1	Chapter 3 State Management 101 Accessing Personal Genius
2	“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.
3	States¾ 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?
4	1) The Components of States Linguistics The Sensory Representation System (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory & Gustatory) The Language Representation System Physiology/Neurology
5	Figure 3:1 – Neuro-Linguistic States
6	2a)Two Avenues to Evoke States Internal Representations specify our state of mind¾ 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
7	2b)Two Avenues to Evoke States Physiology and/Or Neurology describe the physical state or state of body¾ …the things that we experience in our body, involving health, posture, breathing, bio-chemistry, etc.
8	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)
9	Figure 3:2 – Two Royal Roads to State Control
10	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?”
11	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?
12	Figure 3:3 – State Awareness
13	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 3:4 next slide.
14	Figure 3:4 – State Accessing/Inducing
15	Exercise: In and out of states Access a recent state of being courageous and note the qualities. Access a state of being fearful and note the qualities. Write down the differences of each experience. Practice going in and out of these two states.
16	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?
17	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?
18	Figure 3:5 – State Intensity
19	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?
20	Managing States Managing States necessitates developing high level awareness for four states: Identifying what state How much we have that state Its direction Its focus and object
21	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.”
22	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.
23	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.
24	Three Keys to Anchoring Intensity ® Purity Uniqueness
25	Figure 3:6 Precision Anchoring
26	State Accessing & Anchoring Identify the state to anchor. Evoke it fully. “Think of a time when you fully experienced this state...” “What would it be like if you did fully experience this state?” Anchor the state when it is highly amplified. Practice stepping in an out of the states. Apply the resource state to a time and place in your every day life.
27	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 States has us, and feels as if it has a life of its own.
28	Figure 3:7 – State Dependency
29	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 (See Figure 3:8 ®).
30	Figure 3:8 – From State Dependency to Meta-States
31	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.
32	Figure 3:9 Courage/ Faith Applied to Fear
33	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.
34	13) The Internal Logic When we transcend from one state to another state, we set the second state as a frame over the first and include the second inside the first frame. Examples: calmness to anxiety; respect to anger See Figure 3:10 ®
35	Figure 3:10
36	14) 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.
37	15) States as Emotion (K^meta) 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 3:11®
38	Figure 3:11
39	“Emotions are Just Signals” between our Model of the World and our Experience of the World. See Figure 3:12 ®
40	Figure 3:12
41	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.
42	Figure 3:13 Texturing Fear
43	16) 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.
44	17) State Expressions versus State Frames We have four central expressions of states: Thinking¾ What do you think about this? Feeling¾ What do you feel? Speaking¾ What do you say? Behaving¾ What do you do?
45	18) Meta-States ¾ States About States Something wild and wonderful happens when we access and relate one state to another¾ we generate a meta-state. We access a state of Thought-Feelings (T-F) and apply it or bring it to bear upon another state. We layer state upon state.
46	Figure 3:14 States About States
47	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.
48	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.
49	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.
50	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.
51	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.
52	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?”
53	Conscious Reframing Identify a behavior Engage Identify frame Chunk down to more specifics Context Reframe Content Reframe Integrate Test
54	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.
55	Figure 3:16
56	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.
57	Figure 3:17
58	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.
59	Figure 3:18 Frames by I implication
60	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.
61	Meta Level Categories Meanings Beliefs Values Identity Aboutness Principles Decisions Intentions Outcome Understandings Expectations Paradigms, models Metaphors
62	Figure 3:19 – Teasing Out Frames
63	Meta Levels Each of these frames has other categories within it. I.E., you can believe in a value or value a belief, etc. When we “nominalize” these categories and make them “things,” we get into trouble. Only nominalize categories that serve you.
64	Meta-Level Elicitation Questions Under each category we have questions that will elicit the categories from the individual. In asking these questions, you are exploring the individuals higher level structures. Remember, they are not different “things,” just different ways of expression.
65	1. Meanings – ideas in the mind What does this mean to you? What else does it mean to you? How much meaning does it hold for you?
66	2. Beliefs – ideas we affirm What do you believe about that? How much do you value that belief? Do you have any beliefs about that belief? How have you confirmed that belief? How strong is that confirmation?
67	3. Values – importance, esteem How is that important to you? What do you believe about that value? Why is that important or valuable to you?
68	4. Identity – ideas about self Does this affect your self-definition or identity? How does it affect the way you think about yourself? What does this say about how you perceive yourself?
69	5. Aboutness – ideas about ideas What do you think about that? What do you feel about that? What comes to mind when you entertain that thought?
70	6. Principles – guidelines, laws What principles do you hold about that? I understand ____________ (‘what’ about ‘that’)? How does this work?
71	7. Decisions – ideas we separate and cut off from other ideas What decisions drive this? So what will you do? How would you complete this phrase, “I will ____________ (‘what’)? Or, if you use, I choose _________? Or, I feel ____________?
72	8. Intentions – motive, wants What is your purpose in this? What is your intent in this? What do you get from that? And when you get that (as you want it), what will that get you? Why is that valuable to you?
73	9. Outcomes – goals, ends How do you want to see this turn out? What do you want from this? What consequences do you hope will come from this?
74	10. Understandings – supporting ideas What do you understand about that? What knowledge do you have about this?
75	11. Expectations - anticipation So what are you expecting? Where did you learn to expect that?
76	12. Paradigms, Models, Schema (The ideas we have that come together as more complex mappings about things.) What paradigm (model, schema) drives and informs this? What paradigms are you relying on in your understanding?
77	13. Metaphors, Non-Linguistic Symbols What is this like? If this was a color, what color would it be? If this was an animal, what animal would it be? What would this sound like if you put it to music? If you made up a poem or story about this, what would you say?
78	14. Realizations How does this feel to you? When you realize this, what do you think? Now that you know, what do you want to do? Now that you are aware of this, what comes to mind?
79	15. Permissions What happens when you give yourself permission to experience “X”? As you give yourself permission for this, notice what happens? How well does this settle? How many more times will you need to give yourself permission?
80	Meta-Yes/ Meta-No Pattern We change a limiting belief at the base level by saying “no” to it. Make sure your desired belief is ecological for you. Meta-stating a limiting “belief” enables us to de-commission old programs.
81	Figure 3:20
82	Figure 3:21
83	Meta-Yes/ Meta-No Pattern Access a limited belief and “get a strong “no!” Meta “no” the limiting belief. Access a strong and robust “yes.” Meta “yes” the enhancing belief. Yes, yes it repeatedly and put it into the future.
84	Changing Meaning by Changing Reactions Meaning drives everything including our unresourceful states. We hold our unresourceful states in place by the meaning we give to internal or external experiences. To change this meaning, a good place to start is with the “Map – Territory” distinction. ®
85	Decide to fully and completely learn the distinction between the Map and the Territory. See Figure 3:22 ®
86	Figure 3:22
87	Meta-Stating Semantic Reactions I will learn the distinction between map and territory. I will use my neurology as a human being. I will manage the higher levels of my mind. I will not take counsel of my illogical fears. I will access my higher resources. I will create a new “gestalt” from my higher resources.
88	Figure 3:23
89	Changing Meaning by Changing Language We have looked inside the movie; lets now look inside the language of our unresourceful states. Our matrices have language and language has structure. We have questions (Meta-Model) that effectively challenge the structure of language.
90	Figure 3:24
91	Tearing Language Apart What does this state mean to you? How is this state a problem for you? When do you do this state? When do you not have this problem? Where do you do this? Where do you not do this?
92	Tearing Apart the Language How do you do the process of having this resourceful state? What do you see, hear, feel and how do you talk to yourself in order to create this state? What are the thoughts in the back of your mind about this state? Do you have any memories that contributed to this state?
93	Fast Phobia Cure Behind many unresourceful states one will inevitably find fear. The “Fast Phobia Cure” is especially designed to remove visual images of the movie that creates fear. The key to change fear is to gain control over what happens in your own brain.
94	Figure 3:25
95	The Fast Phobia Pattern Step back from your painful memory. Step back from watching the movie. Let the old movie play out as you watch from the projection booth. Step into the movie and rewind. Repeat the process five times. Test results.
96	Safe to be Fluent Pattern Identify who you are fluent with. Recall fully and associate into the state. Layer with frames that validate and re-enforce your identity. Set a symbolic anchor.
97	The Permission Pattern Check permission level. Integrate any and all objections. Layer multiple levels of resourceful states on the permission.
98	Stuttering as a Metaphor Identify your personal metaphor. Quality control your metaphor. Alter and renew your metaphor