Away From

Away From is when a person’s preference is to move in the opposite direction from what they want. Away From is a meta-program.

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Associated

As in a memory, looking through your own eyes, hearing what you heard, and feeling the feelings as if you were actually there. This is called the associated state.

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Anchor

The process of associating an internal response with an external trigger so that the response can be re-accessed. Anchoring can be visual (as with specific hand gestures), auditory (by using specific words and voice tone), and kinesthetic (as when touching an arm or laying a hand on someone’s shoulder.) Criteria for anchoring: a) intensity or […]

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Analog (Analogue)

Having shades of meaning, as opposed to Digital, that has discrete (On/off) meaning. As in an analog watch (a watch with minute and hour hands).

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Ambiguity

Words or statements that can be interpreted in more than one way. The use of language that is vague, or ambiguous. Language that is ambiguous is also abstract (as opposed to specific). Ambiguous language is often used in therapy as a form of mild hypnosis.  It can also be used in several different ways in business, […]

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Affiliating

The need of human beings to interact with each other. One of the Meta Programs that indicates whether a person prefers to work alone or with a team.

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Complex Equivalence

Complex Equivalence is where a Milton Model suggestion is given that one thing is the same as or equivalent to some other thing. It isn’t that one thing causes another, but the implication that because one thing is true the other thing must be true.  Occurs when two ideas are connected together that do not […]

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Mismatching

Mismatching is the opposite of Matching.  It is the process of adopting different patterns of behavior in contradiction to another person, breaking rapport for the purpose of redirecting, interrupting or terminating a meeting or conversation. Mismatching can be used at times when it’s appropriate to abruptly disrupt the rapport with another person.

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