[Neurons] 2012 Meta Reflections #7

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2012  #7

February 13, 2012

Empowerment Series #3

 

 

EMPOWERMENT:

CONTROLLING YOUR ENERGIES

 

 

Following up on the two previous articles in this series, your real control
lies in your accessing, owning, development, and expression of your innate
powers.  What are these?  Your foundational response-powers (thinking,
emoting, speaking, and acting).  These are the powers that create a solid
foundation for personal empowerment.  That's because every competency is
made out of these response-powers.

 

And here's the kicker, when you have full access to these powers and are
actualizing your highest meanings into your best performances, you will not
be look for all of the new age type of powers -reading-minds, remote reading
of things, levitating, exercising telekinesis to move objects through space
with your mind, sending energy through the ether, etc.

 

This highlights the difference between true and pseudo-powers, between a
healthy and an unhealthy focus on power/ control.  It points to the
direction to go when you want to truly and actually actualize your powers,
and conversely, it use the pseudo-powers as signs regarding when a person is
off-track.  That is, when you don't know, understand, know-how to access,
develop, and use your true powers- you are liable to go off on a
undisciplined chase for "power" or "control" for science-fiction "energies"
that are delightfully presented in movies and TV shows but which are sci-fi.

 

For a person to be truly empowered, you have to take control of your
fundamental energies- those given in your mind-body-emotion system and those
based on solid science.  And that's why we have designed Accessing Your
Personal Genius (APG) for your own mastery of the "flow" state by using the
basic meta-stating pattern, Owning Your Powers.  To succeed in anything (and
everything) requires knowledge and skills.  You have to know some things and
be able to put that knowledge into action.  That means using your cognitive
(thinking) powers and integrating it into your state (emoting), language
(speaking), and behaviors (acting).  And that's why we also run the
Mind-to-Muscle pattern in APG so that people can close the knowing-doing gap
and become implementers of what they know.  (See Secrets of Personal Mastery
for the content of the APG workshop or check out an APG workshop near you,
<http://www.neurosemantics.com/> www.neurosemantics.com / Trainings).

 

Human empowerment begins here.  The person who lacks this will be looking
outside to the powers of others or to magical powers from sci-fi movies.
True human empowering is an inside-out dynamic.  It arises from your
thinking-emoting (your private powers) and shows up in the world in your
speaking-acting (your two public powers).  And when you have that, you are
able to become the person authoring your own life- authoring your beliefs,
your values, your sense of self, your goals, your direction, your way of
being in the world.  And with this development, you have moved from being
externally-oriented and referenced to being internally-referenced.  In NLP
we speak about this development as a meta-program shift (see Figuring Out
People, 2005).

 

Now in terms of self-actualization, if you want to actualize your own sense
of power and control, recognize, acknowledge, accept, appreciate, and assume
full ownership of your powers.  You have the power of thinking, and from
this power arises so many additional powers- the power of framing your
thoughts, the power of believing, the power of intending, the power of
identifying, the power of deciding, the power of remembering, the power of
imagining, and on and on.  Each of these mental powers speaks about the
meta-levels that you can set in your mind.  

 

How many of these meta-powers do you have?  How many do you actualize and
use on a daily basis?  In Neuro-Semantics: Actualizing Meaning and
Performance (2011) I listed 103 levels.  So whereas the NLP model,
"Neuro-Logical Levels" has 4 or 5 meta-levels, that's just the beginning.
Because we have been mapping out meta-levels for your psycho-logics for
years in Neuro-Semantics, we now have identified 103 levels!  So, are you
using all of your innate mental powers?

 

You also have the power of emoting and, similarly, from this power arises
many, many more powers- the power of joy, the power of wonder, the power of
love, the power of anger, the power of fear, the power of sadness, the power
of appreciation, and on and on.  How many emotional powers do you have
available to you?  Anthony Robbins in Unlimited Power (1987) said he found
3,000 words indicating positive emotions and 5,000 words in English of
negative emotions.  That's a lot!  So, are you using all of your innate
emotional powers?

 

You also have the power of speaking, and again, in a similar way, from this
power arises many, many more powers- the power of asking, asserting,
explaining, presenting, blessing, cursing, making poetry, making music,
curiously inquiring, forgiving, asking forgiveness, negotiating, selling,
and on and on.  How many ways can we use words?  How many different forms of
linguistic power are there?  Hundreds!  So, are you using all of your
linguistic powers?

 

You also have the power of acting- and from this power arises many, many
more powers.  From it arises all of the powers that are expressed in
thousands of the different things we can do.  From this arises every skill,
every competence, every expertise, and every mastery.  So, are you using all
of your behavioral powers?

 

Ah, powers!  Response-powers- we have thousands of expressions of these
powers that are all innate to us.  And this is the basis for human
empowerment.  If you and I are truly serious about empowering ourselves and
others, this is where to begin.  This also describes our focus in
Neuro-Semantics -our training and certifying of NLP, of the
Self-Actualization trainings, of Meta-Coaching, etc.

 

 

 

IF YOU LIVE IN THE USA----  THE CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION WORKSHOP COMING TO
WASHINGTON DC.

 

            Date:               March 16, 17, 18, 2012

            Place:              Washington DC

            Venue:             Hilton Garden Inn Tyson's Corner, 8301 Boone
Blvd., Vienna, VA 22182

            Theme:            Creativity & Innovation: Unleashing Your
Creative Potentials

            Contact:           Mark Ashton:   <mailto:ma.ashton1 at yahoo.com>
ma.ashton1 at yahoo.com 

                                    Richard Liotta:
<mailto:rfliotta at gmail.com> rfliotta at gmail.com 

                                    

 

                                    To find out more and/or to register, the
registration page is:

http://lmichaelhallcreativityandinnovation.eventbrite.com/ 

                                     <http://bit.ly/creativityDC>
http://bit.ly/creativityDC

 

                                                

The four Self-Actualization workshops:

            1) Unleashing Vitality             - Self-Actualization
Assessment Scale.

            2) Unleashing Potentials         - Unleashing processes for your
highest and best.

3) Unleashing Creativity         - Solving problems and executing robust
solutions.

            4) Unleashing Leadership       - Creating self-actualizing
leaders and organizations.

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Neuro-Semantics Executive Director  ----   <http://www.neurosemantics.com/>
www.neurosemantics.com

P.O. Box 8

Clifton, CO.  81520 USA                              

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Neuro-Semantics launched the New Human Potential Movement in 2007, for
information about the Self-Actualization workshops, go to
<http://www.self-actualizing.org/> www.self-actualizing.org

 

 

 

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