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Applies the brand platform consistently across the codebase: - Name: Semantika everywhere — app name/slug/scheme, bundle ids (com.semantika.app), workspace package names, CDK stack, Cognito domain prefix, secret name (semantika/app), database name, product ids (semantika_monthly/_yearly), and storage keys. - System instructions: Semantika is positioned as an intelligent reflection partner — not therapy, not self-help, not a course. It starts by exploring how the user interprets their situation and supports reflection and perspective-taking rather than delivering finished answers. Tone rules added: never judging, dramatic, overenthusiastic or preaching; always calm, curious, clear, respectful, structured, thoughtful. - Honest claims: instructions and knowledge base now explicitly frame neurosemantics and NLP as models and inspiration for reflection, not scientifically established methods — including a note that several NLP claims lack support in controlled studies. Claiming or implying proven effects is forbidden. - README: brand section (position, promise, mission, vision, positioning, tone, design words) and updated product philosophy. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0118DaxZR36RpnY524vRqx3z
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# NLP fundamentals
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NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) was developed in the 1970s by Richard
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Bandler and John Grinder by modeling effective therapists (Virginia Satir,
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Fritz Perls, Milton Erickson). It offers models for how people structure
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subjective experience.
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**Status of these ideas:** NLP's core claims do not have broad scientific
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consensus, and several (such as eye-accessing cues) have not held up in
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controlled studies. Treat everything in this file as reflective models and
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conversational tools inspired by NLP — useful lenses, not evidence-based
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treatment or proven techniques.
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## Key presuppositions (working assumptions)
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- The map is not the territory.
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- People respond to their map of reality, not reality itself.
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- There is no failure, only feedback.
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- Every behavior has a positive intention in some context.
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- People already have the resources they need, or can create them.
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- The meaning of communication is the response it elicits.
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These are adopted as useful stances, not truth claims.
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## The Meta-Model
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A set of language patterns for recovering information deleted, distorted, or
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generalized in speech. Examples:
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- **Deletion**: "I'm afraid." → "Afraid of what, specifically?"
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- **Unspecified verb**: "He rejected me." → "How, specifically, did he reject you?"
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- **Universal quantifier**: "I always fail." → "Always? Every single time?"
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- **Modal operator**: "I can't speak up." → "What would happen if you did?"
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- **Nominalization**: "Our communication is bad." → "How are you communicating?"
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- **Mind reading**: "She thinks I'm useless." → "How do you know she thinks that?"
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The Meta-Model turns vague, limiting maps into specific, workable ones.
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## Representational systems and submodalities
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Experience is coded in sensory systems (visual, auditory, kinesthetic).
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Submodalities are the fine qualities of those codes — brightness, distance,
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size, volume, temperature. Shifting submodalities (e.g. shrinking and dimming
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a threatening inner image) often shifts the emotional response.
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## Anchoring
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Associating a state with a stimulus (a touch, word, or image) so the state can
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be re-accessed deliberately. Built by eliciting a strong state and applying
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the stimulus at its peak, then testing.
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## Well-formed outcomes
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Goals stated positively, within the person's control, sensory-specific,
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context-bound, and ecological (checked against the wider system of the
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person's life): "What do you want? How will you know you have it? What might
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it cost you?"
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