Anchoring is the process of associating a past state or response with a particular stimulus. The stimulus, or “anchor,” could be anything from a specific touch, sound or smell. Remembering and re-experiencing a positive or resourceful past state and anchoring it to a unique stimulus can make it available on demand. This idea is similar to […]
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Second Position
Second Position is seeing the world from another person’s point of view to provide a better understanding of their reality.
Softeners
Softeners lessen the impact of a direct question and possible rejection by softening voice tone or preamble such as “Would you be willing to tell me ….?
Spatial Anchoring
Spatial Anchoring is a term referring to the way of using physical location as an anchor. For example, an individual might associate a particular state with a particular location. Later, when they want to access that state, they can easily and effectively do so by returning to that location. Spatial anchoring is often used to […]
State
State is the mental and physical position, often referred to as ‘state of mind’, from that a person is behaving. The state we are in affects our interpretation of particular experience and our resulting capabilities. Each individual will respond to internal and external stimuli differently, depending upon the state they are in at a particular […]
Stimulus Response
Stimulus Response is an association between an experience and a subsequent reaction. It is founded on the natural learning process Ivan P. Pavlov discovered when he correlated the ringing of a bell to the secretion of saliva in dogs.
Strategy
Strategy is a set of explicit mental and behavioral steps used to achieve a specific goal or outcome. In NLP, a key aspect of a persons strategy is the representational systems used to carry out the specific steps to reach the objective.
Surface Structure
Surface Structure are the words or language used to describe or represent the actual primary sensory representations stored in the brain.
Swish Pattern
Swish Pattern is a NLP submodality process that programs your brain to go in a new direction. It is used to change undesired habits or unwanted behaviors into new constructive ones. Credits for the creation of this NLP pattern belong to Richard Bandier and John Grinder. Break an automatic thought or behavior pattern, and replace it […]
Synesthesia
Synesthesia is the overlap between two separate representational systems. It is characterized by phenomena like see-feel circuits, in that a person derives feelings from what they see, and hear-feel circuits, in that a person gets feelings from what they hear.