What is an attractor frame as in self-organizing attractor and how does it work?
- A frame of meaning that attracts ourselves and our processes to some value or experience.
- As an attractor frame it seeks to organize ourselves to be ready for and working toward the given value or experience.
There are at least 16 interfaces in the Neuro-Semantics model of Meta-States that describe what happens when we apply one state to another. List ten of these interfaces:
- Solidify a state
- Weaken and loosening a state
- Create humor
- Create trance
- Reduce intensity
- Increase intensity
- Negate
- Step back and check ecology
- Create Paradox
- Texture a state
- Interrrupt
- Grab and focus attention
- Confuse
- Gestalt experiences
- Seed a new process / create response potential
What does “coalescing” mean?
When one state enters into another so that the two become one and merge together.
By the process of repetition and habituation higher frames or states eventually “collapse,” into lower states - soak down into them to qualify or texture them. Meta-states coalesce to become perceptual filters or Meta-Programs and qualify or texture lower states.
How do we define culture in Neuro-Semantics?
Culture is the cultivation of our mind, emotions, speech, behaviors … so that we learn the frames of meaning in a given context and with a given group.
What does “dragon slaying” mean?
Eliminating an unresourceful state.
What is the “formula” that we use in Meta-States to describe the construction of social realities?
The formula for culture / the creation of social reality:
X (some raw sensory experience) counts as Y (meta-term) in C (context).
What does “edge of the maps words” mean?
Words that indicate that a person is at the edge of what he or she has mapped out about something: only, just, etc.
As you move up the levels of a state, “edge-of-the-map” language eventually appears: Just, only, obviously, “that’s the way it is,” is, really, etc. Words lthat let you know you are at the top of the mapping about that state. Check with, “Anything above this?” Expect looping and synonyms on your way there.
What does “dragons” mean?
A metaphor for non-enhancing, non-productive, problematic, un-useful, and toxic states. These include:
- Out-of-control states that overwhelm
- Negative states turned against ourselves
- Toxic ideas and believes that lead us into self-defeating experiences
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What does “dragon taming/ transforming” mean?
Working with a state to calm its energy and transform its energies for something more useful and resourceful - using framing and meta-stating.
What does “emergent properties” in gestalt states mean?
Properties or qualities of states that emerge from the combining of various elements.
What is the Neuro-Semantic definition of an “emotion?”
The difference between our mapping of the world and our experiencing of the same.
What are the two primary metaphors we use to describe emotion in NS?
- Scale and the relative weight on each side: map / territory
- Car pedals of acceleration and brakes
What does the following sentence means in Neuro-Semantics?
“Energy flows where attention goes as governed and directed by intention.”
- Attention directs us to pay attention and notice something
- When we do our energy (emotion, focus, speech, etc.) goes there.
- And we can take control of this process by setting our intentions about what we want to draw our attention and energies.
How do we distinguish the conceptual levels of “explanation” from an “excuse?” What distinguishes these mental states from each other?
- An excuse is an explanation on a meta-level.
- We explain things to ourselves as we seek to understand what an experience is and how it works
- Sometimes we use the same explanatory skills and reasoning powers to excuse ourselves from doing something … telling ourselves “it is too hard,” “too cold,” “too hot,” extra.
What is a “frame” in NLP and Neuro-Semantics? How does a “frame” relate to a meta-state?
- “Frame” refers to our frame of reference - the significance or meaning, the cognitive structure of the state that actually creates the state.
- Once a frame of reference act as an interpretative lens, it is also a meta-state
- Meta-stating set frames of reference by which we create meaning, internal contexts and categories. In this way we create our Matrix of meaning.
List at least 5 key principles about “frames” as utilised in NS.
- Someone (or something) always set the frame (of reference)
- Whoever sets the frame governs the game (the experience).
- Where there’s a frame, there’s a game.
- Where there’s a game, there’s a frame.
- Change the frame and the game changes.
- Meaning exists in multiple frames simultaneously
What does a “genius state” mean in meta-states?
A state of complete engagement, of focus and “flow” where one gets “lost” so that one is all there and other facets of consciousness fade away (the world, time, self, others, etc.).
What do we mean by a gestalt state in Meta-States and Neuro-Semantics? How is it created and what distinguishes it?
- A gestalt state arises from several meta-statings to a primary state so that the result is “more than the sum of the parts.”
- The higher and more complex state emerges from the mixture of several elements or components.
What is a “logical level” in the NLP approach?
NLP logical levels are viewed as static and ordered in a singular way
What does “going meta” mean?
Stepping back or stepping up to outframe a state or experience.
What is a “logical level” in Meta-States and how do we think of them in Neuro-Semantics?
Logical levels— two nominalizations that refer to the layering of levels of thoughts and feelings.
What is the key metaphor that we use to talk about and represent logical levels in NS?
- Logical levels do not comprise a hierarchy, but a holoarchy (holons within holons) so that every logical level is at the same time every other logical level. Beliefs are values, identity, intention, memory, imagination, etc.
- That’s why we call the “logical levels” a diamond of consciousness—each offers a multi-faceted perspective.
- This is represented by (i.) a spiral and (ii.) a diamond (with different facets).
Name the 8 facets of the matrix model.
- Meaning
- Intention
- State
- Self
- Powers
- Others
- Time
- World
What psychologies informs the matrix model?
- Cognitive-behavioral psychology, and
- Developmental psychology.
