on the other side a fully Certified Dragon Master. Most are

energies within you that need to be embraced and honored in order to be transformed andtamed. Welcome to the journey . . . into this magical realm of what we call humanreality made up of thoughts-and-feelings, ideas, understandings, memories, imaginations,

decisions, beliefs, values, and meanings.


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WHY DO YOU NEED TO DEVELOPMETA-SKILLS?

There are many reasons to develop meta-level skills. Because we have a self-reflective

consciousness, we inevitably go meta to our thoughts, feelings, states, and experiences. Thiscreates a layeringof our mind as we continuallyembed our states in various meta-level frames-of-reference. Many of the values and benefits that beckon us on with regard to going meta involvesrecognizing and working more effectively with these meta-levels.

1) To more understand yourself and others with more depth and insight

Our minds inevitably go metato think about thinking, feel about feelings, and reflect on

reflections. Tofiguring out ourselves, others, and the NLP Model itself, we have todiscover how self-reflexivity works. To not understand our meta-levels invites all kindsof meta-muddles.

2) To effectively manage our states to learn the art of personal masteryGoing meta enables us to create a self-reflexive context for examining our thoughts-and-feelings and models of the world, to make clearer choices about our maps, and to manage

our states from higher levels. And as we empower our meta-mind, we develop higherstate management.

3) To skillfully handle the meta-phenomena at the higher levels of mindAt meta-levels we experience meta-programs (perceptual or attentional filters), beliefs,values, decisions, time, identity, mission, etc. Everyday we leap logical levels in a singlebound into these phenomenanow we can do it with our eyes open as we set new

frames. To identify contexts and contexts-of-contexts that our experiences lie embeddedin order to understand the meanings,reasons, and whys that drive ourexperiences.

4) To model meta-level structures

NLP Strategy Model expanded and

developed the TOTEmodel to enabledus to track experience neuro-linguistically. Meta-States enables us toadd the meta-level distinctions and tease

out the higher logical levels governingthose experiences that involvedembedded and layered levels of

consciousness. Making meta-level

distinctions allows us to explore anddiscover the principles that govern our

psycho-logics (Korzybski).

5) To develop top-notch communication skills

Meta-States enable us to hear the meta-levels in language, to pace such levels, and thereby

to meet others at their model of the world. This enhances communication skills making


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us more masterful and influential in communicating.

6) To master conceptual states of mind so that we have good relationships with words and

ideas

The higher semantic states encode our highest level of meanings and specify the frames-

of-references we use in navigating life. Recognizing them enables us to reframe, deframe,and outframe in ways to generate magical transformations ... to do word magic whatwe call Mind-Line shifts.

7) To discover the structure of genius and masteryMS facilitates advanced modeling which is the ability to tease out the meta-level

structures inside and behind the more complex and layered experiences, and track withothers as they communicate. This gives us the secrets to expertise and mastery.

8) To gain the wisdom and power of a larger perspective

By its very nature, going meta assists us in becoming more objective, thoughtful, andmindful in our approach to life. In expands our awareness. By transcending mind-and-body, experiences, and even our default frames, we develop a richer and fuller perspective

that gives us greater wisdom. This helps us avoid the dichotomies of Either/Or thinking,Black-and-White thinking that creates dilemmas and prevents seeing the whole picture

9) To set new and enhanced frames at higher levelsSkill with meta-states enable us to move up and set higher frames that in turn governexperience. This enables us to transform beliefs and belief systems that may be outdatesor just toxic to our well-being. As we take charge of our own conceptual categories,

contexts, and frames which govern our meanings and feelings, we experience a new

freedom and power over the matrix of our mind.

10) To think systemically and non-linearly for more personal power and choiceGoing meta facilitates systemic thinking about our neuro-linguistic and neuro-semanticstates. It provides us more insight into how we create our realities, and the embeddedlayeredness within them. As we learn to think more systemically we learn to see the full

circuit of the interactive parts and the role that time plays. This opens our eyes to whatwe are creating and how we are doing so and then puts us at choice point about what wewant.

11) To consciously alignall of the levels of mind for greater congruency and powerMeta-States empower us to work effectively with the system quality of betweenness.Bateson called this difference. He asked,Where does difference exist? Its in the

relationship between different ideas, states, and levels of mind. Now we can work withsystemic interactions or interfaces between levels and states to eliminate dragons, self-sabotaging frames, and incongruence.

12) To use system properties to create the highest states possible for excellenceIn an interactive system thats open we have such properties as emergence, gestalts,paradoxes, etc. All kinds of new properties and qualities of experience, of mind-and-

emotion arise from an open neuro-semantic system. Now we can design engineer


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courage, resilience, genius, and many other transcendent-like states.

13) To qualify, temper, and texture states to create the kind of quality experiences that we

want

We can now qualify, temper, and texture the properties (or qualities) of the stateexperiences that we want. This enables us to temper, balance, and synergize our states.

14) To avoid logical level category errors that creates psychological pain.When we become skilled in recognizing the difference between description and evaluation,we stop confusing levels. We can then sort out at which level we or another is

operating. This gives us the ability to create more empowering states, transformpathologies of mind and body and that creates more sanity, health, joy, and purpose inliving.

And much moreTime fails me at this moment to describe all of the other benefits of learning Meta-States.

You can make finer distinctions about experiences, distinctions that give you the key topieces of excellence. You can access higher level resources, resolve human nature puzzlesand paradoxes, slay and transform dragons, frame life with health, wholeness, fun,

integrity, etc., relate with more elegance and grace, build structures that allow you tobecome financially independent, sell more effectively, stay fit and healthy, enjoy lovingrelationships, resolve conflicts with grace and dignity, defusing anger and fear states,become less reactive and more proactive, and much more.

YOUR PERSONAL OUTCOMES

What are your key personal outcomes for this training?

What do you absolutely want to accomplish by the end of this training?State your objectives in specific enough terms so that you can check off those that youreach at the end of the training.

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Day 1

WELCOME TO

THE MATRIX OF YOUR MIND

Day 1 Menu:

Introduction to States and Meta-States

1) Meta-Stating Ownership for your powers

2) Meta-Stating Self for Self-Acceptance, Self-Appreciation and Self-Esteem

3) Meta-Stating Confirmation and Dis-confirmation for commissioning anddecommissioning beliefs.

4) Meta-Stating Pleasure: Meta-Pleasuring and De-Pleasuring


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STATES

To understand meta-states, you have to understand states.C

A state is a mental and emotional state, a dynamic mind-body state of experience or being thatoperates as an experiential energy field. We experiencelife in specific mental and emotional states.

Our stateof mind, stateof body, state of emotion are all so inter-related that we cannot separate

them. When we do, we only do so linguistically as a description. Aswe think, sowe feel in our

body and move and act and this entire configuration (or gestalt) is what we mean by experience.

We live and move and have our being as mind-body personsas a neuro-linguistic class of life.

C As a neuro-linguistic class of life we experience and map the territory beyond our skin, the world

out there so that we can effectively relate to it. This means that most fundamentally, we operate

as pattern detectors and mappers, and from this we can take control of our inner programs. As

we map things, so we become. It begins with our neurologyhow we use our nervous system and

sense receptors and then our linguistics how we use symbols, words, metaphors, and

classifications to create our programs.

C Together this enables us to take charge and run our own brains. Taking charge of our reality

constructions empowers us in controlling our neurology. Building ever-more accurate and

enhancing models of the world increases our resourcefulness.

Our Mind-Body Components of StatesIf we create states from how we map things mentally and emotionally in our body, then we have two royal

roads to state. Two avenues that we can use to evoke a state:

1) Mind> Linguistics:

Internal representations specify our state of mindthe things that we internally map things

visually, auditorially, and kinesthetically as well as the things that we say to ourselves (language),our understandings, learnings, beliefs, values, etc. that make up the representations on "the theater

of the mind." Choice about what to represent and how to encode gives us representational power.

These are the languages of the mind governing how the mind works. In Neuro-Semantics we call

the result, the representational screen or internal cinema or movie of the mind (seeMovieMind,

2003).

The sensory representation systems or VAK:

Visual: pictures, scenes, images

Auditory: sounds, noises, music

Kinesthetic: sensations, touches, tactile, proprioceptive, motor movements

Olfactory (smell), Gustatory (taste), and Vestibular (balance)The language representation system (auditory-digital)

Words, Sentences, Linguistic structures

Mathematics, Music symbols, Metaphors, Stories, Symbols

2) Body > Neurology:Physiology and/or Neurology describes the physical state or state of bodythe things that we

experience in our body involving health, posture, breathing, bio-chemistry, etc. The functioning

of our nervous system as it interacts within our body and physiology of our central, peripheral, and

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STATE MANAGEMENT #101If you do not managing your state,

someone or something else will!

State Object:

In primary states (i.e., fear, anger, joy, calmness, sadness, etc.) the object usually refers to

something outside you and beyond your nervous system..

What do your thoughts-and-feelings refer to? Whats on your mind?

State Awareness:

Awareness of the states and the factors that drive them. Because all states habituate, they drop out

of conscious awareness. Notice the quality of the state: How "pure" your state? How much

congruity? Complexity or simplicity? Meaning or semantics? Pain-pleasure quality?

How is the state encoded and structured? Identify the qualities, properties, features, distinctions

in the representations governing its intensity (i.e. vivid, sharp, quick, degree of movement, etc.).We have several tools for greater state awareness: Bubble Journaling; State Registering.

State Assessing/ Inducing:

Memory:Remembering a state. "Recall a time when . . ."

Imagination: Creating a state. "What would it look, sound, and feel like if . . ."

State Altering:States do not stay the same, but forever change. Count on your states altering, shifting, and

transforming. What methods do you have for alteringyour states?

State Intensity and Amplification:Gauge each state in terms of intensity. How much do you experience the state? What level of

strength or weakness does the state convey? How much does it dominate your consciousness?

Need more? Crank it up by increasing or intensifying the representations to experience more of

the state. All states do not have the same level of intensity, so gauge for intensity level. Do you

need more juice? What processes do you rely on for amplifying your states? How do you crank

them up?

State Interrupts:Stop any and every mind-body-emotion state by jarring, interfering, sabotaging, preventing, etc.

When a state is overly intense and dysfunctional in its effects, a state interrupt enables us to stop

or prevent the state from doing damage as we break the state.

State Dependency:States govern our learning, memory, perception, behavior, communication, etc., state-dependent

LMPBC. State dependency are "emotional expectation sets" or "conceptual expectation sets" and

determine what we see and hear.

State Contrasts:Compare one state with another to gain insightful understanding about the difference that makes

a difference. What explains the difference? Does it occur at a primary or meta-level? All states

are not the same. State configurations come in all sizes and shapes. Just because you have

accessed a state of thoughts-and-emotions and physiology, you may not access a similar state to


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someone else doing the same.

State Anchoring:Set up a trigger (sight, sound, sensation, movement, gesture, word, etc.) and link it to the state.

Anchors operate as Pavlovian conditioning tools for state management and depend on uniqueness,

intensity, timing, and purity. Wait until you or another person has reached thepeak of theexperience, then link some unique triggerto it. Test to see if the triggerthen fires off the state.

If so, you have an anchor.

Emotionsand States:

An emotion is a combination of sensations and

languaged evaluations in the form of words about

the kinesthetics; a meta-level phenomena,

"emotions" consist of evaluative judgments, beliefs,

meanings, values.

As states, our emotions register our bodys (or

soma) sense of the meaning or evaluation and so

helps us feel the energy of the meaning. Emotions

are the evaluative difference between our model of

the world (our wants, expectations, demands,

understandings, etc. our entire Matrix of frames)

and our experience of the world. The difference

between the two is our emotion.

The primary emotions already operate as a meta-

level phenomena. Technically we could tease out

yet another lost level(or coalesced level) inside the

primary state: a set of kinesthetic sensations plus acognitive evaluative judgment of meaning.

Inasmuch as the primary emotions already involve cognitive evaluations from a previous meta-

level having coalesced into a primary state, we have this as an illustration of how meta-levels do

merge with primary states.

State Extending / State ContainmentWe can both extend and containstatesthese properties of neuro-linguistic states enable us to

take the thoughts-feelings and all of the mind-body correlations and contaminate other experiences

with a state. We can also build boundaries and barriers around a state so as to disconnected to

other things. In various contexts, both phenomena provide new resources if used appropriately.

States have expressions and framesExpressionsof state (thinking-feeling, speaking, behaving) direct our awareness to our body and

the outside world as we become aware of what we feel and want to do or say.

T What do you think about this or that?

F What do you feel?

S What do you say?

B What do you do?

Frame is the significance or meaningthe cognitive structure of the state that actually creates the

state. With the four expressions we build up and format an infinite number of frames as we give

meaning to whatever we are experiencing. These then govern the state. We can uses these facets

to set frames as reference structures for time, history, beliefs, values, self, concepts, and all of the


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meta-levels (see the Meta-Questions).

META-STATESStates about States

Reflexive StatesSomething wild and wonderful happens when we access and relate one state to other stateswe generate

a meta-state. In these complex states, our self-reflexive consciousness relates (not to the world), but to

ourselves, to our thoughts, feelings,, or to some abstract conceptual state. We access a state of thoughts-

feelings and apply it to another state. We layer state upon state: we feel upset about our anger; joyfulaboutfreedom; anger atour fear.

Higher States

The object of the state changes from an outside/external object to an internal, conceptual, and semantic

object. We now think-and-feel about previous thoughts-and-feelings. The state in a higher position is meta(above, beyond) to the second and so operates as a higher logical level.

Psycho-logical States

The crazy internal logic that arises from the layering of states, namely, our psycho-logics.

When we transcendfrom one state (say, anger or joy) to another state (say, calmness or respect)

we set the second state as a frame over the first and include it inside it. This gives us calm

anger, respectful joy, joyful learning, etc. It makes the first state a member of the class of the

second.

Psycho-Logical. If you say, But thats not logical. Yes, youre right. It is not. Yet it is

psychological. And thats the difference. On the inside, when we put a state like anger or fearinside another state (calmness, respect, gentleness, courage, etc.), we change the internal logic of

our nervous system and person. This is what we mean when we talk about logical levels. When

we put one state in a logical relationship to another state so that one is at a higher levelthen the

higher one is aboutthe other. This about-relationshipestablishes the logic.

Meta- or Logical-Level States;

There are no such things as logical levels. They do not exist out there. They exist only in the

mind as how we represent categories as we categorize and so layer level of thought upon level of

thought and emotion. The term logical levelis made up of two nominalizations. So whats the

hidden verbs in those false-nouns? Layering and reasoningthe reasoning that we layer over our

previous experiences.

States are made out of fluid Logical Levels

To understand Meta-States, you have to shift from thinking about rigid hierarchical levels tofluid levels

ever in flux, ever moving, changing, and in process. They are not things, they are not rigid, as mental and

emotional energy expressions of representing and framing they arise and vanish according to our thinking.

Thats why they are so fluid and plastic and do not hold still.

C The levels (or layering) are made out of the stuff of state (thoughts-and-feelings). They are not

real or solid or static even though we use nominalizations like beliefs, values, identity, mission,

understanding, intentions, etc. to describe them.

C In Meta-States we have identified over 80 logical levels. These meta-levels then give us the


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Dimensions of Meaning

1)Emotional meaning:The meaning of associations

2) Survival meaning:The meaning of evaluation

3)Metaphorical meaning:The meaning of metaphor

4)Representative meaning:The meaning of representations

5)Editorial meaning:The meaning of our editorial framing

6)Linguistic meaning:The meaning of language

7)Associative and Conceptual meaning:1advanced The meaning of associations

8)Abstract Evaluative/Emotive meaning:2advancedThe meaning of evaluation

9)Perceptual meaning:The meaning of our thinking patterns

10)Intentional meaning:The meaning of our intentions

Meta-Questions: decisions, understandings, expectations, knowledge, pleasure, intention, symbols,

metaphors, etc.

C Each of these terms are but facets of the same thing experience and just other words for

describing the layering of our thoughts. If you bring a state of confidence to your self, this

operates as a belief, and because you treat this as important, you valueit; you understandfacetsof some knowledgethat area, this leads to expectations, decisions, identifications, intentions, etc.

Semantically Loaded States

Meta-States also enables us to identify the levels in our mental mappings and the way we create meanings

in our mind-body system. What are the levels of mapping?1) Perceptual Mapping

Our neurological mapping with our sense receptors (eyes, ears, nose, skin, etc.) prior to conscious

awareness.2) Representational Mapping

How we present to ourselves again what we have seen, heard, and felt. We fill up our internal

screen of consciousness or internal theater of our mind. This gives us our cinematic sense of

things and our primary states.3) Conceptual Mapping

How we reflect on our internal

movies and experiences using various

ideas and concepts. We layer more

conceptual thoughts onto our

thoughts and feelings to create the

categories and classes of our mind.

This creates our neuro-semantic

states.

In meta-stating we are setting frames of

reference by which we create meaning,

internal contexts and categories. In this way

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Stimulus

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Given our meta-levelsof states upon states

IT IS BELIEFS OR FRAMES ALL THE WAY UP

Model of the world

Frames-of-References

Identifications (identifying with thoughts about rep.)

Paradigms

Understanding

Decisions (choosing Thoughts about Thoughts)

Valuing (thoughts of importance about thoughts)

Believing (confirmed thoughts about thoughts)


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DIAMOND OF CONSCIOUSNESSThe Many Meta-Facets of Awareness


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META-QUESTIONSFOR TEASING OUT META-STRUCTURES

Of all states, our meta-states are our most important states. Do you know why this is so and the reasonfor it? Precisely because meta-states, as higherstates, govern, modify, modulate, control, drive, and

organize our everyday primary states. In other words, because meta-messages modify lower-level messages

(Gregory Bateson, 1972).

Thefluid levelsof meta-states are ever in flux, ever moving, changing, and in process. They are not things,

they are not rigid, as mental and emotional energy expressions of representing and framing they arise and

vanish according to our thinking and re-thinking. Thats why they are so fluid and plastic.

Each of the following terms, by which we describe the logical levels of our mind. If you bring a state of

confidence to your self, this operates as a belief, and because you treat this as important, you valueit; youunderstandfacets of some knowledgeof that area which leads to expectations, decisions, identifications,

intentions, etc. Each term simultaneously has within it all of the other terms so that each level can be

viewed from a multitude of perspectives or facets. Thats why we call the logical levels a diamond of

consciousnesseach offers a multi-facetic perspective.

Think of the following as more than 80 ways to move around the diamond of consciousnessand see, hear,

feel and explore the manyfacets of perception and focus. Thesefacets of focusgive us multiple ways into

the Matrix of our mind. So if you use one word or term and it doesnt elicit more information, use another.

When we coach to the matrix, we use many questions in each of these categories.

The basic 15 Meta-Questions:

1. Meaning / Significance What does this mean to you?Ideas that we hold in mind. What meanings are you holding in mind?

2. Belief / Believe / Confirm as real What do you believe about this?Ideas we affirm, validate, and confirm. What do you believe about that belief?

3. Frame / Reference What is your frame of mind about this?

Ideaswe set as our frame of reference Whats your frame of reference for this?and mental contexts. How are you framing this experience?

4. Permission / Allow / Permit / Embrace / Approve Do you have permission to experience this?

Ideas about allowance and permission Who took permission away from you?versus ideas about prohibitions and taboos. Are you ready to allow this for yourself?

5. Prohibition / Taboo / Censor / Dis-allow Is this experience or idea prohibited in you?Ideas we do not allow and permit but Would it enhance your experience to taboo this?prohibit and taboo. Who has tabooed this for you?

6. Feeling (any feeling: love, hate, care, joy, etc.) What do you feel about this?Emotional ideas and feeling judgments What if you could enjoy this?we bring to other ideas. What feeling would enhance this most?

7. Thought / Notion / Idea/ Word What do you think about this?Ideas or thoughts that we bring to some What thoughts come to mind regarding this?


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previous idea or thought. Whats your notion about this?

8. Appreciate / Appreciation/ Celebrate What do you appreciate most about this?Ideas of appreciation or value used to What could you appreciate about this?frame other ideas. Do you appreciate this too much?

9. Value / Importance/ Count/ Honor What do you value about this?Ideas we value and treat as important Whats important about this that you can count?or significant, which we esteem. Do you honor this in yourself or others?

10. Decision / Choice / Will / Pros and Cons Whats your decision about this?Ideas we cut off (cision) from other What choice would you like to make about this?ideas as choices we say YesandNoto. What pros and cons are you weighing?

11. Intention / Want / Desire Whats your highest intention about this?Ideas about motives, intentions, desire, What do you want and really desire about this?and wants. What intention is driving your response?

12. Outcome / Goal / Agenda/ Hidden Agenda What outcome do you have about this?Ideas we have about goals, outcomes, What goal do you have beyond this goal?and desired ends. Whats your higher agenda behind this?

13. Expectation / Anticipation Whats your expectation about this?Ideas we have about what we anticipate What do you anticipate will happen about this?will happen What do you expect about this idea?

14. Rules / Demand / Should / Must / Shall / What shouldyou do about this? Authorize / Injunctions / Policy What do you have todo regarding this?

Why?Ideas we use as rules for the games we What is the rule thats governing your thoughts?play in our lives, modal operators that Who or what authorizes this policy for you?generate our modus operandi(MO). What injunctions are you acting out?

15. Definition / Class / Categorize / Category What definition do you use in relating to this? Define / Label What class do you put this into?

Ideas we have that set the categories How do you categorize this?in our mind for understanding things. What other definition could you use for this?


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THE BASIC META-STATING PATTERN

The actual process of meta-stating is actually very simple accessing a thought or emotion and applyit

to another state (i.e., thought, emotion, or physiology). Thats the short and quick approach. Access and

apply.

With accessing is amplifying to get enough of the state. And within applying is appropriating to life

contexts and analyzing to quality control the end result and effects. This give us a total of 5steps all

when start with A. This 5 words that start with A make the basic meta-stating process easier to remember.

Colin Cox has suggested two more words that begin with A. One of them is prior (awareness) and one of

them is after (accelerate).

** AwarenessBecome aware of your state and what resource you want to apply to it.

1) Access a resource state.

What resource state do you want to bring to bear on or apply to the primary state?

A resource can be a thought, feeling, idea, belief, value, memory, imagination.

2) Amplify fully and anchor.

Juice up the resource state and establish an anchor for it by touch, sight, sound, word, etc.

Do you have a sufficiently strong enough state with which to work?

3) Apply to the primary state.

Bring the resource to bear on the primary state (this creates meta-level anchoring), or embed the

primary state inside a resource state.

4) Appropriate to your life, to specific contexts, or to the future (future pacing).

Where do you want to experience this meta-state?

Imagine having this layered consciousness in your mind as your frame as you move out into your

future.

5) Analyze the quality, health, balance (ecology) of the system.

Would it enhance your life to set this resource as your frame-of-reference for the primary state

experience?

Would every facet of your mind-and-body align with this?

** AcceleratePut it into action and accelerate your resourceful empowerment in real life!


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ACCELERATING LEARNING

Introduction:What kind of (learning) state do you need to construct so that what you learn will automatically get

integrated and implemented into your everyday activities and behaviors?

Distinctions:C We can qualify the nature of our learning state by meta-stating it with other states.

C The quality of our state is a function of the quality of our meta-states or higher frames.

Elicitation questions:What kind of a learning state do you want?

Whats the quality of your current learning state?

Would you like to add new qualities to it?

The Pattern:

1) Dream about an accelerated learning state.Pair up and brainstorm for a few minutes about how you want to refine and texture your own

personal learning state.

What resourceful states do you want to bring to bear upon your basic learning state?

How do you want to sequence these states-upon-states?

2) Access and apply each resourceful state to your learning state.

It really does not matter whatstate, frame, or context you apply on your joyful learning state. Only

one thing makes a difference. Does it generate the effect of having a program inside your head and

nervous system for implementing and installing new learnings?

Menu List of Possibilities:Playfulness Frolicsome Learning Lustful LearningExperimenting Calm Learning Awesome LearningFerociously Going for It! Optimistic Learning Outrageous LearningFuture-pacing Confident LearningImplementing Tenacious LearningDecisiveness I always take immediate action on new learnings that I value so that I get it intomy neurology.

3) Embed meta-level states to design new gestalts

What resourceful thoughts, ideas, beliefs, values,

understandings, emotions, etc. would you like to

set over your learning state that will accelerate andempower your learning?

A gestalt is something that is more than the sum of

the parts. When we have an inter-active system

(i.e. our mind-body-emotion system) we have a

context within which systemic phenomena can ariseemergent propertiesor gestalts. This means

we need to strategically thinking through the effect of level-upon-level in order for us to check the

ecological value of a particular form of meta-stating. For many people, merelearning operates as

an intellectual exercise apart from experience. Somehow they operate from a meta-level structure

that holds them back from and preventsthem from transferring their learnings and insights into

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No one can drive me crazyUnless I give the keys away.

Colin Cox

corrected.

META-STATING OWNERSHIPOF YOUR POWER ZONE

Introduction:Among our most basic states is our power to think, feel, say,

and do. These are fundamental. They establish all of the

higher and more complex powers. So we begin withawareness to recognize and own these core powers. We then

access a sense of ownership as expressed in the word

Mine. When we do this, we establish the basis forpersonal

empowerment, responsibility, proactivity, and initiative.

Distinctions:C The power of human responses to the events and triggers of our lives.

C Responsibility arises from the ability-to-respond.

C Ownership of our powers creates a sense of control over our lives.

Elicitation Questions:Would you like to become completely response-able and

empowered in your life?

Would you like to totally eliminate the victim-attitude of

feeling controlled by others?

The Pattern:

1) Identify one or more events that invite dis-empowerment.

Have you ever felt dis-empowered? What triggersthat feeling?

Has anything ever invited you to feel that you donthave the inner power to choose your response?

Do you know of anything that might elicit a sense of being a victim?Good. Set that aside for now, we will use it later.

2) Access a full experience of your four central powers.

Have you ever felt empowered? On top of your game? As you go into that state, allow yourselfto become aware of your two private inner powers of:

Thinking: representing, believing, valuing, understanding, reasoning, etc.

Emoting: feeling, somatizing, valuing, etc.

Notice also your two public or outer powers by which you can influence yourself and the world:

Speaking: languaging, using and manipulating symbols, asserting, etc.

Behaving: acting, responding, relating, etc.

How does it feel as you just notice and enjoy these powers?How fully do youfeel them now? Access them so that you begin to feel these powers.


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What do you need to do to amplify them?

Do you appreciate these powers?What is it like for you when you use your hands to mime out

these expressions of yourpowersin your own personal space to create

a circle of powerfor yourself?

3) Access and Amplify the resource state of ownership.

What do you completely and absolutely own?What can you say Mine! to with every fiber of your being?[Anchor with a touch and invite a self-anchor.]

Feel it when you strongly sense that something is yours,when every fiber in your being says, Mine! Keep itsmall and simple: My hand! My eye. My cat.My toothbrush. Make sure your referent for Mine!

is a positive one.

As you now think about something that, let every fiber feel it

fullyhow is that?How strong is your sense of Mine!? What do you need to do to increase it?As you listen to your voice of Mine! what do you need to do to make this voice more

compelling?Is it yours? Really?

4) Amplify your ownership states until your neurology radiates.

Feeling the sense of ownershipfully, now feel this about your mind, your emotions, your speech,

and your behavior. How well does this set the frame for your responses. Do you like that?What is it now like as you apply ownership to your response-powers?

This is myzoneof power. I am totally responsible for my responsesof mind, emotion,speech and behavior... Notice how that transforms things.

5) [Optional] Access the states of acceptance and appreciation of Mine!

What do you just accept? Use a small and simple reference to get the feel of acceptance... when you

just welcomed and acknowledged something ... a rainy day, the traffic. Now feel this acceptance

about what you own as yours.

What do you appreciate? Find a reference for appreciation and feel appreciation about this sense

of ownership. Feel that sense of acceptance and appreciation and apply

6) Appropriate it to the invitation of dis-empowerment.

Now with all of these radiating inside your bubble of energy ... what is it like when youfeelthisabout that event or situation you identified?Notice how this transforms that. Are you fully able to maintain your inner sense of

response power? Do you like this?

7) Future pace to install

Imagine in the weeks and months to come, moving through the world with this frame of

mind about your zone of response... power...

Do you like that?


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As you notice how it transforms things as it allows you to fully claim you mind, heart,

voice, and response powers, will you keep this?

8) [Optional] Distinguish responsibility to and forWhile inside your power bubble, notice how you feel when you say,

"I am response-able for your thoughts, feelings, speech, and behavior. Response-abilityfor is myAccountability."

Notice how well this settles. How many more time do you need to say this until it settles well?Are there any objections to it in the back of your mind? Now say,

"I am response-able to others but never for what others think, feel, say or do. Response-

able to others isRelationship with others."

Notice how this settles and any objections. Now say,

"The boundary of our Power Zone Bubble is the line between responsibility to and for . .

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META-STATING SELF

This is the most basic meta-state process for working with and inducing three basicselfstates, self-

acceptance, self-appreciation, and self-esteem. Use it to establish a solid core for centeringyourself, for setting a frame of high value and worth for oneself, and for operating with high self-esteem even in the face of dignity-denying or threatening experiences. On a continuum of likingand welcoming something into your world we have the following distinctions:

Rejection Acceptance Appreciation Esteem

Dislike Welcoming Inviting in Gentle openness Highly valuing as importantJudgment Non-Judgment Welcome warmly Significant, worthwhileRejection W/o endorsement with attraction / love Welcome with Awe, Honor

Acknowledge but nocondoning or endorsing

Doing Being / Person

Distinctions:C We can create a sliding anchor on the body or in air to indicate more and more of something.

C The three states, acceptance, appreciation, and awe enable us to create three meta-states.

C Self-esteem is unconditional based on an evaluation or judgment of the mind.

C Self-confidence is conditional based on competency and experience.

Elicitation Questions:Do you ever judge your self as a human being? Do you ever put yourself down? Contempt

yourself? Insult yourself? Do you have low self-esteem?

Do you separate your feelings about you as a human being from your feelings as a human doing?

The Pattern:1) Identify a self-contempting experience.

Have you ever contempted yourself? Recall that and put that aside for now.

2) Access the three A resource states of Acceptance, Appreciation, and Awe.

Access each states by using a small and simple referent so that you can access the feeling of the

state fully and discreetly.

A)Acceptance:

What do you accept that you could reject? What small and simple thing do you easily

accept without particularly liking or wanting, but you welcome it in?B)Appreciation.

Is there anything that you really appreciate? That you melt in appreciation?

C)Awe.

What is so big, so wonderful, so marvelous, so incredible that you stand in awe of it,

speechless, in utter wonder?

3) Amplify each state and apply to self.

Amplify each state until you have a robust enough state. Set up a sliding anchor on the arm of this

continuum of welcoming responses.Applyacceptance to the things about yourself that you need to accept, but may find challenging to

accept, your shadow side, experiences that have happened to you, the cards that life dealt you.


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Accept your overall sense of self and life.

Apply appreciation to your sense of self as doer and achiever. Appreciate your over-all self, and

every gift, talent, and strength.

[This separates self-confidence and self-esteem.]

Apply awe and esteem to your self as a valuable, precious, magnificent human beingunconditionally.

[Use self-esteem to enrich self-appreciation and self-acceptance.]

Feeling this self-esteemfully and completely, letting it grow and expand ... thats right,

now notice what else you can appreciate(fire anchor) and what else you can just accept

(fire anchor) more gracefully and easily. Thats right.

4) Apply self-esteeming, appreciating, and accepting in needed contexts

Is there any context, situation, or event wherein you feel tempted to self-contempt, self-question,

self-doubt, and/or self-dislike yourself?

In what context would you prefer a more resourceful response?

As you think about that,feel this esteem (fire anchor) for yourself knowing that your worth and

value is a given andfeel this appreciationfor what you can do so that you focus there, andfeel this

acceptanceof the things that just are that you have to deal with.

Now especially notice how feeling this esteem and self-awe at the mystery of you and your

potentials it transforms this old context, doesnt it?

Do you like that? Would that make a difference?

Are you ready to self-respect yourself no matter what?

Are you ready to step into unconditional self-esteem?

5) Imaginatively put into your future to validate.

Imagine moving through life in the weeks and months to come with this frame of mind . . . Do you

like this?Notice how this would transform things for you . . .

Does every aspect of the higher parts of your mind fully agree with this?

Are you now un-stoppable?


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META-YES-INGA Belief Change Pattern

Introduction:Two states that we learn very early in life are expressed in the words YesandNo. These are the states ofconfirmation anddisconfirmation, ofaffirming and dis-affirming. In the first, we welcome and bring things

into our worldideas, emotions, experiences, people, etc. In the second, we set up boundaries and

distinguish between me and not me. In the second, we push out and make space in our world.

Once you have discovered some limiting beliefs that you want to get out of your head and neurology so that

they no longer operate as your programming, use this Meta-State pattern for changing limiting beliefs. It

offers a clear, quick, and effective way to deframe the old unenhancing beliefs and to install the empowering

beliefs that support your commitment to success. This pattern corrects the problems with merely attempting

to change a meta-level phenomena like beliefswith mere sub-modality shifts.

Distinctions:

The confirmation power of yes to transform a thought into a belief.The dis-confirmation power of no to return a belief to being a mere thought.

Thoughts come and go; beliefs stay as commands to the nervous system.

The brain has no innate quality control mechanism; we have to do the quality controlling.

Because your beliefs are commands to the nervous system, be careful what you believe.

Elicitation Questions:What beliefs limit you and sabotage your best?

What beliefs undermine your self-actualization and prevents you from living fully?

The Pattern:

1) Identify the limiting belief and empowering belief to work with.Ecology for this pattern has to occur before we begin the pattern. Make sure you have a high quality idea

that you want to confirm and transform into a belief.

What enhancing and empowering beliefs would you really like to have running in your mind-and-

emotions? Which belief stands in your way?

How does this belief sabotage you or undermine your effectiveness?

Have you had enough of it? Or do you need more pain?

What empowering belief would you like to have in its place?

Is the new idea realistic? Is it useful, productive, enhancing in all aspects of your life?

2) Access a strong and robust state of No!

Think of something that every fiber in your body can say No! to in a way that is fullycongruent.Say that No! again and again until you notice and snapshot it on the inside.

Anchoryour No! with your hand gestures. Feel it. Hear your voice of No!Menu: Would you push a little child in front of a speeding bus just for the hell of it?

Would you eat a bowl of dirty filthy worms when you have delicious food available?

3) Apply your meta No! To your Limiting Belief.Feeling all of this powerful No!, even Hell No! feel this fully as you think about that stupid,

useless, limiting belief . . . now.

And you can keep on sayingNo!to that limiting belief until you begin to feel that it no longer has

any power to run your programs, that it has no more room in your presence, in your mind...

And how many more times and with what voice, tone, gesturing, do you need to totally disconfirm


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that old belief so that you know deep inside yourselfthat it will no longer run your programs?

4) Access a strong and robust Yes!

Think about something that every fiber of your being says Yes! to without any question or doubt.

Is there anything like that?

Notice your Yes! Notice the neurology and feeling of your Yes! Notice the voice of Yes!

How do you best gesture the Yes!with your hands and body so that it amplifies your feelings?

How much have you amplified your Yes!?

5) Meta Yes! your Enhancing belief.And feeling that Yes! even more fully, utter it repeatedly to the Empowering Belief that you want.

Do you want this? [Yes!] Really?

How many more times do you need to say Yes! right now in order to feel that you have fully

welcomed it into your presence?

6) Validate the Yes! with Yeses repeatedly and put into the future.

This is only an exercise and so you cant keep this! Oh, you want this?

You really want this?

Would this improve your life?

Would it be valuable to you?


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META-STATING PLEASURE

Introduction:Pain and pleasure are two primary states. In this pattern you can explore your subjective

experiences of pleasure and the meta-levels of happiness. Doing so will enable you to more fullyunderstand and explain your motivation, propulsion, and addiction patterns. Why does somethingmean as much as it does to you? Somehow you have attached pain or pleasure to it.

Distinctions:C Our bodies are wired for a thousand pleasures and those pleasures have natural thresholds.

C We also have pleasures-of-our-pleasures, meta-pleasures and by these we can over-ride thenatural thresholds of our pleasures.

C Giving pleasure to our pleasures creates the gestalt of values and semantically loads thingswith rich and governing meanings.

As you move up the levels, listen for edge-of-the-map language: Just, only, obviously, thats the

way it is, is, really, etc. These words will let you know when you are at the top of the persons

mapping about pleasure. You can even ask, Anything above this? Expect and look for lots of

looping and synonyms. This is where you get to go for a ride enjoy the trip!

Distinguish between expression of a state (feelings, actions, urges) and the frames of the states (the

meanings). So before move up another level, ask:

C Is this just another synonym of that previous pleasure?

C How do I express this state? What feeling?

C What I feel like doing about the state? Actions

C Is this a meta-level of thinking-and-feeling about the state?

Elicitation Questions:What basic pleasure have you so over-loaded with pleasure, that you are naturallymotivated for it?

What primary pleasure would you pay to get to engage in?

The Pattern:

1) Identify a pleasure and fully describe it.

Make a fun list of all the things that "make you happy, then pick one.

Include anything that gives you a sense of enjoyment, happiness, thrill, pleasure.

What I really have fun doing, experiencing, seeing, etc. involves . . .If you were to pick one item of pleasure that you really like, what would it be?

Is it sensory-based? Can you see, hear, feel, smell or taste it?

Menu list: taking a hot bath, watching a sunset, playing with a kitten, reading abook, taking a walk, sexual intimacy, etc. Pick something small and simpleyet

full of pleasure for you.

2) Identify your first meta-states about the pleasure.

Take the primary pleasure that you really like and generate as many answers as you can to

the question: What positive meaning of value and significance do you give to this

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[Get the first line meta-state pleasures, 3 to 5 of them, then begin to go up from those.]

3) Move up and identify all of your meta-states and meta-frames.

What positive meaning of value and significance do you give to this pleasure?

What does this positive meaning of value and significance mean to you?

Sketch or diagram the meta-level structure and keep repeating.Draw a circle to designate your primary pleasure with each answer as a "state" of meaning

and feeling aboutthat pleasure.Continue to repeat this process for all of the higher-level pleasurable meanings that yougive to the primary pleasure. For each ask the questions:

4) Step back and appreciate the gestalt of the complex pleasure experience.

As you step back, notice all of the meanings, beliefs, understandings, values, decisions, andstates that driveyour pleasure. Do you now know why it holds so much meaning for you?

Does this really, in the long term, enhance your life?Does it empower you as a person?If you took away one line of states about ithow much would that reduce your

enjoyment?

5) Step in and fully experience the pleasure then begin to spread it around your world.

What other everyday sensory-based activities can you now creatively imagine using togenerate this high level state? Imagine fully being in this state in some particular contextdoing X (future pace).


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DE-PLEASURINGMeta-Stating to Un-Do Addictions at a Higher Level

Introduction:This pattern repeats the first 4 steps of the Pleasure Pattern. Start with a sensory-based primary

pleasure that you do notwant to over-load with pleasure. Use this pattern to reduce the level ofpleasure you take in a thing, idea, experience, etc. such as smoking, over-eating, drinking,shopping, TV shopping, etc. Use this to reduce negative addictions.

Distinctions:We can over-load a pleasure or even a pain to our detriment.

As we can pleasure ourselves at meta-levels, we can remove pleasure and meaning.Addictions need to be de-pleasured to deprive them of their driving influence and power.

Elicitation Questions:

What have you over-loaded with so much meaning and pleasure that it now underminesyour well-being?What would you like to de-pleasure so that you regain your well-being and freedom?

The Pattern:1) Identify disliked pleasure.

What primary level pleasures have taken on far too much meaning and value in your lifethat you would like to devalue and reduce in meaning and pleasure?

2) Identify the meta-state levels of meaning that drive it all the way up the Matrix.What positive meaning of value and significance do you give to this pleasure? Again, drawa circle designating your primary pleasure with each answer as a "state" of meaning and

feeling aboutthat pleasure.What are the higher-level pleasurable meanings that you give to the primary pleasure?What positive meaning of value and significance do you give to this pleasure?What does this positive meaning of value and significance mean to you?

3) Sketch out the full enjoyment/happiness structure with all of its meta-levels.Fully articulate the meanings, values, beliefs, understandings, etc. that drive and give

meaning and value to the experience.

4) Appreciate the gestalt that drives the pleasure and quality control it.

Sit back and notice all of the meanings, beliefs and states that driveyour pleasure. This

provides insight as to why it "holds so much meaning" for you.Does this in the long run empower you as a person or enhance your life? Do yo need this?

5) Explore its structure.

Put your hand over one set of meta-level meanings. If you took away one line of statesabout it, how much would that reduce your enjoyment? How many of the meanings doyou need to take away before it ceases to exist as just whatever it isat the primary level

eating, drinking, etc.?


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6) Commit yourself to de-pleasure the old pleasure.Decide at the meta-level that you will not give the primary pleasure that much meaning,significance, or value. Or, just say No! to the old pleasure. This is just food...(Decide to refuse to accept this meaning for the experience.)

Use edge of the map type of words and expressions: only, just, it is...

Set frames that limit the meaning.

7) Future pace the de-enjoyment.Go to your highest meta-pleasure states and access fully. Allow your creative part toidentify other behaviors that you can do that will allow you to experience this meta-levelmeaning... Imagine fully stepping into this state and experiencing it fully and realizing

fully that you can do so without needing to engage in that behavior.


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DAY 2

CLEARING THE PATH

FOR A NEW MATRIX

Day Two Menu:

1) Meta-Stating Emotions and Negative Emotions2) Meta-Stating Concepts3) Dancing with Dragons

4) Meta-Stating Implementation for actualizing our knowledge5) Meta-Stating Possibilities and Miracles using the As If Frame

NEURO-SEMANTICSAs with any model and field, we have developed some specialized terms in Neuro-Semantics, terms essential

for understanding and working effectively with the model.

Coalescing.

By the process of repetition and habituationhigher frames or states eventuallycoalesce into the

lower states. This provides another way to look at the transcending and including function in meta-

stating. In this way meta-states dont stay meta but merge into the lower state to texture and

qualify them. This explains how we create perceptual filters or meta-programs. As we use this

process for qualifying or texturing our states, our emotional intelligence increases.

Modulating.

By this term we refer to the controlling influence the higher states have over the lower. Theydominate, they organize the lower, they modulate the lower. The higher operates as a self-organizing

influence or attractor over the lower.

Gestalt and Gestalting.

A gestalt arises as a larger configuration that is more than the sum of the parts. It refers to using

systemic processes. When we have an inter-active system (i.e. our mind-body neuro-linguistics)

we have a context within which systemic phenomena can ariseemergent propertiesor gestalts.

As we think strategically about the effect of level-upon-level we can check the ecological value of

a particular meta-stating structure.

Multi-ordinality.Multi-ordinal refers to mental phenomena that occurs at many different levels of mind. Many terms

describe the mental phenomenathat we experience at the higher levels of mind. Multiordinality

gives us a way to sort through them for more clear understanding. As multiordinal terms, they

mean nothing apart from their level of abstraction. Thats why we have to specify the level to

determine their meaning. Multiordinal comes from Alfred Korzybskis Science and Sanity.

These conceptual powersenable us to build thoughts at many different levels. To not notice the

levels, to confuse the levels, and/or to wish the levels would just go awaycreates confusion and

all sorts of category errors.

This means that not all thoughts are equal. They do not occur at the same level. Thought occurs

at many different levels and we label such thought by different terms. This generates differences

in emotions. There is primary level emotion (driven, determined, encoded, and structured by


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META-STATING TROUBLING EMOTIONS

Introduction:When we bring negative emotional energyagainst ourselves, they put us at odds with ourselves. We

thereby attack ourselves. It turns our psychological energies against ourselves in unuseful way. This

generates dragons and dragon states. While there are exceptions, they are exceptions not the rule. Use thispattern for handling emotions that trouble you, positive or negative. This gives us an art of handling

emotions effectively and intelligently.

Distinctions:C An emotion is the difference between our mapping of the world and how we experience the territory

of the world.

C Emotions give signals and messages about that difference between map and territory.

C Yet emotions are just emotions and not commands, and not infallible orders.

C We manage our emotions well when we accept them and use them for information.

Elicitation Questions:What emotion do you not have a very good relationship with?

What emotion or emotions do you try to banish from your life?

The Pattern:1) Identify an emotional state with which you have difficulties handling, controlling, or managing.

What negative emotional state of thought-or-emotion do you not like, cant stand, hate, wish you

didnt experience? What negative states do you feel as taboo? Menu list: anger, fear, disgust,

sexual, religious, etc.

Describe this state. How is this a problem? What do you think-and-feel about this?

What emotional states do you not allow? Fear? Dread? Will not tolerate?

2) Check your permission level.Go inside, quiet yourself and say, "I give myself permission to feel X." Now notice your internal

responses in terms of your inner Movie.

What would happen if you did accept or experience this negative emotion?

How well does that settle inside?

Are there any objections to this? If there are, what are the objections?

What resources would you need to access in order to more fully accept this?

3) Design engineer a new meta-stating structure.Go inside and give yourself permission congruently with a strong and resourceful voice that

reframes the objections and notice how that settles.

I give myself permission to feel anger because it allows me to recognize things that violate

my values and to take appropriate action early.

I give myself permission to feel the tender emotions because it makes me more fully

human.

4) Meta-state the negative emotion with a powerful mental-emotional resource.

Menu List: Acceptance, appreciation, calmness, thoughtfulness, etc.

Access, Anchor, Amplify, Anchor.

5) Quality control the permission and add needed reframes.Imagine fully and completely moving into your tomorrows with this outframe on the negative


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emotion ... does any part of you object to letting this operate as your orientational style? [If so,

recycle back to step 3.]

6) Future Pace and install.As you imagine this, do you like this?

Are you fully aligned with this?Are there any parts that would object?

Will you keep this?


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META-STATING CONCEPTSThe Creation of Conceptual or Semantic States

Introduction:We move more fully into the domain of Neuro-Semantics with this patterns. We live our lives, not at

primary levels,but mostly at meta-levels. We live in, suffer from, and glory in, conceptual, and semantic

states. We are a class of life that can develop a bad relationship with an idea, with a conceptual category.

Immanuel Kant identified conceptual categories that he thought were a prioriwithin us, that is, prior to our

experiences. Following Lakoff and Johnson, there are thousands of others that we create. We live inside of

these human conceptualizations and they make up and create so much of our "reality."Time-Space Justice/ Fairness MoneyPast/Future Materialism SavingMasculinity/Femininity Race InvestingCause (causation) Emotionality PowerSelf Culture ManipulationSelf-esteem/ self-concept Intellectuality Victim

Other Control FailureRelationship Values SexualityMotivation Morality RejectionThe meaning of life Consequences CriticismHuman destiny/purpose Responsibility Aging

In primary states, we think about external happenings that may be related to a meta-level concept like

"time," "causation," masculinity, femininity, etc. When we develop thoughts-feelings about those

linguistic "realities" or abstractions, we develop higher structured states of beliefs and understandings about

other beliefs and concepts. Typically we dont even notice this process.

Some meta-states will have weak kinesthetic components because we code our layers of thoughts-and-feeling

about other thoughts-and-feelings in language. This shifts us from primary sensations or feelings tosecondary sensations (emotions), then triary sensations (abstract emotions or mental judgments) about the

emotions. We are still in a state, but it will be a more abstract state and sometimes one in which we

experience less of our kinesthetics.

Distinctions:C We think and draw conclusions and invent concepts, but we can create a bad relationship to

concepts so that they push our buttons and undermine our resourcefulness.

C Concepts are comprised of layers of meanings and understandings and are often ill-formed, ill-

framed, and ill-conceived.

C We can revisit our concepts to renew, reframe, and develop useful concepts for navigating lifes

journey.C In this pattern, things will get worse before they get better.

Elicitation Questions:What ideas, concepts, understandings, etc. pushes your buttons and rattles you?

What concepts can you not stand, do not like, and find irritating or annoying?


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The Pattern:1) Think of some conceptual category that tends to you problems.

What concept do you want to develop a better relationship with?What concept, understanding, or idea pushes your buttons?

What do you put into the sentence stem, I have a problem with . . .?

Menu List: authority, dependency, women, intimacy, entitlement, freedom,morality, vulnerability, criticism, fairness, failure, etc.

What comes to you when you finish the sentence stem, I cant stand . . .?

2) Enter the concepts Matrix.

What do you believe about X?

[Use the basic meta-questions to explore the persons frames and frames-within-frame as you enter the persons Matrix with respect and exploration, without

judgment or advice.]What does X mean to you?

When you think about X, what thoughts-and-feelings come to mind?What do you expect? And what do you believe about that?[Now track the layers of the Matrix.]

3) Specify the actions that make up the actual real world event.[This will enable you to bring the concept down to earth.]

What real world events that you can video-tape does the concept refer to?What are the sensory-components: see-hear-feel variables?

4) Quality control the neuro-semantic construct or Matrix of the concept.

Do you need this concept as part of your matrix of frames?

Does it enhance your life or empower you?Is the framing of this concept useful or limiting? Healing or toxic?

How much does it loosen things up to know that this is just a concept or layers of conceptsthat youve mapped?

5) Design engineer a new more enhancing frame of reference.

Just for the fun of it, playfully imagine yourself getting to choose another frame ofreference or meaning, how else could you classify it, label it, evaluate it, or frame it?If you could magically use new frames of meanings that would enhance your life, what

would you use?

How would you like to think about or feel about these actions?[Build up a new Matrix with the meta-questions. Embrace the new concept as amore useful concept and begin to texture it with other ideas that make it more

useful, productive, and empowering.]


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DRAGON DANCING

Introduction:

Stepping into our genius state ofpersonal mastery means accessing highlyresourcefulstates. Yetwe cannot do that if we are in unresourceful states. Thats why we must take care of our internaldragon states in order to access our personal genius states. As long as internal conflicts are tearingus up, sabotaging our best efforts, turning our energies against ourselves, or preventing our owncongruence and alignment, we will not be able to step into a state of flow at will.

The Dance: Unresourceful states create internal conflicts within undermining our best efforts.This explains the need to clear the path. In dancing with our dragons we will learn five basic dance

steps. These are notnecessarily the order or sequence you will use. Start by attempting to namethe dragon and then do whatever seems most appropriate as you chase the dragon and circle hiscave. You may have to do that many times before you get the real dragon. This is a dance that

you will be inventing as you go. And so dont expect the experience to be in this particularsequential. Usually you will dance with the dragon, going round and round, repeated the stepsagain and again, flushing out the realdragon and slowly entering the dragons lair as you discoverthe real issue in the back of the mind.

1)Name the dragon.2)Embrace the dragon: kiss the dragon.3)Analyze the dragon by using the Meta-Model sword of specificity.

4) Starve or interrupt the dragon.5) Frame or meta-state the dragon.

Distinctions:When we turn our thoughts and feelings against ourselves we attack ourselves.Such self-attack puts us at odds with ourselves and undermines our resourcefulness.Dragons is just a metaphor for unresourceful states.

Elicitation Questions:Do you have any dragons that put you into a strong unresourceful state?

What dragons do you have in your mind about your experiences?How is a thought, a feeling, an experience, etc. a dragon to you?


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Dancing with the Dragon Questions

Naming the Dragon:

C What unresourceful state do you sometimes experience that undermines your excellence?

C What do you call this dragon state?

C How do know that it limitsyou, interferes with your passions, or undermines you?C What else could you call this dragon?

C What name could we give this dragon that would be a funny, silly, even ridiculous name?

Embracing and Kissing the Dragon:

C Is it just a negative emotion or experience? If so, what happens if you just embrace it asa negative emotion or experience?

C Do you have permission to accept it as such?

C Yes I can see that you dont like it or want it, yet are you willing to just acknowledge or

accept it?C What happens when you go inside and give yourself permission to experience it?

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