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Hypnosis Glossary



There is a huge overlap between thee knowledge bases of Hypnosis and NLP, so this glossary covers terms from both. There are are also definitions of various Hypnotic language patterns some of which are covered in more details in the section on the Milton Model.

Within the glossary, I have tried to include any phrase that you may come across in a Hypnosis or NLP training or manual, along with any Hypnotic language patterns that you are unlikely to have come across without any former training.


A

Accessing Cues

Analogue

Analogue Marking

Anchor

Anchoring

'As If' Frame

Associated/Association

Auditory



B

Behavior

Behavioral Flexibility

Belief

Blow-Out

Break State



C

Calibration

Capability

Chunking

Complex Equivalence

Congruence

Conscious

Content

Content Reframing

Context

Conversational Postulate

Criteria

Critical Submodality

Cross-Over Mirroring



D

Deep Structure

Deletion

Digital

Disassociated/Disassociation



E

Ecology

Embedded Command

Environment

Elicitation

Eye-Accessing Cues



F

First Position

Flexibility

Four tuple

Future Pacing



G

Generalization

Gustatory



I

Identity

Incongruence

Installation

Intention



K

Kinesthetic



L

Leading

Logical Levels



M

Matching

Meta-Model

Meta-Program

Metaphor

Milton Model

Mirroring

Mismatching

Model of the World

Modeling



N

Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP)

Negative Command

Nominalization



O

Olfactory

Outcome



P

Pacing

Parts

Position / Perceptional Position

Phonological Ambiguity

Predicates

Preferred Representational System

Presupposition

Punctuation Ambiguity



Q

Quotes



R

Rapport

Reframing

Representational Systems

Representational System Primacy

Requisite Variety

Resource State



S

Second Position

Secondary Gain

Sensory Acuity

Sensory Modalities

Sensory-Based Description

State

Strategy

Submodalities/Sub-modalities

Surface Structure

Swish Pattern

Synesthesia

Syntactic Ambiguity



T

Third Position

Time line

TOTE

Trans-derivational Search

Translating

Triple Description



U

Unconscious

Utilization



V

Values

Visual



W

Well-Formed Condition



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