Category: Concepts

Mastery over an entire group of behaviors. Capabilities form the development of a mental map allowing people to select and organize groups of individual behaviors. In NLP, these mental maps take the form of cognitive strategies and Meta-Programs.

When someone ‘breaks state’, they interrupt their current state to move into a different state. Often, a break state is used to remove someone from an un-resourceful state to place into a neutral or resourceful one.

The generalizations we make about ourselves, others and the world and our operating principles in it. Beliefs can be broad and encompassing and can influence behaviors in all aspects of a persons life. A belief is persons feeling of certainty and conviction about something. Behavior is organized around belief structures. If a specific idea or […]

Behavioral Flexibility is the ability to modify one’s own behavior in order to elicit a desired response from another person. It can refer to the development of an entire range of responses to any given stimulus as opposed to having habitual, and therefore limiting, responses that would inhibit performance potential.

The specific physical actions and reactions that occur when interacting with the people and environment around us.

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.

Relating to hearing or the sense of hearing.

A collection of values and beliefs around a certain subject.

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.

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 […]