NLP Techniques and Definitions

NLP consists of a set of powerful techniques to effect change. Some of these techniques are as follows, with their definitions:

Anchoring
The process of associating an internal response with some external trigger so that the response may be quickly, and sometimes covertly, re-accessed by activating the trigger.

Anchors
These may be naturally occurring or set up deliberately. They may be established in all representational systems and serve to control both positive and negative internal states.

Stacking Anchors
The process of associating a series of events with one specific anchor so as to strengthen the intensity of the subject's response to a specific anchor.

Collapsing Anchors
A process of neutralizing negative states by triggering two incompatible responses at the same time.

Chaining Anchors
A process by which a series of anchors is created to lead from an undesired state through a series of intermediate states to a desired state.

Associated State
Being fully present in a state so as to experience the kinesthetics of it. For past states this involves being in the experience looking from the perspective of the person's own eyes.

Dissociated State
Recreating a past experience from the perspective of an onlooker or observer. This means the person does not re-experience the original emotion but instead experiences the emotions of an observer.

Double Kinesthetic Dissociation
The process of watching yourself watching a film of a past experience. This is used in cases of phobias and extreme psychic trauma.

Calibration
The process of reading a subject's internal responses in an ongoing interaction by pairing them with observable behavioral cues.

Change History
A process of guiding a subject to re-experience a series of past situations by the use of selective anchoring. Resource states are developed for each situation and are installed in the subject's repertoire in order to change the significance of the past events.

Rapport
The process of establishing a relationship with a subject that is characterized by harmony, understanding and mutual confidence. This is done by reducing to a minimum the perceived difference at the unconscious level.

Reframing
A process used to separate a problematic behavior from the positive intention to the internal part responsible for that behavior. New choices of behavior are established that maintain the positive intent but don't have the problematic by-products.

Strategy
A set of explicit mental and behavioral steps used to achieve a specific outcome. This is represented by a specific sequence of representational systems used to carry out the specific steps.

Submodalities
The sub classification of external experience. The decomposing into its components of a picture, sound or feeling.



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Larry Farris is a White House trained sales and persuasion coach.