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NLP Practitioner's
Dictionary
The definitive reference for NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and Hypnotherapy
143 terms. Three disciplines. One authoritative source.
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NLP Terms
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Time Line Therapy® Terms
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Hypnotherapy Terms
Three Disciplines
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NLP
Neuro Linguistic Programming
The study of how language, neurology, and behavioral patterns interact to shape human experience and communication.
Time Line Therapy®
Time Line Therapy®
A collection of techniques developed by Dr. Tad James for releasing negative emotions and limiting decisions stored on the internal timeline.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy
The therapeutic application of hypnosis to facilitate unconscious change, access deep resources, and resolve limiting patterns.
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Essential Terms
Anchoring
A process in which a specific stimulus or trigger is paired with a particular internal state or response. Anchors may be set deliberately or inadvertently, and can be visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, or gustatory. Once established, the anchor can be fired to reliably re-access the associated state. Anchoring is one of the foundational techniques in NLP, derived from Pavlovian conditioning and refined through the work of Bandler and Grinder.
Meta Model
A set of language patterns and associated questions developed by John Grinder and Richard Bandler that identifies and challenges the deletions, generalizations, and distortions present in a person's surface-structure language. By asking precise Meta Model questions, a practitioner can help a client recover the deeper meaning and structure of their experience, challenge limiting beliefs, and reconnect with more complete representations of reality.
Milton Model
A model of language patterns derived from the hypnotic communication style of Dr. Milton H. Erickson, codified by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. The Milton Model uses deliberately vague, artfully ambiguous language to bypass conscious resistance and communicate directly with the unconscious mind. Patterns include embedded commands, presuppositions, pacing and leading, and utilization. It is the inverse of the Meta Model and is central to both NLP and hypnotherapy.
Rapport
A state of mutual trust, resonance, and responsiveness between two or more people, characterized by a sense of being understood and in harmony. In NLP, rapport is established through matching and mirroring of physiology, voice tone, tempo, language patterns, and values. Rapport is the foundation of all effective communication and is a prerequisite for therapeutic influence. It can be built consciously and systematically.
Submodalities
The finer, more specific qualities and distinctions within each of the five representational systems. For the visual system, submodalities include brightness, color, size, distance, focus, and movement. For the auditory system, they include volume, pitch, tempo, and location. For the kinesthetic system, they include pressure, temperature, texture, and location. Submodalities are the coding system of the brain — changing them can dramatically alter the emotional impact of any memory or imagined experience.
Time Line
The internal, unconscious representation of how a person stores and organizes their memories of the past, present, and future. Developed by Dr. Tad James, the concept holds that every person has a unique spatial arrangement for their timeline — some experience it as running from left to right, others from front to back. The orientation of the timeline influences personality, emotional patterns, and how a person relates to time. Time Line Therapy® works directly with this internal structure to release negative emotions and limiting decisions.
Negative Emotion
In NLP and Time Line Therapy®, the major negative emotions are categorized as Anger, Sadness, Fear, Hurt, Shame, and Guilt. These emotions, when stored as unresolved experiences on the timeline, create emotional patterns that limit a person's present-day functioning. Time Line Therapy® techniques are specifically designed to release these stored negative emotions at their root cause — the earliest event on the timeline — allowing the client to retain the learnings without the emotional charge.
Parts Integration
An NLP technique for resolving internal conflicts by facilitating communication and integration between two or more conflicting parts of the unconscious mind. The process involves externalizing each part (typically onto the client's hands), eliciting each part's positive intention, and guiding the parts to find a higher level of shared purpose through a process of chunking up. Once a common higher intention is found, the parts are invited to integrate — physically and symbolically — creating a new, unified internal resource. Formerly known as the Visual Squash.
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