Persuasion Artist

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This is a long one guys, but if you are new to the realm of covert hypnosis and persuasion this will give you a good foundation to start from.  We will talk about the differences between therapeutic hypnosis, and conversational hypnosis.  What is trance?  How hypnotists uses trance.  Why covert and conversational hypnosis works?  Where did conversational hypnosis come from? Plus a little about the ethics of conversational hypnosis.

In order to understand covert hypnosis, we must understand hypnosis, and to understand hypnosis, we must understand trance.

What is trance?

Trance is simply a narrowing of focus on one thing, such that the world around you begins to fade away, and you become entranced in the message or image you are focusing on. 

You go into and out of trance every day.

Remember in school when the teacher would be talking in front of the class and while a part of you knows you are in a classroom sitting at a desk and you know the teacher is talking, mean while another part of you might be deeply daydreaming. 

And of course there are different ways to daydream.  There is the quick thought of maybe a conversation you had earlier where you just aren’t paying attention to the teacher, but then there are those daydreams where you go off for minutes into a your own little world.  And the more you imagine those images inside yourself the more the rest of your environment begins to fade away and disappear to the point where the teacher could even say your name to make sure you are paying attention and you don’t even hear her. 

We all do things like this when we are driving, when someone is talking but or mind is preoccupied, when someone attractive walks by, when watching a movie.  You also narrow your focus and go into a trance when you are having sex, or a roller coaster rides, or when you get very scared.  These are trance states, these in a sense are all forms of hypnosis.  Thinking of examples like this, where we zone out, or zone inward rather, causes you to understand hypnosis and trance even more. 

A Hypnotists Trance:

Now, naturally when most people think of hypnosis they think of the guy with a watch swinging it back and fourth in front of someone face or those hilarious spinning spirals we have all seen in the movies. 

A hypnotist job is to create or induce a trance in you.  Most hypnotists use language in a way that helps someone enter a trance state.  A hypnotist gets someone to relax using suggestions and commands to relax, followed by language that allows you to focus on imaginary things that allow you to go deeper into trance.

Why does hypnosis work?

Why are hypnotists able to help people to change bad habits like smoking, help people overcome phobias, and make people dance like Brittany Spears in front of an audience of strangers?

Research has show that people are highly suggestible when in a trance state.  Meaning a hypnotist can get people to do things they might not normally do, here’s how that worls. 

You have two main components of your mind, the conscious and the unconscious.

The conscious mind

The conscious mind is the part that is awake and aware.  It’s the rational, problem side of your mind.  It is the part that controls your speech center and gives you things to talk about and communicate with others. 

The Unconscious mind

The other is of your mind is the unconscious mind.  Some people call this the subconscious or your other than conscious mind. The unconscious mind controls all your sensory perceptions, as well as other bodily function like breathing, heart rate, etc.  You unconscious mind also controls long term memory, and the heart of your emotions.

While we would like to think that we are in conscious control, most of what we do is by habit or unconscious responses.  The unconscious mind is the part that is really in control, it dictates most all of what we do.  There is a lot of science to back this up.  I just found an article on wired titled Brain Scanners Can See Your Decision Before You Make Them where scientists are now saying that every decision you make has already been made by your unconscious mind long before you even realize it is what you want to do. 

Think of the unconscious mind as the cruise control in a very powerful that most people can’t turn off.  I don’t like that metaphor because it sounds like we have very little power over our mind.  But in reality most people, who procrastinate, who fail at diets, who cant stop smoking is how we see evidence of this in all of our lives.

Now along the same lines of the metaphor, what a hypnotist does is he is able to take control of the car and drive you to where you wan to go.  Perhaps to the place of freedom from addiction or a phobia.

Covert and Conversational Hypnosis

A scum sucking bastard would use these same skills to selfishly take you where HE wants to go, despite your best interests.  Yes these people are out there.  See my warning and disclaimer for more on this.  Police in Italy are currently looking for a thief who allegedly hypnotized a cashier into giving him money from her register.

An ethical persuasion artist, like myself and hopefully all of my readers, takes control of the car and takes you to a place that you BOTH want to go.  Perhaps a business transaction that is a  win win for all involved.  I have learned with Kenrick Cleveland and he has my highest recommendation on how to use these powerful skills with integrity

Covert and conversational hypnosis is using your verbal and non-verbal language in every day casual conversations to lead the unconscious mind into making a new decision or coming to a new conclusion.  So artfully that only an expert would know you are doing something, underneath your words.

Covert and conversational hypnosis is based much on the work of Dr. Milton Erickson.  Dr. Erickson has been dubbed the grandfather of modern hypnosis and some say the greatest hypnotist there ever was.

As the ledged has goes, Dr Erickson was a psychiatrist who wanted to use hypnosis on his in his psychiatry practice; the only problem was it was illegal for Doctors to use hypnosis with patients.

Knowing the immense power hypnosis bad beyond psychiatric treatments, good Doctor then went on to develop a system to hypnotize patients just by talking to them!

Covert Hypnosis Was Born

This method he created paved the way for modern hypnotherapy and was later modeled by Richard Bandler and John Grinder to help build the fundamentals of Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP.

Bandler and Grinder were some of the first trainers in this new form of powerful communication, going on to training top sales people, managers, and politicians.  Today there are NLP, covert hypnosis, and persuasion through conversational hypnosis trainings around the world. 
  

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