Topic: | Re:Neuro-logical levels |
Posted by: | nj |
Date/Time: | 19/12/2003 01:26:45 |
Hello. If Dr. Dilts had posted this, I'd tell him to watch out for creating false associations between: 1. rank in the identity-environment hierarchy 2. effect of a particular rank in the identity-environment hierarchy on a brain function 3. response of human neurophysiology to changes caused by identity-environment_hierarchy ranked events. If Dr. Dilts had to make a point, based the thinking behind this summary of his neurological levels model, it might be something like: 4. An agent of change can produce a change, in a client, at a choice of levels in the identity-environment hierarchy. The higher the level of change, the greater the impact on more important/significant/diverse elements of the client's neurology. Item (4) could be a motivation, a cheer, for therapeutic agents who want to intervene at a higher neurological level. My statements (1) through (4) can be interpreted to communicate my belief, or use, of Dr. Dilts neurological levels model. I don't use his model. One interpretation of the summary, the summary given in the prior post, contains the proposition that: 5. change processes that are relevant to a therapist are those that have demonstrably greater effects on heart rate, skin tingle, etc. Proposition (5) raises my heart rate, but in frustration. What should be important, to an agent of change is: (6) what specific communications to the client, organized in what ways, will bring about what result? Ranking those results, in terms of their relative physiological importance, sets the wrong direction for Dr. Dilts students. Maybe it started when kids were in sports, and they thought that, if they ran faster, or jumped higher, and so worked harder, with more sweat, and a higher heart rate, and even skin tingling, maybe they thought they would change somehow, get better.... Hmm.... I could, if I wanted, propose another hierarchy of levels, one based on the concepts of neurological levels. I'd call it: 7. Identity-level aerobics. In Identity-level aerobics, the harder you exercise, the closer to spiritual your changes become. Dr. Dilts change method has broad applicability to my new model, but to decide where in my teacher-student hierarchy he belongs, I'd have to test his maximum oxygen uptake. -nj |