HOW I INVENTED THE META-STATE MASTERY PLAYING CARDS

When I first learned about meta-states I did not fully understand how they worked. I didn’t comprehend the impact of how I was applying my thoughts to previous thoughts, and feelings to my previous feelings (which is largely unconscious). I was walking around ignorant, and unfortunately, more often than not it was not a ‘blissful ignorance’. My emotions ‘had’ me and the way my brain had learned to run itself was running me into walls left and right. I led myself to a poor level of physical health, toxic relationships, a lack of marketable skills, and a savings account to show it. Worse yet I was busy blaming the world and others for my circumstances and not recognizing that it was my own thinking, feeling, and believing that was in my way.

When I first experienced the skill of meta-stating my life transformed. I could bring acceptance to my frustrations, and appreciation to the blessings I had been taking for granted. I could transcend limiting emotions in a single bound, and slay some dragons with a single swing of my metaphorical sword. How had I not heard about this before? And what about all of the other people who have no idea about the transformational power of meta-states and the impact it could have on their relationships, health, career, and overall quality of life. I knew I had to get the word out.

When I started training the Meta-States Model in my training programs I would guide the participants to rip up a paper into pieces and write some ‘state’ words onto the shreds of paper. We would mix up the papers and experiment with different state-upon-state interactions. With time I began to collect the papers and over that time I detected some patterns. There would be many unresourceful states repeated from participant to participant e.g. anger, sadness, frustration, etc. Also there would be crucial resourceful states that were missing from the pile, e.g., acceptance, permission, trust, releasing, etc.

Eventually I took the 52 emotions that were the most repeated as well as the significant states that I repeatedly found missing from those torn pieces of paper and formalized them into a professionally designed deck that I called the Meta-State Mastery Cards. Essentially they were a set of flash cards with a crucial mix of resourceful and unresourceful emotions to practice, play with, and transform. I produced 100 packs of the cards and the feedback was fantastic. People were reporting that they had increased their emotional vocabulary, they were more empowered to transform their limiting states, and they were cooking up powerful ‘recipes’ to proactively prepare for anticipated events. All 100 decks sold out which validated the concept.

As I played with them in workshop environments and others experimented with themselves, their friends, and family members we found some interesting new use cases and I set out to develop version 2.0. We changed some of the emotion cards, bringing in some that were missing and removing some that were rare or redundant. We also added an instruction booklet that included some new ways we had discovered to use the cards. Again I produced 100 decks and again they sold out. I was excited for the next round of improvements.

I am happy to announce that I recently produced the Meta-State Mastery Playing Cards 3.0 and I am so proud of how they have turned out. This deck is an actual deck of playing cards (Think ace of spades, two of hearts, etc.) and there has been a third round of refinement to the states represented in the deck. There is a new two player card game called ‘Peace’ (a variation on the game known as ‘War’ for those who know how to play it) that allows you to play with meta-states with others in a fun, simple, and memorable way.

We have used the cards in a training environment with great success from icebreaker exercises and energizers, to training exercises to learn basic meta-stating, using meta-states to transform negative states, ways to play with groups, and ways to use the cards for yourself for mastering the meta-levels of your mind. Many of these uses are incorporated in the included workbook that explains how to elicit states in yourself, how to meta-state, how to use the cards, and some fun facts about meta-stating to deepen your understanding and practice. I imagine that as you play with them you may even discover and share even more ways to use them

In future articles I will go deeper on some of the ways we have utilized the playing cards for increasing emotional mastery and in training environments as I imagine you may have some questions and I am happy to support. No matter one’s level of knowledge and experience, these cards are a powerful learning tool for beginners all the way to experienced trainers, and an excellent gift for loved ones for whom you would like to offer the meaningful gift of learning to master their mind and emotions.

I have attached some photos of the cards below and you can learn more about the cards and reserve your decks here: https:www.perceptionacademic.com/metacards/

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