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- Satir Categories
- The five body postures and language styles indicating specific
ways of communicating: leveler, blamer, placater, computer
and distracter, described by Virginia Satir.
- Second Position
- Relating to the second Perceptual Position: Second Position is usually someone else's point of view. (First Position is our own point of view, Third position is the point of view of a dissociated observer.)
- Secondary Gain
- Where some seemingly negative or problematic behavior
actually carries out some positive function at some other
level. For example, smoking may help a person to relax or
help them fit a particular self-image.
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- Sensory Acuity
- This relates to observational skills. Having Sensory Acuity means that we can notice things about our client’s physiology that most people would not notice.
- Sensory-Based Description
- Is describing someone’s verifiable external behavior in a way that does not include any evaluations, but in a way that just relates the specific physiology. E.G.: “She is happy,” is (in NLP terminology) an hallucination. A sensory based description would be, her lips are curved upward at the end, and her face is symmetrical.
- State
- The total ongoing mental and physical conditions from which
a person is acting. It relates to our internal emotional condition. I.E.: A happy state, a sad state, a motivated state, a resourceful state, etc. In NLP we believe that the state determines our results, and so we are careful to be in resourceful states of excellence.
- Strategy
- A specific sequence of internal and external representations that leads to a particular outcome.
- Submodalities
- These are distinctions (or subsets) that are part of each representational system that encode and give meaning to our experiences. E.G.: A picture may be in Black & White or Color, may be a Movie or a Still, may be focused or defocused – these are visual Submodalities.
- Surface Structure
- This is a linguistic term meaning the structure of our communication, which generally leaves out the completeness of the Deep Structure. The process is Deletion, Generalization and Distortion. (See also Deep Structure.)
- Snatches
- The process of overlap between two representational systems, characterized
by phenomena like "see-feel" circuits, in which a person
derives feelings from what they see, and "hear-feel" circuits,
in which a person gets feelings from what they hear. Any two
sensory modalities may be linked together.
- Syntactic Ambiguity
- Where it is impossible to tell from the syntax of a sentence the meaning of a certain word. Often created by adding “ing” to a verb, as in “Hypnotizing Hypnotists can be easy.”
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