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Glossary of Commonly Used Terms

 
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Second Position (“Other”) - To “become” someone else fully by taking both the perspective and the criteria and history, etc. of someone else.

Secondary Gain - The positive intention or desired outcome (often obscure or unknown) of an undesired or problem behavior.

Self Position/Index - Experiencing the world from your own perspective; being associated into yourself and your body.

Sensory Acuity - The ability to make sensory discriminations to identify distinctions between different states or events.

Sensory-based - Information which is correlated with what has been received by the five senses. (Contrast with “Hallucinations.”)

Separator State - Eliciting a neutral state between two other states to prevent them from combining or connecting with each other.

Shift Referential Index - To take only the perspective of someone else, while keeping your own criteria with which to evaluate and respond to events. “If I were you…”

Six-Step Reframing - A process in which the “part” responsible for an un-desirable behavior is contacted directly, the positive intention driving the behavior is uncovered, and new choices to satisfy that intention are created.

Sorting Polarities - Separating tendencies or “parts” that pull a person in opposite directions into cleanly defined and organized entities, preparatory to integration.

Stacking Anchors - Using the same anchor for a number of resources, integrating them. (See “Integrating Anchors.”)

State - A state of being, or a condition of body/mind response or experience at a particular moment.

Stealing an Anchor - Identifying a naturally-occurring anchored sequence (stimulus-response) and then firing that anchor— rather than establishing an arbitrary “ad hoc” anchor for the response.

Stimulus-response - The repeated association between an experience and a particular response (Pavlovian conditioning) such that the stimulus becomes a trigger or cue for the response.

Strategy - A sequence of mental and behavioral representations which leads to a specific outcome; e.g. decision, learning, motivation, specific skills.

Submodalities - The smaller elements within a representational system; e.g. a visual image can be bright, dim, clear, fuzzy, moving, still, large, small, etc.

Swish - A generative submodalities pattern used to change habits and responses.

Switch Referential Index - To “become” someone else fully by taking both the perspective and the criteria and history, etc. of someone else. (Contrast with “Shift Referential Index.”)

Synesthesia - A very close and quick overlap between a sequence of two or more representational systems such as “see/feel” (feelings overlap with what is seen) or “hear/feel” (feelings overlap with what is heard).

Tag Questions - Negative questions tagged onto the end of a sentence in order to diffuse polarity responses; e.g. “don't you?” “can't you?” “aren't you?” etc.

Tape-editing - A process of reviewing past behavior and then selecting and rehearsing or future-pacing new behavior and responses in order to alter future responses in similar situations. (See “New Behavior Generator.”)

Third Position (“Observer”) - A dissociated meta-position from which you can observe or review events, seeing yourself and others interact.

Transderivational Search - (See “Guided Search.”)

Translating - The process of rephrasing words from one representational system into another, useful in bridging understanding between two people.

Universal Quantifier - A linguistic term for words which are applied to all cases and all situations without exception; e.g. “all,” “every,” “always,” and negations such as “never,” “none,” etc.

Visual - The sense of seeing. (See “Representational Systems.”)

Well-formed Outcome - A goal that is appropriately specified, obtainable, chunked-down and contextualized, and either helps satisfy, or does not interfere with the person's other outcomes.

 

 
 
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