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- Pace
- Matching, mirroring, or crossover matching your subject with your body language, gestures, movements, tonality, tempo, or choice of words to gain rapport and lead. Bandler emphasizes, "I said pace only if you need to gain rapport."
- Pattern Interrupt
- A technique whereby the hypnotist can interrupt a common movement in the subject to rapidly induce trance or to change a strategy mid operation. A habit can be broken by anchoring a pattern interrupt.
- Post-Hypnotic Suggestion
- Suggestions to be carried out after the subject has been awakened. Sometimes triggered by a specified event or word being spoken.
- Parts
- A metaphor for describing responsibility for our behavior to
various aspects of our psyche. These may be seen as subpersonalities
that have functions that take on a "life of their
own". They are independent portions of the unconscious mind, which often have conflicting beliefs and values. When they have different intentions we may experience
intra-personal conflict and a sense of incongruity. You often discover parts in a client when he says, "Part of me wants X and part of me wants Y," when X and Y are opposed.
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- Parts Integration
- An NLP technique, which allows us to integrate parts at the unconscious level by assisting each one to traverse logical levels (by chunking up) and to go beyond the boundaries of each to find a higher level of wholeness.
- Perceptual Filters
- Unique ideas, experiences, beliefs, values, meta-programs,
decisions, memories and language that shape and influence our
model of the world.
- Perceptual Position
- Describes our point of view in a specific situation:
First Position is our own point of view.
Second Position is usually someone else's point of view.
Third position is the point of view of a dissociated observer.
- Phonological Ambiguity
- This occurs when there are two words, which sound the same but have different meanings. it is part of the Milton Model which increases trance through ambiguity and confusion. E.G. Hear and Here.
- Predicates
- Process words (like verbs, adverbs, and adjectives) that a person
selects to describe a subject. Predicates are used in NLP to
identify which representational system a person is using to
process information. They are also used to match the clients words and establish rapport.
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- Preferred Rep System
- This is the representational system that someone most often uses to think, and to organize his or her experiences.
- Presuppositions
- These literally mean assumptions. They are Ideas or assumptions that we take for granted for a communication
to make sense.
In natural language the presuppositions are what is assumed by the sentence. They are useful in “hearing between the lines” and also for communicating to someone using assumptions that will have to be accepted by the listener so that the communication makes sense. I find it very useful to use presuppositions in affirmations and suggestions. For example, "I'm so glad doctorjay-hypnosis.com is live." The unconscious concentrates on being glad and the presupposition "doctorjay-hypnosis.com is live," is accepted.
- Presuppositions of NLP
- Assumptions or convenient beliefs, which are not necessarily “true,” but which if accepted and believed will change our thinking and improve our results as an NLP Practitioner.
- Primary levels
- Refer to our experience of the outside world primarily through
our senses.
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- Primary Rep System
- This is how we represent our internal processing, externally. (It is discovered by listening to Predicates and looking at Physiology.)
- Primary states
- Describe those states of consciousness from our primary level experiences of the outside world.
- Punctuation Ambiguity
- Ambiguity, which is created by changing the punctuation of a sentence by pausing in the wrong place, or by running-on two sentences.
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