Dictionary of Hypnosis and NLP Terms
- Abreaction
- An action during which emotionally charged repressed memories are brought into consciousness.
- Addiction
- Physical or psychological dependence on a substance, physical object, event or action, the absence of which results in craving and physical or psychological discomfort or pain.
- Altered State of Consciousness (ASC)
- 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 reaccessed.
- Anxiety
- A feeling of apprehensive uneasiness, often characterized by dread or anticipation of threat.
- Auditory
- Relating to the sense of hearing.
- Auto-hypnosis
- Self-hypnosis.
- Auto-Suggestions
- Suggestions made to oneself.