IONI — Institute of NLP India

Meta-States

Michael Hall's model of reflexive consciousness: states about states — fear about anger, joy about learning — where the higher state governs the lower.

A person angry and then ashamed of the anger behaves differently than one angry and pleased about it. Meta-states mapping gives NLP a systematic way to work with the layers the classic code treated loosely.

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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026