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Dictionary of Hypnosis and NLP Terms

Abreaction

An action during which emotionally charged repressed memories are brought into consciousness.

Addiction

Physical or psychological dependence on a substance, physical object, event or action, the absence of which results in craving and physical or psychological discomfort or pain.

Altered State of Consciousness (ASC) 

Any mental state that is non-ordinary for the particular individual.

Amnesia

An inability to recall past event(s).

Analgesia

Insensitivity to pain.

Anchoring

The process of associating internal response with some external trigger so that the response may be quickly reaccessed.

Anxiety

A feeling of apprehensive uneasiness, often characterized by dread or anticipation of threat.

Auditory

Relating to the sense of hearing.

Auto-hypnosis

Self-hypnosis.

Auto-Suggestions

Suggestions made to oneself.

 

Behavior

The specific physical actions and reactions through which we interact with people and environment around us.

Behavior Modification

Changing or eliminating undesirable behavior.

Behavioral Flexibility

The ability to vary one's behavior in order to elicit a desired response from another person.

Bruxism

Gnashing or grinding of teeth.

Calibration

The process of reading another person's unconscious responses through non-verbal responses.

Catalepsy

Rigidity of body or part of the body.

Catharsis

An act of releasing strong charged emotions.

Cognitive

Pertaining to thinking, knowing, understanding of internal processing of information.

Compulsion

An act a person feels driven to repeat, often against his or her will.

Confabulation

The falsification of memory, due to a partial amnesia.

Congruence

When all of person's individual beliefs, strategies and behaviors are fully in agreement.

Context

The framework surrounding a particular event.

Convulsion

An involuntary spasm or muscular activity.

Counter Suggestion

A suggestion given to a person to displace or challenge a core or fixed idea or belief.

Criteria

The values or standards a person uses to make judgments and decisions.

 

Defense Mechanism

Self-protection system designed to lessen or repress certain thoughts, feelings or memories from entering the conscious mind.

Delusion

A false idea or belief.

Dissociation

Distancing or separating an individual from directly reliving an event or a scene - e.g. viewing an event as if it were

happening to someone else.

Emotional Outlet

An action or a way that serves to release emotional energy.

Euphoria

A state of extreme well-being and pleasure.

Fascination Point

An object or a place that serves as a focus during hypnotic induction.

Fractionation

Guiding the individual several times through different levels of trance, or in and out of trance, for the purpose of increasing the depth of trance.

Free Association

The spontaneous outpouring of associated ideas from the subconscious without any external censorship.

Free Floating Anxiety

Feelings of apprehension or dread that cannot be traced to any particular  source.

Future Pacing

The process of mentally rehearsing oneself through some future situation in order to help ensure that the desired outcome will occur naturally and automatically.

 

Glove Anesthesia

A technique where an individual is thought to create a feeling of numbness in his hand and then transfer that feeling to a part of the body where pain relief is desired.

Gustatory

Relating to a sense of taste.

Habit Formation

A learned process of reacting brought about through repetition of certain actions.

Heterohypnosis

The application of hypnosis on another individual (other than one's self).

Hyperaesthesia

Heightened sensitivity to stimuli.

Hypnodontics

Using hypnosis in dentistry.

Hypnos

Greek god of sleep. 

Hypnosis

A state of heightened suggestibility.

Hypnotherapy

Therapeutic use of hypnosis.

 

Ideomotor Response (Signaling)

Involuntary movement of the part of the body by the subconscious as a result of a suggestion or a question.

Imagination

The ability of the mind to construct or reorganize sensory data from an experience of outer or inner world, real or imagined.

Induction

An act of inducing, causing or producing a state of hypnosis.

Introspection

Self-observation of one's thoughts and feelings.

Kinesthetic

Relating to bodily sensations, including tactile, visceral and feelings.

Lethargic State

An extremely relaxed state in which an individual may display symptoms of slurred speech and inability to move. 

Mental Rehearsal

Rehearsing a future event through imagination.

Multiple Personality

A psychological state in which an individual maintains two or more distinct personalities usually without any conscious recognition between them.

Negative Hallucination

Not perceiving something which is present.

NLP

Neuro-Linguistic Programming: study of the structure of subjective human experience.

 

Obsession

Extreme preoccupation with certain thoughts.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Extreme preoccupation with certain thoughts and compulsive performance of certain behaviors, both of which occur in ritualistic and unavoidable fashion.

Olfactory

Relating to sense of smell.

Outcome

Goal or a state that a person desires to achieve.

Pacing

Matching or mirroring a behavior of another for the purpose of establishing rapport.

Pain

An uncomfortable sensation experienced either through body or mind (or both).

Panic Disorder

High level of anxiety accompanied by sudden intense episodes of pain.

Parts

Independent programs and strategies of behavior, metaphorically speaking.

Phobia

An intense fear of some specific object or situation.

Placebo

An object (usually a substance) without any intrinsic value, producing effect due to individual's belief and expectation of desired effect.

Positive Hallucination

Perceiving something that is not present.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Psychological and emotional disturbance following the stresses outside the range of normal individual's experience.

Post-Hypnotic Suggestion

A suggestion given in hypnotic state that is to be carried out after emergence out of hypnotic state.

Projection

Attributing one's one thoughts and feelings to another person.

Pseudo-Memories

False memories that a person beliefs to be accurate.

 

Rapport

The presence of harmony, trust and cooperation in relationship.

Regression

Experiencing an earlier time (event) as if it is occurring now.

Representational systems

The five senses:  seeing, hearing, feeling (toucing), tasting, smelling.

Secondary Gain

A positive function of undesirable behavior.

State

A complete mental and physical condition from which a person is acting.

Strategy

A set of explicit mental and behavioral steps used to achieve a specific outcome.

Time Distortion

An experience of time in which it seems that the time has either sped up or slowed down.

Trance

A state of hypersuggestibility.

Visual

Relating to a sense of sight.

Well-Formed Outcome

An outcome that is stated in positive, initiated and maintained by an individual, sensory based, testable in experience, and ecological.