directory of hypnosis and NLP terms

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Directory of hypnosis

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Abreaction	An action during which emotionally charged repressed memories are brought into consciousness.
Altered State of Consciousness	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 re accessed.
Anxiety	A feeling of apprehensive uneasiness, often characterized by dread or anticipation of threat.
Auto-hypnosis	Self-hypnosis.
Behavior	The specific physical actions and reactions through which we interact with people and environment around us.
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.
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.
Euphoria	A state of extreme well-being and pleasure.
Erickson, MD Milton Hyland	Milton Hyland Erickson, MD 5/12/1901 - 25/03/1980 an American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis
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.
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.
Kinesthetic	Relating to bodily sensations, including tactile, visceral and feelings.
Leading	Changing your own behaviours with enough rapport for the other person to follow or match.
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.
Panic Disorder	High level of anxiety accompanied by sudden intense episodes of pain.
Phobia	An intense fear of some specific object or situation.
Positive Hallucination	Perceiving something that is not present.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder	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.
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.
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.
Universal quantifiers	Linguistic term for words such as 'every', 'never' and 'all' implying that admit no exceptions.
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.

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