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Rapport is that magical mystical state where people have a real sense of connection. It’s a stage of openness and trust, a state of safety and safeness, a stage of familiarity and a state where someone is less critical of suggestions. See also: What is NLP?

Colour of face : light to dark Skin tonus : shiny to matt Lips : thin, no lines to fat with lines Eyes Focus: focussed to defocused Eyes Pupils: dilated to not dilated Breathing location : lower abdomen, mid chest, upper chest Voice Tone : high to low Voice Tempo : fast to slow Posture

The Representation Systems are the basic building blocks of the Language of the Nervous System, coming from the 5 senses of sight, smell, taste, sound and touch. They are: The Visual Modality, V, representing the sense of sight using the eyes The Auditory Modality, A, representing the sense of sound using the ears The Kinaesthetic

Overlap is the process of leading someone from their preferred representation system to a less preferred representation system. For example,  “I can’t do pictures”, “Ok, Imagine you are standing on a beach, and feel the sand against your feet, hear the water lapping against the shore, listen to the birds overhead, and now look up,

The Lead representation is the representation system that they use to access memories. Important in strategy elicitation from eye patterns, and it may appear that every strategy they run began with visual recall, when in fact the person is just using their lead representation system to access the memory.

The primary representation system is the representation system that is favoured by the person in holding their model of the world. For example someone with a Primary Representation System of visual would tend to use visual predicated more often in their language. The Primary Representation System is also the rep system they default to in

State in the positive, as if now. Where you are now (present state)? What do you want? Be specific – what will you see, hear, feel, notice and say to yourself when you get there? What’s your evidence procedure for knowing that? Is it congruent? What will this do for you or allow you to

The Presupposition of NLP are a set of convenient beliefs or assumptions that if you adopt, you are more likely to create better results in your life. Everyone has a unique model of the world Respect other peoples model of the world The map is not the territory People are not their behaviours Behaviours should

Ecology is the study of consequence. Whenever something changes there are consequences. Ecology is about checking what will be gained or lost as a result of the change. The results of the consequence should always increase choice. Ecology can be looked on at 3 levels. What will the individual gain or lose? What will the

A physiology of excellence is adopted by being at-cause about one’s behaviour, which give us more control, and flexibility and this give us more choices, based on the Law of Requisite Variety – i.e. the person with the most flexibility of behaviour ends up controlling the system. See also the Law of Consequences, at-cause and