[Neurons] Meta-States: The Book (third edition) --- Now in Paperback

[Michael Hall]

The Book that started the

Neuro-Semantics Movement

 

 

Now in Paperback!



 

META-STATES: Managing the Higher Levels of Your Mind

                 



Meta-States is the first book on Neuro-Semantics.  And as such, it provides
the foundations and direction of Neuro-Semantics.  If you want a thorough
understanding in Meta-States, this book is a must.  Here you will find the
history of the discovery of the Meta-States Model, a full description of the
theoretical foundations for the model, how it fits into the Neuro-Linguistic
Model (NLP) and how it then extends and expands NLP to include the higher or
meta-levels.

 

Originally written in 1995, and revised in 2000 and then in 2007, this third
edition now makes Meta-States easier to read and understand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   2000 Edition

 

 

 

The Meta-States Model extends and expands NLP as it moves beyond the
representational mind to the self-reflexive mind that makes us human beings
so unique. Here you will find extensive use of Korzybski's and Bateson's
discoveries in neurology and consciousness that provides the foundation for
how to model self-reflexive consciousness using Meta-States.  Here you will
discover the structure of meaning-making which are the layers that make up
the Matrix of the mind ("Logical Levels" in NLP).

 

Read about the Resilience Project within which Dr. Hall discovered
Meta-States as a model meta to NLP and which has led to a dozen new models
now making up Neuro-Semantics.   Discover the structure of the more complex
states of self-esteem, resilience, forgiveness, proactivity, inner peace,
un-insultability, and magnanimity.

 

Meta-States refer to the richness of our mind as it reflects back onto
itself to create layers upon layers of "mind" or conceptual states and since
these higher states then become our higher frames of mind, they create our
"beliefs," "values," "identities," etc.  It's in this way that Meta-States
offers a new meta-domain to NLP.This new edition was created in 2007 in
Hardback ($45).

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be $25.  (You can still get the hardback if you like.)

 

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META-STATES

Mastering Your Mind's Higher Levels

 

Preface
4

Foreword
7

Part I: Meta-States Discovery
10

1.    The Aha! Moment
11

2.    Discovering Meta-States
18




3.    Transcending Strategies and States
26

4.    Introducing Resilience: The Meta-State that Began it All
39

5.    The Meta-States of Resilience
47

 


Part II: Meta-States - Modeling Self-Reflexive Consciousness
72

6.    Defining Meta-States
73

7.    Diagraming Meta-States
90

8.    States #101: The Foundation for our Higher States
100

9.    The Higher States: Up the Levels of Your Mind
119

10.  The Nature of Meta-States, Part I
136

11.  The Nature of Meta-States, Part II
149

12.  Texturing States: Qualifying States for Higher Quality
165

13.  The Meta-Stating Process
175

 

Part III: The Meta-States Model and Theory
195

14.    Meta-States as a Model
196

15.    NLP Precursors of Meta-States
219

16.    Transcending to Higher "Core" States
241

17.    Meta-States Epistemology
256

18.   Meta-Stating as Framing
279

19.   Meta-State Principles and Interfaces
301

20.   Meta-Dimensions
318

Part IV: Specific Meta-States
335

21.    Dancing with Dragons and other Meta-Muddles
336

22.    Unleashing Potentials with Meta-States
353

 

Appendix A     Journaling States
377

Appendix B     Four NLP Meta-Domains
380

Appendix C     Meta-States Books
382

Appendix D     The Matrix and Mind-Lines Models
383

Appendix E     The Diamond of Consciousness
385

Glossary
386

Index
292

Bibliography
395

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PREFACE

 

 

 

The book you are now holding in your hands is a brand new and completely
revised version of the original book, Meta-States.  It was the original
version of that book which launched a whole new approach to NLP and
eventually gave birth to the field of Neuro-Semantics.  In these pages I
tell the story of finding and constructing the Meta-States model while
simultaneously present the theoretical frameworks of the model.

 

I rushed to write the first version within a 6 weeks period excited by a
wild rush of ideas that were popping and busting and exploding in my mind.
In the five years that followed, research and experience enabled me to find
four major mistakes in that book.  So in the second edition I focused on
correcting those errors to present a more consistent model of how our
self-reflexive consciousness works to create states and states-about-states.

 

Another eight years have now passed and with it much more experience with
the model and our expansion of its benefits.  As the Meta-States model is
now maturing, and as tens of thousands of people have now been trained and
certified in using this model, it has become a tool for so many things:

           For personal development-as you access the prerequisite states
of mind and emotion necessary to develop personal mastery and expertise in a
given area.

           For self-actualization-as you set meta-states which enable you
to step in and out of a state of "flow" and turn these on and off a "peak
experience" at will.

           For modeling expertise and expert performances- as you identify
the critical frames of mind that facilitate a specific excellence.

           For accelerating learning and transformation-as you can quickly
get to the leverage frames that make the difference.  As a result, this has
led to all of the frame game books for winning the inner game in numerous
areas- being fit and slim, creating wealth, leadership, management, mastery
fear, entrepreneurship, business mastery, etc.

If you are more interested in a simplified version of the Meta-States model,
there are several books written precisely for that purpose.  The easiest one
to read is Winning the Inner Game (2006).  This was formally published under
the title of Frame Games (2000).  In that book, states are presented as our
"games"-the things we say and do to achieve our various objectives.  And
meta-states are our frames -our frames of mind which contain all of our
rules for the game.

 

The next easiest to read is The Secrets of Personal Mastery (1999) which
presents the Meta-States model using the language of personal development.
After that is Dragon Slaying (1996, 2000) which uses meta-states for a
therapeutic transformation.

 

My design in this third edition is to take you on a journey to the
theoretical background, understandings, and constructions of the Meta-States
model itself.  My aim here is to more fully locate Meta-States in the field
of the cognitive-behavioral sciences as it establishes the emergent field of
Neuro-Semantics.  Here we will probe the historical roots of Meta-States in
the writings of Alfred Korzybski and Gregory Bateson and other pioneer
thinkers in the field of cognitive and meta-cognitive psychology.

 

In most of what follows I assume that you have at least a basic
understanding of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. If not, I recommend any of
the following introductory books to NLP:

            Introducing NLP by Joseph O'Connor and John Seymour.

            The Sourcebook of Magic, Volume I by L. Michael Hall.

Using Your Brain-for A Change by Richard Bandler.

            MovieMind: Directing your Mental Cinemas by Michael Hall

 

Meta-States is not just a model about how you think, feel, relate, act, and
speak, it is also a different way of thinking about the way you function as
a human being.  Understanding your own meta-states within this model of
self-reflexive consciousness is to enter into a non-linear way of thinking
and feeling, and to go for a ride.  That's because your self-reflexive
consciousness goes round and round in circles, it spirals up and it spirals
down.  And often you can get lost in your own thoughts and hardly know which
way is up.

 

If you find that happening as you read this book it is because you are using
your reflexivity to understand your reflexivity.  If so, then just raise
your hands over your head, let out a good yell, and enjoy the ride as you go
round and round and sometimes loop back upon yourself!  I say enjoy the ride
because if you stay with it, you will learn how to ride the energy of your
own spiraling and when that happens, you'll be able to manage your own
states and your own self-actualization in ways that you now consider
unimaginable.  And you will be able to more effectively communicate and work
with others. 

 

Learning the ins and outs of your meta-state reflexivity will make you a
better leader, manager, coach, parent, and partner.  It will enable you to
be able to see into the very structure of experience and to model peak
performances.  It will enable you to more fully understand the higher levels
of your mind that are typically outside of conscious awareness.  And it will
empower you to take charge of the higher functions of your creative mind to
actualize your highest and best.

 

It's an exciting journey and I'm delighted that you have decided to begin
your own exploration.

 

To your highest and best!

 

 

 
L. Michael Hall

 
Colorado Rocky Mountains

 
May, 2008




 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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

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information about the Self-Actualization workshops, go to
<http://www.self-actualizing.org/> www.self-actualizing.org

 

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