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Chapter 3. State Management 101 Accessing Personal Genius. Page 66. “States – The foundation of MS. Before there is behavior, there are states. What state are you in when resourceful ? What state are you in when unresourceful?
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Chapter 3 State Management 101 Accessing Personal Genius Page 66
“States – The foundation of MS • Before there is behavior, there are states. • What state are you in when resourceful? • What state are you in when unresourceful? • In this section we look more into how the mind creates states and how to change them. Page 67
States Foundation of MS cont • In order to run our own brain and maintain desired states, we need some basic knowledge. • There are some key principles that we need to understand. • Are you pleased with how you are running your brain and maintaining your states? Page 67
1) The Components of States • Linguistics • The Sensory Representation System (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory & Gustatory) • The Language Representation System • Physiology/Neurology pp. 67-68
2a)Two Avenues to Evoke States • Internal Representations specify our state of mind the things that we internally map out (VAK & Language, what we say to ourselves). • These make up our understanding, learnings, beliefs, values, etc. • We have choice about what to represent; we have Representational Power Page 67
2b)Two Avenues to Evoke States • Physiology and/Or Neurology describe the physical state or state of body • …the things that we experience in our body, involving health, posture, breathing, bio-chemistry, etc. Page 68
2) Two Royal Roads to State Control • Because our Language as it interacts with our Physiology/Neurology produces or states, then we have these two basic elements to not only create our states but to control our states: • Mind • Body (neurology/physiology) Page 69
3) State Object • In order for a mind-body-emotion state to exist, there must be an object of attention. • 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? What’s on your mind?” Page 70
4) State Awareness • Awareness of the states and the factors that drive them. • Because all states habituate, they drop out of consciousness awareness. • We must bring our states to consciousness in order to start controlling them. • How is the state encoded and structured? Page 71
5) State Accessing/Inducing • We can use the Two Royal Roads to state control by using our mind-and-body neuro-linguistic system to access previous states (memory) or states that we can imagine (imagination) to access a desired state. • See Figure 3:3 next slide. Page 72
Exercise: In and out of states • Access a recent state of being fluent and note the qualities. • Access a state of blocking and note the qualities. • Write down the differences of each experience. • Practice going in and out of these two states. Pages 73
6) 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 altering your states? Page 73
7) State Intensity & 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? Pages 73-74
Figure 3:5 – State Intensity Page 74
State Intensification • Need more fluency? Crank it up by increasing or intensifying the IR in the sense and language modalities. • What processes do you rely on for amplifying your states? • How do you crank them up? Page 75
8) State Strategy • All behaviors are a product of an ongoing process (strategy) of pictures, sounds, feelings, smells, tastes and meta-level word meanings that we give an experience. • You have a strategy for every behavior. • Stephen Covey, “In between stimulus and response, there is choice.” pp. 74-75
9) State Strategy Interrupts • Stop any and every mind-body-emotion state by: • Jarring • Interfering • Sabotaging, etc • State Interrupts refer to ways of stopping or preventing a state from functioning. Page 75
10) 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. Page 76
11) State Dependency • Once in a state, in a strong and intense state, we experience a dependency on that state for how we think, learn, remember, perceive, communicate and behave. • We call this State Dependency. • It means that the State has us, and feels as if it has a life of its own. • A great example of this is a block. Page 76
12) From State Dependency to Meta-States- Self Reflexivity • When we experience a powerful State Dependency, it becomes very easy to Reflect that State back onto another state. • When we do, we create a state-about-state structure and this gives birth to Meta-States. Page 77
Self Reflectivity • When we reference an internal thought, feeling, idea, etc., we are Self-Referencing. • This raises our awareness to a new level. • It creates Self-Reflexive Consciousness (See Figure 3:5). Page 77
Figure 3:5 Page 77
The Basic Meta-Stating Pattern • Access a Resource State. • Amplify & Anchor the Resource State. • Apply to the Primary State. • Appropriate in your life and future. • Analyze the quality of the Meta-State in your entire mind-body system. Pages 78-79
13) State Utilization • Your brain over the years has learned some powerful states. • Are they useful and if not, where and how can you use them? • “Where would I like to use this state?” • The mind-body system cares not about the content – only the state of mind. Page 79
14) States as Emotion (Kmeta) • How do we construct emotions? • Emotions consists of evaluative judgments, beliefs, meanings and values. • If you evaluate your experience of the world as a good experience, you will have a positive emotions. • If the evaluation is bad, you will have negative emotions. See Figure 3:6 Page 79
Figure 3:6 Page 80
Figure 3:7 Page 81
“Emotions are Just Signals” between our Model of the World and our Experience of the World.See Figure 3:6 Page 82
Figure 3:6 Page 80
Emotions are Just Signals Pattern • Recognize that emotions are just signals. • Access a witnessing state. • Recognize the triggers of the event. • Say to yourself, “It is just an emotion.” • Design engineer a new meta-stating structure. • Meta-state the negative emotion with a powerful resource state. • Quality control the permission and add needed reframes. • Put into your future and install. pp. 82-84
15) State Extending/State Containment • We can both extend and contain states. • These 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 disconnect from other things. Page 95
Changing Meaning by Reframing • All meaning is a structured reality. • Each individual constructs his/her own meaning reality. • As a structured reality, meaning functions as a fluid reality. • As a structured reality, meaning is changed in the same way that it was first structured. Page 86
Reframing • In in framing (thinking, giving meaning), we create a mental context by which to think about something… • Then in reframing, we attach a new meaning. • This leads to a new response, a new experience and a new behavior. Page 86
Reframing • Some meanings are in the muscle like blocking. • Blocking/ stuttering derives to a large extent from the meanings given to what stuttering means to the individual. • Because blocking/ stuttering is at its roots a product of thinking, it is subject to change via changing the meanings associated with blocking/ stuttering. Page 86
Reframing • Meaning works in powerful ways. • If in framing (thinking, giving meaning), we create a mental context by which to think about something, then in reframing, we attach a new meaning. • This leads to a new response, a new experience, and a new behavior. Page 86
Two Basic Ways to Reframe • Content/Meaning Reframing involves giving the experience new meanings. • Context Reframing involves finding a new context where the experience could be useful. Page 86
Framing Methodology: • Content Reframing – “What else could this mean?”“This is X – no, it is Y and that is better.” • Context Reframing – “Where would this be really useful and valuable?” Page 87
Conscious Reframing • Identify a behavior • Engage – communicate with it. • Identify frame – discover qualities of the movie. • Chunk down to more specifics – edit movie. • Context Reframe – find where it may be useful. • Content Reframe – give it a new meaning. • Integrate – ecology check – permission to use new meanings • Test – check out old behavior and see if the new meaning comes into the foreground. (Edited →) pp. 89-91
Conscious Reframing Edited • Identify a problem behavior and identify. • Establish communication with the part responsible for the behavior and discover its positive intent. • Context Reframe – in what context could this behavior be useful? • Content - What new meaning could you now give it that would serve you.? • Ecology check and Future Pace • Test – think of the old problem and see if the new meaning comes into the foreground of your mind.
The “Miracle Pattern” • Identify your problem. • Identify your beliefs-about-your beliefs. • Sketch out the higher level meaning structure of the experience. • Run an ecology-check state about the meta-beliefs. • Imagining the night of the miracle. • Describe the day after. • Confirm and future pace. pp. 92-93
Figure 3:10 Page 93
Changing Meaning by Changing Beliefs • What is the difference between a thought and a belief? • Can you hold a thought in your mind that you do not believe? • How do we change a thought into a belief? • A belief is a thought that we say yes to. Page 94
Figure 3:11 Page 95
Frames by Implication • Behind or above our yes’ and our no’s (and any other thought) are many other frames of mind – usually unconscious. • We constantly have thoughts about thoughts. • Over the years, this process layers our mind with frames of mind innumerable. Page 95
Meta-Frame Questions • All Meta-Levels in our mind are made of the same “stuff” as the primary level. • We use our see-hear-feel representations and words to build up meanings at the Meta-Levels. • We define our Meta-Levels with different categories. Page 96