Terms and Definitions

Tactile sensations and internal feelings, including remembered sensations, emotions and sense of balance.

Talking to oneself.

Process for putting a new mental strategy in place inside the mind-body so that it operates automatically.Achieved through NLP processes of anchoring, leverage, metaphors, reframing, future pacing, etc.

An acquired and embodied skill for a game or life pursuit achieved through many years of visualization and kinesthetic rehearsal.

The process of leading oneself or another into trance.

State of being out of rapport with oneself, experiencing an internal conflict as expressed in one's behavior. Incongruence may be expressed sequentially or simultaneously.

Perceiving a timeline where the past is behind, and the future is in front, with the "now" is presently experienced in the body.

One's self image or self concept.Who you understand yourself to be.Identity is one of the Neurological Levels.

A very relaxed and suggestible state where one's consciousness is turned inward, and free association and learning can occur on a subconscious level.

To do with the sense of taste.

Memories connected neurologically with similar emotions.

The process of using a few prototypical experiences to neurologically classify all experience.

Process of rehearsing a future experience before it happens. One of the key processes for ensuring the permanence of an outcome, and a component of most NLP interventions.

A method of hypnotic induction (Vogt's fractionation method) where the subject is partially relaxed then roused and asked to recount the experience.Then the hypnosis continues again, with the therapist feeding back the recounted experience and leading the patient still deeper.The cycle of arousal and relaxation continues until the subject achieves the desired depth.

Having many choices of thought and behavior towards an outcome.One of the pillars of NLP.

Perceiving the world only from one's own point of view.Being in touch with one's own inner reality.

Movement of the eyes in certain recognizable directions, which for most people indicate visual, auditory or kinesthetic neurological processing.

The study of how we know what we know. NLP is one epistemological discipline from the point of how experience is coded in our neurology.

The where and when of our experiences, including whom we are with.Environment is one of the Neurological Levels.

A command disguised inside a longer sentence.

Drawing out what is important through rapport and questioning skills./nlp-term-elicit

An exploration of the overall consequences of your thoughts and actions in the total network of relationships in which you are integrated.
 

Being In a light trance with your attention focused inwards on your own state.

Changing one's experience or making it different in some way. Changing the meaning of one's experience to be consistent with one's beliefs or perceptions.

Being outside an experience. Experiencing as a disaffected observer. Contrasts with association.

Experiencing, seeing, or hearing an experience from outside oneself.

Varying between states in a binary fashion. On or off. Digital sub-modalities vary between extremes, such as black and white, as opposed to shades of gray.

Omitting a portion of one's experience in language or thought.

The complete linguistic form of the statement from which the Surface Structure (what is actually said) is derived. In general it is the invisible structure which gives rise to a particular visible form.

Meeting with romantic prospects.

Matching another's body language with a different but similar type of movement. E.g. nodding in time with their speaking rhythm.

The setting, frame or process in which experiences occur, which provides meaning to the experience.

The specifics and details of an experience. Answers questions such as what, when, where, who and why. Contrasts with process, structure and context.

An expert in a particular field or subject matter, giving professional advise in that domain.