META-TRANCE

When people first experience a meta-state process, it’s not uncommon for them to comment about how much it feels like a trance. “Wow! That was kind of hypnotic.” “I feel like I’ve been somewhere else.” And no wonder! As a state-about-a-state, meta-states take us inside and so we naturally transition from the outside world to the inside world.

It gets even more trancy as we move up the levels. Consider one of the key patterns we have in Neuro-Semantics, the Intentionality Pattern. With this pattern we essentially meta-state ourselves with intentionality all the way up. Here we begin with the real world—the world of physics where our experience is grounded in the empirical qualities of sights, sounds, sensations, and smells. Then we ask a series of meta-questions: “Is that important to you? Why is that important? What are you doing that for? What’s in the back of your mind about that?”

To answer these questions, we go inside. We move into the world of symbols and communication, the world of representations and codes. Here there are no pickup trucks and fast food, no tree or yards that need mowing, no coconuts or snicker candy bars, no bosses or jobs, no faxes or reports, no gyms or court houses. These things do not enter the inside-world. This is a world of maps, ideas, thoughts, and facsimiles of the things “out there.” Into this world tangible objects cannot enter. In this world there are only messages and messages-of-messages. This is the world of hypnosis. It is the world of meta-states.

We enter this world by thought, by re-presenting to ourselves the sights, sounds, sensations, and smells of the real world. This is the inner world of our minds, of our Matrix where we give birth to our sense of reality, our model of the world. It seems real and it is real-to-us when we are in there. It is also real to our nervous-system-and-brain that creates it and that will attempt to real- ize the messages that we send to ourselves. Yet it is not the real world of physics, it is the invented or constructed world of meaning —layers and layers of meanings.

We can go further into it. When we ask the meta-questions of intention repeatedly, “So that is important? Great. How is it important? What’s your intention in wanting that? What will that get you? And when you get that fully and completely in just the way you want it, what will that give you that’s even more important to you?”

When we then begin to answer these questions, we transition to a yet higher level of consciousness as we go into more of a trance state. Our answers even become trancy— vague, general, conceptual. We want peace, oneness, connection, purpose, fulfillment, authenticity, contribution, etc. To move up the meta-state levels is to enter into a hypnotic state. In this, all meta-states are hypnotic structures and facilitate hypnotic experiences. This means that the Matrix also is a hypnotic state. And when we complete the communication loop to bring the meta-state back down to the primary level so we can interface the world with it —our meta-state sets up hypnotic suggestions, commands, and post-hypnotic behaviors for us.

Given this, every state of hypnosis is actually a meta-state. It involves layers of meta-states that have been built up in our mind as we have gone inside and created various ideas, images, and suggestions. The depth of the hypnosis is the height of our meta-stating frames. Knowing this about meta-states now enables us to examine our states and behaviors that have a hypnotic feel to them and that do not serve us well and re-formulate them so they do enhance our lives in releasing our highest potentials.

Trance states are meta-states and meta-states are trance experiences. Knowing that, you probably won’t be surprised to know that one of the things we often do in some of our trainings (Master Practitioner) is to have people take their genius meta-stating process from Accessing Personal Genius (APG) and write out the genius state as an induction. Ah, an induction! As in “a hypnotic induction” that creates and facilitates the meta-state structure.

So in the Intentionality Pattern, when you meta-state yourself with intention upon intention, it takes you to your highest frames of purpose, destiny, identity, legacy, etc. This generally induces a very deep hypnotic state, or shall I say, a very high hypnotic state. You go higher-deeper within your inner world, internally seeing your highest meanings, highest purposes, and feeling inspired by the inner vision. Then with all of that in mind, when you bring it to the interface point and see your everyday activities with those eyes— you set up a post-hypnotic suggestion for how to move through the world. It creates a higher level way of being in the world.

That’s meta-trance. That’s trancing out with your highest and best meta-states. That’s more up, up, and away from the first primary state to the levels of your meta-mind which is generally outside-of-consciousness. How are you at meta-trance? What are your best meta-trances for work, relationships, health, exercise, creativity, wealth, etc.? What is Neuro-Semantics about? What will Meta-States do for you? It will create great meta-trances— trances of genius, of love, of passionate commitment to things that matter to you, and of unleashing potentials!

May all of your trances this week be positively empowering ones that unleash more and more of your potentials!