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Kinaesthetic (K) The Representational System dealing with feelings both emotions and sensory. It can be internal or external. Kinaethetic can be either emotions or sensory. Emotions are AFFECTIVE Kinaesthetic while sensations such as touch, heat, pain etc are SENSORY kinaesthetic
Korzybski Alfred (July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) Korzybskis major influence was his work on 'General Semantics' (not to be confused with Semantics). It has influenced many of the current psychological theories, Elbert Ellis, the founder of 'Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy' has acknowledged it's influence, although it's close relative, 'Cognitive Therapy' (not to be confused with Cognitive Psychology) from Aaron Beck, although obviously influenced in similar ways, has not mentioned it's influence.
General Semantics has been a major influence in NLP and continues to exert some influence in linguistics, education, popular psychology, psychology and anthropology.
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Law of Dominant Effect: A suggestion or anchor will be much more powerful when it is associated with a strong emotion.
Law of Requisite Variety: The Law of Requisite Variety originates in the field of cybernetics, control and systems theory. The Law of Requisite Variety is sometimes known as Ashby's Law after William Ashby who proposed it. The larger the variety of actions available to a control system, the larger the variety of perturbations it is able to compensate.
This has been incorporated into NLP as In a given physical system, that part of the system with the greatest flexibility of behaviour will control the system.
Leading When rapport has been developed enough people will automatically follow the pattterns of the person they are in rapport with. Using this principle is key to leading, and taking control of the communication patterns allowing you to change your own behaviour with enough rapport so another person will follow.
Lead Representation System: The Lead Representational System may or not be the same as the Primary Rep System and is used to access stored information and lead it from the Unconscious Mind to the Conscious Mind like a key in a lock.
We can discovers the Lead Rep System by noticing the eye movements. We look where the eyes go when someone accesses information.
Limiting Belief These are beliefs that restrict our options and decisions we make about ourselves and/or our model of the world that inhibit the actions and responses we make.
Limiting Decision The decision that preceded the adoption of a Limiting Belief.
Logical Level The level of specificity or abstraction. Think of logical levels as going up or down from Abstract at the top to Specific at the bottom.
Logical Type Type is often used synonymously with class or category and refers to ”a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated.” It is the shared characteristic(s) (sameness) that determine the type.
As Korzybski pointed out, types, categories and classification exist in the mind and not in nature. They are the mechanism by which the mind sorts information in terms of similarity.
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Mapping Across Having identified the critical submodalities differenced between 2 set of experiences using Contrastive Analysis, in Mapping Across tou take the critical differences from the desired state and lay them on the undesired state thereby changing the codeing of the memory ant it's automated response.
Mastery Mastery is the ability to blend skills and knowledge in a specific area of practice – a profession, trade, athletics, science or the arts. Mastery is practice, not knowledge alone. Mastery of any field takes instruction, practice, stamina, setbacks, and intentionality.
After years of practice, one knows exactly when and how to swing a bat to get a homerun; read a P&L to get at the subtleties of an organization; recognize students’ needs and instantly redesign a presentation; or hear a certain sound and know a machine is about to malfunction. The act of taking the human mind and body to their greatest possibilities, their finest moments.
Matching Doing the same, copying or adopting the behaviour of the client or replicating exactly some aspect of a person's physiology.
Meaning Reframe Giving another meaning to a statement by recovering more content, which changes the focus. (Sometimes called a Content Reframe.)
Meta Meta is from the Greek meaning above or beyond. Something is meta to another if it is at a higher level. Ironically, it is oftne used in excercises to denote a neutral position.
Meta Model A model of language, derived from Virginia Satir that gives us an "over" view of language. It allows us to recognise deletions, generalisations and distortions in our language, and gives us questions to clarify imprecise language and gain specificity.
Metaphor A metaphor is a story which is symbolic and mirrors at some level the life of the audience and which allows us to bypass the conscious resistance of the client and to have the client make connections at a deeper level.
Meta Position A location outside a situation enabling you to view the situation in a more objective way. A dissociated position not involved with the content of the event or the person. Very similar to Third Position.
Meta Programs These are unconscious, content-free programs we run which filter our experiences. They are the "how" we run our Values, and determine how Strategies run at different states of the TOTE.
Milton Model The Milton Model is the use of language patterns to influence another person (all communication has this underlying principle). It usesof abstract language patterns, that allow the client to find their own internal matches to access unconscious resources. Where the Meta Model chunks down and gets more precision, the Milton Model chunks up becoming more artfully vague, thereby allowing the client to fill in their own meaning.
Mirroring Reflecting the behaviour or physiology of the client as if looking into a mirror.
Mismatching Using different patterns or contradictory responses regarding behaviour or words to interrupt communication.
Modalities Refers to our internal representations, which relate to the five senses (Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic, Olfactory, Gustatory) plus our internal dialogue.
Modal Operators Modal Operators are divided into two categories; Modal Operator of Necessity and Modal Operators of Possibilities. They reflect the beliefs and values we have.
Modal operators of necessity, relates to words and phrases that create a sense of limited choice. They can, which form the rules in our lives (should, must, have to, etc.).
Modal Operator of Possibility relates to words that denote that which is considered possible (can, cannot, etc.).
Model In NLP, a Model is a description of a concept or behaviour, which can be adopted easily.
Modelling Modelling is the process of replicating human excellence and was the way all of NLP was created. In Modelling we elicit the Strategies, Filter Patterns (Beliefs and Values) and the Physiology that allows someone to produce a certain behaviour. Then we codify these in a series of steps designed to make the behaviour easy to reproduce.
Model of the World A person's perception of the world that is created our of our values, beliefs and attitudes that inluence our internal representations, states and physiology, that all relate to and perpetuate their individual model of the world.