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Alignment

To match another person's behavior or experience by getting into the same line of sight and thought as the person.

Anchor

A specific stimulus; sight, sound, word or touch that automatically brings up a particular memory and state of body and mind. Example: "Our song."

Associated

Seeing the world out of your own eyes. Experiencing life in your body. Also see First Position, Contrast with Dissociated and Third Person.

Auditory

The hearing/speaking Sensory Modality including sounds and words.

Chunk Size

The level of specificity. People who are detail oriented are "small chunkers." People who think in general terms are "large chunkers" - they see the big picture.

Congruence

When goals, thoughts and behaviors are in agreement.

Criteria

(Value) The standard by which something is evaluated.

Dissociated

Viewing/experiencing an event from outside one's own body. Example: Seeing yourself on a movie screen Floating above and event and seeing yourself. Contrast with Associated.

Ecology

From the biological sciences. Concern for the whole person/organization as a balanced, interacting system. When a change is ecological, the whole person and organization (or family) benefits.

Eye-Accessing Cues

Unconscious movements of the eyes that let us know if someone is seeing images, hearing sounds, or experiencing feelings.

First Position

Viewing/experiencing the world through one's own eyes and with one's body. See Associated.

Future Pace

A process for connecting Resource States to specific cues in one's future so that the resources will automatically reoccur. Also see Anchor, Resource State.

Incongruence

When goals, thoughts and behaviors are in conflict. Example: A person may say one thing and do another.

Intention

The desire or goal of a behavior. In NLP, intention is assumed to be positive.

Kinesthetic

Sensory Modality of touch, muscle tension (sensations) and emotions (feelings).

Meta-Program

A mental program that operates across many different contexts of a person's life.

Mirroring

Putting oneself in the same posture as another person, in order to gain rapport.

Model

A description of the essential distinctions of an experience or ability.

Modeling

The NLP process of studying living examples of human excellence in order to find the essential distinctions of thought and behavior one needs in order to get the same results.

Motivation Direction

(Meta-Program) A mental program that determines whether a person moves toward or away from experiences.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming

(NLP) The study of the structure of subjective experience. The process of creating models of human excellence in which the usefulness, not the truth fullness, is the most important criterion for success.

Pacing

Matching another's behavior, posture, language/predicates in order to build rapport.

Resource State

While any experience can be a Resource State, typically a Resource State is a positive, action-oriented, potential-fulfilled experience in a person's life.

Rapport

The natural process of matching and being in alignment with another.

Second Position

Viewing/experiencing an event from the perspective of the person you are interacting with.

Sensory Modalities

The five senses through which we take in experience: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

Strategy

A sequence of internal representations and behavior leading to an outcome.

Submodalities

The components that make up a Sensory Modality. Example: In the visual modality, the submodalities include color, brightness, focus, dimensionality, etc.

Timeline

The unconscious arrangement of a person's past memories and future expectations. Typically, this is as a "line" of images.

Third Position

Viewing/experiencing an event as an observer from the outside.

Visual

Sensory modality of seeing.