Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Conversational hypnosis basics

Dear friend,

If you're still in doubt if conversational hypnosis is for real or want to learn the basics, then you'll be very happy after you've read this article...

First, let's look at some definitions:

What is hypnosis?

The definition of hypnosis is "Bypass of the critical factor and establishment of acceptable selective thinking". This is what the official definition is.

OK, now what does all this mean?

Critical factor is the part of the conscious mind that "protects" the subconscious mind from accepting inappropriate suggestions. For example, if I told you that you were a multi billionaire, your critical factor would analyze this information, compare it to current beliefs and memories and reject it (unless of course, you are a multi billionaire).

However, in a state of hypnosis where we bypass the critical mind, the suggestion passes through directly to the subconscious mind and since there's no rejection by the critical factor, it becomes a new belief and you'd start to act and feel like a multi billionaire (and actually think you are).

But simply bypassing the critical mind isn't enough. You must also be lead into a narrowed focus of attention. That's the "...establishment of acceptable selective thinking". Why acceptable? It's not possible to directly violate core values of a person. That simply means that if someone were to hypnotize you and suggest that you go kill someone, if killing people violates your core value, you'll simply ignore the suggestion or most likely "snap out" of hypnotic state.

Traditional hypnotic inductions need agreement by the subject, controlled environment, belief in the hypnotist and conscious effort on the part of the subject (some hypnotic inductions don't require the last part). In a classical hypnotherapy session a hypnotist guides the subject in a relaxed hypnotic state and then suggests new behaviors and so on.

What is conversational hypnosis?
Conversational hypnosis is also narrowing of one's focus and bypassing the critical factor, however, it's done with the subject's eyes open and fully conscious but without his or her knowledge. It's essentially creating change in a person in a completely unconscious way!
This is done through several linguistic, and nonverbal techniques and requires several steps to be effectively implemented. Note, however, that not all the steps are necessary every time and that several steps can be established instantly sometimes.
Steps to perform successful conversational hypnosis:
  1. Get person's attention and hold it. This is obviously essential as you'll need their attention to guide them in acceptable and open state of mind.
  2. Establish rapport. Rapport is basically defined as increased unconscious responsiveness. In essence, it's that wonderful feeling of connection you sometimes feel when you're having a great conversation with someone you like.
  3. Induce trance. This is the part where you use specific language to get a person in an acceptable frame of mind very similar to a hypnotic trance, but with eyes open and with full consciousness. Note that sometimes we go into such states automatically -- for example, when an authority figure (expert) teaches us something new. Very rarely do people question things critically. They just accept new facts as truth! Same thing with news -- most people don't watch news critically, but simply accept what is said as true.
  4. Present your suggestions. This is where you start feeding their subconscious mind with suggestions you want to stick. Many techniques of conversational hypnosis are developed to present suggestions in such a way that they're not analyzed or even noticed by the conscious mind. Essentially, you don't always really have to induce a trance in a person, but it helps.

So... here are ingredients of conversational hypnosis. There are also some more advanced steps you can take, but these are the basics.

Maybe you're wondering how long it takes to go through all these steps...

It really depends on the skill, but it can be as little as a few seconds or just a few carefully selected words said with proper tonality and backed by proper body language. It's really simple once you know and understand the structure and philosophy of conversational hypnosis.

Many techniques accomplish all the steps in a single sentence. These are really stealth, really "below the radar" of the conscious mind. Some require more time (minutes), but the effect is fascinating...

OK, now as you realize that conversational hypnosis is indeed real and it works (just look at all the successful advertising -- the best in the industry use these techniques!), you may be curious what are the specific mouth-watering techniques I was talking about and how YOU can learn them and start using them on your friends, clients, dates, you name it...

Well, I can't promise you it's still available, but after spending years researching this subject, apart from hiring me personally for training (which costs a heck of a lot more than this course), I believe that the following course is one of the best available online and gives tremendous value for it's cost. Visit the official conversational hypnosis course site for more information: Conversational hypnosis.

Take care and come back soon for more on this fascinating subject.

Here's to more persuasive success you ever dreamed possible!

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