Welcome everyone to Corporate Learning Excerpts. My name is Jardine.

Today’s topic is Part 2 of Understanding Metaprograms, a topic of Neuro Linguistic Programming, we will talk about what metaprograms are for and why they are important.

So let’s begin.

First we’ll talk about self-awareness. Like any theory related to human behavior, these helps you become self aware. It helps you better understand yourself and your own tendencies in terms of how you make sense of the world, how you make decisions, how you interpret things, and how you interact with others. These will somehow be explained and make sense once you understand the meta-programs that are running in your brain. Meta-programs will also provide you with a great deal of insight into your habits and behaviors.

Then there’s Social Awareness. Knowing these can also help you better understand other people and their tendencies. It will help you know how to adapt your behavior and approach while communicating with other people. These changes can improve your relationships with others by helping you  develop deeper levels of rapport and simply connect with people within their own metaprograms or at times influence them to your way of thinking. This becomes possible because meta-programs give you an insight into a person’s reasons for thinking.

So metaprograms make you self aware and socially aware which allows you to potentially improve yourself because it gives you an opportunity to change. Because when you understand more about how you and the people around you filter and sort information, this gives you the chance to make a shift and transform your behavior in more efficient ways to help improve your action and communication with them.

This decision of changing only happens after you understand your own metaprograms and to see if they are working for you, and if they’re not it's time, it’s still your call to make some adjustments. After all, why shouldn’t we find ways program our minds with the kind of information that will make us better people doing better things.

So that’s it for the usage and importance of metaprograms.

Stay tuned for Part 3, 

Jardine