- The hypothalamus now bounces these emotions between the prefrontal cortex (which makes us
conscious of the emotion), the hippocampus (to match it up with past memories of this particular
friend and other instances of this situation), and the frontal lobes (which make decisions on how to
act). This produces a snowball effect until I have either decided to take action or leave it. - When the prefrontal cortex has decided that it will take action (ie - I have decided I will say some-
thing to my friend) the frontal lobes produce myriad synaptic connections to decide specifically how to
act, until I decide to say something in a joking manner, hoping my friend will take the hint. - This command is sent to the temporal lobes which construct a draft sentence which bounces back
and forth between the limbic system and frontal lobes until I have a suitable sentence. - The temporal lobes will send messages to the brainstem by way of the basal ganglia to get the body
to actually grin and say the words “Next time, I’M going to order a lobster you cheap-ass SOB! Haha!” - I’ll now watch for his body language and response to register how effective my communication was.
You can see that although I got a little carried away there, I have written this in a very basic way. In
reality there were millions upon millions of neurons firing to create that one little sentence. So you can
see how easy it is to miscommunicate, and how difficult a task our brain has to interpret these deep-
set emotions (deep structure) into verbal communication (surface structure).
So the key to the Meta Model is trying to deconstruct what the person is saying until we can really
start getting into the deep structure.