Analysis: Attempting to find the root cause of the problem.
Client: One who pays for treatment. (Thus when treating a child the child is a patient but the parent is the client.)
Conscious Mind: Moment by moment awareness.
Deepening: Making a state of trance or hypnosis more profound.
Direct Suggestion: “You value your fingernails and avoid eating them.”
Ego-Boosting: “You feel strong, positive and optimistic.”
Egression: Moving a person away from the present, either forwards or backwards in time.
Guide: Hypnotist
Hypnosis: A state beyond trance brought about by hypnotism.
Hypnotee: Any person being hypnotised by a hypnotist.
Hypnotherapy: Psychotherapy done via a state of trance or hypnosis.
Hypnotism: The consensual management of a third person’s capacity for inductive reasoning.
Hypnotist: A person who does hypnotism.
Indirect Suggestion: “I wonder whether you will stop biting your nails today or tomorrow.”
Induction: Causing a third party to enter a state of trance or hypnosis.
Mind: An emergent property of a functioning brain, just as atmosphere is an emergent property of a crowd.
Parts: Different aspects of a personality or identity having particular motivations and behaviours.
Past Life Tourism: Regression to a past life just to see what it was rather than for therapeutic purposes.
Patient: One who is being treated. (Thus when treating a child the child is a patient but the parent is the client.)
Post Hypnotic Suggestion: A suggestion for altered behaviour which has it’s effect beyond the therapeutic session.
Progression: An egression into a future life.
Pseudo Orientation in Time: An egression, moving a hypnotee forward in time, in this life.
Rapport: The connection necessary for a hypnotist to work with a hypnotee.
Reasoning, Deductive: Deconstructing the big picture into component elements.
Reasoning, Inductive: Assembling the big picture from collected data.
Regression, Age: Taking a patient back in this life, usually to find the cause of a problem
Regression, Past Life: Taking a patient back to a previous life, usually to find the cause of a problem.
Relaxation: A means of encouraging trance, it is not hypnotism.
Selective Thinking: A stage beyond trance where the hypnotee accepts the suggestions of the hypnotist as part of their reality.
Subconscious Mind: The product of brain activity which lies beyond conscious awareness and influences behaviours and emotions.
Subject: Hypnotee.
Trance: An altered state of consciousness and often a precursor to hypnosis.
Unconscious Mind: The bit that keeps your organs functioning when you have been knocked out, a.k.a. the autonomic nervous system.
Unduction: Bringing a third party out of a state of trance or hypnosis.
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