• Behavior - specific physical actions and reactions / cause and effect through which we interact with people and environment around us or recollection of memory of.
• Behavior Modification - changing or eliminating undesirable behaviour / patterns.
• Behavioral Flexibility - ability to vary one's behaviour in order to elicit a desired response from another person / group.
• Bruxism - gnashing or grinding of teeth.

• Calibration - process of reading another person's unconscious responses, through non-verbal responses.
• Catalepsy - rigidity of body or part of the body.
• Catharsis - act of releasing strong charged emotions – energetic constricted emotions.
• Cognitive - pertains to thinking, knowing, and understanding of internal processing of information and responses.
• Compulsion - act a person repeats, feels driven to keep repeating, often against his or her will.
• Confabulation - falsification of memory, due to a partial amnesia.
• Congruence - when all of person's individual belief systems, strategies and behaviors are fully in agreement.
• Context - framework surrounding a particular event / situation.
• Convulsion - involuntary expression of spasm or muscular activity.
• Counter Suggestion - suggestion given to a person to displace or challenge a core or fixed idea or belief.
• Criteria - values or standards (integrity, values, morals, ethics) a person uses to make judgments and decisions.

• Defence Mechanism - self-protection system / fight or flight, designed to lessen or repress certain thoughts, feelings or memories from entering the conscious mind.
• Delusion - a false idea or belief or condition producing through past conditioning.
• Dissociation - distancing or separating an individual from directly reliving an event, situation, relationship or a scene - e.g. viewing an event as if it were happening to someone else.

• Emotional Outlet - action or a way that serves to release mental and emotional energy.
• Euphoria - a state of extreme well-being and pleasure.

• Fascination Point - object / place that serves as a focus point during hypnotic induction.
• Fractionation - guiding the individual couple times through different levels of trance, or placing them deliberately in and out of trance, for purposes of increasing depth of trance.
• Free Association - spontaneous outpouring of associated ideas from the subconscious without any external censorship.
• Free Floating Anxiety - feelings / emotions of apprehension or dread that cannot be traced to any particular source.
• Future Pacing - process of mentally rehearsing repeatedly oneself through a future situation in order to ensure that the desired outcome will occur naturally and automatically.

• Glove Anaesthesia – a specialised technique where by the individual is thought to create a feeling of numbness in his / her hand and then transfer that feeling to a part of the body where pain relief is desired.
• Gustatory - relating to a sense of taste.

• Habit Formation - a learned / conditioned process of reacting brought about through repetition of certain actions.
• Heterohypnosis – applying hypnosis on another individual (other than one's self).
• Hyperaesthesia - heightened sensitivity to stimuli.
• Hypnodontics - using hypnosis in dentistry.
• Hypnos - Greek god of sleep.
• Hypnosis - state of heightened suggestibility.
• Hypnotherapy - therapeutic use of hypnosis.

• Ideomotor Response (Signaling) - involuntary movement of part/s of the physical body by the subconscious reaction as a result of a suggestion or a question.
• Imagination - ability of the mind to construct or reorganize sensory data from an experience of outer or inner world, real or imagined.
• Induction - act of inducing, causing or producing a state of hypnosis.
• Introspection - self-observation of one's thoughts and feelings.

Kinesthetic - relating to bodily sensations, including tactile, visceral and feelings.

Lethargic State - extremely relaxed state in which an individual may display symptoms of slurred speech and inability to move.

• Mental Rehearsal - rehearsing a future event through the imagination.
• Multiple Personality - psychological state an individual maintains two or more distinct personalities usually without any conscious recognition between them.

• Negative Hallucination - not perceiving something which is present.
• NLP - Neuro-Linguistic Programming: study of the structure of subjective human experience.

• Obsession - extreme preoccupation with certain thoughts.
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OCD - extreme preoccupation with certain thoughts and compulsive performance of certain behaviours, both of which occur in ritualistic and unavoidable fashion.
• Olfactory - relating to sense of smell.
• Outcome - goal or a state that a person desires to achieve.

• Pacing - matching or mirroring a behaviour of another for the purpose of establishing rapport.
• Pain - uncomfortable sensation experienced either through body, mind or both.
• Panic Disorder - high level of anxiety accompanied by sudden intense episodes of pain.
• Parts - independent programs and strategies of behaviour, metaphorically speaking.
• Phobia - intense fear of some specific object or situation.
• Placebo - object (usually a substance) without any intrinsic value, producing effect due to individual's belief and expectation of desired effect.
• Positive Hallucination - perceiving something that is not present.
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - psychological and emotional disturbance following the stresses outside the range of normality of the individual's experience.
• Post-Hypnotic Suggestion - a suggestion given in hypnotic state that is to be carried out after emergence out of hypnotic state.
• Projection – attributes to one's one thoughts and feelings to another person.
• Pseudo-Memories - false memories that a person beliefs to be accurate.

• Rapport - the presence of harmony, trust and cooperation in relationship.
• Regression - experiencing and exploring an earlier time (event), life as if it is occurring now.
• Representational systems - five senses : seeing, smelling, hearing, feeling (touching), tasting.

• Secondary Gain - positive function of undesirable behaviour.
• State - complete mental and physical condition from which a person is acting.
• Strategy - a set of explicit mental and behavioural steps used to achieve a specific outcome.

• Time Distortion - to experience time - seems time has either sped up or slowed down.
• Trance - state of hyper suggestibility.

• Visual - sense of sight.
• Well-Formed Outcome - outcome stated in positive, initiated and maintained by the individual, sensory based, testable in experience, and ecological.