NLP Glossary of Terms
Topic Category
Neuro Linguistic Programming terminologyThe specific actions we take.
The process of learning to read another person's unconscious, non-verbal responses by observing another's behavior and the relation of their behavior with their internal response.
When a person's beliefs, state, and behavior are all fully oriented towards securing a desired outcome.
The part of your mind that is working when you are alert and aware.
It is your critical faculty and your source of reason and logic.
It seems to run constantly all day while you are awake, and its focus is always on particular thoughts.
It is mainly controlled by the automatic processes of the unconscious mind.
The values a person uses to make decisions.
A technology and evolutionary tool created by Dr. Bandler in the late 1980s-early 1990s that focuses on using more of our brain to do more than was previously possible.
Relating to the sense of taste.
An application of NLP as well as a field in its own right.
Hypnosis is the process of guiding a person into a state where they have more direct access to their unconscious mind, which is where powerful changes can be made, deliberately through the use of suggestion.
Related to body sensations.
A model developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder that suggests questions that enable people to specify information, clarify information, and open up and enrich the model of a person's world.
A learned process for sorting and organizing information and internal strategies.
A model developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder on the patterns of hypnotic techniques used by Milton H. Erickson, the clinical hypnotherapist, and other masters of persuasion.
A technology that uses the hypnotic process to restructure people at the level of cortical pathways.
An attitude, methodology, and technology that teaches people how to improve the quality of their lives.
It is an educational tool that teaches people how to communicate more effectively with themselves and with others.
It is designed to help people have personal freedom in the way they think, feel, and behave.
The existence of trust and harmony in a relationship.
The five systems that we take information in from the world.
Through these systems (our five senses) we create a representation of the information we take in.
The total ongoing mental, emotional, and physical conditions
of a person at a given moment of time.
A set of mental and behavioral steps to achieve an outcome.
The sensory qualities of the representations we create through our representational systems.
The way that we code time internally.
Our images of the past, present, and future are represented somewhere in our immediate space.
Some people represent their past to their left and future to their right.
That is known as through time.
Some people represent the future in front of them and the past behind them.
This is known as in time.
Many people have a mixture of both of these patterns.
A state commonly experienced as a result of hypnosis.
It is also a state of mind that is characterized by a focus of thought.
We live in many different trances depending on what our mind is absorbed in at any given moment (television, driving, eating, etc.).
The process of installing skills, ideas, and suggestions inside a person through communicating with their unconscious mind.
The part of your mind that is working all the time.
It is what produces your dreams and regulates your bodily functions such as your heartbeat, breathing, and habitual patterns of behavior.
It contains all your memories, wisdom, and perception.
It runs the automatic programs of thinking and behaving and therefore is the best place to make changes permanent.
Goals that are set according to well-formed conditions.
These conditions are that the goals must be positive, specific, sensory-based, ecological, and maintainable by the individual.
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