L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Some people do not merely have beliefs about certain things, they go further — to a higher logical level. They believe in their beliefs. Yet (as Korzybski pointed out) when you hold a second-order abstraction of “conviction of conviction” this typically causes a person to end up thinking-feeling, talking, and acting like a fanatic!
Author: Michael Hall
Beliefs #5: The Meta/Yes – Meta/No Pattern
Bobby G. Bodenhamer, D.Min.
After I learned about the Meta-States Model (Hall, 1995, 1996) and began to see and experience its power in making changes in people’s lives, I began to think that Graham Dawes’ review of Dragon Slaying (Anchor Point, June 1997) made a serious point when he described the Meta-States model as “the model that ate NLP.”
Adding Passion to Empowering Beliefs
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
We spend a lot of time in NLP and Neuro-Semantics on identifying limiting and toxic beliefs and building up and installing empowering beliefs. Why do we do that? We do so because we know all too well about the self-fulfilling nature of “beliefs.”
The Structure of Unconscious Excuses
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
I came upon The Excuse Blow-Out Pattern after encountering three people in a row who complained, “But I just can’t apply NLP to myself.” Talk about an excuse!
The Magic You Can Perform With Reframing
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
We all frame and we all reframe because this describes how we think, represent information, use language, and create meaning. Initially, we frame because our minds do the work that “minds” do (i.e. process information, reason, draw conclusions, etc.) by using frames-of-reference.
Eliminating the Barriers to Success
Rob McCarter, MS, LPC/NCC
Over the years, I have been most fortunate to be one of those that God has called to aid others in eliminating barriers to success in their lives. In each situation, I help them discover their own resources and then get out of the way for their own resources to knock down the barriers.
The Hypnotic Nature & Language of Meta-States
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Many people have noticed and commented on the hypnotic nature of the meta-stating process and have wondered about its relationship to hypnosis. Frequently when I first introduce the Meta-States model, I like giving people an experience of their own meta-states.
Accelerating NLP Using Meta-States
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
If you know about NLP, then you know that because Neuro-Linguistic Programming is about “running your own brain” it leads to empowering people to take charge of their own neuro-linguistic responses. NLP is also about modeling expertise.
How Meta-States Enriches Logical Levels in NLP
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
People want to know. At least people well-trained in the NLP model want to know. I find it everywhere. Without fail wherever I present the Introductory workshop on Meta-States, “Accessing Personal Genius,” I am repeatedly asked about the relationship between Meta-States and the Neuro-Logical Levels model.
How Meta-States Fills in the Missing Pieces of NLP
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Now if you’ve not been introduced to Meta-States yet and have not experienced a Meta-States training in the strategy of excellence in Selling/Persuasion, Wealth Building, State Management, Secrets of Personal Mastery, Mind-Lines, etc., then I want to let you in on the secrets and magic of Meta-States.
Meta-States As Advancing NLP Into the New Millennium
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Mostly we can awaken our executive levels of mind to create the highest and most generative transformations in the process of modeling and installing expertise.
Introducing Meta-States
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Suppose I offered you a way by which you could learn to “run your own brain” so that you could develop some high level state-management skills and live resourcefully? Would that interest you; would you like that?
Immersion Metastate
by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D.
I want to write!! But saying that is not enough. There are a million other “desired projects”, large and small, begging for attention with associated needs, shoulds, and musts. How can a mere “want” survive?
An Interchange:
As dynamic, fluid, and non-linear processes, they are shifting and changing thoughts-and-feelings. They are our neuro-semantic way of thinking, emoting, and framing things. So we need to describe this process using a verb, hence, “logical leveling.”
Read moreMeta to the Core
Can you tell when someone has some trait or quality that goes all the way to his or her core? Can you detect when something is at the core which generates an energy that pervasively drives almost every expression and behavior of that person?
Read moreTo John Grinder’s Challenges in “Whispering in the Wind”
To John Grinder’s Challenges in “Whispering in the Wind”
The following articles was written after the publication of Whispering in the Wind in response to the challenges that John Grinder presented to me (or to M. Hall) as he addressed me repeatedly in his book. I wrote the articles to answer his questions in a straightforward and honest way, but then he immediately commented that he was “tired” of the debate and didn’t want to do it any longer. Since John refuses to put my answers to his challenges on his website and to engage in an honest scholarly dialogue, I have collected the articles that I wrote in 2002 —2003 and put in this format. Please feel free to distribute this file to John and to anyone in his “camp” of NLP. Michael
NLP and the Human Potential Movement #1
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
When I first learned about NLP, and even in my first trainings, I did not know that the NLP actually arose as one of the hundreds of off-shoots of the Human Potential Movement. Did you?
Avoiding Cult-Like Pitfalls that Could Arise in Neuro-Semantics
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
I was recently in Geneva, Switzerland where I presented the Genius track with Brief’r Formations in the full seven days. That meant three days of Accessing Personal Genius (APG) and four days of Living Personal Genius (LPG). On this occasion my translator was Henry Roux de Bezieux and one evening he brought up the subject of how NLP has been confused with cults in Europe and how the charges have undermined its influence.
The Magic of Feedback #1
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. THE REFINING SKILL OF GIVING AND RECEIVING FEEDBACK From the beginning of the adventure that we call “NLP,” a communication model was put forward that was so systemic that it actually provided a way for us humans to think about the exchanges of messages as involving “no failure, only feedback.” This incredible paradigm shift arose from Family systems, cybernetics, General Semantics, etc.
Read moreMeta Detective Beginning
By Pascal Gambardella Ph.D.
Have you ever tried to learn an elaborate dance (or a martial arts form) with a million moves? One way is to learn the moves is to practice the first few moves, and then starting from the beginning add the next few, etc. With the number of meta-programs at 50-plus and growing, a similar strategy applies.