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Consciousness Model: AZ and NZ
AZ—NZ SUMMARY: From “CRACK IN THE MATRIX”
AZ--Analysis Zone, Personalized Boxes, and Making Sense
The analysis zone (AZ) functions primarily to create an awareness of “what you know” about via your (ppp) matrix. The metaphysical framework for the (ppp) matrix is : the Perceptual- Conceptual Schema or Box-Concepts which largely define what we each call reality. Schemas are mental representations of concepts or categories. Essentially, we see the world through perceptual schema-colored glasses.
Some of your consciousness consists of "sense-making" via cognitive processing of information. Included in this process are: the perceptual systems, memory systems, and other cognitive and emotional systems. There are many complex analysis systems involved in the sense-making process. It is obviously greatly simplified to say: "Want to make sense--put it in a conceptual box!" In self-managed Cognitive Behavior Analysis, personal "sense-making" is examined. Self-managers define and examine their personalized conceptual boxes. These conceptual boxes or schema are often involved in the decision-making that is related to the target behavior. These metaphysical concepts are operationally defined and examined for validity. Applied critical thinking skills are the foundation for the "validity testing".
Awareness of Metaphysical Processing
Metaphysical processing in the AZ is neither a good or bad thing. It simply is. Personal freedom permits you the choice to use it creatively or destructively. Metaphysical processing in consciousness is examined by self-managers of CBA. It is their choice to apply metaphysics for creative purposes (not destructive). Metaphysical processing challenges our ability to create useful operational definitions with clear and specific referents. Ethical decisions by the self-manager with regard to creative or destructive behaviors remain the bottom line in self-management decision making. Like neuroscience, CBA is able to determine personal correlates of metaphysical processing such as memory, information processing, perceptual processing, critical thinking processing, and the like. Improved metaphysical awareness is correlated with effective long-term self-managed behaviors. This awareness in the AZ and behavior change are often as unique and as variable as the persons who apply them. How much do you know about your own metaphysical processing in the AZ?
NZ-- Let Go of Ego
Tapping the flow in the NZ seems to require some letting go of the ego and (ppp) matrix. Does our need to control and understand inhibit entering the neutral zone of flow-like experience? Craik (2008) reports data that indicates that even in the agnosic Western culture, 60% of participants say they have had a spiritual or religious experience of a life transforming character. Furthermore, it appears that spiritual experience is suppressed by social structure. In short, the less structure the richer, more frequent, and more satisfying the spiritual experience. Could it be that the more the ego-need for structure and control, the less the NZ experience?
FLOW
Neutral Zone applications will include an awareness of and possible receptivity to another way of knowing. The NZ and the concept of flow are quite different than the sense-making AZ. Csikszentmihalyi (1990, 1996, 1998, 2003) is generally given credit for the modern application of the concept of flow. Flow is a state of optimal experience. Flow is characterized as an experience which seems effortless or is intrinsically joyful. Flow is experienced when you are engaged in an interesting activity, for its own sake, for no other external purpose or goal. As we say in sports psychology, "being in the zone" or "in the groove” or "on a roll" and the like.
Flow is experienced as total absorption in a task that you are optimally experiencing. Flow as a state of consciousness is not behavioral action being analyzed by the AZ. Many report that it is more like being the instrument for the flow. Unlike the feedback and analysis of the AZ, NZ FLOW is experienced when you fully enjoy and appreciate doing something just for the sake of doing it. There may be analysis of the task or an external goal and lots of practice at the task at other times in consciousness. But, the AZ clearly does not predominate during flow. There is no analysis, there is flow. There is no fear or excessive anxiety, there is optimal arousal. Optimal human functioning is frequently correlated with the experience of NZ FLOW.
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