Source: L. Michael Hall

Select a behavior for transformation.

Identify underlying intentions.

Identify related outcomes.

Identify meta-outcomes in the form of high states.

Describe your ultimate transcendent meta-state.

Step into your transcendent meta-state.

Fully experience your meta-state.

Experience this as a way of being in the world.

Test.

Create personality-wide changes by taking transformation to a meta level.

STEPs 1-4: Stepping Up.

Step 1: Select a behavior for transformation. #

Choose a behavior for this pattern that you wish to change; one that is unpleasant or ineffective.

Step 2: Identify underlying intentions. #

Determine what motives help to maintain this behavior. Remember that these can be the motives of a part that has positive intentions, but that makes ineffective or un-resourceful choices in pursuing those intentions. Keep an eye out for the results that have some indirect benefit, even though they are less obvious outcomes of the behavior pattern (secondary gain).

Step 3: Identify related outcomes. #

Keep asking the following question until your answers begin to loop: “What do you hope to accomplish, experience or have as a result of this behavior?” Then begin asking, “What do you want from this result, that is even more important to you?” and keep on asking until you begin to experience a loop.

Step 4: Identify meta-outcomes in the form of high states. #

You are seeking meta-outcomes. You will know that you have identified them when the answers to these questions are states. When you begin looping among high states, you have completed this part of the pattern. Steps 5-9: Stepping Down

Step 5: Describe your ultimate transcendent meta-state. #

Describe the state you would experience if you achieved all of the higher states stemming from your meta-outcomes. Use all sense modalities, including self-talk.

Step 6: Step into your transcendent meta-state. #

Amplify the state as much as possible, and imagine stepping into this state as if you could step into the future where you have achieved your meta-outcomes.

Step 7: Fully experience your meta-state. #

Continue to amplify your meta-state, experiencing it fully, as if you could absorb it into your body as pervasive energy.

Step 8: Experience this as a way of being in the world. #

Return to your immediate life situation and Future Pace into your immediate future, with this meta-state pervading all that you are and do. Experience how you express it in all your activities and way of being.

Step 9: Test. #

In the coming days and weeks, discover how this experience alters how you experience your life, and how your behavior changes in the area of your life that had the undesired behavior pattern.