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Backtrack: To go back and summarize or review what was previously covered, as in a meeting.
Behavior: The specific physical actions and reactions through which we interact with the people and the environment around us.
Behavioral Flexibility: The ability to vary one's own behavior in order to elicit or secure a response from another person. Within cybernetics there is a principle that the person/system with most flexibility (of behavior) will control the outcome. This is called the law of requisite variety.
Beliefs: The generalizations we have made about causality, meanings, values, self, others, behaviors, identity, etc. Our beliefs are what we take as being "true" at any moment. Beliefs guide us in perceiving and interpreting reality. Beliefs relate closely to values. NLP has several belief change patterns.
Binds: Typically, a double bind involves an apparent choice, but no matter which is chosen we get the result we want. For example, "Do you wish to go to bed at 8:00 or 8:30," says a parent to a child at bedtime when already that parent decided 8:30 was the ideal time.