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Quotes This is a Linguistic Pattern in which your message is expressed as if by someone else. Sometimes called a 'My friend John' pattern.
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Rapport When people are "in tune with each other", they adopt the same mannerisms and body language and even grammatical constructs. It is the process of responsiveness, at the unconscious level and the ability to relate to others in a way that creates a climate of trust and understanding.
Reference System The base against what we calibrate. How we organise information so that we know what we know.
Referential Index Shift Finding someone else who has a way of thinking or a resource you wish to model (their Reference System), entering their model of the world and noting from their perspective and in all modalities the process and results of their thinking and/or action. Also making a change in the referential index (subject) of a sentence to create overload at the conscious level.
Reframing Taking a different perspective on a situation that allows us to make a changein the nature of a problem by changing the structure or context of a statement to give it another meaning. The two main ways of reframing are Content, where you change the content to give it a different meaning eg. "Sally is so stubborn" can be reframed to "Sally is so determined".
The other form is Context reframing, where you take the same thing and put it in a different situation and create a new complex equivalence eg. "Sally is so stubborn" means that if a stranger tried to take her she would be strong enough to say "no".
Reimprinting Taking the Resources of the present to a past event to resource the past and then Reframing all the way back to the future.
Representation We know about our environment from our senses and the sensory input is coded and stored so that we have a template of how to respond in similar situations. As a result we have a sensory representation that will create a thought in the mind or in our speech which can be comprised of Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic, Olfactory, Gustatory, and Auditory Digital (Self Talk).
Representational System: This is the way we orgabise and code sensory information and experience our world. There is a representational system for each of our senses.
Resources Resources are the means to create change within oneself or to accomplish an outcome. Resources may include certain states, adopting specific physiology, new strategies, beliefs, values or attitudes, even specific behaviour.
Resourceful State This refers to any state where a person has positive helpful emotions and strategies available to him or her, and is operating from them behaviourally. Obviously the state implies a successful outcome.
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Search Anchor An anchor linked to a state that can be used to identify the originating source of a problem or issue. In Hypnotherapy it is known as an Affect Bridge. See Trace Anchor.
Secondary Gain The reason/reward the client has or receives for not changing from a presenting problem or outside source.
Second Position Relating to a Perceptual Position: Second Position describes our point of view in a specific situation. Second Position is usually someone else's point of view.
Self Edit Accessing your personal resources & making a change.
Self Inventory A Sensory Based internal scan.
Semantics The study of meaning.
Sensory Acuity The ability to notice and gain awareness of another person's conscious and unconscious responses through their physiology.
Sensory-Based Is describing someone's verifiable external behaviour in a way that
Description does not include any evaluations or assumptions, but in a way that just relates the specific physiology.
Sequencing The order of events that create a specific outcome the changing of which may change the outcome.
Sleight of Mouth Patterns of plausible interference. Ways of utilising the existing criteria in someone's thinking and creating a shift in their neurology by plausible argument.
Spatial Relating to a space or position or place.
State Relates to our internal emotional condition. In NLP we believe that the state determines our results, and so we are careful to be in states of excellence. In NLP, our Internal Representations, plus our State, and our physiology results in our Behaviour.
Strategy A specific, repeatable and anchored sequence of internal and external representations that leads to a particular outcome.
Submodalities These are fine distinctions (or the subsets of the Modalities V, A, K, 0, G, and Ad) that are part of each representational system that encode and give meaning to our experiences.
Surface Structure This is a linguistic term relating to the organisation of the spoken level of our communication, which generally leaves out the totality of the Deep Structure. The way we leave out the deep structure is by Deletion, Generalisation and Distortion.
Synaesthesia A two-step strategy, between Modalities, where the two steps are linked together with one usually out of awareness.
Syntactic Ambiguity Where it is impossible to tell from the syntax of a sentence the meaning of a certain word.