04 / The vocabulary
The Dictionary
Words worth understanding. The vocabulary Omzoe works with, defined in plain language — with the traditions each idea comes from, and what it is useful for.
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50 terms · A–Z · Showing 1–40
A
- Abundance MindsetAlso known as abundance mentality · abundance thinking
- A framing that emphasises possibility, sufficiency, and shareable opportunity rather than a constant contest for limited resources.
- AffirmationAlso known as positive affirmation · self-affirmation · affirmative statement
- A carefully framed, present-oriented statement repeated and reflected upon to clarify intent, steady self-regard, and guide daily attention.
- Aim SpecAlso known as aim specification · practice specification
- The reviewed description of one active aim that gives Omzoe's generated practices a shared, editable direction.
- AnchoringAlso known as somatic anchoring · emotional anchoring · resource anchoring
- The technique of pairing a deliberate sensory trigger — such as a gesture, touch, or breath — with an intentional emotional state or mindset.
- AutosuggestionAlso known as self-suggestion · conscious autosuggestion · Couéism
- The deliberate practice of introducing positive, constructive thoughts or phrases to one's own mind to guide expectancy, attitude, and habit.
C
- Calling StatementAlso known as purpose statement · vocation statement
- A provisional sentence naming the contribution you want your work and life to make, in words you can revise.
- Cognitive defusionAlso known as defusion · deliteralisation
- Noticing a thought as a thought rather than as a fact about the world, so it stops deciding what you do next.
- Cognitive ReframingAlso known as cognitive restructuring · reframing · cognitive reappraisal
- The deliberate practice of identifying, examining, and shifting the perspective or mental frame through which a situation or experience is understood.
- Compass ReadingAlso known as Omzoe reading · Compass result
- An evidence-linked Omzoe synthesis of a chosen calling, current tendencies, their friction, and a useful first aim.
- Conscious MindAlso known as conscious awareness · focal awareness · deliberative mind
- The active layer of mental awareness responsible for deliberate reasoning, explicit decision-making, reflective choice, and focused attention.
- Creative VisualisationAlso known as creative visualization · positive visualisation
- Forming detailed positive mental images around a desired direction, popularised by Shakti Gawain's self-help work.
D
- Definite Chief AimAlso known as chief aim · definite purpose
- One clearly stated thing you are working towards, written down and narrow enough that you can tell whether a day served it.
- DetachmentAlso known as non-attachment · letting go of outcomes
- Loosening one's grip on an outcome while continuing to act, a term with distinct meanings across spiritual traditions.
G
- Gratitude PracticeAlso known as gratitude journal · gratitude exercise
- A deliberate practice of noticing and recording what is appreciated, through lists, letters, pauses, or conversation.
- Growth MindsetAlso known as incremental theory of ability · learning mindset
- The belief that abilities can develop through learning and practice, associated with Carol Dweck's work on theories of intelligence.
H
- Habit LoopAlso known as cue-routine-reward loop · habit cycle
- A simple model in which a cue prompts a routine and a consequence helps make that response more likely next time.
- HypnosisAlso known as hypnotic state · trance · focused absorption
- A natural mental state of focused inward attention and heightened receptivity to suggestion, characterized by relaxed peripheral awareness.
- HypnotherapyAlso known as clinical hypnosis · Ericksonian hypnosis · hypnotic consultation
- The professional practice of utilizing hypnotic induction and guided suggestion within a formal consultative setting to support habit change.
I
- IkigaiAlso known as reason for being · a reason to get up in the morning
- A Japanese idea of a reason to get up in the morning, found where what you love meets what you are good at.
- Implementation IntentionAlso known as if-then plan · if-then planning
- A plan that connects a specific situation to a chosen response: when this happens, I will do that.
- Inner ChildAlso known as child within · inner child work
- The person each of us was before adulthood, spoken of as a figure one can address — needs, play and vulnerability carried forward, not a separate being.
- Inner CriticAlso known as critical inner voice · self-critical voice
- A name for recurring self-critical inner commentary that judges, warns, or demands, often echoing standards learned elsewhere.
- Intention SettingAlso known as setting an intention · daily intention
- Naming the direction of a session, day, or practice before beginning, so attention has somewhere deliberate to return to.
J
- JournalingAlso known as reflective writing · keeping a journal
- A reflective writing practice that places thoughts, events, and questions outside the mind so they can be examined.
L
- Law of AssumptionAlso known as assumption practice · wish fulfilled
- Neville Goddard's teaching that inhabiting an assumed fulfilled desire is the decisive move in bringing it about.
- Law of AttractionAlso known as LOA · like attracts like
- The New Thought claim that sustained thoughts and feelings draw corresponding circumstances into a person's life.
- Law of VibrationAlso known as vibrational alignment · raising your vibration
- A metaphysical claim that everything has a frequency and that matching a desired frequency attracts corresponding outcomes.
- Limiting BeliefAlso known as self-limiting belief · blocking belief
- A belief understood to narrow what someone attempts or permits, often examined in coaching and self-reflection practices.
- Living in the EndAlso known as living from the end · end state
- An assumption practice of imagining and acting from a desired outcome, rather than only from the distance to it.
M
- ManifestationAlso known as manifesting · conscious manifestation
- An umbrella term for beliefs and practices that connect thought, feeling, imagination, and action with desired outcomes.
- Mental RehearsalAlso known as mental practice · imagery rehearsal
- The imagined practice of an action or performance, used to prepare attention, decisions, and movement before an event.
N
- Negativity BiasAlso known as negativity effect · positive-negative asymmetry
- The evolutionary human tendency to register, react to, and remember negative events and perceived threats more intensely than positive ones.
- Neuro-Linguistic ProgrammingAlso known as NLP · behavioral modeling
- A set of models and communication frameworks developed in the 1970s examining how language, mental imagery, and behavior organize subjective experience.
P
- Parts WorkAlso known as internal family systems · subpersonalities · ego-state practice
- A self-reflection framework that views the inner life as an ecosystem of distinct parts or sub-personalities, each carrying its own protective intention.
- Practice CardAlso known as daily practice · daily card
- One small, ordered unit of practice for a day, designed to move an active aim forward without grading the person.
R
- RevisionAlso known as Neville revision · imaginal revision
- Neville Goddard's practice of revisiting a day's event in imagination and giving the scene a different ending before sleep.
S
- SATSAlso known as state akin to sleep · hypnagogic state
- Neville Goddard's name for the drowsy edge before sleep, used in his assumption practice for vivid imagery.
- Scarcity MindsetAlso known as scarcity mentality · scarcity thinking
- A frame of attention shaped by insufficiency and competition, distinct from the real material scarcity that may create it.
- ScriptingAlso known as future scripting · present-tense scripting
- Writing a desired future in present-tense language, often to clarify desire and rehearse the actions a direction might involve.
- Self-CompassionAlso known as mindful self-compassion · self-kindness
- Meeting oneself with kindness, shared humanity, and balanced awareness in moments of difficulty or perceived shortfall, rather than harsh judgment.
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