State management, or sometimes called state control, as a neuro-linguistic programming

Neuro-linguistic programming

Neuro-linguistic programming is an approach to psychotherapy, self-help and organizational change. Founders Richard Bandler and John Grinder say that NLP is a model of interpersonal communication and a system of alternative therapy which seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective...

 (NLP) technique is the act of actively trying to control the emotional and mental state of an individual. One method to actively achieve state management anchoring

Anchoring (NLP)

Anchoring is a neuro-linguistic programming term for the process by which memory recall, state change or other responses become associated with some stimulus, in such a way that perception of the stimulus leads by reflex to the anchored response occurring...

 where an individual associates a particular physical stimulus

Stimulation

Stimulation is the action of various agents on nerves, muscles, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked; especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents on nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which the part connected with the nerve is thrown into a state of activity.The word...

. It is used as both a self help method and a therapeutic hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is a therapy that is undertaken with a subject in hypnosis.The word "hypnosis" is an abbreviation of James Braid's term "neuro-hypnotism", meaning "sleep of the nervous system"....

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