Knowing Meta Programs

“The purpose of our lives is finding ways to program our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.” – Unknown

What are Meta Programs & Why Would You Want To Know What Yours Are?

Meta-programs are mental shortcuts that direct your decisions, behaviours, actions, and interactions with others.

They are internal representations of your external experience of reality.

They determine how your brain pays attention to things and what it pays attention to.

It’s a form of pattern recognition, where your brain attempts to sort through what the body is sensing and experiencing.

Meta-programs are like software applications for the brain where one software program controls the execution of a number of other programs.

The software runs in the background and directs your thoughts, beliefs, values, memories, and responses.

Meta-programs are therefore mental programs that run our lives at an unconscious level of awareness.

These mental programs determine how information is processed by deciding what to delete, distort, and/or to generalize from your experience.

How the brain processes information on a daily basis is based on the meta-programs that are currently running in the background.

You use these meta-programs to sort and make sense of the world around you.

Without them the world wouldn’t make much sense, however, with them you are able to form your own beliefs, opinions and perspectives about your world, your life, and your circumstances.

Meta-programs work on the basis of sorting.

They operate by determining which of our perceptions are selected for attention and represented internally from among a vast array of inbound sensory data and a myriad of possibilities.

In other words, meta-programs are processes used to sort what you pay attention to based on the information you filter-out from your environment.

This filtering process helps guide and direct our thought processes, resulting in significant differences in behaviour from person-to-person.

Learning about meta-programs is valuable in three significant ways.

It’s important to note that exhibiting particular meta-programs in one specific context does not automatically imply that you will exhibit the same meta-programs within another context or situation.

In fact, your meta-programs are never stable and can change over time as you come across new information and expand your knowledge and understanding of your life and circumstances.

Meta-programs can for instance change when you’re under heavy stress or experiencing other emotional difficulties.

They are therefore never stable, but rather adaptive.

Meta-programs are neither negative nor positive.

The meta-programs you use to perceive and interact with your world either work for you or they work against you.

And whether or not they work for you depends on how you live your life based on your personal goals and objectives.

So, why would you want to know what your meta programs are?

First of all, learning about meta-programs helps you to better understand yourself and your own psychological tendencies.

How you make sense of the world, how you make decisions, how you interpret your life and circumstances, and how you interact with others will all begin to make sense once you understand the meta-programs that are running your brain.

Meta-programs will also provide you with a great deal of insight into your values, beliefs, convictions, habits, behaviours, and self-sabotage patterns.

Secondly, for the same reasons mentioned above, meta-programs help you to better understand other people and their psychological tendencies.

This is advantageous because it will help you to adapt your behaviour and approach while communicating with other people.

These changes can improve your relationships with others by helping you to develop deeper levels of rapport.

This becomes possible because meta-programs will provide you with insight into a person’s motivations.

And once you understand their motivations, you will then have the key that will help you to positively influence their choices, decisions, and actions.

Thirdly, understanding more about how you filter and sort information gives you a unique opportunity that other people who don’t know about meta-programs will never get.

It gives you an opportunity to change, shift and transform your behaviour in positive ways to help improve your beliefs, values, decisions, behaviours, habits, actions, and levels of motivation.