Persuasion Artist

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There is some controversy in the persuasion community about memorized language patterns.

Canned or memorized language patterns are like covert hypnosis routines.  They are a prepared sequence of language patterns, embedded commands, and other types of hypnotic language that you memorize then repeat when you are in a situation of persuasion. 

Naturally, you can see why this is popular in the seduction and pick up communities. A guy can walk up to a woman parrot some hypnotic language he read in a book, and if done properly can capture and lead a woman’s imagination to emotional states of attraction and arousal, even lust.

Is this manipulation?  Maybe and maybe not, because there are different ways to use these types of language patterns.

Canned language patterns can be used to make someone feel wonderful or they can be used to get someone to do something that may not be for their highest good.  Therefore, I say it all depends on the intent of the person using the language pattern. 

My motto of all persuasion and covert hypnosis is if you are NOT looking out for the other person’s best interests then you are being manipulative. 

Some persuasion gurus teach their students memorized language patterns, as training wheels until they make up their own. Here is an example I just made up, that I could give to writers as a canned pattern, as always I highlight the embedded commands:

You are on the internet, exploring this blog, and reading this article, and it’s interesting because that reminds me of this article I read the other day in readers digest.  The author was talking about how there are different ways to read things.  I mean, have you ever thought about the difference between just reading something and really absorbing something. 

Reading something is easy, we do that all day all the time, it’s an important way to gather information, but often we forget what we read or skim to the parts that are most important.

But absorbing information is really fascinating, it’s like you are reading this article, and all of a sudden you read something that really causes you to pay attention to the information being presented.  And it’s not only because this read is fascinating isn’t it because on one hand a part of you begins to become even more aware of the underlying message such that you place all your focus on this message, to the point where you just STOP and imagine all the ways you will be using this information in ways that makes you feel really good.  Now as you do that it becomes even more easy to see compelling imaginary experiences in your mind that allow you to feel really good about what you’re learning now to the point where you imagine a time in the future years from now smiling and looking back on this article as being the platform of your journey to masterful persuasion.

Now, you can probably already see the most basic problem with this method.  Obviously this is an extreme example, and I would never use something so obviously filled with hypnotic language in my normal writing.  But if it were a piece that I was using as material, what happens when everyone else writing an article copies it? 

Another problem with memorized patterns is if all you rely on is things you have memorized you will eventually run out of material.  So if you are looking to create a long term relationship with a client or a person, then you will later seem incongruent when you talked a certain way initially and then you stopped. 

I personally think canned language patterns are excellent training wheels for beginners, and always great examples of hypnotic language that can be used to model your own unique covert hypnotic language patterns after.  I still use a few that I have memorized, but I never use memorized language patterns alone.

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