NLP Meta Model

What is a Meta Model?

In the early '70's Richard Bandler and John Grinder discovered the Meta model while developing, or understanding, NLP.

The Meta model simply states that the map is not the territory. In other words, the map is simply a representation of the actual physical territory. Meaning, the event that happens to us is not the actual event, it is simply our interpretation of the event.

Right now you may have millions, if not billions of pieces of information that your brain is trying to make sense of. For instance, to the untrained observer, I am simply typing in my blog. However, our brains need to make sense of everything, like the temperature of the room, air quality, the motor skills to type, the feeling of the keyboard, digestion of the food I just ate, the itchy feeling right behind my left ear and everything else.

Yet, and thankfully, we cannot consciously process all of this information. So, our brain has developed a way to do everything we need to do without "thinking." Our brains will either Generalize information, Delete information, or distort information.

We all do this, in fact it is absolutely necessary. People will often generalize a person, situation, or product to quickly evaluate what it means to them. For example, all Honda products last a long time. People from Oregon are hippies. All people who drink are.....

Deletions also do the same thing. For example, we might not notice how our socks make our ankles itch. Or the flaws in someone we love, which could be a positive or negative thing. That way our brains, and us, can function without having to focus on every little bit of info available.

Distortion are my favorite, because distortions can be completely different from person to person. For instance, if you went to a party and had a great time, your reality was that it was a great party. However, if someone else went to the party and had too much to drink, to some that is disgraceful, to others that might be funny, and still other might have been right there with that person drinking too much, yet to them everything was completely normal.

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