How we programme our own moods

How we interpret events and then have feelings as a result of our own interpretation is the main topic in today’s Pegasus NLP Newsletter.

The article takes a look at how we attach meaning to what is happening around us and how the meaning which we attach then determines how we feel.

The NLP Meta Model

The process has traditionally been called “Complex Equivalence” in the wonderful NLP Meta Model. (Here in Pegasus NLP, in our quest to make NLP more user-friendly and jargon-free, we opt for the more descriptive title “Attaching Meaning” because this actually describes what is happening.

An ‘automatic’ process

Because we do it so quickly – and unconsciously – we rarely recognise that the significance which we attach to an event is often quite arbitrary. And, since we’ve been doing it like this for years, we rarely  consider what other possible meanings or interpretations we might attach to the event – unless, of course, we use the Meta Model to monitor our thinking.