Glossary

This Glossary list gives brief descriptions on various terms and terminology.

Click on letter below to go directly to the start of tems beginning with that letter.

Alphabet

A

adrenaline

Adrenaline is secreted from the adrenal glands and is carried into the bloodstream, triggering:

• the heart to pump blood faster
• blood vessels to contract and force up the blood pressure
• the liver to produce glucose for extra fuel
• the pancreas to secrete insulin to metabolise the extra glucose
• the stomach and intestines to immediately stop digesting food so that more energy is available to be shunted elsewhere

alpha brain wave

Alpha brain wave is approximately 8 Hz or cycles per second. It can be measured by an EEG and is associated with the creative process as well as a healing state.

Alzheimer

Alzheimer's disease: A condition that involves memory loss. It may be that NGF (nerve growth factor) may be useful in treating the disease.

aura

also known as "energy field" or Human Energy Field (HEF). Everyone and every living thing has an energy field that surrounds and inter-penetrates the physical body. This field is intimately associated with a person's health. Laying-on of hands (alternatively called faith healing or spiritual healing) helps to rebalance this energy field.

autobiographical fact

see: Autobiographical Memory

autobiographical memory

Autobiographical Memory is a memory about one's own life.

There are 3 forms:

Personal Memory

A mental image that correspondonds to a particular episode in one's life.
Example: being at the airport with relatives leaving home for the first time for an overseas destination.

Generic Personal Memory

A general mental image of one's life.
Example: sitting in the car on a hot day with siblings, noisy and squabbling, going to Mass. The images does not appear to be of any specific moment but is a generic image.

Autobiographical Fact

Recollection of a fact from one's past.
Example: recalling a fact, with no accompanying imagery, of being driven home by your parents, from your relative's place.

Only Personal Memory meets the criteria for an Early Recollection.

Generic Personal Memory and Autobiogrphical Fact are generally termed as "reports" - i.e. a general description of childhood experiences that have happened many times. They lack specific details and sequential interactions.

ayurveda

Ayurveda originated more than 4,000 years ago. It is a Sanskrit word meaning "the science of life".

B

belief

Beliefs are generalisations that we make about ourselves, people, the world, etc. They are the meanings that we attach to events or behaviours. The stronger the belief, the stronger the sense of certainty you feel about it. Beliefs are generally couched in terms of "It is.../ People are .../ You are .../ I am ...".

C

cells; body

There is no accurate count, but the accepted estimate number of cells in the human body is 50 trillion. The smooth outer cell walls are outfitted with numerous sites called receptors.

chi

Body's life energy. Chinese also believe that this chi (or ch'i) energy is a universal energy. All matter, both animate and inanimate, are made of this energy. This belief is simiar to that of Prana by the ancient Indians. Chi is also sometimes spelt as Qi.

coccyx

tailbone, at the bottom of the spine

coronal discharge photography

aka phantom leaf effect
When a part of a leaf is cut before taking a picture of it in this way, the whole leaf (including the missing part) appears on the photographic plate.

cortisol

A "stress hormone" that when released into the bloodstream causes the person to feel depressed.

D

dendrites

Tiny branchlike filaments that grow at the end of each neuron, i.e. nerve cell. Each neuron is capable of growing dozens to hundreds of dendrites.

diuretic

Diuretic is a drug commonly given to patients with hypertension, i.e. high blood pressure. Diuretics help to decrease the fluid tension in blood vessels.

How It Works: The diuretics latch onto sodium atoms and rid the body of excess salts. And because water and salts are bound together in the body, the fluid level also goes down.

Negative Side Effects:

• Indiscriminate leaching of water. Due to the diuretic, water level everywhere could be affected, including from the brain. The brain will normally only do this in the direst emergency.
  Symptoms: drowsiness and dizziness, which becomes complicated in the elderly, especially if they have had even moderate amounts of alcohol. This complication could lead to malnutrition and severe dehydration because if other brain functions are affected, it could cause them to forget to eat and drink.
  
  
• Potassium Deficiency - because potassium is close to sodium in its atomic structure, diuretic can also cause the potassium to be depleted.
  
  Ironically, diuretics which is given to high blood pressure patients could actually lead to potassium deficiency - which is now suspected to be a causal link in high blood pressure.
  
  Symptoms: weakness, fatigue, leg cramps.
  
  
• Makes digitalis more toxic. Digitalis is the drug commonly given to heart patients to help strengthen their weak heartbeat. However, if their potassium level is low, then digitalis becomes more toxic to the body.

DNA

At the center of all body cells (except red blood cells) is the nucleus. The nucleus safeguards the tightly twisted coils of DNA.

dopamine

A minute biochemical secreted by substantia nigra which is a part of the brain stem. Cells from the adrenal gland also produces dopamine. This chemical plays an important role in processing emotions, perceptions, and muscle movements.
Oversupply of this brain chemical leads to schizophrenia.
Deficiency of dopamine causes the loss of muscle movement in Parkinson's disease.

E

early recollection

Early Recollection (ER) is defined a s a specific, one-time incident or episode that one remembers from one's childhood and can picture in the mind's eye.
It has specific details, sequential interactions, and involves sensory imagery of the specific one-time incident.

ER is an image of a specific event - it refers to a mental image that corresponds to a specific episode from one's life. ER is the form of an Autobiographical Memory that can be a metaphoric image that represents a current life situation.

ECG

ECG (electrocardiogram) is used to measure the electrical currents from the heart.

EEG

EEG (electroencephalogram) is used to measure electrical currents from the brain.

electrocardiogram

see: ECG

electroencephalogram

see: EEG

EMF

electromagnetic field

endorphin

endorphin ("internal morphine") and enkephalin("inside the brain"). They have the ability to act as the body's natural internal painkillers. Every neuron in the body is able to produce these biochemicals.

energy field

see:aura

entropy

the phenomenon of slow decay - the breaking down of form and order as commonly observed in physical reality. According to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy always increases and you can never get more energy out of something than what you put in.

etheric body

first layer of the Human Energy Field (HEF), aka "aura"

expectancy; self-efficacy

Self-efficacy expectancy is the belief in your own effectiveness in doing something.

F

future pace

The process of generalising change to future situations and contexts.

G

generalization

Elements of a specific experience have come to represent for the person, the entire category of which the original experience was but an example.
Example: a girl has been treated badly by her boyfriend. Thereafter, to her, all men are bad.

generic personal memory

see: Autobiographical Memory

Goodheart, Dr. George

The founder of Applied Kinesiology.

H

HEF

Human Energy Field - an energy field that surrounds and interpenetrates the physical body. Also called the "aura". HEF is the part of the UEF that is associated with the human body.

hemophiliac

Blood does not clot.

Higher Sense Perception

see:HSP

homolateral

Body state where the energies are not able to crossover. Crossing over energies is essential for health and clear thinking as the brain's left hemisphere governs the right side of the body and vice versa.

homunculus

The 'tiny man' thought (in ancient times before the Renaissance) to reside in the heart and the driver who ran the body's functions.

HSP

HSP or Higher Sense Perception is a term used by Barbara Ann Brennan in her book "Hands of Light" to describe what might also be called by some as clairvoyance. However, clairvoyance is specifically related to vision while her use of HSP is broader, encompassing perceiving via seeing, hearing, tasting, and touching things that are beyond the normal ranges of human senses. This is also often referred to as sixth sense.

I

imbedded command

Imbedded commands are formed (for e.g. in trance-work, story-telling, therapeutic metaphors) by inserting the listener's name or the word "you". The power of this is also increased by a change in tonality.

see: Marking
e.g.
Without Imbedded Command
"After sitting in the gloom for a while, he thought he should look up."


With Imbedded Command
"After sitting in the gloom for a while, he thought, "Matthew, look up". (the emphasized words also indicate change in tonality. Say it out loud for proper experience.)

J

K

kinesiology

The science of human muscular movements.

L

L-field

L-field or Life-field is what Drs. H. Burr and F. Northrop at Yale University, in 1939, called the energy field around a plant seed. They found that by measuring this energy field, they could predict how healthy the plant grown from the seed was going to be.

lead system

The modality which is first used to access the information wanted. This is the representation system that is used to go after or to lead the way for information-recall. This is consistent across time, and will probably be out of conscious awareness.

lie detector

The lie detector measures the electropotential of the skin.

limen

see:liminal

liminal

Liminal comes from the root work limen which literally means threshold.

liver

As of the latest count, the liver performs over 500 functions.

lupus

Lupus is a condition where your immune system attacks itself.

M

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Founder of Transcendental Meditation (TM).

marking

Marking refers to emphasizing specific words or phrases by changing tonality, making specific sounds, gesture, or contact with the listener so that parts of the message/story are (usually unconsciously) given special attention.
see: Imbedded Commands

Meridian

Meridians are the body's 14 major energy pathways. They are electromagnetic pathways. Hence they are responsive to electromagnetic energy, as found in your hands. The chi(body's life energy) flows along these pathways. Acupunture points also fall along the meridians. Most meridians are named after the main organs that they pass through. When healthy, each meridian flows in a specific direction.

Mesmerism

Mesmerism, which later became hypnotism, was founded by Mesmer in the 1800s,

metaphor

"Generally, a metaphor is defined as a way of speaking in which one thing is expressed in terms of another, whereby this bringing together throws new light on the character of what is being described."
~~ Sheldon Kopp in his book "Guru: Metaphors from a Psychoterapist"

muscle test

Procedures to determine if there is excessive/deficient energy in the muscles and if the meridians are flowing or blocked.

N

neuron

There are about 15 billion neurons in the brain.

NGF

NGF or nerve growth factor is a protein which is one of the brain's major repair chemicals. There has been research done which has shown that the memory loss in rats could be reversed by injecting them with NGF.

nominalisation

Nominalisations are nouns. A dynamic process has been transformed into a thing.
E.g. to understand => understanding.

Inherent in Nominalizations are deletions.
Consider:
With Nominalisation
I have an understanding of the situation.

With Process Words
I understand that you would like to be able to call a meeting with your staff and discuss the new ideas but you are unable at the moment due to time constraints.

numinous

Numinous comes from the Latin root work "numen" which means a god.

O

P

Parkinsons

Parkinson's disease strikes about 1% of people over the age of 50.
Beginning symptoms:
muscle tremors, rigidity of limbs, tendency to move very slowly.

Known immediate cause: deficiency of dopamine.
The nerve cells that normally produces dopamine, begin to die. The reasons are unknown. But with insufficient dopamine, ability to regulate muscle movement is impaired and finally lost.

Dr. Ignacio Madrazo was the first to perform a successful brain transplant (which was previously thought impossible) - and that was on a Parkinson's disease sufferer.

personal memory

see: Autobiographical Memory

phantom leaf effect

see: coronal discharge photography

phantom limb effect

The phantom limb effect occurs when people with amputated limbs continue to feel them.

placebo

Instance of a placebo effect is where a person, taking an inert substance but believing it to be medication, actually gets well.

Prana

Prana, meaning the breath of life, is the term used in Indian spiritual tradition to denote the universal energy that is seen as the basic constituent and source of all life. Prana Yoga is the practice of manipulating this energy through breathing techniques, meditation, and physical exercies. It is said to help maintain extended altered states of consciousness as well as youth of the practitioners. Prana is called Ch'i by the Chinese.

predicate

Sensory words are known as predicates.
e.g. colourful (visual), hear (audio), grab (kinesthetic), scent (olfactory), tangy (gustatory)...

psyche

The Greek root word meaning soul, intelligence, or principle of life and mind. It is the root word in "psychology" which is the study of the psyche.

psychonoetic

psychonoetic literally means "soul knowing" from the two Greek root words psyche which means "soul" and "noetic" which means "to know"

psychotropic drug

A mind-influencing drug.

Q

Qi

see: Chi

Qiyong

An ancient Chinese form of health exercise that is still enjoying much popularity today in both the Easter and Western world.

quadriceps

"quadriceps" is a Latin word meaning "four headed [muscle] of the femur". The quadriceps runs down the front of the thighs. They are made up of four muscles. The quadriceps are the largest and strongest muscle group in our body.

Quantum Physics

a branch of science that deals with discrete, indivisible units of energy called quanta as described by the Quantum Theory

R

receptors

There are numerous receptors on the smooth cell wall of each cell. The receptors are made of complex molecular chains. The last links of these chains are open-ended, waiting for another molecule to come along and bind with it. The receptors are like keyholes where only very specific keys will fit. The hormones, enzymes, and other biochemicals produced by our bodies have intelligence about which receptors they should fit. The molecules actually seem to be able to pick and choose the exact right receptor, making an uncanny beeline to where they are needed. The body can release hundreds of different chemicals simultaneously and orchestrate them perfectly and holistically.

referential index

Nouns or phrases that specifically name something/someone.
e.g.
Lack of Referential Index
"Someone was singing in the house."

With Referential Index
"Jackson's mother, Joan was singing John Lennon's 'Imagine' in her bedroom.

reframing

Taking a previously painful / unpleasant experience / behaviour and recast it as something potentially useful and valuable.

report

see: Autobiographical Memory

rule

Rules, as used here, are defined as a subset of Beliefs.
Rules are specific beliefs that determine if you meet your Values or not.
e.g. If one of your (Towards) Values is to feel loved, then some examples of Rules might be, "To feel loved, I must (be told)/(be perfect)/(have done something to deserve it)/(be loving)."

S

schizophrenia

A mental disorder wherein the person experiences hallucinatory visions, inner voices, distorted thinking; often accompanied with complete physical and mental disorientation.

The current medical thinking is that schizophrenia

1. could be traced to serine - a very small common amino-acid found in most protein foods.
2. Serine is thought to be an early link in the manufacture of a minute biochemical called dopamine. (Dopamine is normally secreted by the brain.)
3. Unable to correctly metabolise serine from the protein foods, the brains of schizophrenics overproduce dopamine to offset the lack. (The exact process is still unknown.)
4. It is the overproduction of dopamine that is believed to cause schizophrenia.

second position

An NLP term where you put yourself in another's model of the world.

sixth sense

see: HSP

Skinner, B.F.

the behavioural science pioneer who is perhaps most well-know for his infamous experiment where he confined his daughter for the first 11 months of her life in a crib-size box in the name of science (and convenience). He used this to expand his theories on stimulus-response behaviours.

SQUID

SQUID stands for "superconducting quantum interference device" is a device that even without touching the body, is able to measure the electro-magnetic fields around the body. According to Dr. Samuel Williamson of New York Universitiy, the SQUID can even offer more information about the state of brain functioning than the EEG.

solar plexus

Solar plexus, or roughly the stomach region, is the area between the navel and the bottom of the sternum.

strategy

• sequence of representation systems that happen over time to achieve a certain outcome.
  (RepSys1--RepSys2 ..........--RepSys#)
• sequence of steps (internal & external) to attain outcome.

T

TD search

Transderivational search: the process of going through our world model (experiences and derived generalisations and meanings) to make sense of an experience.
e.g. when you encounter the word CAT or KUCHING ... to understand what it means, you initiate a TD Search from your accumulated experiences. The meaning you get from it is represented to yourself in Unique picture(s), sound(s), feeling(s), smell(s), etc. As you can tell, some of you readers will be able to get a clear representation of CAT but might not have had as successful TD Search for KUCHING.

Touch For Health

This has its origins in Applied Kinesiology and is a health education system developed by Dr. John Thie in collaboration with Dr. George Goodheart. It applies the core principles of Chinese medicine and utilizes "muscle testing".

transderivational search

see: TD search

U

UEF

Universal Energy Field. Some scientiest refer to this as "bio-plasma".
Also see: Chi and Prana

V

value

In NLP terms, and specifically here, values are basically any emotional/feeling states that you have attached an importance to.

Ends Values
The emotional states that give you Pleasure and are the targets you move towards (Towards Values) or states that give you Pain and from which you move away from (Away From Values).

Means Values
The means by which you believe you will acquire your desired Ends Values.
e.g. If you want a big house, it is not for the sake of the collection of motar and glass itself that that you work so hard for, but rather what it means to you (e.g. the feeling of success). And acquiring the big house is the means by which you believe you may get to experience the feeling of success.

Hierarchy of Values
Through our personal history & experiences, we have made conscious and unconscious associations so that there are some pleasurable emotional states we will do more to achieve - just as there are painful emotional states that we would do more to avoid than others.

W

X

Y

Z

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