Persuasion Artist

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If you want to become masterful at persuasion then you will want to build on the following skills. The following three things listed I have found in my experience with persuasion and covert hypnosis to be are essential.

1. Intention

State you intention before you are begin persuading someone, and state your intention silently I when you shift methods when you are persuading someone. I have no idea why it works, if there is some mystical force or if it is psychological, there are arguments on both sides of the coin. But I do notice that when I state my intention inside to use a technique the technique seems to work better.

I do believe in the pop-psychological philosophy of what you focus on expands, so perhaps focusing on what you want to do increases you perasuasive power. All I care about are results.

Many top NLP trainers teach constructive hallucinations to amplify you intention when persuading. At a recent hypnosis seminar a fellow student was telling me how he was at a Richard Bandler seminar and he was telling people to imagine throwing lightning bolts at the peope they want to persuade. Tom Vizzini and Kim Mcfarland of essential-skills.com teach an effective method of using your intent to gain rapport using visualisatiosn like these.

2. Calibration

“People will teach you how to sell them if you’ll pay attention to the messages they send you.” - unknown

A friend of mine sells mattresses. He says one of the best mattresses he sells is this new mattress called a Tempurpedic. It’s made of this material called memory foam. Its this really flexible foam that has what called a “sense and response” foam. It senses you unique position and body weight and responds with the proper support.

I know it’s a strange metaphor, but when you are persuading someone, whether in the board room, in the night club, or on the streets, you need to be like memory foam. You need to be able to sense where the person you are persuading is at mentally and emotionally and be flexible enough in your strategy to respond with the proper technique. Persuasion artists call this caliberation.

The essence of persuasion is taking someone from where they are emotionally and re-directing them to where you want them to go. People are always communicating unconcious messages to you via non-verbal gestures, overall rythem vocal inflection etc. To the extent that you are able to receive and understand these unconcious messages, will be the extent you are able to shift and direct their emotions to what you want them to do.

3. Rapport

One day I heard a world fameous hypnotist say it isn’t amazing what hypnotists are able to make people to, what is really interesting what people are willing to do when you have rapport with them. Creating rapport means creating the bond, connection, or trust makes powerful persuasion and conversational hypnosis to be most effective. Part of covert hypnosis means giving people hypnotic commands and suggestions If you don’t have rapport, people are more likely to resist your commands and suggestions

I will save specific rapport strateges for another article, but the essence of all of the covert rapport strategies require that you to become as much like the person you are persuading as possible. This includes matcing and mirroring body movements and gestures, matching a persons over all rythem or vibe, and matching a persons vocal tonality.

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