Terms and Definitions
Name Sort ascending | Description |
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Writing | |
Well-formed Outcome | An outcome that is specific, achievable and verifiable. |
Visual | To do with the sense of sight. A major sensory modality in NLP. |
Vestibular System | One's sense of balance. |
VAK | Shorthand for Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic representational systems. |
Uptime | In a state with your attention focused outwards. |
Unspecified Verbs | Verbs that are not clear or have the adverb or object deleted. E.g."think" or "do". |
Unspecified Nouns | Nouns that do not clearly state who or what they refer to.E.g.they, or those who. |
Unconscious | Everything not currently in one's present moment awareness. |
Transderivational Search | Making meaning of general words by searching one's own experience. |
Trance | An altered state resulting in a temporary fixed, narrow and inward focus of attention. |
TOTE | A flow chart model consisting of Test, Operate, Test, Exit. NLP uses representational Systems in conjunction with TOTE to monitor progress toward the desired outcome. |
Timeline Therapy | A mode of NLP intervention that emphasizes associating into problems in the past or future, and then dissociating from those problems before the problems in the past, or after the problems in the future. |
Timeline | A subjective line that connects one's past with one's future, running through one's present moment awareness.The way we store pictures, sounds and feelings about the past, present and future. |
Third Position | Perceiving the world from the viewpoint of a detached observer. |
Syntactic Ambiguity | An ambiguous sentence with a verb ending in "ing" (a gerund), which can be either an adjective or a verb. For example: Leading people can be interesting. |
Surface Structure | The visible form of thought patterns derived from the deep structure by deletion, distortion and generalization. Deep Structure is manifested as surface structure by the words that are actually spoken. |
Suicide Prevention | |
Submodalities | Fine distinctions we make within each representational system. The qualities of our internal representations. The smallest building blocks of our thoughts and experiences. |
Strategy | Repeatable sequences of thought and behavior, which consistently produce a particular outcome. |
Steve Andreas | |
State | The sum of one's thoughts, feelings, emotions, physical and mental energy. |
Spiritual | The level of experience where one is most oneself, and one feels most connected with others. Spirituality is one of the Neurological Levels. |
Sleight of Mouth | Using subtle word patterns to tactfully shift the frame of reference of a subject. E.g.in response to "you are terrible", "yes, but I'm great where it counts!" |
Sensory Acuity | The process of learning to make finer and more useful distinctions from the sensory information one gets from the world. |
Self Talk | The constant talk in one's head. |
Self Modeling | Modelling one's own states of excellence as resources. |
Self Love | |
Self Loathing | |
Second Position | Experiencing the world from another's point of view and so understanding their reality to some extent. |
RS | Shorthand for Representational System. |
Resource | Anything that can help one achieve an outcome. E.g. physiology, states, thoughts, beliefs, strategies, experiences, people, events, possessions, places, stories, etc. |
Requisite Variety | Flexibility in thinking, emoting, speaking, behaving. The law of requisite variety implies that the person with the most flexibility of behavior controls the action. |
Representational System | Different sensory channels whereby external information is re-presented internally. |
Rapport | A relationship of trust and and responsiveness with oneself and others. |
Psychedelics |