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MASTERY SKILLS
Overview of the 7 Days 4 Day 5: Mastering your Wealth Matrix 79
Living with Passion
Day 1: Waking up to Your Matrix 5 Inside out Wealth / Abundance
When the Matrix Has You Seeing & Seizing Opportunities
Warning: Taking the Red Pill Bold Risk-Taking Adventuring
Games and Frames The Time Matrix
The Matrix Model and Meta-Stating the Matrix Personal Efficiency
Matrix and Meta-Questions Adding Value
State Matrix:
State Induction — Meta-Stating Day 6: Mastering Your Business Matrix 92
Matrix Creation The World Matrix
Frame Game Detection — Matrix Detection World Detection
Systems Check World of Business, Principles
Matrix Detection and Transformation Meta-Detailing
Meta-Detailing Business Success
Day 2: Matrix Training 28 Well-formed Problems
Self Matrix: Well-formed Solutions
Self-Valuation and Esteem Solution Focus
Power Matrix
Ownership of Powers Day 7: Mastering your Leadership Matrix 103
Ego Strength Super-Charging Your Attitude
Intention Matrix — Intentionality Stance Emotional Vitality
Flexibility in Exploration Leadership Criteria
Excuse Blow-Out: Yes/ No Continuous Improvement
Dancing with Dragons Optimism
Resilience
Day 3: Reloading Your Matrix 43 Persistence
Meaning Matrix
Frame of Choice
Cognitive Distortions & Clarity
Meta-Programs: Changing Meta-Programs
Texturing States — Gestalting:
Proactivity Articles: Wake Up, Neo, the Matrix Has You! 113
Genius State Welcome to the Matrix of Your Mind 117
Making Executive Decisions Frame Game Questions 124
Closing Knowing-Doing Gap Frame Game Worksheets
Mind-To-Muscle
Changing the Rules of the Game Models for Mastery 128
Multiple Layering of Frames Glossary 131
Bibliography 133
Author 135
Day 4: Mastering your Relationship Matrix 66 Neuro-Semantic Trainings 136
The Others/Relationship Matrix
Responsibility to / for
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Un-insultability
From Magnanimity to Forgiveness
Playful Humor
Skill Development in the Matrix
OVERVIEW
FROM MATRIX TO MASTERY
Personal Mastery:
Day 1: Waking up to Your Matrix You were born in a Matrix—a Matrix for your
Taking Charge of Your Matrix mind, for your mind-body system, a Matrix of
frames about meaning. Until we wake up to our
to our Matrix, the Matrix has us. Waking up to
Day 2: Matrix Training it enables us to master it so that we can truly
Powering Up in your Matrix choose how to take charge of our talents, passions,
and dreams and live by our values and visions.
Day 3: Reloading your Matrix Playing off of the idea of Frames and Games as
Matrix Transformations well as the Matrix movie— the training enables
you to power up so that you can reload your own
Matrix with the most inspiring of frames.
Day 5: Mastering your Wealth Matrix Wealth is an inside-out phenomenon. Learn that
Inside Out Wealth: and you can operate from an abundance that sees
Using talent and passion to add value and seizes opportunities and that creates value
everywhere.
Day 6: Mastering your Business Matrix As there is I.Q. & E.Q. for emotional intelligence,
Business skills and intelligence so there's a B.Q. This Matrix enables us to play
for top performances the great Game of work, identify critical success
factors and think like an entrepreneur.
Day 7: Mastering your Leadership Matrix Lead yourself and others by finding your
Leading yourself into your future Vision and super-charging your attitude so that
with an entrepreneurial attitude you can play and win.
WAKING UP TO YOUR MATRIX
The Art of Taking Charge of Your Matrix
Description: You were born in a Matrix —a Matrix for your mind, for your mind-body system, a
Matrix of meaning frames about a thousand things. Until we wake up to our Matrix, the Matrix
has us. Waking up to it enables us to take charge of our talents, passions, and dreams and to
then live by our values and visions.
Challenge: How do we wake up to the Matrix? How do we resist the seduction of comfort,
familiarity, fear of risk or change?
Solution: Waking up to the Matrix begins by learning about it, detecting, it, entering it, and
exploring it. That's our first task. We will wake up and become aware of the grounding matrix
of state and begin to develop state awareness and management. Playing off of the idea of
Frames and Games as well as the Matrix movie— the training enables you to power up so that
you can reload your own Matrix with the most inspiring of frames.
In the beginning there was a void. An emptiness. We are born and we don't even know that we are in the world.
It takes some time to wake up and realize that we are ... to differentiate from mother and to discover the World.
• Self: I am a self... a being ... I am alive, I see, hear, feel. I am hunger and wet and dry and
uncomfortable, then comfortable.
• Happenings — Events — People. There's others. There's movement. There's activity. Things
are happening. I'm being fed, carried, rocked ...
• States: I'm in a state: pleased / unpleasant; happy / unhappy; comfortable / uncomfortable.
• Mapping: What is this all about? What do I think and feel?
In the beginning there was a void. An emptiness. We are born and we don't even know that we are in the world.
It takes some time to wake up and realize that we are ... to differentiate from mother and to discover the World.
• Self: I am a self... a being ... I am alive, I see, hear, feel. I am hunger and wet and dry and
uncomfortable, then comfortable.
• Happenings — Events — People. There's others. There's movement. There's activity. Things
are happening. I'm being fed, carried, rocked ...
• States: I'm in a state: pleased / unpleasant; happy / unhappy; comfortable / uncomfortable.
• Mapping: What is this all about? What do I think and feel?
Via training in the Matrix you will begin to re-define who you are, what you're about, and your direction
in life. You will learn how to begin to believe, really believe, in yourself. You will discover afresh or
for the first time the ability to set the frames you desire—and to wake up for the rest of your life with
your frames of choice.
Matrix Games is a model for How to Win at the Games of Life. It operates by detecting and
transforming our frames of mind— the frames that make up the Matrix of our mind,
Matrix Games is also about becoming a Master of your Matrix... a master who can identify
frames as they are presented, outframe toxic frames, effectively refuse losing games, and solidly
set new empowering games.
ALL OF LIFE IS A GAME
PLAYED INSIDE OF FRAMES
WITHIN FRAMES OF FRAMES
"It's difficult to see the picture
when you are inside the frame."
always in some state, we are forever playing out some frame. It's just a matter of, "What frame game are
you playing now?" "What frame games have you been playing?"
Every mental structure involving words, symbols, conceptual models, etc. establishes a frame as in "frame
of-reference" which then leads to various levels of our "Frames of Mind."
"Frames greatly influence the way that specific experiences and events are interpreted and
responded to because of how they serve to 'punctuate' those experiences and direct attention."
(Dilts, 1999, p. 22)
We only and always play games. We play both good games and bad games. We do so because we're have
a frame brain. We typically call these Games "reality." We say, "That's the way things are!" "The things
you have to do to succeed in this world." These descriptions make us feel better, but do not change the fact
that they are human constructed "realities" that set up the games that we play.
THE 7 MATRICES
OF OUR NEURO-SEMANTIC SYSTEM
Process matrices;
1) Meaning/ Spirit Matrix: What does it mean? What is its significance?
2) Intention Matrix: What do I want? What's important?
What's my outcome? What's the purpose?
— State Matrix: What state are you in? How are you feeling?
How intense is the state? What triggered the state?
How do you do that? What do you call this?
What state do you have to be in to do this?
How do you get yourself into this state?
5) Others/ Relationship Matrix Who are others? What are they like?
Are they friendly?
6) World / Reality Matrix: What is life, what exists? What is real?
What is out there?
All meta-levels in our mind are made up of the same "stuff" that governs the primary state or level:
thoughts, feelings, and physiology. We use our see-hear-feel representations and words to build up
meanings at the meta-levels to create the matrices of our mind. The following set of questions in various
categories offer lots of ways to explore and elicit these higher level structures. As you use these,
remember the different categories are not different things—just other ways of expressing the same thing,
the meta-frame.
This is not trivial. It means that we can view a "meaning" as an idea that we "hold in the mind" as a
belief, a value, an identity, an understanding, etc. Every frame has every one of these categories within it.
Confused?
It is this very thing that confuses most of us about the higher levels of our minds that we call "logical
levels." When we nominalize these categories, "Beliefs," "Values," etc. we mis-cue our minds-bodies
and begin thinking of them as "things." And as different things. Yet they are not. All of these words are
but expressions of various mental processes— the framings that we do which create our neuro-semantic
reality or Matrix. Think of the following questions as 26 ways to way around the diamond of
consciousness and see, hear, feel and explore the many facets of perception and focus. These are facets of
focus that give us multiple ways into the Matrix of our mind.
2. Beliefs: The "ideas" that we affirm, validate, and confirm (also Convictions).
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?
What other convictions do you have about this?
3. Frames: The ideas that we use to set frame of reference, structures of context in our mind.
What's your frame of reference for this?
How do you frame this?
How else could you frame it?
What's the most empowering frame you've heard from others about this?
4. Generalizations: The "ideas" that we draw as summary conclusions about things, "ideas" we have about other
ideas.
What do you think about that?
What do you feel about that?
What comes to mind when you entertain that thought?
What conclusions have you drawn about this?
How have you generalized from this experience?
5. Realizations: The "ideas" we develop as new insights, understandings, and even eureka experience. (Denis
Bridoux)
How does it feel to realize this?
When you realize this, what do you think?
Now that you know, what do you want to do?
Now that you're aware of this, what comes to mind?
6. Permissions: The "ideas" that we allow and permit which open up new possibilities from old taboos.
Do you have permission to think or feel this?
Who took permission away from you?
What happens when you give yourself permission to experience this?
Would you like to have internal permission for this?
Does the old prohibition or taboo against it serve you well?
As you give yourself permission and notice what happens, how well does that settle?
How many more times will you need to give yourself permission?
7. Feelings: The emotional "ideas" and feeling judgments that we bring to other ideas.
What do you feel about this?
What specific emotion do you associate with this idea or experience?
Framing it with this feeling, does this empower you as a person?
Does this feeling map things in a way that enhances your life?
8. Appreciation: The "ideas" of appreciation or value that we use to frame other ideas.
What do you appreciate about this? About yourself in this experience?
What could you appreciate about this emotion or experience?
If you could stay totally resourceful and have this experience, what value would that hold for you?
How much appreciation would you like to have about this?
9. Value / Importance: The "ideas" that we value, treat as important and significant, esteem.
How is that important to you?
What do you believe about that value?
Why is that important or valuable to you?
When you get that value from it, what's even more important than that?
10. Interest: The "ideas" of fascination, curiosity, interest, etc. that we bring to other ideas.
What's the most fascinating thing about this experience or idea?
What could you become curious about in this if you allowed yourself?
How do you best like to put yourself into something (inter -est)?
11. Decision / Choice / Will: The "ideas" that we separate and "cut off" (cision) from other ideas or choices so that
we say Yes to some and No to others.
What decision or decisions drive this?
So what will you do?
What would you like to do?
What are you saying to yourself in terms of choosing or deciding?
12. Intention / Want / Desire / Strategy: The "ideas" you have about your motive, intent, desire, wants.
What is your purpose in this?
What is your intent in this? And what is an even higher intention than that?
When you have that in just the way you like it, what do you get from that?
Why is that valuable to you?
What's your strategy for making that happen?
13. Outcome / Goal: The "ideas" we have about goals, outcomes, desired ends.
How do you want to see this turn out?
What is your preferred desired outcome from this?
What consequences do you hope will come from this?
What is the outcome of this outcome?
14. Expectation / Anticipation: The "ideas" we have about what we anticipate will happen.
What are you expecting?
Where did you learn to expect that?
How legitimate is that expectation?
What is the quality and nature of that expectation? Is it rigid or flexible?
Does that expectation keep you open and curious or demanding and controlling?
15. Connection: The "ideas" we have about our connection with other ideas, experiences, and people.
How connected are you to this idea, feeling, or experience?
What does your connection to this do for you?
Is this connection linked up to your self-definition or identity?
16. Causation: The "ideas" we have about cause, influence, contributing factors, what makes things happen, etc
What makes you feel this way? Think this way? Experience this?
Does it have to make you have these thoughts and feelings?
Who says? What's the rule that makes this so?
Does it always work this way?
When has it not caused this? What other exceptions are you aware of?
What are the mechanisms that make it work this way?
17. Culture: The "ideas" we have about our cultural identity, definition of reality, and cultural ideas.
Is this part of your cultural heritage?
What cultural context did you learn this?
What do you think about these cultural values and beliefs?
How well do they serve you?
If you were to pass on a new cultural legacy, what would it be?
18. Presupposition / Assumption / Implication: The "ideas" that we use as higher frames that reflect our
assumptive world and understandings.
What's implied in that statement? How does it make sense?
What are you assuming that enables you to think or feel this way?
How many presuppositions are you running with in order to believe this?
Where did these assumptions come from? Are they from your upbringing?
Are they in the structure of language itself?
19. History / Memory / Referent: The "ideas" that we bring with us about previous experiences and use as our
"referential index" for making-meaning.
Does this remind you of anything?
What comes to mind when you surrender to these thoughts or feelings?
What previous examples or experiences have you had that relate to this?
How does your personal history play into this?
20. Rules / Demands / Shoulds / Musts / Authorize: The "ideas" that we use that set up the Rules of the Games
that we play out in our lives, the modal operators that generate our modus operandi (MO) in the world.
You should, must, and have to do this? Why? Who says?
What creates the demandingness in your statement or feeling?
Who or what is the authority beyond and above this experience that demands this?
What if you don't? What then? What will happen then?
21. Definition / Language / Class / Categorizes: The "ideas" that we have that set the frames and categories for
our minds.
What does this word or term mean to you?
How do you define it?
What emotional associates have you connected with this term?
How would it feel if you knew that this term was just some sounds and didn't have to be so semantically
loaded?
What other definitions could you give to this to make it more useful as a map?
How does this term classify things? What does it mean in terms of the categories that it suggests?
22. Understanding / Know / Knowledge: The "ideas" you have that "stand" "under" you as the mental support for
your world.
What do you understand about that?
What background knowledge are you accessing that creates your understanding about this?
What do you "know" about this? How do you "know" that?
What kind of knowledge is this?
In what modality is this knowledge?
What kind of intelligence is this? (Use Gardner's Seven Intelligences).
23. Identity / Identify / Self/ Self-definition: The "ideas" we build up about our "self," the ideas we use in self-
defining.
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?
Are you identifying yourself with this thought, feeling, or emotion?
Does that enhance your life or empower you as a person? Do you really need to do this?
24. Paradigm / Model / Map / Schema: The "ideas" we have that come together as more complex mappings about
things.
What paradigm (model, schema) drives and informs this?
What paradigm are you relying on in your understandings?
How valid or useful is this map?
Would you like to map it in another way?
25. Metaphor / Symbol / Poem / Story: The "ideas" that we form through stories, analogies, and non-linguistic
forms.
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?
How have you been storied? Who storied you? What is the story?
Would you like to create a new narrative for yourself, for this experience?
What would a new narrative sound like?
26. Principle / Concept / Abstraction: The "ideas" that we treat as guidelines, laws, settled conclusions.
What is the guiding principle that you hold about this experience?
What concept or conceptual understanding governs this?
How does this principle or abstraction work in everyday life?
Do you have a good relationship with this concept?
If you were to remap this abstraction, how would you change it?
MIND-BODY STATES
Everything is Grounded or Embodied in State. At the foundation of our neuro-semantic system of frames within
frames within frames is our everyday state of consciousness that we call our state. And we are all always in some
state. It's only a matter of—
• What state are you in?
• How strong is that state?
• How resourceful or limiting? Do you like it or not?
Neural: States are neither good or bad, but enhancing or impoverishment. There's no morality in the fact
of our states, morality arises from what we do when in a given state.
Absolutely Critical What goes on in the mind— will affect the body! Embodiment occurs. In-
corporation.
State—the Center of the Matrix:
Our primary states ground us in the moment, in our current experience, and set the foundation for
all of our other thoughts and self-reflexivity about things. What we experience at the higher
levels of the matrices collects and accumulates in the middle, in our everyday primary states. We
experience what occurs at the higher levels, the whole of the system, in our present state of mind
and body as feelings and as influences in our Mental Movie. It is in this way that the whole is in
the part, and the part is in the whole.
State Awareness: Every Matrix starts from a particular state and is expressed in a given state. But what
state? That's the millionaire dollar question. It's the first and one of the most important questions.
What state are you in?
What is the quality and nature and intensity of that state?
What are you in reference to?
How are you experiencing this state?
What triggers this state?
What is the context and environment in which you experience this state?
What is the physiology and the physiological factors of this state?
Do you know how to interrupt your state? How skilled are you at it?
State Movie: We experience the states we do depending on the Movies we play in our mind. And the
coding and quality of the internal Movie governs the quality of our experience.
• What are you representing in the theater of your mind?
• How are you representing it in audio-visual terms?
• Are you in the Movie or out of it?
Matrix activated by States: Many experiences only occur, and can only occur, when we are in a particular
state or environment. In a different state, the Matrix will not "work." This provides a powerful principle
and secret for Neuro-Semantic coaching. We can state it as an instructional statement in this way:
Induce the person into a very different state and then invite them to try to experience their
problematic Matrix ... when they cannot engage it and run it, begin to question the problematic
Matrix, undermine it by deframing and reframing it.
Use so-called "paradoxical" interventions and counter-intuitive commands: Show me your panic
(or anger, paranoia, etc.). Freak out ail of the floor right here. Show me how bad it is.
F R O M STATE TO FRAMES
From our first frame of reference (meta-state) we habituate things to create our Frame of Mind.
We now have a well-rehearsed the frame. It becomes our way of seeing the world—a self-
organizing and self-fulfilling set of belief frames. The frame operates as an attractor in our mind-
body system. As we use this frame of reference as we move through life, what attitude or frame
of mind has it generated within? Each level or layer becomes yet another semantic environment.
Here frames structure what we call "personality."
We naturally and inevitably meta-state, that is, set higher frames about previous frames.
We think in terms of various ideas. We bring various ideas, feelings, and even physiologies to
bear upon other ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc. In this way, whenever we think about our thinking,
feel about our thinking, feel about our feeling, etc., we set a higher level set of thoughts-and-
feelings upon other thoughts and feelings. Reflective thinking creates states-upon-states or meta-
states. We react to our reactions. We fear our anger. We rejoice in our learning. We feel
embarrassed about our sadness.
IT'S F R A M E S A L L T H E W A Y U P
Using the self-reflexive model of Meta-States, The Matrix enables us to trace self-referential thought as it
grows, develops, and evolves, as we move up the layers of mind, transcending and including. This allows
us to track the construction of "thinking" and how mind, emotion, consciousness, perception, etc. emerge
in this systemic process. In this way, the Matrix offers an easy to understand model about the functioning
of "mind" as it creates our frames-of-reference. We can now see how "thought," occurring at every level,
grows and develops to become increasingly more complex and systemic.
As we move up the levels from experience to reference to frame and eventually to frames of mind, and
then frameworks or the Matrix, we layer thought upon thought, emotion upon emotion, sensation upon
sensation. It all begins as we reference, because we think by referencing. Every thought refers to
something: a person, event, thing, idea, feeling. And every thought in our head as a representation of our
reference occurs within some frame-of-reference—actually many frames-of-references.
Make a list of the 5 most frustrating and persistent negative behavioral patterns in your life.
Exercise: Get into groups of three person. Designate one Coach, Client, and Meta-Person. Do the following
Detection Pattern 3 times so each person plays each role.
4) Invite transformation.
What frame of mind, belief frame, value frame, etc. that could take your experience or skills to the next
level?
If you had a magic wand, what transformation would you desire?
How would you like to make your experience richer?
A MATRIX SYSTEMS CHECK
1) Step Back from the frames of the Matrix and the Matrix Games that result and take a deep breath.
What does it feel like to take a moment to pause, to gain some "psychological distance" and to
relax as you think about the frame and its Game?
2) Run a Systems Check: Check the ecological value and balance of the Games.
How many ways can you ask the Quality Control question?
Does this state, decision, belief, thought, part, behavior, meaning, evaluation enhance your life or
not?
Does this serve you well?
Does it serve you well in relationship to your friends and loved ones?
Does it empower you and others?
Does it enhance your life?
Do you like this?
Does it set up the direction that you want your life to go?
Description: After detection and awareness of the Matrix comes Matrix Training so we can re-
enter our Matrix and change it. We have to develop our mental-and-emotional as well as our
verbal and behavior skills so that we can not only enter the Matrix but change it— use our mind-
body system to alter it, to transform it. Already we have seen how that mere detection itself is a
change process, so is non-judgmental awareness and questioning, especially meta-questioning.
We have seen that running a systems check is also a transformative process.
Challenge: Do you have the power to re-model your Matrix? Are you ready to power up and to
enter into training mode? Will you develop the matrix skills for mastery?
Solution: Powering up with our innate powers for responding, dealing, and mastering things. To
activate our Power / Resource Matrix for self-efficacy, self-confidence, and for tapping into our
potentials.
The term "self is itself a multiordinal term, that is, a nominalization term which means
something different at every level we use it. There is no "ghost" within, it is just "me" operating
at different levels.
Critical!
The meanings we map about our concepts of self make all the difference in the world whether we
move through the world trying to become a Somebody, or whether our life in the world is an
expression of our Somebodyness. In the first case, we put our ego or self-esteem "on the line"
with almost everything that happens. We identify and personalize almost everything that
happens, especially the negative and unpleasant. This makes us reactive, defensive, and thin-
skinned. The problem? Not the person, but the frames that map the self as inadequate,
conditionally valuable, and unworthy.
A healthy Self matrix is the difference between feeling worthy, valuable, respectable, and
loveable and seeking to experience things in the world to obtain these experiences. With a
healthy Self matrix we can celebrate ourselves and value ourselves without putting our "self on
the line with the activities that we engage in. It allows us to separate person from behavior, self-
esteem from self-confidence.
Self-Confidence Self-Esteem
Self-Efficacy Self-Definition
Self-Presentation Social Self
Cultural Self Work/ Career Self
Ethical Self Relational Self
Robust or Not?
When this Matrix is not well-developed, we easily and automatically personalize and put our ego
(sense of self) out "on the line" with regard to most things. We may become Other-Referent and
try to get a sense of safety or okayness from others or from external things.
What are the processes that we can use to bring about a generative transformation and build up a
mapping of self that allows us to become more all we can become?
Self distinctions:
What are your frames and maps about boundaries? Me and "not me?"
What kind of boundaries? How strong? How flexible?
What are your frames about your strengths and your weaknesses?
Are you committed to playing to your strengths? What are they?
What are your weaknesses? Your natural intelligences?
ACCEPTING, APPRECIATING AND CELEBRATING
SELF
This meta-state process for self-esteeming empowers us to establish a solid sense of self so that we will be
less stressed and insecure by life's everyday events. It's based on separating self-confidence (what we
do) and self-esteem (what we are). Set a frame of high value and worth for yourself.
The Power matrix relates to our sense of options and choices, and hence to will and to "will
power." If you map out the lack of power or helplessness, you will experience little sense of
choice or options. You will feel controlled, limited, fated, and that life is deterministic.
Test:
Do you feel like the driver of your own bus or a passenger in the back going for a ride? How
have you mapped the sense of "control?"
Did you grow up in an environment that was safe, secure, and that gradually allowed you to take
more and more control over your life? To learn independence and autonomy in a safe and loving
way? If so, you probably mapped out supporting meanings about your own Power so that you
welcome it, accept it, enjoy it, and want it. You believe in it and delight in it.
Facets of Power:
Learned Helpless: When bad things happen, it's about me (personal), about everything in myself
and life (pervasive) and forever (permanent). This sucks the bad thing inside ourselves so that we
can never get away from it.
Learned Optimism: We index bad things to whatever they concern (not-me), to a particular
situation (this, not-pervasive), and here and now (not permanent). This keeps the evil contained
and "out there."
The weaker our sense of power, the weaker and more limited our Intention matrix. Our power of
mind-emotion is our IQ.
You also have two public or outer powers by which you can effect yourself and the world—
speaking —languaging, using and manipulating symbols, asserting, etc. and behaving— acting,
responding, relating, etc.
Just notice and enjoy and appreciate these as you access them fully. Access them so that you
begin to feel these powers. Use your hands to mime out these powers in your own personal
"space" to create your Circle of Power and influence and responsibility.
7) Taking all of these elements, meta-state yourself and future pace your growing sense of ego-strength.
THE INTENTION MATRIX
The Orange Matrix
Back of the Mind Agendas: We typically experience our sense of purpose or intention as "the thoughts in
the back of the mind" which then organize our attentions—"the thoughts in the front of our mind"—what's
on our mind. Together, intention and attention gives us our sense of "will" or choice. Moving up into this
matrix allows us to understand and explore what we or another truly want, what we think we are going
after and to check whether we are actually getting our highest intentions or not.
Up the Intentions:
Intentionality describes yet another meta-cognitive awareness. Failing to map, recognize, or embrace our
higher intentions or just getting lost in the present moment attentions can create what is mis-labeled
"attention deficient disorder." That means being overwhelmed with too much stimulus and unable to
control or manage all of the things that grab our attention and keep distracting us as we run around trying
to put out fires or feel incapable of holding our attention on anything for long. When we live in the
attentional world, we experience our mind (and emotions) similar to that of a small child or animal.
Attentions come and go and we are at their disposal and so we are shifted here and then there. There's no
sense of control.
From the meaning and purpose matrices we experience the higher states that give us a sense of inspiration,
passion, hope, love, joy, and transcendence, the very qualities that we call "spirit" or "spiritual" - SQ.
With the Intention/ Purpose matrix, we move up to not only outframe our immediate goals and objectives,
but to also map out our beliefs and understandings of the ultimate purposes of the universe. Here we map
our ideas about whether we think the Universe is friendly or unfriendly, chaotic or ordered, intelligent or
non-intelligent, etc. In this Matrix, we create meanings about spirituality, philosophy, religion, ontology,
etc.
In this matrix we usually find multiple intentions and layers of objectives. Whenever we classify anything
at the beginning of the Meaning matrix, we do so to make sense of the world. That's our first intention.
Then with every other meaning that we create and attribute, and every matrix that arises, we do so for yet
other reasons.
Intentionality:
Intention creates the attractors in our mind-body system that invites our neuro-semantic system to self-
organize around that attractor—motive, intention, agenda.
We can follow intention up the levels to create new and higher energy for living.
Intentionality stated in the negative evokes the paradox of "command negation."
Intention activates our motor programs so that we feel intentions as urges to act. It moves us to what to do
something.
TAKING AN INTENTIONAL STANCE
1) Identify an important task that you want more energy, focus, and motivation with.
We will first identify an activity to use as a reference point to explore our higher intentions.
What are some of the tasks that you engage in as part of your everyday life, career, etc.?
What do you need to do in order to succeed?
4) Step into the higher Value States of Importance so that you feel them fully.
That' must be important to you? [Yes.] So just welcome in the good feelings that these
meanings and significances invite, and just be with those higher level feelings for a bit.
Do you like that? [Yes.]
Let those feelings grow and intensify as you recognize that this is your highest Intentional Stance,
this is what you are all about... isn't it? Enjoy this awareness.
2) Contrast the flexibility state to a time when you were very dogmatic, rigid, and stubborn.
What's the difference between these two states?
How can you tell? What are the differences in how you express the two states?
Check for muscle tension, voice, movement, etc.
3) Texture this flexibility onto the state wherein you want more flexibility.
Keep cycling through the differences, adding more and more resources until you develop a well-
formed expression of your desired state.
4) Imagine the new Flexible You as you move out into your future.
Make your imagine of flexibility very personal by imagine yourself with all of that flexibility.
Step into that imagine and feel it fully.
7) Step in Again.
Step back in again to further explore & see what the frame now evokes and how you feel when
operating from the frame of mind. As you do this, language it using the following lines.
"When I view things within this frame of reference, I see, hear, and feel...."
"When I view things from outside this frame of reference, I become aware of..."
"When I hold both of these descriptions simultaneously, it enriches my understandings so
that...'
8) Step into the Perceptual Position of a Receiver of the Game.
Suppose someone offered this state, game, dance to you—what would it feel like, look like,
sound like, etc.? Would you like it?
THE EXCUSE BLOW-OUT PATTERN
We become emotionally intelligence and access our own mastery when we refuse to let excuses dominate
our lives. When excuses do dominate our lives, we essentially choose our excuses over our values and
visions. Some excuses are legitimate and useful while most are illegitimate, stupid, and useless. Most
waste our time and sabotage our goals. Develop the intelligence to refuse to sell yourself short to such
excuses.
A dragon is either a negative emotion that's gotten to strong and overwhelming, or a negative thought or
feeling that's been turned against oneself, or a toxic idea, frame, or belief. The term "Dragons" is a
metaphor for non-enhancing, non-productive, problematic, un-useful, and toxic states. All states do not
serve us equally well. Some can make life a living hell. Some feel like "dragon" states; some turn us into
dragons! Effective state-management skills enable us to shrink down the dragons, tame them (put their
energies to positive uses), or to slay them.
• Are there any Dragons that sabotage you or your best efforts?
• What dragon lurks in some dark corner of your mind that creates internal conflict for
you?
• What Dragons do you need to expose and then slay or tame?
It all depends. It depends upon its level Does the negative operate at a primary level or a meta- level?
This makes all the difference in the world.
For Primary Level thoughts and feelings as immediate frames, welcome them fully. Give them
permission to be and to inform you. An "emotion" describes the relationship between two
things: your Model of the World (your Frames) and your Experience of the World (your everyday
experiences). An "emotion" therefore comes to you as a piece of Information about how these
two things compare, the relationship of the difference. Backtrack to the thinking (or frame) out
of which the emotion arises. Clear your perceptions about what you are actually receiving from
the world.
For Meta-Level Thoughts & Feelings, welcome these meta-frames in order to see if you want to
set this as a frame or not. Then decide. Rejecting something too soon will prevent the negation
from working. "Strive to be non-tense" — Welcome the tension comfortably. Acceptance also
shifts us away from the Blame Game. Generally speaking, whenever we bring a negative T-F
against ourselves, we put ourselves at odds with ourselves and thereby creates "Dragon States."
Description: If you have detected and discovered your Matrix and have started the powering up
process, then you're ready to create some brand new—wild and wonderful—-frames for your
inner and outer games and reload your matrix so that it is renewed, even transformed. Now
you're ready to go and make it happen. Are you ready for some new and improved frames for
your Matrix?
Challenge: How do we reload our Matrix? How do we delete the old programs and install the
new ones? What are the processes involved and what skills do we need to develop to pull this
off?
Solution: Since we are meaning-makers and create meaning by framing, we first have to take
charge of our meaning-making / framing powers in the Meaning Matrix. This enables us to
change how we construct frames for our Matrix in the first place. We will texture our states to
give new qualities to them. Next comes Changing the Rules of the Game.
Principle:
The Quality of our Meanings
determines the Quality of our States
and the Quality of our Life.
Levels of Meaning:
Meaning occurs at the level of state and begins there, then it moves all the way up the levels of
the mind- We make meaning in different ways at different levels of the mind and at different
times in our development and yet the meaning-making process is one even though it develops
and becomes more complex over time.
Kinds of Meanings:
We create all kinds of meanings. We associate things that may or may not be naturally or
logically connected to create Associative or stimulus-response Meaning. Then, above and beyond
that we create Frame Meaning, the meanings that arise when we classify and categorize things,
even associative meanings. We create Definition Meaning as we label things (linguistic
meaning). We create Evaluation Meaning as we make judgments. We create layer upon layer of
embedded frames of meanings within frames. We layer mind-body-emotion states upon previous
mental and emotional states and so meta-state ourselves into more and more of our Matrix. We
use various Thinking Patterns (meta-programs) to formulate Meaning.
To be at our best we not only have to have the ability to access our Top Ten Best States, but also to
manage the higher levels of our mind so that we are in charge of our attitude—our frame of mind. That's
what this Game is all about. What frame of mind would you like to wake up in, go to work in, negotiate
from, sell, deal with cranky people from, etc.? It's your choice.
3) Describe it fully
What would this frame of mind be like if you stepped into it fully?
What do you experience first when you try it on? What's the most transformative thing about it?
What do you need to do to amplify this so that it is maximally powerful for you?
What controls and determines the way we think and make-meaning in the first place?
• What is our style and mode of thinking?
• How many thinking or sorting styles are there?
Our style of thinking or meta-programs occurs at a level above {meta) to our thinking. These as solidified
meta-states operate as our frame for thinking, sorting, paying attention and processing information. We
develop habitual thinking styles which become our Meta-Programs because we "think" on several
different levels. Content thinking is about what we think, process thinking concerns our style of thinking.
Ellis & Harper (1975) and Beck (1983), Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy (formerly RET), call them
thinking errors or cognitive distortions. These unproductive ways of reasoning lead to personal misery and
unsanity. These cognitive distortions create mapping blindness and dysfunction.
1. Contextual thinking:
Inquire about the context of information & index it according to what, when, where, which, how,
who, and why. Meta-model unspecified nouns, verbs, relational terms, etc.
2. Both-and-thinking:
Reality test to determine if a situation truly functions in an Either/Or way. If not, think in terms
of a continuum. Inquire whether the two seemingly contradictory options actually exist as such
represent different ways, times, circumstances, etc.
3. Reality-testing:
Test the reality of the experience: to what extent, in what way, etc. someone deems something as
"bad, undesirable, and unwanted?" Meta-model the value words. Denominalize terms words to
recover the hidden verbs.
4. Denominalizing thinking:
Reality-test to determine how a label functions: accurately, usefully, productively, too generally.
Denominalize pseudo-nouns that make thinking and language fuzzy.
5. Systemic thinking:
Reality-test to determine the pattern of causation. Distinguish linear causation from the
multifacetic nature of systemic causation.
6. Information Gathering:
Gather information to find the facts and then to check the conclusions,
7. Tentative predictive thinking:
Gather high quality information about the factors, causes, forces, trends, etc. that come together
to create an event. Keep an open mind about ways of intervening and altering that destiny. Look
at consequences of certain, actions, etc.
9. Critical thinking/ Meta thinking:
Thinking critically and analytically about the multi-causational nature of human emotions,
back-track to the originating thoughts, think above and beyond the immediate content to the
patterns and structures.
10. Reality-test the "shoulds."
Challenge the word "should," discover the rule, if there's no such law, shift to desire thinking, "I
would prefer that..." "I would like."
11. Depersonalizing thinking; Responsibility To/For Thinking:
Reality test to see if the content or context deals references you personally. If not, code
information in a third-person perspective, empathize without sympathizing.
12. Possibility thinking;
Reality test "can't" to distinguish physical or psychological can'ts, then shift to possibility
thinking. Ask, "What stops you?" "What would it feel like, look like, or sound like if you
could?"
13. Appreciative thinking:
What does count? In what way? How could it be valued?
DETECTING THE THINKING STYLES
IN THE MEANING MATRIX
#7 Information Size #13 Stress Coping #20 Motivation #29 Social Stress Sort #40 Values
Global— General Passivity Direction Toward or Extrovert List of Values
Specific— Details Aggression Approach Introvert
Assertive Away From or Balanced Ambivert
Avoidance
#2 Relationship #14 Frame of Reference #21 Conation #30. Work Style #41 Instruction Sort
Matching for Sameness Internal Referent Options Independent Strong-Will
Mismatching for Difference External Referent Procedures Team Player Compliant
Other-Referent Manager
Bureaucrat
#3 Representation System #15 Emotional State #22 Adaptation Judging/ #57 Communication #42 Worthiness Sort
Visual Associated in feelings, Controlling & Judging Stance Conditional SE
Auditory Dissociated in thinking, Perceiving & Observing Blamer, Placater, Unconditional SE
Kinesthetic Distracter, Computer,
Language Leveler
#4 / #5 Information #16 Somatic Responses #23 Modus Operandi #32 General Response #43 Self-Confidence
Gathering Active Necessity Congruent/ Incongruent Specific Skills
Uptime as a Sensor Reflective Possibility one holds faith
Downtime as an Intuitor Inactive Desire Competitive/ Cooperative in self about
Impossibility
Polarity/ Meta
#17 Convincer/ #24 Preference #33 Social Response #44 Self Experience
Believability People, Place, Active, Identified with Mind,
Looks Right, Things, Activity, Reflective Emotions, Choices, Body,
Sounds Right, Knowledge, Inactive Choices,
Feels Right, Time Balanced or dis-identified, Spirit
Makes Sense
#6 Quality Sort #18 Emotional Direction #25 Goal Sort #34 Work Preference #45 Self-Integrity
Either-Or Thinking Uni-directional or Perfectionism Things Conflicted & Incongruity
(black-white thinking) Multi-directional Optimization Systems Integrated Harmony
Continuum Thinking Skepticism People
Information
#7 Scenario Thinking #19 Emot. Exuberance #26 Value Buying #35 Comparison #46 Time Zones
Best- Optimistic Desurgency Cost Quantitative Focus Past
Worst - Pessimistic Surgency Convenience Qualitative Focus Present
Balanced Quality Future
Time
#11 Reality Structure Sort #39 Dominance Sort #50. Morality Sort
Aristotelian & Static Power Overly Strong super-ego
Non-Aristotelian and Achievement Strong super-ego
Process oriented Affiliation Weak Super-ego
Prepared by Denis Bridoux, NS-nlp Trainer, Harrogate, England and by L. Michael Hall, Ph,D. from Figuring Out
People: Design Engineering Using Meta-Programs (1997) by Hall and Bodenhamer.
Meta-Programs inform our brains about what to delete If we move Toward values, we delete awareness
about what we move Away From. If we sort for the Details, we delete the Global. Re-Direct awareness
to what you normally delete, value that information, practice looking for it.
3) Try it out.
Imaginatively adopt the new MP, pretend to use it in sorting, perceiving, attending, etc. Notice
how it seems, feels, works, etc. in some contexts where you think it would serve you better. Even
if it seems a little "weird" and strange due to your unfamiliarity with looking at the world with
that particular perceptual filter, notice what other feelings, beside discomfort, may arise with it.
4) Model it.
Do you know someone who uses this MP?
If so, then explore with that person his or her experience until you can fully step into that
n d
position. When you can, then step into 2 perception so that you can see the world out of that
person's meta-program eyes, hearing what he or she hears, self-talking as he or she engages in
self-dialogue, and feeling what that person feels.
What's that like?
Two Dragon states tempt, seduce, and afflict all of us: Reactivity and Defensiveness. These arise from our General
Arousal Syndrome (i.e., the fight/flight syndrome) which describes the general functioning of our nervous system
(neurology) when we think that something threatens or overloads our resources.
Untrained, undeveloped, and unschooled we access states of reactiveness and defensiveness. We all come equipped
with this neurological skill! Only later does consciousness come. If we train, order, discipline, develop, and
cultivate consciousness, we can access states of reason, intelligence, wisdom, patience, self-management,
understanding, sympathy-empathy, etc.
5) What Self, Others, and World frames will create and/or support proactivity?
Who do you need to become to become proactivity?
What do you need to believe, understand, value, etc. about others?
6) Solidify and install the new proactivity matrix.
Do you like this? Does it serve you well?
How much confirmation do you need to bring to this new state and frames?
Do you now have a truly robust meta-state of proactivity?
Menu List:
Choice: Consciousness of choice, personal power, awareness of your ability to respond.
Acknowledgment and acceptance of your "Power Zone." "I can choose how to take a trauma, how to think
about it, what attitude to adopt, behaviors to engage in, etc."
Mental and emotional Aliveness: Feel vigorous inside about your internal powers of choice.
Sense of freedom: Awareness of the Gap: between the S-R. There's a freedom gap between Stimulus and
Response wherein we can think, represent information, reason, imagine, remember, fantasize, and engage
other cognitive "world-making" (Matrix making) functions. Self-reflexive consciousness expands our
choices, sense of freedom, internal "locus of control" which then leads to a sense of self-efficacy rather
than "learned helplessness."
Self-Management Skills: What are some of little things that you can always do as an act of choice that
cultivates your sense of self-management? What may you have discounted up until now as just a "small
thing?"
Power Bubble: Do you focus on the things in your Power Zone? Do you dis-empower yourself by
focusing on things outside that arena? Do you give your power away? How much do you take charge of
your own responses? Do you have an induction into your Power Bubble yet?
Use the Talk of proactivity: Have you replaced any language of reactivity, passivity, or victimization? Do
you avoid speaking for others? Have you eliminated all "you" statements and statements of blame,
accusation, and excuses? What do you say to yourself when your buttons are pushed?
Self-Reflexive Awareness: How easily can you transcend your primary state and take a meta-view about
things? How aware are you of your ability to respond as existentially "free" person? What empowering
beliefs put your "locus of control" within you?
Compelling Outcome: Do you have some compelling out comes that keep you focused? Do you think
consequentially? Do you formulate plans, values, and visions about being proactive?
Implementation: How skilled are you in implementing what you know? Do you use mistakes as feedback
and learning? How quickly can you shift to asking yourself solution-oriented questions?
Your Proactive "Self:" Do you think of yourself as a proactive person? Is that part of your self-definition?
PERSONAL GENIUS PATTERN
"Genius" involves a totally committed and passionate state in which you become so totally engaged that the world
goes away, your sense of self goes away, time vanishes, and your focus becomes highly intentional with a laser
beam focus. The original ideas for this came from Grinder and DeLozier's Turtles all the Way Down:
Prerequisites For Personal Genius (1987). In that work, they explored the use of "logical levels" to protect and
govern a focused commitment state in that work to use a higher level to govern first-level attentions. In the
following pattern, we will access a current "genius" state of total engagement and use that as a template for building
up a new genius state.
2) Identify a fully committed state wherein you can "get lost" in the state
Take a moment to think back over your history and, has there ever been a time when you were in a
committed state? What was that like? Have you ever been committed to something else? Find a specific
state that you have fairly easy access to and which you can elicit fully. Choose a state that comes as close
to a full 100% commitment as possible.
4) Practice shifting in and out of the state to develop impeccable state shifting
• In just a moment I want you to step out of these state fully and cleanly, leaving this state intact
and as you step out, taking as little of it as possible. Okay? So ready, go. Step out to your
observer position.
• Would you like to imagine a bubble that protects and secures this genius state?
Stepping in and out of the genius state allows us to find the differences that make a difference and to use those
distinctions for creating ecological boundaries. These distinctions inform our neurology for when and where to cue
the state. By stepping cleanly out of the state, and shifting the focus of our mind and body system, we learn to
separate from this intense Flow state so that we can leave it cleanly behind. Do this repeatedly until you can do so
impeccably... with no residue left over.
Practicing interrupting further enables us to learn to trust ourselves, to trust that we will not lose the state, to trust
that we can always get it back. This then changes our relationship to the experience and to the idea of
"interruption."
The pattern involves Inviting a person to be interrupted and handle it effectively by stepping out of state, handling
the interruption, and then matter-of-factly stepping back into state. We begin by practicing responding to an
interruption and then take charge of it by interrupting ourselves so that we step out of state with a minimum overlap,
and then back into the state in a moment's notice.
The brain/ nervous system will learn this pattern quickly and achieve the desire level of competency of state
shifting. When the person carries over no mental or emotional residue from one state to the other, but cleanly
separates and breaks between them and can then step back in and re-access that state with a strong intensity, you
have achieved the goal of this exercise.
COMMISSIONING YOUR INNER EXECUTIVE GAME
Operate from the CEO position of your Matrix to set the policies and frames that allow you to be true to yourself,
congruent, and aligned. Direct yourself to choose your dreams, visions, and values. In deciding, we literally de-
cide, that is, we cut off alternatives and push away options as we focus on a singular pathway that we can then fully
validate and affirm. To say "YES!" to one thing necessitates saying of "NO!" to other things. Decision also
involves aligning and empowering our highest intentions to drive and govern our everyday attentions. In this way,
we engage in pathfinding and pathmaking. We have to make decisions. If we don't, we go nowhere.
2) Amplify the feeling of "Decisiveness" and apply to your desired Frame Game
Juice up the state until it sizzles, giving you a sense of power and control, the sense that, "Yes,
this is my choice that I own and appreciate."
5) Step in and experience it fully and imagine it as a resource for all of your tomorrows.
Contextualize it into your future. Notice when and where you do want this and notice how it
thereby transforms things.
6) Rise up to the part of your mind that makes decisions —your internal Executive
Will the part of my mind that makes decisions take full responsibility to say Yes! to the things
that fulfill my visions and values and No! to everything that gets in the way?
Closing The Knowing-Doing Gap
Put your Creed into your Deed (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"We know too much and are convinced of too little" (T.S.Elliot)
Knowing is not enough. Knowing is only the beginning. Doing is where we find out if our knowing is
accurate or sufficient. Doing is where we put the knowing to the test. Taking effective action is what
distinguishes the true business expert. The biggest cause of failure in business—the lack of
implementation. We don't execute what we know to do in a timely manner.
5) Turn the Emotions Into Actions to Express the belief and decision.
"The one thing that I will do today as an expression of these feelings, to make this belief
decision real is..."
And what one thing will you do tomorrow? And the day after that?
6) Step into the Action and Let the higher levels of your mind Spiral.
As you fully imagine carrying out that one thing you will do today... seeing, hearing and feeling it
you are doing this because you believe what? Because you've decided what? Because you feel
what? And you will do what other thing? Because you understand what? Because you feel
what? Because you've decided what? Because you believe what? And what other thing will you
do?
CHANGING THE GAME'S RULES
"Some of the rules can be bent, some can be broken." (Morpheus, The Matrix)
"If the rules of a game become too flexible, concentration flags, and it is more difficult to attain a flow experience
Commitment to a goal and to the rules it entails is much easier when the choices are few and clear."
(Csikszentmihalyi, Flow, p. 225)
Games are played and structured by rules. The "rules" describe how we set up a game and how a game
works interactively. We often play a games and then someone protests: "Hey, you can't do that; that's
against the rules!" We play Matrix Games in a structure of rules. These govern how we set the game up,
the number of players, how to begin, how to end, legitimate and illegitimate actions within the domain,
scoring, how "points" are counted, exceptions, etc. These rules create the conditions of the game and the
playing conditions—the Game Scape. They inform us about numerous aspects of a game and define the
difference between chaotic actions and structured games.
How to set up the proper conditions for the game.
How to actually play the game.
How many can play.
The processes allowed in the course of action.
When an activity produces a "point" or something that "counts."
The conditions when an exception to the rule occurs.
The penalties that can occur when the rules are violated.
How to determine when a Game is completed.
How to honor or acknowledge the winner.
Who, if anyone, governs the game as referee, coach, or commissioner.
How to keep score and who keeps score.
Rules create establish the structure, form, and order of a game. When we know the rules for how to
structure and play a game, then we have a way of orienting ourselves, contextual cues about the game,
and motivation for playing. Conversely, when we don't know the rules of the game or how the game is to
go, we may find ourselves disoriented, confused, overwhelmed, or unmotivated, etc. Without knowing
the rules, the game plays on and we feel powerless, clueless, and left out. Meta-Rules enable us to take
charge of the rules so we can make our games human, winnable, and fun.
How do you keep score as you play your own frame of games?
What rules have you constructed for how to play the games?
What are the kind and quality of rules that you use?
How well do these rules serve in your playing?
Do the rules about your score keeping enable you to easily win or is the deck set against
you?
Fill in the following questions with whatever state, experience, emotion, or quality that you desire (i.e.,
happy, confident, healthy, free, safe, in control, creative, radiant, charming, successful, in love, respectful,
etc.).
How do you know when you are X?
If you were really X, then you will be doing what?
If you X, you will...
I have to Y (set of behaviors, actions, conditions) in order to X.
I can't feel X unless...
I will experience X when ...
What will it take for you to know that X is happening?
To experience X, I should ...
To experience X, I must...
Anytime that I Y (action, experience, situation), I know that I am X-ing...
It just doesn't feel or seem that I am really X.
Winning at Confidence:
How do you know when you are confident?
What has to occur in order for you to rank up some confident points?
When you are feeling confident, what are you doing?
What is happening to you?
Winning at happiness, cheerfulness, a joyful attitude, a playful spirit, etc.
What has to happen for you to allow yourself a win in this frame game?
— Do you have to win the lottery?
— Do you have to have "everything going your way all day?" All week?
— Do you have to have a Hollywood shaped body?
What are the criteria, evaluations, standards, and rules that allow you to feel pleased,
joyful, or playful?
1) Identify a healthy, fun and productive Game that you want to play.
What do you want to obtain or experience in playing this game?
What would you call this Game?
Examples: The Aim Game, The Proactivity Game, The Modeling Game, "I Can Handle
It!" Game, The Deep and Rich Relationships Game
2) Design some winable, playable, and fun Rules for the Game
How will you know that you have won or lost?
How will you keep score?
What will inform you that it's time to "count" something as a point?
"I know I will feel confident when... (List signs, clues, etc.)
"It counts when I . . . (specify behaviors, experiences)
When we use questions and meta-questions we can not only explore a belief, we can set and reset
multiple frames at the same time and quite covertly. The first questions in the following process deframe
and fragment, the next ones invite the construction of a more positive and useful way of framing, and the
latter ones solidify that frame as a new belief. I have adapted the following pattern from a review that
Jeremy Stern wrote concerning the spiritual methodology of Byron Katie (Rapport 46, Winter, 1999).
LAYERING F R A M E U P O N F R A M E
When we layer one frame upon another frame and make sure that they are all aligned toward
eliciting the same state or experience, the conscious mind can only track so far and keep so much
in awareness. This allows us to use the very "weight" (speaking metaphorically) of the frames to
work in a presuppositional way. With every layering, we assume the lower layers and take them
for granted. The layering invites us to assume and accept the earlier frames as we shift to other
things. With the "weight" of 5 or 6 frames, we accept the first frames without question. They
slide right on in.
In the layering of frames, "gestalt" states and experiences emerge from the neuro-linguistic
system of mind-body elements. If all of the frames are focused in the same direction — then we
experience higher and more intense energy all in a straight and focused way. If however, we
have some frames eliciting one thing, and at another level other frames creating other focus,
disorientation, trance, paradox, confusion, and many other meta-muddled phenomena can occur.
9) How would it serve you to drop or Values, Benefits, for dropping Value FG
exchange or transform this belief? Ecology of Using New Belief
8) While I'm not asking you to drop this Highlighting not believing this Safety FG/ Possibility FG
belief, I do wonder if you can see even Eliciting reasons for dropping Solution FG
one reason to drop it? What? the old belief.
7) Is this who you are? Is this who you Challenge Values/ Visions Identity FG
want to be?
6) Is this your highest Path? Life Mission, etc. Mission FG
Primary State:
Start at the base — enter the Matrix with a blank mind, open, curious, playful, respectful, honoring...
Make it safe through Validating:
MASTERING YOUR
RELATIONSHIP MATRIX
For Personal and Business Relationships
Description: Discover your Others/Relationship Matrix and the skills that enable you to gain rapport, trust,
respect, listen, communicate effectively, influence, negotiate, and build teams.
Challenge: Dealing with the frustrations, disappointments, criticisms, etc. of others, to find more effective
ways to communicate, get r a p p o r t , understand, work through conflict, etc.
Solution: To detect, empower, transform, reframe, and reload our Matrix about Others. To develop the
skills and patterns so that we can work effectively with and through others.
Developmentally:
How did you navigate the psycho-social stages of development (Piaget and Erickson)?
Trust—distrust, bonding, safety, cooperation—competition, leading and following, giving and taking
orders, etc.? Constancy of Representation in infants, "out of sight, out of mind."
Dependency (immaturity), independency (maturity), then inter-dependency (healthy relationships).
This matrix governs how we deal with the patterns and frames we have about people, how to get along,
how to understand and communicate, how to resolve conflicts, how to work with and through people, etc.
The social meta-programs govern this matrix as well as patterns for rapport, communication, persuasion,
leadership, groups, politics, etc. It is from this matrix that we mostly define and describe emotional
intelligence (E.Q).
This matrix is directly related to and influenced by our Self matrix. Originally we experience them as one.
Then in the developmental nature of growing up, we individualize and become dependent and then
eventually independent. Independence allows us to stand on our own and to have and be enough in
ourselves to become inter-dependent with others in healthy relationships.
Your Inner Social Panorama: Like "time" we have an inner world of people —people we carry with us
and never leave home without. Explore your Social Panorama to see what's there.
DRAWING THE RESPONSIBILITY TO/FOR LINE
You are responsible for yourself—what you say and do, the structures and frames that you set up. You are
responsible for how you interact, treat your participants, the spirit and atmosphere that you set, etc. You are not
responsible for how anyone else thinks, feels, talks, or acts. They are responsible for that. Yet you are responsible
to them... to them as participants, as learners, as colleagues, as human beings. Separating out and stepping into a
state of clarity about this responsibility To/For distinction therefore empowers you in relating in a healthy way, not
creating sick and dependent relationships, or getting off on the "power" or "authority" that comes along with being
out in front as a leader.
I am not able to respond (response-able) FOR the thinking, emoting, speaking, or behaving of
anyone else! I cannot and will not assume any ownership over their Power Zone, It belongs to
them. I acknowledge that, appreciate that, and will honor that.
3) Step into this Experience fully and feel it as you Gesture it.
Feel it in your muscles. Let it become part of your muscle memory.
Invent awesome and memorable phrases for expressing this basic principle.
"If it doesn't come out of my mind, my mouth, my heart, my body... it's not mine!"
"I will not insult others by treating them as fragile, weak, and unable to claim their
personality powers."
"I have my own full time job being responsible for myself."
"I refuse to act in a co-dependent way by thinking I need to rescue others. "
"I will only invite others to contract with me for assistance, I refuse to be seduced into
fixing them or cramming it down their throats."
"I don't have to or need to rescue anyone. Others have the right to choose to be as
unsane as they want to be! Especially family members!"
"Mistakes are toothless little things if you recognize and correct them.
If you ignore or defend them, they grow fangs and bite."
(Dee Hock, 1999, Birth of the Chaordic Age, p. 280)
We all need feedback. We need precise, accurate, useful, and sensory-based feedback that truly assists us in tuning
up our skills and getting new patterns down. Yet what is feedback? It is not evaluations. It is not our
interpretations or judgments. Most people do not know how to give sensory-based feedback. Why? Because they
fail to distinguish sensory from evaluative based terms and to assume their projections and judgments are
sensory-based.
1) Prepare yourself to receive by identifying your current frame about feedback (correction, error detection, etc.).
When you think about someone informing you (telling you) that you made a mistake, error, messed up, did
something wrong, etc., what thoughts and feelings come to mind?
What state does that put you in?
What do you believe about that?
2) Deframe the old frames to slay or tame any old dragons that might make you closed or defensive.
Do these states enhance your learning abilities?
Do these states, frames, meaning serve your creativity, growth, understandings, etc.?
How do they represent ill-formed maps?
3) Separate feedback from the person and the style of the feedback.
Many people really do not know how to give sensory-based feedback.
5) Texture your basic state with the qualities and resources to make your reception ore robust and effective.
What do you need to texture your reception of feedback with? Do you need more patience, acceptance,
appreciation, recognition of positive intentions, commitment to yourself, your learning, your budding
genius, etc.?
Have you set the frames to texture your state regarding sensory-based feedback?
Refuse to let another's incompetence or sloppiness in giving feedback deprive your of the feedback.
Invite them to specify the feedback in sensory-based terms.
7) Future Pace.
Imagine moving forward with this way of thinking and feeling about feed back into the months and years
to
Do you like this?
Does it enhance your interactions and relationships?
GIVING QUALITY FEEDBACK
We all need feedback. We don't need judgments, evaluations, or mind-reading. We need precise, accurate, and
sensory-based feedback that assists us in tuning up our skills and incorporating new patterns. All forms of coaching
involves giving precise, accurate, immediate, useful, and sensory-based feedback—feedback that truly assists the
client in refining responses and honing skills.
Feedback differs from evaluation. The first is sensory based and behavioral, the second is an interpretation that
comes from a person's model of the world.
5) Elicit your client to separate feedback and from the style of the feedback.
Have you invited your client to recognize self as more than behavior?
Have you set the frame that distinguishes person from behavior and feedback?
6) Invite the client to set the frame or reframe feedback as acceptable and valued.
How is feedback valuable to you? What other values can you give to it?
What positive values and meanings do others give feedback?
• There is a state of taking insult. We all know that one. Yet is there a state of Un-insult-able? The un-
insultable state empowers you to take criticism effectively and positively, handle communication
interchanges, conflicts, confrontations, and people in bad moods with much more grace and
resourcefulness.
• Un-insult-ability eliminates the emotional black-hole of criticism and enables us to positively take
communications so we can use them constructively. This allows us to hear out complaints, even harsh and
cruel criticism, without getting defensive.
• Since everybody seems skilled at dishing out criticism, most people must have the ability to take it well
and use it for learning and growth. Right? Not quite. Most of us are sensitive to receiving criticism. Few
seem to know how to make good use of criticism. Most use criticism never think of responding to criticism
with good feelings or of putting the best twist on criticism. Most take insult all too easily.
• How do you typically respond to criticism?
Would you want a state that allows you to move through the world Un-Insultable?
How easily can you move into a meta-state about a criticism viewing it as just information and feedback?
How easy can you respond from a state where you take it with no displeasure, dismay, discouragement,
depression, but with contentment, delight, appreciation, understanding, etc.?
1) State Boundaries:
How strong, present, how much energy and strength in your boundaries?
2) Sense of Self:
Do you have a strong and unconditional sense of your Core Self?
Access your Power Zone (responsibility) and take complete ownership of those powers.
Access Acceptance, Appreciation, and Awe (Esteem) and apply to Self.
Access your confidence in your Skills and Abilities (Self-confidence).
Meta-Stating Un-Insultability:
1) Identify a referent event
What do you want to have more choices, flexibility, and power in handling?
Identify in your mind a trigger event of insult. What is that like?
Step aside from the content Keep presence of mind about the criticism
Psychological distance Refusal to take personal
Ownership of your Power Zone Self-Integrity
Appreciation Ability to listen with a quiet and receptive mind
Curiosity: "tell me more..." Discern Responsibility To / For
Defusing Skills Able to stay emotionally centered
Humanize the critic Self-Esteeming
Optimistic Explanatory Style Distinguish Behavior from Person
Distinguish Language and Meaning Recognize as Feedback; just words and not the territory
Say "No!" to criticism that doesn't fit
3) Sequence the states that you want to set as Frames in terms of being Un-Insultable.
What sequence of resources makes the most sense to you?
What is it like to access each individually and applying them?
When you feel this and notice how it transforms that criticism, do you feel un-insultable yet?
Power Matrix: Power up by fully Owning your Powers, responses, and resources
Do you fully accept and own your responses?
Have you drawn the "responsibility to/for" line? Suppose someone screams at you: "Whatever comes at
me does not belong to me. I did not produce it. It belongs to another."
"Apparently you have some very strong and negative emotions you want to express. I want to
hear what you have to say. But given your volume, I can only heard bits and pieces of it, would
you repeat what you just said in a calmer way? I promise to listen carefully." Un-insultable!
Defusing Skills: Are you skilled at defusing someone who is hot, angry, irritable, etc.?
Self Matrix: Separate yourself from the incoming information so you do not personalize:
How well are you able to avoid personalizing?
"What anyone says to me is not mine! I do not have to immediately believe it! I can just perceive
it."
Are you able to step aside from the content so that you can think about both the information and your think
about it? Are you able to get "psychological distance" from it?
Esteeming Self:
Will you esteem yourself even in the face of criticism and refuse to question your value, worth, and
dignity? Will you refuse to put your self-esteem on the line?
Others Matrix: Distinguish the Person of your critic from his or her Behavior and words:
Are you willing to refuse to confuse your critic's behavior with his or her person? Are you willing to
esteem your critic?
"This seems pretty important to you. How does it hold so much meaning to you?" "What do you
hope to achieve by this criticism that you consider of a positive benefit?"
Appreciation: Are you able to appreciate your critic or the criticism?
"I appreciate you bringing this to my attention. It offers me feedback that could possible benefit
me." The idea that "There is no Criticism, only information," enables us to thank our critic.
Humanize your Critic:
Suppose someone screams obscenities to you, adopt a humanizing perspective, and listen empathically:
"Interesting words. His words, of course, not mine. He has the right to say such. He must really
feel insecure and grumpy to talk this way." Un-insultable!
"I really want to hear what you've got to say. It sounds like you feel very angry at me, and I will
hear out your anger. But when you cuss at me like this, I have a hard time hearing you. If I
promise to listen to you would you promise to stop the obscenities?" Un-insultable!
State Matrix: Get a sense of Distance:
What happens when you imagine the criticism coming from two blocks away? What happens when you
imagine the critic speaking from behind a wall of plexiglass?
Meaning Matrix: Invent lots of empowering reasons for explaining the criticism.
Since in order to feel insulted, we have to "take" insult, do you have some compelling reasons to stop that?
It's just Information: Do you know at the feeling level that words are just information?
"Would you tell me more? Just how do you think I exist as a turkey, or why I am clumsy. How
specifically do I remind you of a turkey?"
Optimistic Explanatory Style. Will you use the optimistic style to explain why your critic criticizes?
Distinguish Language and Meaning: Do you know that we supply the meaning to words?
Just Feedback: Do you understand that criticism is just words, symbols, and feedback?
There's nothing more basic or prime than a child's playfulness and humor. Throughout meta-stating processes you
will have noticed how much playfulness we have typically applied to other states.
Humor creates an excellent state for learning, exploring, and developing. Humor provide a healing force for
trauma, both mental and physical. Humor provides an excellent resource for the disease of "seriousness."
Magnanimity is defined as a loftiness of spirit that enables one to bear trouble calmly, a disdain of
meanness and revenge. (Latin: Magnus: "great" and Animus: "spirit"). It is a lofty and courageous spirit, a
nobility of feeling and generosity of mind. "Let your magnanimity be manifest to all" (Phil. 4:5 NEB) is
also translated forbearance, moderation, considerateness, gentleness, sweet reasonableness. A
reasonableness of mind that holds complete control over the passions.
• Magnanimity is about the size and quality of our heart. Is it big hearted or small? How big are
your thoughts about yourself, others, and the world? Do you ever struggle with resentful, bitter,
and grudging thoughts? That induces dragon states that will undermine happiness, success, and
empowerment. To fly off the handle, become intolerance, boorish, grumpy, etc. sabotages
personal resourcefulness. To truly transcend the frustrating events of life, to win a victory over
our own spirit, to deal with self, others, and life in a big-hearted way!
• Magnanimity is a state about the very quality of our heart. To meta-state ourselves into the gestalt
of big-heartedness as our frame of mind as we move through life and handle the small-
mindedness of others.
Forgiveness, the other state, is releasing and letting a significant violation go and not holding it against the
perpetrator.
• It is needed for a situation of hurt where a person feels a sense of violation, insult, betrayal, or
something that has harmed the fabric of a relationship. It's for the big stuff. It goes beyond mere
irritation, frustration, and little hurts. To effectively interact with fallible human beings, we must
handle the fact that via our interactions we will inevitably and inescapably give and receive hurt.
Forgiveness enables us to not get stuck in the hurt.
• To develop an empowering state of forgiveness wherein you cease to resent an offender, pardon,
give up a resentment or a claim for requital, and thereby keep one's own spirit sweet.
• Forgiveness is not reconciliation, but it can make relationship possible. Forgiveness is for
oneself, to keep one's own spirit clean and sweet, then can be for the other. Forgiveness keeps us
healthy, present, open, and loving.
Others;
Person/Behavior Distinction: Are you distinguishing your person and the other's person from the
behavior?
Are you clear that people are much more than their expressions?
Are you over-identifying the other person with his or her expressions?
States:
Self-Respect and Honor:
Are you able to esteem and appreciate the person as a human being?
Rage: Have you gotten as mad as hell at the wounding behavior?
Decision: Deciding to Release: Have you intentionally make the empowering decision that you will quit
holding the hurt against the person and in your consciousness?
Releasing: Letting go: Are you willing to let the hurt go?
Compassion: empathy and understanding to the person who did the harm.
Are you able to recognize with honor the person as a fallible, insecure, limited, ignorant human?
How well are you able to feel and express compassion to the person?
Responsibility: Do you know that hurts very seldom occur in a vacuum? And that they arise in the
context of inter-actions?
To what degree have you played a contributing part in the hurtful experience?
What part did you play that you need to recognize and change?
Intention: What skills do you want to develop? Skills that are important to you and that would take you to the next
level of experience and development?
1) Meaning:
Why is this important to you?
What does it mean to you?
2) States:
What states do you need to pull this off?
What feeling states?
3) Self:
Who would you have to be to fully own this skill?
What adjustments in your self-definition would have to occur?
4) Meanings:
What frames of mind would you need?
What attitudes?
5) Others:
Who would be a wonderful mirror to give you feedback?
Who would you like to appoint as someone to hold you accountable for developing this new skill or taking
your skills to the next level?
6) Intention:
How committed are you to this?
How much more committed do you need to be?
What would do that for you?
7) Intention — Choice:
Are you going to develop this skill?
How much better will you become at it this month? This year?
Day 5:
MASTERING
YOUR WEALTH MATRIX
Inside Out Wealth:
Using Talent and Passion to Add Value
Description: Wealth is an inside-out phenomenon. Learn that and you can operate from an abundance that
sees and seizes opportunities and that creates value everywhere.
Challenge: Dealing with financial stressors, the lack of funds, learning the secrets of wealth, how it is
created and how we can begin to create a plan for financial independence.
Solution: Discover the meaning and essence of "wealth," develop a plan for holistic wealth in all
dimensions and create an inside-out wealth plan for ourselves.
ABUNDANCE
This pattern is designed to provide more opportunities for abundance, to install within an Abundance Map.
3) Meaning: Identifying the supporting beliefs, values, and frames for abundance.
What beliefs support this state of abundance for you?
What beliefs about yourself? Others? The world?
What beliefs about the process of collaborating? What values?
What identify beliefs? What other frames of references? What meta-states?
4) Contrast your Abundance Frame with your current model or with the Scarcity Frame.
Note how you represent scarcity and compare that to your representations of abundance. Turn down and
de-energize those representations ... let the pictures fade out, the sounds get further away and more quiet.
5) World/ Others:
As you now step into the abundance frame fully, imagine using it as your way of thinking, feeling and
acting in the world, how does that feel?
Future pace yourself tomorrow, next week, next month ... using various contexts (work, personal
relationships, hobbies, friends, etc.).
The surprising, even shocking answer is that wealth is not money. At best, money is only an external sign of
wealth, a financial scorecard. To develop an engine of wealth, we must first become wealthy within. The heart and
core of wealth is a rich mind and heart full of ideas that can solve problems. Wealth is created when we add value
to our lives and the lives of others. If our ideas, products, and services makes life richer, then it will build wealth.
4) World/ Others: Use this valuing state for your work and the whole of life.
Scan your world of work with valuing in mind and notice how that transforms things.
Install the words, "How can I add value here? If this was my business, what could I do that might make it
more valuable to the customers, to my fellow employees, to my boss, etc.?
What problems can I find and how can I bring my internal richness of mind-and-emotion to this?
As you imagine taking this into the days and weeks to come, are all parts of your mind-body system
aligned with this? Do you like this? Are you ready to do this? Are you really to allow this to increasingly
become your program in the future?
ADDING VALUING
The essence of wealth is valuing, adding value, creating value and doing so via our talents, passions, and
circumstances. To create a wealth orientation and to set out to create wealth without knowing the essence of
"wealth" leaves us in the dark about how it works and what we can do. When you know the essential heart of
"wealth," we can go into a very special state of mind-and-emotion. Do you know what that is?
Because wealth is value, we create wealth by valuing, creating value, and adding value. Wealth is that we
say is valuable and wealth is making things more valuable.
"Wealth" and "riches" speaks about something of value, valuable, something that adds or gives value. We
create wealth as we add value—to ourselves, to our minds-and-emotions, to our skills and abilities, to our
relationships, to others, etc. Valuing is the very heart of wealth and of wealth building. Wealth is not
about money, but about value and about the value and quality of life.
Moving Toward: We value those things that move us toward what we want (Toward Values)
Moving Away from: Those things that we want to move away from (Away from Values).
End Valuing: We value some things as the ultimate end to which we desire.
Means Valuing: Those things that facilitate our movement to that end.
Stanley (2000): "If you love what you are doing, your productivity will be high and your specific form of
creative genius will emerge." (61). "If you want to be successful, select a vocation you love. It's amazing
how well people do in life when their vocation is one that stimulates dedication and positive emotions."
(65). "Those who were better at becoming absorbed by their work looked forward to being caught up in it
and also found it inherently rewarding (p. 212)
Charles M. Schwab: "The man who does not work for the love of work, but only for the money is not
likely to make money, nor to find much fun in life."
1) Access one of your key Passions in life that you want to become bold about.
State: What are you passionate about? What else? How hungry are you for that?
What if you began to feel yourself drool for it? Hear a growl rising up in your throat!
World: In what area, activity, situation, context, etc. would you want bold courage?
Where is that? When? In whose presence?
3) Power: What risk management skills and resources do you have and/or need?
What factors and resources do you need so that something that was a "risk" ceases to be a risk?
What are the pros and cons of your decision? The advantages and disadvantages?
What do you need to get the advantages to outweigh the disadvantages?
Checklist:
Skill in the designated area: Knowledge:
Continency plans: Level of Risk comfort:
4) State: Put your passionate resolve and ferocity into your Power Bubble.
Now imagine turning this loose... and letting it rip .. how does that feel?
How intense do you feel it? How intense do you need to feel it?
What is the optimal level that allows you to operate effectively?
As you let yourself say "Yes!" to this ... Feel it and enjoy it and wonder, really wonder, what parts of you
will have to shift and transform to stretch this far.... now.
The "raw power" of the Bandler Puma Induction
"Before you look at your client, what I want you to do is to stop, and I want you to just put out in front of
you, float up in your mind, and look down and see a forty foot puma. Sleek with big white teeth, black fur,
shining, and what I want you to do is, in your mind, I want you to float down inside of that Puma. Look
out of its eyes. See. And what I want you to do is to put a big mountain on either side of you and be at
the beginning of the ravine that goes down and way down that ravine, and look at your client down at the
beginning of it, I want you to paw the ground and see them actually lift off of it. I want you to lick your
chops and roar for a minute and feel yourself purr, that purr that says, 'Your ass is mine.'
"But I'm not hungry just yet. I want you to look on the mountain on either side of you and see the
electricity crackin' down that ravine, striking on either side of that client of yours, and realize that the
lightning is coming from your fingertips. Now, when you look down at the client in your mind, right now,
my question is, 'Do you feel the same?'... {Persuasion Engineering, pp. 88-89).
"Time" as our accounting and comparing of events is a meta-cognitive awareness. When we are not aware of it, we
are in an event and unaware of other events. We are in-time and lost in time. We experience an eternal now. And
this powerful enriches a great many experiences from love making, being totally present with a friend, or engaged
in a project. Of course, it can frustrate those outside of that event waiting on us to get to the next event!
Do you live in the past, the present, or the future?
Do I experience time as a primary state ("in time") or as a meta-state ("through time" or "out of time")?
How easily do you move in and out of the various time zones?
Do you have time or does time have you?
Do you have a positive or negative relationship to this idea of "time?"
Do you have enough time or are you under a lot of time pressure?
Do you feel rushed and limited by the lack of time?
How well can we slow "time" down or speed it up? (Fast and slow time)
Kinds of Time:
There are three Time Zones (past, present, and future) on which hat we can focus our attention. With
primary state time, we get lost in time and experience life randomly or all at once —In Time. With meta-
state time, we operate more sequentially, and in a step-by-step fashion— Through Time.
These distinctions are also meta-program distinctions.
Healthy IQ / EQ relates to time so that we live in the now with an eye on the future and are able to use past
for learning. It is the ability to sequence activities and plan and to get lost in them in relationships and
creative expressions.
When we are comfortably and pleasurably aware of time, we can plan, sequence events, and operate
efficiently in the modern world. Of course, this can drive loved ones and friends crazy if we're on holiday
or needing to be totally present!
How we map Time, represent it, and the meanings we give it significantly impacts our experiences,
emotions, skills, etc. Some people and cultures put almost all value and meaning on the Past, others on the
Present, and yet others on the Future. Beliefs, "If I haven't been able to do something, I never will be"
maps the Past as governing the Future. "I can't do this because I have never done it before." What we
believe about "time" affects what and how we map About Self, Power, Others, the World, etc.
In the West, we map "time" in terms of events that start and stop, that go and end, that end and so we
create discontinuity between the Past, Present, and Future. This allows us to map the Past as "over and
done with" rather than continuous and ongoing. This makes it easier for us to put tragedies and failures
behind us and to stop referencing them. Not so in many places in the Past.
Our mapping of the Future enables us to have possibilities and an open-endedness to our future. Then
there is the power to change and development (the Power matrix). We can use the future to imagine new
and different things, develop new skills, and plan (the World matrix). When we conjure up an imagined
future to which we then respond, we use the Future in a bold and creative way.
TIME FOR A CHANGE
Prioritizing Activities: Combining Time and Meaning
How you choose to allocate time to something is an important message about what matters to you.
Integrity arises when what you say matters to you and the time you devote to the activities that manifest
your dreams are congruent.
How do we make time for what's truly important? How do we let it feel more urgent?
6) Access Intentionality.
Do you really want this? How much do you?
Do you want this enough to devote the minimum time?
Can anything now stop you?
PERSONAL EFFICIENCY
"Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are. "
(Theodore Roosevelt)
Knowing what's right isn't the hard thing;
Doing the right things—that's the hard thing.
Entrepreneurs are an efficient group. They get things done. They are efficient in their use of energy, time, and
mind. How do they do this? What enables and empowers their efficiency levels?
"Efficiency is one of the most important components of wealth accumulation. People who
become wealthy allocate their time, energy, and money in ways consistent with enhancing their
net worth." (The Millionaire Next Door, p. 71)
Primer:
Are you ready to increase your efficiency by becoming better at your core competencies?
Are you willing to become better at the most important things you do?
Think of something that you have learned do very efficiently, but which you did not always do efficiently. Think of
that behavior when you did it inefficiently and now when you do it efficiently. What's the difference?
Inefficiently Efficiently
Wasted time and energy Used time and energy wisely
Didn't plan ... scattered, unfocused Planned, focused, making notes
Disoriented Thinking strategically, on purpose
Inactive, procrastinating Sorting out Important things
Back and forth indecisively Making a decision and acting
Slow: unskilled, laborious Effective in organizing
Failure to delegate
Unimportant activities
Clutter
Excessive socializing Balance between activities
Failure to say "No." Good Boundaries
Standards too high Optimizing
6) Intention: Connect and align your everyday activities with your highest intentions.
Are you clear about your goals and objectives? Since your efficiency arises from clarity of intention.
What are your top 10 goals for this year about this area of efficiency? If you were to accomplish one of
these goals, which one would have the greatest positive impact on my life? What is your most important
goal? Second? Third?
MASTERING
YOUR BUSINESS MATRIX
Business skills and intelligence
for top performances
Description: As there is I.Q. & E,Q. for emotional intelligence, so there's a B.Q. — Business Quotient
relating to our business intelligence. This Matrix enables us to play the great Game of work, identify
critical success factors and think like an entrepreneur.
Challenge: Keeping current with the ever-changing market and the ever-changing nature of business itself.
Solution: Developing a robust matrix about the world of business that enables us to effective navigate that
territory.
This matrix concerns our ideas and concepts about what's "out there." Developmentally, began exploring
the world when our Self had the power to move and adapt. The way we map our sense of the world then
affects our sense of self, other, and our power to interact in the world. This matrix includes all of the
specific worlds out there: work, business, culture, etc. It answers the following kind of questions:
What is the world like? Is it friendly or unfriendly?
Is it a place full of scarcity or abundance?
Is it fearful or exciting, dangerous or wonderful?
The World matrix governs all of the worlds that we call social, political, economic, business, career, racial,
etc. When we have a strong sense of Self and of self-efficiency, we naturally care about and want to
experience competence in relating to the World in general or to some specific world in particular. We may
want to be and experience and express our competence in career and business, in wealth making, in groups,
clubs, associations, politics, economics, etc. Empowering meanings about and in this matrix opens us to
the whole of multiple opportunities for expression, mastery, achievement, and success.
The meanings we map about the World lead to and create various styles of dealing with it. We may adopt
an orientation style, a modus operandi, of trying to make the world adapt to us (the Judger meta-program)
and so move through the world seeking to organize it, structure it, make it serve our purposes. Or we may
adopt a style of adapting to the world, just perceiving it, flowing with it (the Perceiver meta-program).
The meanings we map about how to learn leads to two learning orientation styles: Sensing by attending to
facts, data, the sensory-based "givens" and so we use the scientific method for figuring things out (the
Sensory meta-program). Or we may use the Intuiting style by attending to patterns, possibilities, ideas,
meanings, etc. the Intuitor meta-program). This is the philosophical method of reasoning from ideas and
patterns and previous knowledge (in-tuit-ion, in-knowing).
BUSINESS PRINCIPLES
4) Play with the Possibilities for transformation and identify Preferred Frames,
What frame of mind would you like to have about that domain?
What beliefs would support you in that?
What values?
Meta-detailing means taking great ideas and detailing out the details to generate a list of specific things to do about
some brilliant concepts. About Hill, Empire Builder of the Northwest (1996), "His genius lay precisely in his abilty
to master details while fashioning broad vision and strategy."
"Good fund managers have to be able to immerse themselves in minutiae one moment, zoom out, and look
at the big picture from thirty thousand feet, then dive back into the details again." (Fortune Mag. Dec. 29,
1997, B. O'Reilly).
Meta-detailing gives us the ability to combine and synthesize both inductive and deductive thinking, perceiving the
whole and the specific details. We can think in global ways and specifically. We can zoom in on a picture and
zoom out. We can foreground a sound or sensation and background others. We can chunk up to handle larger units
of information and to get a larger perspective as well as chunking down to very small and even tiny bits. We can
use the language of precision and pull apart a linguistic model of the world. We can also use hypnotic language
patterns to construct new enhancing realities. Putting these facets together, we facilitate a new synthesis and
distinction. Synergistically a new gestalt emerges, meta-detailing.
A genius sorts for, pays attention to, and recognizes details from a meta-position. Whether trained or "natural," the
genius can recognize and operate from some meta-pattern or principle which empowers him or her to see, hear, and
sense the richness of details. We call this meta-detailing.
Meta-detailing refers to the gestalt of small chunking from the perspective of the large chunk It involves
seeing, hearing, discerning and differentiating crucial details using meta-level frames.
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In this way, meta-detailing enables us to stay focused, directed, insightful, and persistent. It enriches our abilities to
make decisions. Having a higher sense of how various details play into the larger picture enables us to operate from
an almost intuitive "knowing" about what is truly important and what is not.
Meta-Detailing saves us from "living in the clouds " with great plans and tremendous visions, but without the
practical knowledge involved in how to take care of the details. Visionaries suffer from this one. They can develop
"a bad relationship" to details. The person who says, "I'm a global person; I don't do details," will also be a person
who probably will not develop expertise and excellence in their field.
By way of contrast, he spoke about some of the meta-frames of values, beliefs, understandings, ideas, decisions, etc
that would enable and enrich the details.
"It gave Rita enormous satisfaction to do her job well. In a business in which even minor errors may look
major to customers, Rita enjoyed seeing quality work produced. 'We don't always do it flawlessly,* she
said, but she was indeed prepared to try." (Blotnick, p. 61)
His found that those who found the minor details of their work a major annoyance simply did not persist, and so
they became wealthy significantly less often.
"Neither focusing solely on the details nor ignoring them altogether is wise. Something in between is
obviously called for. And strangely enough, the people who accidently located that Golden Mean were
those who profoundly enjoyed doing their work. Their absorption in it also allowed time to pass far more
quickly than it did for others." (p. 68)
1) Identify 3 to 5 Principles that govern success, excellence, expertise or genius in your business.
What do the experts in your field know that give them an edge?
What principles, concepts, understandings enrich and enhance their performances?
What frames of mind are involved in these or are presupposed in these?
Rewrite it until you can describe the principle with both clarity and succinctness.
Rewrite again until the clear and succinct statement feels compelling to you.
Repeat until you see-hear-feel 5 to 10 details that give flesh-and-blood to the principle.
4) Step into the details fully and as you experience them, go meta to the Principle.
From within your vivid imagery of the detailing, shift upward to the governing principle that drives and
organizes this detail. Open your eyes and ears to experience your world from the meta-level of the
detailing.
Repeat several times.
5) Future pace.
WELL-FORMED PROBLEMS
The heart of business is solving problems. It is finding something that needs to be done, and doing
something that adds value to people's lives. Business intelligence begins as we identify what we offer that
solves a problem or that adds richness and value to life.
What's a "Problem?"
How Do we Identify the REAL Problem?
Martin Roberts {Change Management Excellence, 1999), writes:
"All too often in business 'quick fixes' are applied to a perceived problem, and it is only realized
afterwards that the fix chosen only fixed the symptoms and not the underlying cause." (p. 155)
A problem is the Gap between present state and desired state. We speak to this difference gap when we
speak to a "problem" and a solution solves the Gap.
"The word problem always identifies a Present/ Desired State difference" (Grinder, McMaster,
1993, p. 52). "A problem is defined as any difference between Present State and the Desired
State." (P. 38)
Find a gap and fill it. What gap does this or that fill? Does it need filling?
The S.C.O.R.E Model enables us to establish a strategic orientation and a trajectory that gives us a sense
of direction, movement. It enables us to more clearly differentiate where we are and where we want to be.
Desired State
Present State
6) Focus on the many symptoms rather than 6) Symptoms specified & recognized as
causes and contributing factors symptoms, not causes.
What are the symptoms of this problem?
How do the symptoms dominate focus & attention?
What is the actual problem?
Are we solving the problem's source or symptom?
4) Constraints: (Interferences)
What (if anything) is stopping you from achieving this solution?
Is the goal realizable? Is it realistic?
What's the possibility that you can reach this goal?
What are the risks? What are the larger systemic concerns?
What (if anything) will be put at risk in achieving this?
How will this effect the larger system?
5) Resources:
Can you do this? Is it within your control and power?
Will you be able to pull this off?
Can you initiate and sustain it?
What current resources can you apply to achieving this solution?
What new resources will you need to acquire to achieve this?
What else do you need?
Business excellence and success is created through brain power, not muscle power. It occurs through the guidance
of great ideas. It all begins with Vision.
1) Think about a problem, difficulty, challenge, unpleasant task, etc. that you have at work or in your career.
Run through two or three possible choices.
MASTERING
YOUR LEADERSHIP MATRIX
Description: Lead yourself and others by finding your vision and by super-charging your attitude that you
can play and win so that you can create many win/win arrangements with others.
Challenge: The frustrations and stresses that invite us to become negative, give up, feel defeated, fail to
lead or pioneer in new directions.
Solution: Super-charge our attitude as we take ownership of self-leadership to find our passion and keep it
alive and then persist with resilience until we make it happen.
Can attitudes be taught? Yes, you bet they dan! Components of attitude are the components of state.
What attitudes do you need to eliminate?
What attitudes do you need to build, develop, and install?
What attitudes do you need to juice up or super-charge?
What attitudes would you like to build around your genius states of flow and focus when you are
engaged in something that will maintain and enliven and make that genius state even more robust?
2) Meaning: Specify how you want to super-charge the attitude to make it more powerful or profound
In what way would you like to super-charge that "attitude?"
With what new qualities or properties?
How compelling and memorable would that be for you?
How would that affect you in mind-and-body?
What would you be feeling if you had that attitude fully installed?
Regarding emotions, two things are equally true at the same time:
* Emotions are just emotions. The difference that we register
in our body (soma) between our map of the world and our
experience of the world.
• Emotions are very important. They provide critical
information about our mapping and our encounter of the
world via our skills. Emotions make us feel alive! They
make us feel a sense of energy and vitality.
3) Meta-state (texture) your emotions with various resources. Add richer qualities to your emotions.
How does it feel when you simply accept and appreciate your emotions as emotions?
What happens when you bring curiosity to this awareness?
How does it feel when you're curious about the meaning of the emotion?
And when you bring openness to all of your emotions?
Appreciation of your emotional life?
How much vitality and aliveness does that create?
Entrepreneurs know that the core idea and vision develops incrementally. They add new elements as new
knowledge and experience is acquired and keep modifying the original idea.
5) Test
Can anything stop you?
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
While leaders come in many different forms so that there are many different kinds of leadership, leaders
arise and express themselves in a given context. That context is the particular values, expectations, needs,
style, and culture of the referent group. This realization, of course, leads to numerous other
questions—questions that are more precise to our concerns.
• What qualities and traits do we look for in recognizing leaders in Neuro-Semantics?
• How will we recognize and qualify the men and women who will arise in Neuro-Semantics as
leaders?
• What criteria of leadership will we set?
• If we want leaders who lead from the Neuro-Semantic vision, what will be the prerequisites of
leadership?
In Neuro-Semantics, we will look mostly and preeminently for leaders who embody the principles of the
neuro-semantic vision—its principles and practice. We will look for practical leaders who are excited
about the vision, who apply that vision to themselves, who look for adding value to others, and who work
at translating their talk into their walk. Conversely, we will not be interested in leaders who are driven by
visions of personal glory, the rank and status of privilege, or the ego satisfactions of someone driven to be
a guru.
To that end, we have set forth the following leadership criteria. This criteria comes immediately and
directly from the Vision and Mission statement of Neuro-Semantics. As such it reflects the very qualities
of individuals who are in actuality leading out in directions which fit the meaning and purpose of Neuro-
Semantics.
In recent years, we have become aware that we should not only wait for men and women with these
special traits and qualities to arise, but that we should intentionally plan to facilitate this kind of
leadership development in people. Also, recognizing that most leaders in Neuro-Semantics will come
through the Training and/or Coaching Tracks, we have set forth the following 7 criteria as the foundation
for leadership. These are divided into two categories: Being and Doing criteria.
Being Criteria:
Authenticity: being and acting from one's true self without masks and personas
Integrity: being as good as one's word, impeccably honest and fair-minded
Congruent: applying the principles to self so that one walks the talk
Doing Criteria:
Contributing: giving of oneself to others, serving from the NS principles
Collaborating: operating as a team player, cooperating with others
Pioneering: leading out into new areas
Communicating: sharing and disclosing in ways that are clear, precise, succinct,
engaging, and compelling
OPTIMISM
Business experts operate with an attitude of optimism. Optimism allows us to endow most of our experiences with
a sense of delight, joy, pleasantness, motivation, warmth, etc. It just makes things go a lot better than to approach
things with an attitude of pessimism. Optimism is an attitude of excellence that enables us to stay motivated,
determined, open, creative, persevering and resilient. When we bring the attitude Optimism to our everyday
activities, it enables us to see things with a sense of delight, joy, pleasantness, motivation, warmth, etc. It makes
things go much better than approaching things with a pessimistic attitude.
3) Identify the elements that you need to make up a rich and vibrant state of Optimism.
Customize the state of mind/body so that it seems compelling enough to create an optimistic motivation for
yourself.
5) Access more resource frames and cycle around until Optimism emerges.
Check and see, has a sense of optimism yet emerged for you when you think about this?
• Possibility Thinking: It's possible to achieve or accomplish something.
• Desirability: It's desirable to aim for, work toward, and invest time, energy, money, etc. into
making a difference.
• Abundance: There's an abundance of resources that can bring new possibilities into existence.
• Worth and Esteem: It's worth doing, valuable, and we have the esteem, value, significance that
makes us worthy and deserving to do it.
RESILIENCE
Power to Bounce Back from Set-Backs
When things go wrong and we suffer a set-back, we need the resilience of mind and emotions to bounce back.
Resilience is the ongoing ability of the body, mind, spirit, etc. to recover health. As a complex meta-state, resilience
programs us to "bounce back" from misfortunes.
Stages of Resilience:
I researched the field of resilience in 1992 through 1994 and wrote a paper on the Strategy of Resilience, "How to
Go for It-Again!" That brought about the discovery of Meta-States: In modeling the strategy of being Resilience,
of having a sense of bounce inside, the following elements are crucial.
1) The Set-Back: knocked down, a negative, hurtful, undesired event that creates a sense of loss,
disruption, stress, etc.
2) The Loss, Trauma, Hurt, itself The experience of not having what one previously had, of suffering
consequences of that disruption, of experiencing the emotional ups and downs about it.
3) The coping process: The internal and external actions taken to address the set-back and the coping
mechanisms involved in coming back.
4) The Come Back: "I'm back!"
2) What meta-level resources do you need to access and apply to the Set-Back?
Shift from the pessimistic to the optimistic explanatory style.
The pessimistic explanatory style attaches pessimistic meanings to the occurrence of "bad" things. It
frames and interprets events as:
* Personal in source (positing the problem with the self).
* Pervasive in space (effecting everything and undermining every facet of life).
* Permanent in time (unchangeable, insoluble, insurmountable).
The optimistic explanatory style: attach more enhancing meanings when "bad" things happen:
* External in source—This.
* Specific in space — Here.
* Temporary in time — Now.
4) Access and apply each resource state and layer on until the gestalt of "resilience" emerges.
Identify supporting belief frames, value frames, decision frames, identity frames along the way.
Install by Meta-Stating:
The sci-fi movie hit of 1999, "The Matrix, " described really a fictitious reality, presented as real, to create a
life in the Twenty-Third Century, after the great war false consciousness that will allow the Game to go on.
between humans and A.I. (Artificial Intelligence). The
Machines won. As the movie opens, most humans are There were still some free humans. Some lived in
imprisoned in egg-like structures where they are Zion, "the last human city," and the others worked
harvested for their brain energy. There's a few who from hover crafts like the one Morpheus operated, the
live on the outside, but only a few. They are about the "Nebuchadnezzer." Being free from the Matrix,
only ones who know "the truth." Everybody else lives Morpheus and his crew could hack into it. In that way,
in a computer-generated world. This creates the they could enter and exit it as they chose. Yet they had
illusion that they are living in New York City, Toronto, to be careful. Sentinel programs, the Agents, roamed
or Sydney in 1999. They are not. Actually, they are the Matrix and had never been defeated by a hacker.
experiencing the electrical signals that cue their brains
to represent the world of 1999. The Matrix is sending The Matrix of Our Minds
them these signals. It's all an Alice in Wonderland We too live in a matrix—a matrix of our frames.
world. Their mind is in the Matrix of those Because we do not deal with the world (the territory)
representations. directly, but via our maps, we relate to the world via
three mapping levels: neurological mapping,
To keep these humans occupied so that their brains stay representational mapping, and conceptual mapping.
activated and emits lots of energy, the Machines
created a "1999 World" Matrix. It's richer and fuller We relate to the world via our neurological maps, that
than the holideck on the starship Enterprise. This is is, the "perceptions" that emerge from the interaction of
what we call "Sensorama Land" in NLP—a rich, our sense receptors with the energy manifestations "out
vivid, 3-D, close, in color, etc. world. Electrical signals there." These seem so "real," we can easily confuse
to their brain induce them into experiencing the sights, what we "see" with what is truly out there.
sounds, sensations, smells, tastes, etc. of life at the end
of the Twentieth Century. That's why they have plugs We also relate to the world via our representational
up and down their spinal chord and on ail of their maps, that is, how we encode our internal movies of
major muscle groups. It's the ultimate in a computer things using sights, sounds, sensations, smells, etc. and
generated virtual reality. It was a hypnotic state with all the cinematic features or distinctions that we can
no exit. Well, almost no exit (and that's the story, of make in the sensory systems ("sub-modalities").
course!).
We relate to the world via our conceptual maps, that is,
This "1999 Matrix," however, was not the first Matrix. by the concepts, categories, beliefs, values,
The Machines had originally created the "Perfect expectations, decisions, etc. that we bring to our
World" Matrix. It didn't work. The humans didn't thinking. All of these frames of reference combine to
buy it. And so, as Agent Smith said, "whole crops create the matrix of the frames in our mind. They
were lost." After that, the A.I. Machines set up the comprise our "reality strategy." They give us our sense
"1999 Software Matrix" to deceive and occupy the of the fabric of reality (subjectivity reality). These
humans in order to keep their brains intensely activated make up our Meta-Programs, Meta-States, and the
as they harvested their energy. Yet the 1999 Matrix is domains that make up various logical levels.
Entering and Exiting "the 1999 Matrix" You can't explain it, but you feel it, like a
At the beginning of the movie, a message appears on splinter in your mind, driving you mad."
Anderson's computer. Trinity sent it. The words
quietly scrolled across the screen, "Wake up Neo. Neo says, "The Matrix?"
The Matrix has you." Morpheus said, "Yes, the Matrix. The world
has been pulled over your eyes to blind you
Our matrices also have us to the extent that we are not from the truth."
aware of the existence of our subjective world or "What truth?"
matrix of frames. Our Matrix has us to the degree that "That you were born into slavery, into a
we are blind to our Frames. We have partially prison that you cannot see or smell... A
inherited these frames from the cultures that we are prison of the mind ... Unfortunately, no one
born into and partly from the ones that we create. This can tell you what the Matrix is; you have to
makes waking up and detecting our frames our highest see it for yourself."
priority. NLP talks about this in terms of Korzybski's
classic statement, "the map is not the territory." This In his invitation for Neo to see the Matrix for himself,
allows us to distinguish the frames that we map from Morpheus showed him two pills. He held them out, a
the "real world" out there. blue one and a red one. "Take the Blue Pill," he said,
and "you will wake up in your bed and believe
In the movie, a particular feeling brought Neo (Thomas whatever you want to believe."
Anderson) to Morpheus (the leader of the hackers). It "Take the red pill and you stay in Wonder
was the feeling that "something is wrong with the Land, and I'll show you how deep the Rabbit
world. " What created that feeling? The fact that the Hole goes."
frames and the software of the matrix did not support
and promote human vitality, aliveness, or freedom. Neuro-semantics is like that. Taking the red pill opens
This feeling emerged into a question in Neo's mind. our eyes and ears and feelings to the map/territory
He asked, "What is the Matrix?" difference and we begin to discover the depth and
height of the rabbit holes of our minds. We begin
The same happens for each of us. We also experience discovering the cultural rabbit holes that we live in, the
our frames first and foremost in terms of our feelings labyrinths of meaning. It's all a fictional bio-computer
and emotions. For instance, those who play "The generated world. We (and many, many of our
Blame Game" experience a very different set of ancestors) made it up. It's but a human construct
feelings and intuitions from those who play "The —subjective experience, and it has a structure, we can
Solution Game." Each frame (and all of the frames that even model it, and yet, in the end, it is just frames
they are embedded within) create a set of feelings, within frames within frames. Maps.
states, and behaviors. And frequently it is the feeling
that "there's something wrong with my world" that Matrix Training
makes us ready for a new game. When you feel that, Once delivered from the Matrix, the crew prepared Neo
welcome that dissatisfaction. It can open you to to re-enter the 1999 Matrix. Why? So that he could
leaving that old matrix of frames. learn to become "The One " —the one prophesied that
would come. He would be able to change the matrix at
Taking the Red Pill will and to eventually destroy it. Morpheus and his
After I conducted the Frame Games Workshop in crew used other computer programs (Training
Austin Texas, a good friend and Master Practitioner, Matrices) in "the construct." The software set the
Addison Woods wrote me. In an email he said, "The frame: a sparing program, detecting agents program,
Frame Games training was an 'experience ' analogous jumping program, etc.
to taking the red pill." Ah, taking the red pill.
In the Jumping Tall Buildings Matrix, Morpheus
In the movie, Morpheus first greeted Neo (and others invites Neo to jump from one skyscaper in New York
he had freed from the Matrix) by saying, City to another.
"It seems you're feeling a bit like Alice, "I'm trying to free your mind... Let it all go.
tumbling down the rabbit hole. You have the Fear. Doubt. Disbelief. Free your mind!"
look of a man who accepts what he sees
because he is expecting to wake up. You This is also the challenge before us as we work within
know that something is wrong with the world. our frames of reference and frames of meaning. When
we are in the construct, they seem so real to us. And as comprised of such meta-phenomena that we call
we believe in them, they are real to us—subjectively "beliefs, understandings, language," etc. Our cultural
real. We build (or inherit from our culture) our frames and conceptual programming creates the Frames that
of reference in order to organize a consistent picture of we live in— the Matrix of Frames that we call
the world. "reality."
Eric Fromm (1968), writing about another context and This highlights our nature as Matrix makers. We create
from the frame of psychoanalytic sociology, said: frames and then play the games that the frames permit
"The human being... would indeed go mad if because that's how our minds and nervous systems
he did not find a frame of reference which work. Again, Fromm explains what today we call the
permitted him to feel at home in the world in Constructionist viewpoint about reality,
some form and to escape the experience of "Man not only has a mind and is in need of a
utter helplessness, disorientation, and frame of orientation which permits him to
uprootedness. ... He has to have a frame of make some sense of and to structuralize the
orientation which permits him to organize a world around him; he has also a heart and a
consistent picture of the world as a condition body which need to be tied emotionally to the
for consistent actions." (The Evolution of world—to man and to nature. The animal's
Hope, p. 63) ties to the world are given, mediated by his
instincts. Man, set apart by his self-awareness
This is the wonder of our maps. When we're on the and the capacity to feel lonely, would be a
outside of our maps, when we look upon the maps of helpless bit of dust driven by the winds if he
others—it is easy to recognize them as maps. We did not find emotional ties which satisfied his
sometimes feel surprised, "How could you ever believe need to be related and unified with the world
that?" But when we step inside them, when we step beyond his own person." (pp. 67-68)
into the universe that our frames create, suddenly it
becomes more difficult to remember that they are just Discovering Our Powers to Transform the Matrix
maps, just the encodings of our mind. They seem so In the scene where Neo meets the lady that they call
real. When inside the matrix of our frames, they signal "The Oracle." Located in what looked like a 1950s
our nervous system to make them real (to us). We feel kitchen, she looked Neo over and said, "You have the
this in our body as our emotions. If we only use our gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something."
feelings, we become frame blind.
NLP operates with very similar ideas. It operates from
The magic lies in stepping outside. We do that in the the presupposition that we have all the resources we
"Phobia Cure" (Movie Rewind) with the metaphor of need to enrich the world we live in. If we suffer from
a movie theater. We do that in the "Time Line" an impoverished model of the world, the fault lies not
metaphor, and we do it in many other meta-level jumps in the world, but in our map of that world. The Meta-
to higher states —higher states of mind. And, of Model was originally designed to elicit and coach in
course, that's what the Meta-States model is all about. others a fuller linguistic model. By meta-modeling, we
This is how we "get an exit" from the Matrix— by invite people into new levels and quality of framing.
Stepping Back, Stepping Up. Why? To get us to find our gifts and to "go for it!"
with ferocity.
During the first time that Neo goes in, he can't believe
that the chair, his hair, etc. are not "real." Later in the subway, after Trinity and Morpheus escape
the Matrix, Agent Smith turns to confront Neo. From
Morpheus says, "What is real?" Do you mean the outside the Matrix, Trinity yells, "Run, Neo, Run!"
electric signals sent and interpreted by your brain?" And then, when she sees Neo turn to take the agent on,
Then he explains, "You've been living in a dream she asks, "What is he doing?"
world." Morpheus says, "He is beginning to believe."
Actually, we all do. We live in a "dream world" of our Ah, belief! It takes belief—belief that we can challenge
mind— hypnotized by our meanings and cultural and change our matrix. That is, we have to utter a
inductions. We too live in a computer generated world. profound and strong "Yes!" to our desired frames in
The only difference is that ours is made by the bio- order to activate our own powers within whatever
computer of our brain and neurology and it is Matrix of Frames that we have created. When we do
that, we transform mere "thoughts" into a dynamic change the Matrix of our frames at will. That's when
meta-phenomena that actually sends commands to the we can bend the fabric of our subjective "reality" to do
nervous system. We create "beliefs." We create us service in living richer, fuller, and more vibrant
beliefs which then activate the Matrix World of our lives. We can then keep opening up a whole world of
skills. possibilities as the deceptions and illusions are
exposed, and as we reclaim our powers of Matrix
The Metaphor making.
Every metaphor can only take us so far. And so it is
with "The Matrix " metaphor. In the movie, the actors Seeing the Matrix in Code
could move in and out of the Matrix. We do not have After being in the Matrix and learning to maneuver in
that choice. Given the frame constructing nature of our the constructs, Neo happened into the central computer
mind and nervous system, we can only think, feel, act, on the hover ship. There he found Cypher who was
and relate via some framework. We have a different watching the Matrix. On the screens before him was a
choice. We only choose between various Matrices. flow of numbers. Now he was seeing the Matrix in
code.
We have been born inside of a Matrix, a matrix of "You look at it in code?" he asked.
frames—of ideas and beliefs that have ever so subtly Cypher said, "I don't even see the code. You
infiltrated our brains and that now run our programs. get used to it. All I see is blond, brunet, and
As "time-binders" we are culturalized to various frames redhead."
of mind. We have no choice about that. But we do
have a choice about which Matrix we want to live in. We do this in Neuro-semantics when we learn to see
We do, that is, if we know about the Matrix and have and hear the structure of the frames and the way we
developed the Matrix entering and exiting skills. Then encode our representations. Apart from the code, we
we too can master our Matrices. experience things as behaviors, emotions, talk.
Content. But after we learn how to deal with
Where did you get your current frames of mind, your structure, we can see and hear the code as people talk,
points of view, your mental styles for perceiving act, and emote. This gives us a higher level of
things? Did you invent them all on your own? Of awareness of understanding. This leads to frame
course not. Most of them you just absorbed from your mastery and frees us from frames having us. It gives us
family and cultural environment. You sucked them in true choice and control— kind of like the promise in
as you breathe in air—paying no attention at all to the NLP that we will learn how to "run our own brains"
frames that people, groups, culture, and language itself and access our own highest resourceful states.
set for the working of your brain. And, given whatever
Matrix you entered into, that controls the games that Summary
you can now play. This introduces the newest developments in Neuro-
semantics, the models that began with Frame Games
All of the games that we play in life spring from the and that now includes The Matrix Model. In Frame
higher frames that are set in our minds. We learned to Games trainings we enter the meta-zone of the Matrix
play these games and to play within the rules of the of our frames in order to develop skills and learn
game. Some Matrices of frame empower us to use our patterns for working with the matrices of our minds. It
mental and emotional powers efficiently, other leads to frame game mastery where we can explicitly
Matrices sabotage our effectiveness, manipulate the work with the embedded frames of mind. The games
hell out of us, poison our emotions, and imprison us. (states, actions, emotions, talk—all of the actions and
Only through frame awareness can we begin to transactions) that our frames format and structure.
develop the skills to play mindfully and elegantly.
Otherwise, the Matrix will have us— will imprison us. References
Fromm, Eric. (1968). The revolution of hope: Toward
However, once we become conscious of our map a humanized technology. New York: Bantam Books.
making, able to jump logical levels in a single bound,
then we can detect frames, challenge them, shift them,
transform them, set and solidify new ones, and layer
frame upon frame to build up a Matrix World that's a
lot of fun to live in. Then we become a frame game
master. Then like Neo, we develop the power to
WELCOME TO
THE MATRIX OF YOUR MIND
We—you and I, were born in a Matrix. We didn't create it. We didn't wish for it. We didn't particularly want it, and
we didn't even recognize it at first... but we were born in a matrix of frames within frames within frames. We call that
Matrix by numerous terms, "culture," "civilization," "the human condition," our mind-body system, "reality," etc.
The Matrix had been coming together for thousands upon thousands of years as man engaged in time-binding activities
and encoding their learnings in symbolic form (language, mathematics) and thereby allowing those who came later to
have the chance of beginning where they left off. In this way, the belief frames, value frames, understanding and
knowledge frames, the identity and religious frames, and a hundreds of other kinds of frames came together to offer a
whole set of filters, constraints, and maps about self, others, and life. In way in this way that the Matrix is given birth
or more accurately, evolves.
The Matrix comes to us not only as all of the see-hear-feel-smell-taste-balance sensory information from the outside
world but also all of the internal sensory information—remembered and imagined—and all of the conceptual frames
that sets mental contexts around that information. This is the Matrix.
• Our Matrix is our internal model of the world made up of multiple belief frames about many things.
Matrix Grounding
• The Matrix is grounded in a neuro-semantic State. Without this grounding, we lose our sense of reality and
our ability to effectively adjust ourselves to the world as we find it. This reduces "sanity" and so makes us
"unsane."
• Each of the matrices in-forms and influences the Cinema playing in our primary state. This is the work station
so to speak of our mind where we present and represent things to ourselves again and again.
• As states rise up to a higher level or as we say, "go meta," they stay —and they stay as the matrices of our mind
and become the higher level frames that establish contexts of meanings.
First Encounter with the Matrix
When we first
encounter the a
person, we don't
see the Matrix.
We don't even
see the person's
state. It's
invisible to us.
Movie Frames
Above and beyond our internal Cinema are our Frames of
Meaning that influence the movies. We never just
"think"—we think about our thinking. We observe our
thinking, direct our thinking, etc. This describes the higher
levels of our mind. In this, we think in more ways that just
representation. We also think in terms of editing the
Cinema, and the camera shots we use. We think in terms
of directing the focus of our mind. We think in terms of the
Cinema that we produce.
As we map things, we generate meanings that we encode into our movies which in turn create our states. This
is the foundation or core or funnel of our neuro-semantic system.
With regard to our states, it is the "meanings" or frames that count. They drive and create the layered nature
of our consciousness.
When a stimulus occurs, we frame things which activate our state and that in turn evokes our feelings and
behaviors. And with that, the Game begins,
Neuro-Semantic Energy
And the Movie in the Mind
Levels
of our
Movie-Mind
• We experience our awareness of things in terms of the Movie that plays in the Cinema of our mind. What's
"on your mind?" Take a look at the movie that's playing inside. These movies typically are two-second
movies that flash on and off very quickly, so you have to be fast at catching them.
• Each matrix in-forms and frames the Movies that we watch through how that matrix edits the movie, chooses
camera perspectives, directs the production, etc. It goes this through using the various belief frames in the
matrix.
• These cinematic features work semanticaily to encode the meaning in sensory-based terms. NLP traditionally
called these features "sub-modalities," but in Neuro-Semantics we recognize them as meta-frames governing
the Movie itself. They stand for higher semantic frames and incorporate within them those meanings.
Psycho-Logics:
• As we think and construct our maps—our frames and embedded frames all make sense. That is, from the
inside they make perfect psycho-logical sense even if they are not useful, productive, or logical to the outside
world.
• Every meta-move sets a higher frame as a "logical" level and so creates our internal matrices. Every meta-state
is another "logical" level as it classifies or categories the experience in that way.
The 7 Matrices
of our Frames
The Matrix becomes visible as we see and recognize the various frames of the sub-
matrices become activated. We can see this in neurology and physiology as a
person goes into a state and we can hear it when a person uses the language that
activates a given matrix. Think of the Matrix as a hologram in space...
with the individual matrices flashing on and off as they are activated.
Background Matrix
The Matrices in the Back of the Mind:
• The six matrices are always ready to be activated
according to current conditions and stimuli.
• These matrices lie in the back of our mind— outside of
conscious awareness and make up our "unconscious" mind.
• They all influence the Cinema of the mind.
Matrix Analysis:
• Matrix analysis allows us to understand the neuro-semantic system as a system: how it works, what drives it,
the spiraling loops within it, and the leverage points for transformation.
• Matrix analysis allows us to identify the driving and critical matrix within and behind every experience.
Matrix Holarchy:
Holons (the whole in the part; the part in the whole) enables us to understand the system as a system.
The Matrix is a holarchy. The levels of the mind do not operate as a hierarchy with steps and ladders, but as
a holarchy. We can find in every part of the Cinema the whole.
The whole shows up in the cinema as he Cinematic Features of the Movie.
FRAME GAME QUESTIONS
What is the game that you're playing in life? Describe it.
What are the hooks that pull you into the Games?
How do the games hook you?
What's within the games that's seductive, tempting?
What are some of the triggers that get you?
What bait does the game depend upon to get you?
What are some of the cues that indicate the presence of a Game?
How do you know when you're involved in playing a game?
What lets you know?
What are some of the linguistic cues? (The way that you talk)
What are some of the physical cues? (Things that you are doing)
What are some of the environmental cues?
1. What's the Game? Describe the "Game" being played out in terms of states meta-state, gestalt state. What's the script
of the game? What sub-games or sub-frames are part of it all?
2. Players: Who plays the game? With whom? Who else has games going on? What's the larger social system of the
game? (Use another Workshop 1 for each additional person).
3. Quality Control: Do you like this Game? Just how sick is this game? Ready to Transform it?
4. Hooks (triggers, baits): What hooks you into the game? How does the game hook others to play?
5. Cues & Clues: What are some of the cues (linguistic, physical, environmental, etc.) that indicate the presence of a
game? How do you know? What cues you?
6. Rules of the Game: How is the game set up? How do you play? (Commands, Taboos)
8. Frames of References that you use. What are you referencing? Is that a reference?
Literal & actual Conceptual: Imaginary:
Vicarious (referencing what happened to someone else) Personal: Meta:
10. Agenda of the Game: What's the intention, motivation, or payoff of the Game? What's the payoff?
11. Emotional Intensity of the Game: How intense (0 to 10)? Are there any somatic responses or symptoms?
12. Leverage points: Where is the leverage in this game to stop it, change it, transform it?
13. Preferred Frame Game: What game would you rather play?
Frame Games Worksheet — 2
Design Engineering a New Frame Game
1. Desired Game:
3. Current Frame Games: What is the current game or frame? What is the Quality of it? How sick? What
consequences can it have? How serious (0-10)? What frames will have to be broken?
4. Evidence of the current Frame Game: Symptoms, cues, evidence, source of evidence?
5. Emotional Motivation: What concerns, him or her most? Values? What's really important to this person?
What would hook X into this game? Vested interests?
6. Players: Who plays the game? What's the larger social system of the game?
7. Objective and Outcome: What do I want in this? What do I want for the other/s in this?
9. Process: How can I set up these frames? How can I implement my persuasion process?
10. Leverage points: Where is the leverage to change, stop, or change the game? What frames will best leverage this
person?
/ / . Patterns for Shifting, Loosening, and Transforming the Frames: Which patterns or techniques would provide the
most leverage?
12. Patterns for Installation: Which patterns would work best for installing new Frames?
Meta-State Factors:
Frames: As a model Meta-States describes our higher frames-of-references. We set these up and use
them to create stable structures (i.e., beliefs, values, understandings, etc.). We develop these frames
which we can keep with us.
Reflexivity: We ever just think. As soon as we think or feel—we then experience thoughts and
feelings about that first thought, then other thoughts-and-feelings about that thought, and so on. Our
self-reflective consciousness works as an "infinite regress" to recursively iterate.
Layering: In meta-states we layer states onto states to create higher levels of awareness. In layering
thinking-and-feeling, we put one state in a higher or meta (above, beyond) position to the second.
This creates a "logical type"or "logical level."
Psycho-Logics: A special kind of internal logic arises from layering of states. When we transcend
from one state (say, anger or joy) to another state (say, calmness or respect) we set the second state
as a frame over the first and include it inside it. This gives us "calm anger," respectful joy, joyful
learning, etc. It makes the first state a member of the class of the second.
Non-Linear: It's not logical in a linear or external way, yet it is psycho-logical. Internally when we
put a state like anger or fear inside another state (calmness, respect, gentleness, courage, etc.), we
change the internal logic of our nervous system and person. This is what we mean when we talk
about "logical levels." When we put one state in a "logical" relationship to another state so that one
is at a higher level then the higher one is about the other. This about-relationship establishes the
"logic."
Self-Organizing: There are no such "things" as logical levels. They do not exist "out there." But only
in the mind as how we represent categories and levels. With this logical typing or leveling, the effect
of each level is to organize and control the information on the level below it. In logical levels each
level is progressively more psychologically encompassing and impactful.
Coalescing: By repetition and habituation higher frames or states coalesce into the lower states. The
higher thoughts-and-feelings soak down into them to qualify or texture the lower state.
NEURO-SEMANTICS®
Definition: Via our states and meta-states we translate the meanings in our minds (our semantics) into
feelings in our bodies (neurology) to create our neuro-semantic states.
Neuro-Semantic Factors:
Emotions: When something means something to us—we feel it in our bodies. The meanings show
up as "emotions." The meanings take the form of values, ideas, beliefs, understandings, paradigms,
mental models, frames, etc.
Meaning-Making: Neuro-Semantics is a model of how we make meaning through evaluating
experiences, events, words, etc. It's a model of how we then live in the World or Matrix of Meaning
that we construct and inherit.
Matrix as Frames of Meaning: Neuro-Semantics describes the frames of reference we use as we move
through life and the frames of meaning that we construct. It creates the Matrix of Frames in which
we live and from which we operate.
Semantic Reactions: The reactions that occur which indicate our semantic structures.
Generative Neuro-Semantics: Building up new gestalt states which offer new experiences which are
more than the sum of the parts.
Systemic: The meta-state structure of Neuro-Semantics involves a different kind of thinking as it
shifts from linear to non-linear thinking. Systemic thinking involves reflexivity, recursiveness, and
spiral thinking. It means following feedback and feed forward loops around the loops of the fluid
Matrix Frames.
Neuro-Semantic Models:
The first model of Neuro-Semantics is the Meta-States model that maps our reflexivity and describes
our layering of states upon states.
Second is the Mind-Lines model for conversational reframing.
Third is the Frame Games mind for diagnosing, understanding, and working with states and behaviors
as "games" driven and modulated by "frames."
Fourth is the Matrix Model that specifies seven matrices as a diagnostic and modeling tool.
Fifth is Axes of Change model that maps the process of change and transformation.
The Matrix Model: We have several kinds of matrices: process matrices that create the structures, content
matrices around key concepts and semantic realities, and the grounding matrix of state. This comprises the
7 Matrices of our mind-body-emotion system.
THE 4 META-DOMAINS
The NLP meta-models fit into the Matrix as processes of how we construct meaning. To think systemically about the
mind-body system, we can use the four meta-domains as four avenues to the same thing—to the structure of inner or
subjective experience. Go meta to the meta-domains and use them as a unifying model for NLP; see how they track
the meaning-making processes of reflexivity.
The meta-domains unite to describe our experiential reality in everyday life (our mind-body states). Our states are
systems of interactive forces that generate our felt "force fields" within which we live, think, perceive, feel, and act.
Each meta-domain describes the structure of subjective experiences, looking at such through three different lenses:
• Cinematic Features: The qualities and distinctions with which we code our mental movies.
• Language: Linguistics and the VAK sensory systems.
• Perception: Our filters for seeing and perceiving, for sorting, paying attention, and thinking.
• States: Our mind-body states in which we live, and from which we operate.
GLOSSARY
Game: a set of actions that play out some concept, Frame of Mind: Via the process of repeating and
idea, etc. for some purpose, i.e., to "win" something, habituating a frame of reference, we send our mind and
another emotion, stroke, transaction, etc. A frame emotions out to a particular referent again and again.
generated realm that describes and creates our virtual Over time this leads to making the referent that we
reality or matrix. merely represented and thought about occasionally
something always on our mind, in fact, the frame of
Game Consciousness: Awareness of a game, who it mind that we operate from. The referent "gets in our
works, who sets it, how it invites people into it, the eyes," so to speak, so that we view the world and all of
states it elicits, etc. our experiences through the lens of that experience,
idea, etc. This turns the referent experience into a
Gestalt: An overall configuration, impression, feel. perceptual filter.
Frame: Short for frame of reference. We frame things; Frameworks: When a particular frame of mind
we frame people, ideas, events, experiences, etc. becomes so solidified in our orientation, it then
becomes our characteristic mind-set or attitude, this
Frame Ambiguity: The fuzzy edges of a frame, the transforms it into one of the very basic frameworks of
lack of clear bracketing of a frame. It may lead to our mind and personality, thereby giving it even more
Frame Failure. power and influence over us.
Frame Analysis: The process of analyzing our frames, Frame Terms: using the metaphor and structuring
detecting them, identifying the leverage points for device of "frames" we can now "think in terms of and
shifting them, the processes for transforming them, the work with" something. This creates our frame terms.
games that they engender, etc. Frame Analysis
provides a way to clearly articulate the levels of mind Frame Wars: When we conflict with another person,
and the influence they exert over life's experiences. it is typically a conflict of frames.
Frame Argumentation: The argument that a frame In-Frame: Living, feeling, seeing, experiencing, etc.
makes in defense of itself, or from out of its from within a frame of reference or frame of mind.
perspective. Frames argue for themselves when they Living in a virtual reality governed and informed by
feel threatened. This is a function of what cognitive our ideas, ideals, concepts, beliefs, values, etc. See
psychology calls state or mood dependency. Matrix.
Frame Breaks: Breaking a frame, interrupting it. Matrix: a metaphorical way to think about the "world"
or universe of discourse that we create perceptually,
Frame Clearing: When we deframe, dissolve a frame, mentally, and emotionally via our frames. As we build
or bust up a frame—we clear out mental and emotional meta-levels of the mind, we tend to become "paradigm
room in a person's model of the world for a new frame. blind" and to see the world "in terms of our ideas and
concepts." Thus the Matrix arises.
Frame Confusion & Frame Clearing: The quality of
clarity/ confusion within a frame. Meta: Something "above or beyond" something else
and therefore "about" it. A relationship of levels, as
Frame Cues: the signals, indicates, clues, linguistic when a thought is about another thought, a feeling
markets that give indication to the presence of a frame. about a feeling, a thought about a feeling, etc.
Frame-of-Reference: the reference that we use to Meta-Detective: The ability to step aside from our
understand something else. The reference can be an thinking and feeling and to recognize our thoughts and
actual experience (an event), a person, idea, etc. A feelings, their layers, etc.
referent can be something real and actual or imaginary
and vicarious. Meta-State (M-S): A meta-state arises as we think-feel
(T-F) about (@!) our T-F. In this, our conscious
awareness reflects back onto itself (self-reflexive
consciousness) to create T-F at a higher "logical level."
This generates a state-about-a-state. Such meta-states
relate to, or reference, a previous state. So rather than
having to do with something about the world, they have
to do with something about (@!) some previous
"thought," "emotion," concept, understanding, etc. In
meta-stating we create and set frames.
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www.neurosemantics.com
L. Michael Hall is a visionary leader in the field of Neuro-Semantics and today works as an entrepreneur,
researcher/modeler, and international trainer. His doctorate is in the Cognitive-Behavioral sciences from Union Institute
University. He worked as a psychotherapist in Colorado when he found NLP in 1986. He then studied with Richard
Bandler and wrote several books for him. When studying and modeling resilience, he developed the Meta-States model
(1994). Soon he began traveling nationally and then internationally, co-created the field of Neuro-Semantics with Dr.
Bob Bodenhamer. The International Society of Neuro-Semantics (ISNS) was established in 1996. As a prolific writer,
Michael has written more than 30 books, many best sellers in the field of NLP. Michael first applied NLP to coaching
in 1991, but didn't create the beginnings of Neuro-Semantic Coaching until 2001 when together with Michelle Duval
co-created Meta-Coaching trainings. In 2003, the Meta-Coach Foundation was create.
11) Mind-Lines: Lines For Changing Minds (w. Dr. Bodenhamer) (1997)
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12) The Secrets of Magic: Communication Excellence for the 21 . Century (1998)
13))) Meta-State Magic. From the Meta-State Journal, (1997-1999)
14) The Structure of Excellence: Unmasking the Meta-Levels of Submodalities (Hall and Bodenhamer, 1999)
15) Instant Relaxation (1999, Lederer & Hall)
16) The Structure of Personality: Modeling "Personality Using NLP and Neuro-Semantics (Hall, Bodenhamer,
Bolstad, Harmblett, 2001)
17) The Secrets of Personal Mastery (Fall, 2000)
18 Frame Games: Persuasion Elegance (2000)
19) Games Slim People Play (2001)
20) Games for Mastering Fear (2001, with Bodenhamer)
The central NS web site is: www.neurosemantics.com where you can read about the ISNS, the community,
membership, etc.
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