THE META MODEL
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We talk to people, we communicate, using words, gestures, body movements, eye movements, tonality, it is how we understand each other, pass on information and gather information. It is a whole body experience. We use language to express our thoughts and our experiences.
We have seen in the articles “NLP Now – The Map is Not the Territory” understanding George Miller’s 7 +/- 2 model of acquiring information, and “NLP Now – Surface Structure Deep Structure“, that the human mind will delete, distort and generalise information, as we absorb or take information in, and as we communicate our thoughts and experiences to others.
It was Richard Bandler’s and John Grinder’s, the co-founders of NLP, observations and learnings from Milton H Erickson, Virginia Satir et al, that helped them understand language, the rules we use, the linguistics and transformational grammar, that the Meta Model came, and resulted in the 1975 book “The Structure of Magic“.
The Meta Model (click to understand the structure of the Meta Model) gives us the structure to notice what is missing from our own or other peoples understanding of the world, and the questions that will help us or them retrieve this missing information.
When we see something (V – visual), there are billions of pieces of information bombarding us at any one time. Reading this article, there are the words on the screen or on the paper if you have printed the article. How about the words you have already read, the words yet to be read, the area around the article, the walls of the room, the floor the ceiling, the colours, all the items on the table, these are still being absorbed into your brain, although you are not consciously aware of them all.
You delete these from your awareness.
As you are reading this article, there are sounds (A- auditory) that are there, perhaps sounds of cars, traffic, the sound of the fridge in the kitchen, the sounds of the clock. Many of these sounds are deleted from our awareness, although being absorbed into our inner mind.
There are smells, (O – olfactory), in the room or space you are occupying,maybe the polish someone use to clean, maybe the smell of the next meal cooking. You are not aware of these until they are mentioned.
The taste (G – gustatory) in your mouth, until I mentioned this, perhaps you were not aware of them.
How about your feet on the floor, (K – kinesthetic). Until I mentioned the feelings, one would assume that there would be no conscious knowledge of the. The hair on your head. Are you now aware of the hair?
We delete a lot of information or details as we acquire data, although at a non conscious level, this information is absorbed, our conscious world is depleted of this information.
It is the work of the NLP Practitioner to help the client to enrich their world with this missing information, to go to the deep structure, to chunk down to acquire knowledge and understanding, should it be needed and appropriate.
When a person or client communicates information, they (and we) will also delete information. for example:-
“Colin read a book”
there is a lot of missing information, which Colin, where did he read the book, what book did he read, how fast did he read, did he PhotoRead the book?
Again, it is the work of the NLP Practitioner to acquire or retrieve this information so that we or the client has a better understanding of what is being said.
When the client or we take this information, we have to go on a Transderivational Search, go into our past experiences to make sense, to get an understanding, of what has been said, and often we distort this original information to fit our world, our understanding.
Consider the next sentence.
“She hit me.”
What do you understand? You will have come-up with an understanding of what was meant by this statement.
That resultant understanding will probably become the truth as you understand it, we therefore generalise this belief as the truth, and it is not, as there is a lot of missing information, as to how hard she hit me, with what did she hit me, and where did she hit me.
By using the Meta Model, we can chunk down, go to the deep structure, retrieve missing information, to obtain a full picture, a full understanding.
Articles investigating the language patterns used in the Meta Model. Click here.
Sorry it is in Turkish, but I think he says good things about me.
Also it is unedited.
Mehmet Tanbas, 2007
Today we finished a PhotoReading course here in Istanbul. It was a small group compared to my last course in Bangalore in India (click to read), but that made it more personal, and the great part was that they wanted to learn.
Mind Map, so I stepped-in to demonstrate how one can ask the book a question, and know unconsciously where to open the book to get the answer.
The book given to me was in Turkish over four hundred pages long, I think on the history of Ataturk (click to read), the founder of modern Turkey.
Now I neither speak or read Turkish, at most ten words.
The participant asked me a question about Ataturk (click to read) and Istanbul that he wanted the answer to.
I quickly PhotoRead the book in less than two minutes as he asked me the question, and I opened the book at a particular page pointing to a specific paragraph.
I handed the book to the participant to read that paragraph, and another participant looked over his shoulder. I got the answer very correct, the exact answer to the question, the words and thoughts of Ataturk. The participant looking over the shoulder started to cry in disbelief.
Suddenly the participants knew that PhotoReading works. We continued the course well into the evening, enjoying each others successes as we activated the inner knowledge that we had absorbed, knowing that we are all on a jouney of discovery, with the chance to acquire knowledge to give us an advantage over others in all aspects of our life.
PhotoReading requires the belief that it works, once you have it, and you PhotoRead at 20,000 – 30,000 words per minute, absorbing the information into the inner mind, then the information is available to you.
In a very hot Istanbul, it seems that the air conditioners cannot cope, we finish another great course.
This is a corporate course for Global Communications, part of the Turkcell mobile phone company, the largest in Turkey.
Mind Maps and Memory, with lots of laughter and fun.
The participants helped me decide whether to have a fast-food meal or not, successfully recorded a lecture, helped me with my weekly shopping, and more all on mind maps.
They successfully remembered after being distracted for a number of hours, even from the previous day, sixty (60) random words, given to them only once, the names of fifteen people the day after initially learning them, telephone numbers, and facts, facts, and more facts.
I know that the information from the training will be implemented company wide, as other companies I have trained have done, HSBC bank, Shanghai Airlines, and world wide companies, Boeing Aircraft Corporation, Axia Insurance all saving millions of dollars, and saving time vast amounts of time.
Learning can be productive and such fun.
The Welsh national flag not part of the Union Jack. It was first used in 1801 after the Union of Ireland and Great Britain.
correct way 
incorrect wayWhilst travelling and training, I will refer to myself as British, but when I have translators, the translation will be made as that I am English. This is also true, I am both English and British. Further confusion comes about when I say I come from the UK or the United Kingdom.
Let me explain.
 countries, being, <STRONG>England</STRONG>, <STRONG>Scotland</STRONG>, <STRONG>Wales</STRONG> and <STRONG>Northern Ireland</STRONG>.<BR><BR>The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, can be shortened to become, the <STRONG>United Kingdom</STRONG>, the <STRONG>UK</STRONG>, <STRONG>Great Britain</STRONG> or <STRONG>Britain</STRONG>, and should not be referred to as England, as England is only one part of the UK.<BR> <BR>If you call the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish nationals as “English” they will be upset, they greatly resent being called English. Many countries group together in their language the four kingdom countries as English, the French have “<EM><STRONG>anglais</STRONG></EM>”, the Italians have “<EM><STRONG>inglesi</STRONG></EM>”, and the Turkish have “<STRONG><EM>İngiliz</EM></STRONG>“.<BR><BR>It is noted that in Turkish there exists <EM><STRONG>Britanyalı</STRONG>, </EM>which means “from Britain”, but the word “<EM><STRONG>İngiliz</STRONG></EM>” is the common usage for both English and British, it is <STRONG><EM>“Britannique</EM></STRONG>” in French and <STRONG><EM>“Britannico</EM></STRONG>” for Italian.<BR><BR>Three acts of union brought together the four (4) Kingdoms, beginning with the <STRONG>Kingdom of England</STRONG> with <STRONG>Wales</STRONG> in 1536, with <STRONG>Scotland </STRONG>in 1707, and <STRONG>Ireland</STRONG> in 1800. In 1922 Southern Ireland gained independence from the UK to become the Republic of Ireland, leaving Northern Ireland as part of Great Britain.<BR><BR>Oh yes, we are also referred to as the <STRONG>British Islands</STRONG>, (<EM>well, we are the largest island in Europe</EM>), as defined in the Act of 1978 as meaning the <STRONG>United Kingdom</STRONG>, excluding the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. <BR></FONT><U><BR><FONT size=2>NOTE:</FONT></U><FONT size=2> The Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey (the Channel Islands) are not part of Great Britain; they are not part of the United Kingdom nor are they part of the European Union. They are self-governing British Crown dependencies.<BR><BR>To confuse and make matters worse, we are also referred to as the <STRONG>British Isles</STRONG>. This means the grouping of more islands with Great Britain including the whole of Ireland, (Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland), the Orkney and Shetland Islands, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Isle of Wight, the Scilly Islands, Lundy Island, the Channel Islands and many other smaller islands. <BR><br />
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click here.Today I had a telephone conversation with a gentleman in the UK about taking/participating in NLP courses, and the vast numbers of trainers offering trainings. Could I advise him? How he could become good at NLP? what was the correct path to take?
My strategy has been to go to the originators, the developers, those that hold the intellectual rights to the technologies I want to learn. See articles of my journey of learning, click. I do not want to learn from someone who has read a book, heard from someone else, or who has plagiarised someone else’s work. I respect others knowledge, give credit when required, and seek official accreditation to teach their work as a licensed or certified trainer.
I told him that if he could, why not attend a course given by Richard Bandler himself on NLP, there would be many hundreds of people on the course, which the gentleman did not like, he wanted a smaller participant number.
Why not come to Turkey? The courses are much cheaper. Accommodation is very much cheaper and flights are very cheap.
What a great idea. Come to Turkey to attend the next Certified, Society of NLP Practitioner course, given by my good self, here in Istanbul.
I am running a number of courses in the next few weeks, in conjunction with NLPGrup.
Society of NLP Practitioner 9 July – 15 July
PhotoReading 30 June – 1 July
Mind Maps 8 July
Others are following over the next few months.
All courses are given in English, I speak only English, and there is translation into Turkish.
Call me on Skype VoiP, contact name NLPNOW,
My Turkish mobile number (Turkey) 05384068230
Email me [email protected], or visit my website www.nlpnow.net
Contact NLPGrup on (Turkey) 0212 31 77 77, or visit their website www.nlpgrup.com
Thinking about how we eat our meals the wrong way round, (click to read), I try to follow my own advice, and have good breakfast every day, and cut down, eat less in the evening, but this is difficult when you see wonderful desserts on the menu, chocolate gateau, ice cream, cheese and biscuits.
Yes I know I should eat fruits. But I am a fresh meat man.
Many of my breakfasts are taken in different hotels around the world, and I find it quite interesting to experience the cultures and what is offered in the different countries. Each country have their own traditions of what is to be eaten as the first meal of the day.
In England we would have an English breakfast, consisting of egg, bacon, mushrooms, fried tomatoes, sausage, backed beans, maybe black pudding, fried bread. We would also have a cereal, cornflakes with milk, ending with toast and marmalade or jam, washed down with and English cup of tea or coffee with milk.
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Turkey, will serve an egg, scrambled or hard boiled, some form of processed meat in the form of a sausage served in a tomato sauce, slices of cucumber, cheese and more processed meat and olives, black or green. There always seems to be a French loaf and jam. To wash this down, there is the tea, Turkish tea, so strong that you have to water it down with 50% tea and 50% hot water.
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Otherwise it is a glass of tea and a bread roll sometimes containing a little amount of cheese or black paste, or just a simit bread ring covered with sesseme seeds. Very dry.
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Each culture has its’ own traditions, ways of eating and doing things. It is fun to experience these, but gets very confusing when entering hotel breakfast rooms, working out how and what to eat.
It is said that the first meal of the day, the breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
I think they are correct, but how many of us go without breakfast? We seem to put the priority of meals on their head, by putting the importance of the best meal as the evening meal.
During a normal night in our sleep, the body shuts down, and the plasticity of the brain, the learning of the brain takes place. The body does not need much fuel, (for the food intake, what we eat is fuel for our body), to operate during sleep. When we wake-up, we need the fuel to kick start our day, to run our body.
What do we do? We have no fuel intake, no breakfast, no boosters to get us going, perhaps just a coffee to give us that high of caffeine, thinking thatn s good. Then at lunch time we may have a sandwich, a light snack, to see us through the afternoon. In the evening we perhaps go out to meet with friends over a meal, perhaps not meeting until 8pm, and sit down to a three or four course meal, a soup or starter, a main meal, and then a dessert, all sold to us by an eager waiter, trying to get our bill (invoice) as high as possible, as the restaurant is there to make money.
The undigested food sits in our stomach waiting to be broken down into the chemicals needed to power our body and brain, which it does whilst we sleep, the very time the chemicals and nutrients are not needed. So we store them in the body, leading to high cholesterol, fats, heart disease, diabetes and indigestion.
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