Glossary
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- Abreaction
- Remembering a negative memory in an intense (typically associated) way either accidentally or on purpose (see next entry).
- Abreaction therapy
- Causing abreaction under controlled safe conditions (typically using hypnosis) to heal trauma.
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- Accessing Cues
- Subtle external signs that give information about how we are processing information inside in terms of which representational system a person is using to think with. The signs include include eye movements, voice
tone, tempo, body posture, gestures, and breathing patterns. These accessing cues are observable by others and may be used to trigger the appropriate representational system.
- Affirmation
- Short positive sayings repeated over and over again. Used in hypnotherapy or just repeated to reprogram the unconscious mind. I use the affirmations: "I like myself" or "I approve of myself" in the safe space meditation audio to improve self esteem. I further suggest that people repeat the affirmation I give under hypnosis first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
- Age Regression
- Going back to an earlier time under hypnosis can be used to induce trance, deepen it, get resources, cause abreaction, systematic desensitization.
- Ambiguity
- The experience that people have with
sentences that can mean more than one thing, e.g., Talking to you as a child... This is understood by
native speakers of English in two ways: (1) I am being the child, and (2) I am the child. In the transformational
model of language, a Surface Structure is said to be ambiguous
if it can be derived from more than one Deep Structure. Ambiguity increases the level of trance. Precision, which is the opposite, deepens trance.
- Amnesia
- Total forgetting of a specific event or subject.
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- Analgesia
- Loss of pain sensation, but retention of pressure and heat sensations
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- Analogue
- Analogue distinctions (as opposed to Digital) have continuous variations, but Digital have distinct settings and often may be yes/no on/off. For example when doing Submodalities: size is Analogue (it can be altered from tiny to huge in subtle gradations) but when it is still, or movie, it is Digital and can only have two values (e.g., still, movie).
- Analogical marking
- Is marking an embedded command by altering the voice or some other physiological anchor to communicate to the unconscious that this is an embedded command.
- Anchoring
- The NLP Technique derived from Pavlov and Erickson (who used posthypnotic suggestions linked with anchors) whereby a stimulus is linked to a response. An Anchor can be intentional or naturally occurring.
- Anesthesia
- Complete loss of sensation in a particular area of the body.
- 'As-If’ Frame
- This is “acting as if” something were true. That is to say: Pretending that you are competent at something that you are not competent at yet. The mere act of pretending will increase your confidence and hence, your capability. This is the famous "Fake it, till you make it" idea.
- Associated
- It is an intense way of remembering an event visually through your own eyes (seeing what you saw), auditorialy (hearing what you heard) and kinesthetically (feeling what you felt) at the time of the event. This is the most intense one can feel about a memory. If it is a negative memory a person may abreact.
- Auditory
- Relating to hearing or the sense of hearing. Can be tonal (to do with the quality of hearing and speaking not just tones) or digital (the words in themselves). This is one of the basic representational systems.
- Auto-Hypnosis
- Self-Hypnosis as opposed to hetero-hypnosis.
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