NLP Concepts
Logical levels of states and NLP failure!
Jan 17th
A primary state refers to a state such as those that involve primary emotions (fear, anger, joy, lust, relaxation, pleasure, disgust, etc.). A Meta-state, by contrast, refers to those states that contain thoughts-and-emotions about a primary state: anger at one’s fear, guilt about one’s anger, feeling upset about one’s disgust, fear of one’s fear, depression about one’s fear, etc.
States-about-states (Meta-states) explains the critical importance of the unconscious frames that govern our presuppositional lives. It also explicitly details Bateson’s insights about meta-levels. Bateson argued that we can discern meaning not only via the words or syntax of a structure, but by considering the larger contexts within which the word and syntax occur. This explains how Meta-state technology can have such pervasive and generatice effects in change work.
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Eye accessing cues and its scientific basis
Jan 13th
Think about some time when you have noticed that people move their eyes while they talk and listen. These eye movements do not occur randomly. Each movement of the eyes functions to indicate certain neurological precessing.
The patterns go as follows: when most right-handed people move their eyes up and to the left, they call pictures previously seen. When they move their eyes up and to the right, they construct an image putting together pieces which they may not have ever seen.
Eyes moving level in the head to the left indicates recalling of remembered words. Eyes moving level to the right indicate the constructing of sentences. If the eyes go down and to the left, the person engages in an internal dialogue – usually about highly valued values and principles. Here a person has a synesthesia (combination, merging) of two senses – they speak feeling words to themselves as the consider something of importance. When eyes move down and to the right, they access kinesthetic awareness (feelings, sensations) and emotions. Eyes centered and defocused often indicates the person is making pictures; however, many also process internal dialogue this way.
The difference between NLP & Psychology
Jan 10th
This summarizes the heart and passion of NLP: modeling, searching for processes and the “how,” and disdaining the “why,” and focusing on experiences of excellence rather than the cases of pathology.
Psychology for a hundred years had operated from a completely different orientation. Based on the medical model and physical “hard” science model, it looked at pathology (at distortions, perversions, pain, distress, etc.), seeking to understand the source (”where did this come from?”, “why is this so?”), and wanting empirical, external proof.
NLP and Magic!
Jan 7th
“Magic” Huh?
In NLP, we typically use the term of “magic”, not to designate external magic whereby we change the laws of physics. It refers rather to the seemingly wild, wonderful and “magical” effects that occur when we know the structure of subjectivity.
When we do now know how human subjectivity (mind, emotions, motivation, health, language, etc.) works, it leaves us clueless about experience (i.e., their whys and wherefores) and about change (i.e, how to transform things, the leverage point of change). When we do not understand human functioning (cognitive-behavioral or neuro-linguistic functioning), it leaves us “in the dark” about how to improve human efficiency, happiness, and effectiveness. We therefore live in a world of darkness and confusion about the role of “language” in human consciousness, neurology, and health.
