Sasha Fierce - Motivation, Optimism & Resilience Using Your Alter Ego 

By Darryl Howrie revised 2010

Just like Beyonce anyone could access a motivation state of mind...like an alter ego, when your state is that intense you can cope with what superman can cope with (especially if your normal state is Clark)!
 

A state can be that powerful. The Dynamic-Role Model is a cognitive strategy I discovered while looking at exceptional achievers in life where humans engineer ourselves to become the highest or best we can be. There is a chance for a new beginning when we stop 'knowing" ourselves too well. NLP’s evolving and increasing in congruence so I’ll explain how I'm using NLP on itself to doubt our average life.

Map is not the Territory

Try continually telling yourself your map is not your “territory” and you’ll likely come undone or end up with some contagious new mental disorder yet to be ADD-ed in the (psychology diagnostic manual 5) DSM V. We tend to be very believing of our "reality" maps, if we understand Milton Erickson's intent and what he was trying to achieve with 'map is not the territory' it was a useful disconnection with problem thinking or prevention for that thinking continuing. Map; these words you are reading are black, "these words are not black" well not really, black is just the name of your experience. The naming is a useful deception we speakers of English lend to each other as if we all know what each other is thinking.

Sapir Whorf Hypothesis

“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication and reflection. The fact of the matter is that the ‘real world’ is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.”

Identifying

In General Semantics Korzybski says “be careful of those small words of identity” ‘is’ and ‘are’ and ‘am’. Nothing could be further from the truth than the idea ‘that we are an accountant, dad, teacher or even inspiration.' Up until now NLP has sided with the idea that it is dangerous to identify with some of our ideas like “I am depressed”, “I'm an anxious person”, “I have low esteem” etc Meaning making is so much apart of our entire neurological make up we simply, without questioning too much, continue linking our meanings/maps to these stimuli-territories which tends to equal "reality". We could only believe what has  come in through our 5 senses anyway right?

So what...so we believe our sense experience too much....what's the big deal? Well I’m wondering what if our approach is in opposition to the NLP belief “map is not the territory”, we tend to forget the opportunity we have, as THE meaning/map maker. (Pathology and talent are closely related and model-able, at least genius is related to demonism.) E.g. As a coach reframing might make depression instead a talent of consistency or any other useful acceptable map.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

True: map is not the territory (music is not the score menu is not the meal) but we make is so, we matrix it so, this outside-in approach is only a dirty mechanism on the real truth. It is not that we tend to life and living from the outside world in but that we tend to create more from within (a world) for the outer.

Modeling Success

As I began modeling excellence, some 'NLP presupposition frames' seemed exempted when it comes to another’s values, imagine being a coach and challenging someone when they express them selves in the following ways:

- I want to make a difference = cause effect violation "to MAKE anyone do or think something....:

- I want to be the best I can be = modal operator violation: if you say you WANT means you don’t have it now thus in speaking the statement itself you are creating a separation or increasing awareness of the distance. 

But when it’s not broken why apply the meta-model, why challenge it leave it as is. When coaching, finding beliefs like these, is a good thing and they are usually useful enough to be left in place. In a similar fashion I noticed there was a particular violation among the highly, ridiculously successful. Each of them identified with (glued up their map to a quite significant territory). With effectiveness the new currency, who cares when your map helps you get more of what you want, more of the excellence in life who can argue with what works? NLP is built around what works. So identifying with something that really helps you get the job done might be worth considering take a look at some who don't mind their alter ego...

Sasha Fierce is the alter ego name of a very successful singer Beyonce, perhaps the most successful singer since Madonna but she is not the only person identifying with another person (imaginary or real) to help her 'get up' in those shy moments.

Beyonce - Sasha Fierce

Sean Combs - p. diddy etc

Charlie Sheen - Carlos Irwin Estevez

Donald Trump - the General

Tupac Shakur - machiavelli (after Nicolo Machiavelli)

Brian Hugh Warner - Marilyn Manson

Anthony Robbins - the Giant

Charles Bronson - Charles Buchinski

George Herman - Babe Ruth and the list goes on....

So the previous NLP training said to you don’t identify with things – now we say (appropriate) map IS the territory, you are the ‘one’, you are 'giant', be the 'ball' or be the 'music' I am the xyz….it is time to celebrate the alter-map and amplify the good in yours.  

Results

Introducing a simple new alter ego neuro-engineering technique the 'Dynamic-Role Modeling'. Yes people have found greatness and simplicity in this method. Some found great power, successfully disconnecting with an average past while increasing control of their talents. So far this new coaching technique has produced alter egos like…:

·         The Navigator

·         The Inner coach

·         The Shepherd of my thinking

·         The Controller of my thoughts etc and many more

Summary

So there we have it, sometimes we succeed faster than we can cope. While we maintain a 'plain ole pizza and movies me' inside ourselves; organically (see further reading on deep trance identification) or by choice we can find something powerful (icon/metaphor) or someone, and bolster ourselves. And we identify with it (link map to territory) so when we need to go onto the stage of life we shine - make the best map your territory can handle (Clark Kent)!