NLP Framework - The Power Of Your Model Of The World

When was self hypnosis cd last time you sat down and examined your model of the world, in an effort to make it work more effectively for you? Have you ever compared your model with others, to see if you could find modifications self hypnosis cd would make yours:

• guide you to more effective actions?
• allow you self esteem hypnosis more pleasant experience of life?
• give you more confidence in dealing with other people?

If you are now asking yourself, "What the heck is he talking about?", you'll really benefit from reading this article.

Although you may have an inkling of what the term "model" refers to in this context, it should be explained here to remove all doubt. Your personal model of reality, or model of the world, is a combination of remembered experiences and a collection of word-based descriptions to which you compare your ongoing experience to figure out what to do next in a specific ongoing situation.

Your model of the world is unique, in that the remembered experiences that contribute to it are yours alone. Although it contains word-based descriptions, and many of them are references to those experiences, your model of the world is exactly that.

Its content (for the word-based part) depends largely on self hypnosis mental control you made in the past. Those decisions defined which descriptions you would incorporate, and which you would set aside. Why is it that some people see life as a "constant struggle", while to others it is "a breeze"? Why do some people "accept fate", while others "make their own destiny"? It depends on the descriptions contained in the word-based portion of their model of the world.

I will reiterate that what makes your model of the world unique and personal is the experience part. The descriptions can be made available to everyone, but no one has shared all the separate experiences which contribute to your model of the world.

Now, setting aside the personal experience part, let's examine models from the perspective that they are a set of instructions and maps you refer to for guidance in all your activities. Your model of the world is organized in sets, from a mega-model (the nature of the world in general) on one extreme, to micro-models (concerned with the smallest bits of information relevant to a particular event or experience).

The mega-model is the most susceptible to errors, mistakes or misjudgments, since it contains descriptions of many things you may have never witnessed first-hand, and uses a lot of generalizations and intangibles. Micro-models, on the other hand, are more specific, and usually refer to objects and events verifiable in sensory experience.

A weak analogy for the arrangement of mega and micro-models is a book. Micro-models would be the letters which build the words in the sentences that make the paragraphs, pages, chapters, etc. The mega-model would be the book itself... the container for all the various micro-models. In short, your mega-model is your own personal encyclopedia, containing everything you know about reality.

The elements within the mega-model are accessed contextually, through strings of associations, and are either experiential or informational in nature. We'll discuss this further when we talk about communication. Most of the elements within this micro-model are experiential in nature; the "instructions" within this micro-model are not in language, but are patterns of stored sensory experience, a template, if you will, which guide you to correct procedures in performing certain activities.

For example, when you get into the driver's seat of your car, you automatically access the micro-model associated with driving. It is very unlikely that when you are getting in your car to drive to work, you will be accessing a micro-model concerned with tying your shoes, or playing a musical instrument.

Informational micro-models are anchored to words and phrases, rather than sensory experience. For instance, I can influence you to access a particular micro-model with three words, each of which leads to a subset within the model that precedes it:

• Sports
• Champions
• Federer

Now, all I have to do is add the word "Wimbledon", and you are ready to discuss all you know about that particular champion. If I substituted Federer with Agassi, you would have to make a slight adjustment to access that particular micro-model. If I suddenly threw in the word "philanthropy", momentary confusion would arise, sending you back to your mega-model, to determine how "Sports/Champions/Federer" is associated with the word "philanthropy".

You can understand that the higher up in order you go, the more generalized the references are, so that your mega-model sums up to a collection of generalizations and intangibles. Your feelings and attitudes are influenced by the generalizations you apply to various aspects of experience, and in your definitions of general terms. For instance, when talking about life in general, you may have heard or even used the following descriptions:

• Life is a struggle
• Life is a stage, and we are the players
• Life is a series of triumphs and setbacks
• Life is a classroom
• Life is a breeze

Without realizing it, you have undoubtedly contributed to the models of others by sharing your descriptions; you have added information (a micro-model) which they have chosen to incorporate into their model of the world, and that guide them in situations where that micro-model is relevant. Without knowing it, you have engaged in the process of Neurolinguistically Programming models.

The Art of Modeling

While we all engage unconsciously in the process of programming models every time we venture an opinion, or relate a set of information, it is only through the work of Richard Bandler and John Grinder that modeling has become a practice, wherein the modeler sets out purposefully to create a model intended to provide specific results for the recipient.

Since these models are language-based, it follows that a good modeler is one who not only has a good vocabulary, but also understands language structure, and how that structure affects the way the recipient processes the information. Richard Bandler and John Grinder put it brilliantly in Frogs Into Princes:

A modeler only builds descriptions. These descriptions are only ways of getting you to pay attention to things.

If I am a skillful modeler, the descriptions I share in my blog will allow you the same understanding I have of the workings of the minds which use the models. Not only will you be able to use this model to learn and master NLP faster, but, with practice, you will begin creating models yourself... structuring your actions and communications in ways that impart to others exactly the information you wish for them to add to their own models. That will become the "programming" piece.

As I stated earlier, your model of the world is the information and set of instructions you comply with and turn to for guidance in all your daily activities. Also, you built your model of the world by deciding (consciously or unconsciously) which information to pay attention to, and which to disregard. This may seem farfetched, until you stop to realize that everything you have done has been by decision. You made decisions by evaluating the benefits and consequences of one decision over those of the other. You may think you had no alternative, that you were forced to go to school when you were a kid, but the fact remains, one reason you decided to go to school was you didn't like the consequences that would arise from not going. You don't have to breathe, but the consequences of not breathing are unacceptable, so you decide to breathe.

One factor which influences early decisions about what to incorporate into your personal model is the number of choices available. Another is the need for the mind to gather as much information as possible, to eliminate the unknowns which are seen as threats to survival and well-being. In the early stages, a mind is more intent on knowing something about everything in its environment, and is less discriminating in its efforts to fill the voids.

Keeping this in mind, you should realize that all this information is just my model of the world and that I'm offering it to you only as an additional choice, rather than an attempt to "change your mind".

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