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How to Quickly Change a Person’s State

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Persuasion and covert hypnosis is all about using your language and non-verbal communication to change someone’s emotional state.  I was just reading a great article over at Keys to The Mind on how to be a great conversational hypnotist and the fastest and easiest way to change someone’s state.

 The quickest and easiest way of inducing any state in anyone is to enter that state yourself beforehand. They will observe you entering into this particular state of mind by noticing your unconscious signals and gestures beginning to change, and will typically follow you into the exact same state. -Nathan

Great advice for all the guys who know the hypnotic language patterns but feel like they are not working.  I talk more about this ability to go into the state you want to lead someone into in my article Beyond Covert Hypnosis: The Hypnotic Power of Congruence

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Linguistic Binds: Overcoming Objections in Sales with Language Patterns

Did you know that in sales situations most questions your prospects ask you are on auto-pilot, meaning they ask them without thinking?  In fact almost everything they say and do is the reflection of an unconscious process or pattern they are running, and usually is a message from the unconscious to you giving you exactly what you need to know to persuade them.

For example if a prospect asks how to I know you guys have the best prices?

A seasoned sales person might respond by saying something like “oh, we mystery shop our competition, we have a low price guarantee, and we buy in bulk bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh”

This usually is not very persuasive for the following reasons:

1. Auto-pilot questions com from the unconscious and giving facts and features and benefits only addresses the conscious mind.  Remember that with persuasion the unconscious mind if always the one in charge, you must influence and address the unconscious mind.

2. One of the primary functions of the unconscious mind is to recognize patterns; it helps us sort through information faster, among other survival, and practical purposes.  When you parrot facts, features, and benefits the unconscious mind of the person you are persuading is associating you with sales person (not good) and sends the unconscious message to that person ALERT ALERT LIAR LIAR LIAR!  Then they ask for your card, and say they’ll think about it.

What I do to get around objections and empty questions like these is use hypnotic language patterns to communicate with the unconscious mind of the person instead. 

There are probably hundreds of different hypnotic language patterns you could use to communicate with the unconscious mind for covert hypnosis, but I use a NLP strategy modeled after the world famous hypnotist and psychiatrist Dr. Milton Erickson called cause and effect patterns, also know as linguistic binds. Cause and effect language patterns are extremely powerful because they are simple and get results.  

The formula for cause and effect language patterns works like this:

 X causes Y where X and Y don’t necessarily have to be related as long as X is something that can be verifiably true in the environment and Y is what you want to lead them to do.

(X) causes (Y) = (reading my blog) causes (you to realize it is made of 100% pure awesome) 

The neat thing I have learned is that X and Y do not have to make sense in any way or be logical. 

Another example, Erickson might say something like:

“Sitting in the hypnosis chair causes you to be hypnotized.” 

“Every breath you take causes you to realize how quickly you can change.” 

“As you hear my voice you begin to think about the reason you are here today.”

Here is how you can use the same strategy is a persuasion situation:

Question: “How do I know you guys have the best prices?”

Response: “That’s a great questions, it’s important to make your dollar go as far as possible when you purchase a product like this, and the more we interact today and the more you look over out pricing you will begin to realize you great our prices really are.

Question:  “I want to go to your competitor.” 

Response: “Right, and isn’t it interesting how the idea about going to my competitor makes you not want to go to my competitor?

Question:  “How do I know if this product/ service is right for me?”
Response: “Talking with me today naturally and easily allows you to fully become aware of how right this product is for you.”

Yes I have used every single one of these to close sales, and so can you.

A Word of Caution:  If you use them too much they will be onto you.  Use cause and effect language patterns sparingly and smoothly, and learn other language patterns so you can be flexible in your persuasion.

Like any persuasion or covert hypnosis strategy the extent to which you are congruence and confident in your language is the extent to which these language patterns will give you the results you seek. 

So practice this as mush as you need to until you naturally and easily speak and talk using them, in fact even thinking about writing these patterns out causes you to get excited about how much more effective you will be at persuasion. 

And since we are talking about congruence it is also important to know that reading my article Beyond Covert Hypnosis:  the Hypnotic Power of Congruence causes you to become even more confident in your persuasion skills.

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The Best Inactive Persuasion Blogs

In honor of my blog Persuasion Artist’s death and resurrection, I wanted to give out some links to a few Persuasion Blogs that have been inactive for some time that I subscribe to.  I know how some of you feel when you were bummed about me vanishing for a sec, I feel bummed that these guys seem to have stopped their regular postings too:

Blogging and coming up with new content, studying your subject, responding to comments, and networking with other bloggers can be quite the full time job.  I don’t blame these guys for jumping off the blogging train, but I sure do miss em.

The Following are the Best Inactive Persuasion Blogs:

Covert Metaphor: Last post December 2007

From Blog: “I started Covert Metaphor because I wanted to create an online community and resource for new students of conversational hypnosis, metaphor, and other techniques of seduction.” - Nathan

This guy was one of my favorites, he has a lot of NLP and conversational hypnosis info, his archives are a goldmine of persuasion info.

Your Daily Un-Interrupted Pattern of Hypnosis, Psychology, and NLP: Last Post June 2007

From Blog: “Sit all the way back, relax and enjoy a politically incorrect journey into one aspiring young hypnotists thoughts on human consciousness, NLP and altered states. Because here you will find all the things I think, try and test that I wouldn’t put up under my real name; that is, you will be able to watch as I learn to use these skills and you will get the patterns I’ve developed that work and learn from the ones that didn’t.” - Name Unknown

A shame I would have loved to see this young hypnotists blog develop.

Jamie Smart’s Real World Hypnosis Blog:  Last Post Jan 2007

From Blog:  You cannot NOT communicate. You cannot NOT influence. Even remaining still and silent will have an effect.

Okay okay, I know his blog really sucks he only has like two posts and then I guess he gave up blogging, but if had kept going I am sure he would have been one of my favorite’s because Jaime Smart is one of the O.G. NLP trainers.

Hypnosis Control:  Last blog post May 28th, 2008

From Blog:  Mind Control, the ability to pilot the behavior of other people, is a highly valuable and sought after skill. While some methods are more overt, such as hypnosis therapy, other methods like secretive group environments and hypnosis hidden into normal-seeming conversations have the potential to control subjects without their knowing. Ultimately modifying a subject’s beliefs, attitudes, and personality are the goal of mind control.

It seemed like this blogger vanished from the blogosphere when some of his subscribers started arguing with him over whether or not subliminal advertisements were being used by Fox News.  I even joined in on the debate, subliminal messages are a fascinating and controversial topics and research is still being done today on it.  I know Nathan also had other blogs he operated; perhaps they drew him away from his hypnosis and mind control interests.  A good blog though, May wasn’t too long ago perhaps he will return.

LOL and the award for most original persuasion blog name goes to Covert Hypnosis (obviously joking):  Last post May 2008

 Covert Hypnosis ( yes that’s the clever name of his blog- just Covert Hypnosis, oh and his name also Covert Hypnosis, wow he has weird parents) It is pretty obvious that although I think this bloggers knowledge and content, and research is great, it at least appears to me as if he is in it just for the adsense income and affiliate purchases, I am basing this on the naming of himself and his blog covert hypnosis which was probably done for Search Engine Optimization.

When I read Covert Hypnosis for the first time I started falling asleep when I was reading his blog, I though man this guy is a great hypnotist his blog is hypnotizing me!  Then when I woke up I realized I wasn’t hypnotized at all but it’s that his blog template is putting me to sleep it is one of the most plain and boring theme’s ever!

I know, I know, I’m mean, sue me for poking fun at other persuasion bloggers.

But even though his blog operation skills are amature at best, I think his content is brilliant it also dates back to 05 so there is a lot of content to pull, and he even created a covert hypnosis forum that I believe is still active to this day. 

Just have some coffee in your hands and sit on a very large fork while you read it.

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Kenrick Cleavland Reveals the Most Important Persuasion Tool

                                   Photo Credit: The Golden Rule 

I have always liked Kenrick Cleavland, he is an inspiration to me because he is hands down one of the most powerful Persuasion Artists on the planet AND he is ethical.  Get any of his programs and you will se that one of the first things he addresses is the subject of ethics, and how to use persuasion in a way that is in the other person’s best interests.

I have met many persuasion Gurus, many of which you have read about in books or listened to through their home study courses, I have dined with them, I have been in their homes, I have gone out for drinks with them and of all the persuasion Gurus I have met Kenrick Cleavland is by far the most genuine when you speak to him.

I hear the cynics already, well maybe he just persuaded you to feel that way about him.

Nah, I have been doing this long enough to know when I am being persuaded, I can tell when an expert is using persuasion skills on me, I can tell when I am being manipulated, I can read the body language of a scam artist like a coloring book, I can even tell when someone who has never studied persuasion is using a strategy by accident, we call em naturally charismatic people.

Once you learn and practice this material you cant turn it off.

Anyway, I firmly believe he is a force for good and not for evil, and believe me there are Gurus out there who I would say avoid like the plague because of their shady ethics.

I didn’t want to make this post a Kenrick Cleavland commercial, but I just read a post he put up called The Most Important Tool, it is a good one and one all who study persuasion should read:

Ethics and integrity allow us to use these kinds of powerful skills and do so with a good clean conscience because we know that we’re using things on others that we’re comfortable having used on ourselves. - Kenrick Cleavland

For more information on ethics and persuasion see my articles:

The Greatest Seduction Secret is NOT Covert Hypnosis
Beyond Covert Hypnosis: The Hypnotic Power of Congruence
My First Post: Persuasion vs. Manipulation?

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What is the Most Persuasive Color?

                                           Photo Credit:  Red-Black Poison Arrow Frog  

I have mixed feelings about Kevin Hogan’s persuasion strategies, but I gotta give the man credit he does a ton of research!  Many of his strategies he backs up with studies done by professors at Universities.   I was at Kevin’s blog to day and I read his article about what color is the most persuasive:

The color red can affect how people function. Red means danger and commands us to stop in traffic. Researchers at the University of Rochester have now found that red also can keep us from performing our best on tests.  -from article: What Color is Most Persuasive?

Read the whole article, it’s a fascinating study. 

 I wonder if the reason red affects us so mush is because it taps into the primal parts of our brain, the part that still reacts the way our ancestors reacted.  In the wild red plants are usually poisonous, blood is red, and some dangerous animals like poisonous arrow frogs.

It blows me away at how things we don’t really think about can persuade us so effectively.  In the article where he talks about the students who did worse on their exams simply because the color red was flashed at them moments before taking the test; it brings to mind so much of what persuasion is all about- influencing a persons unconcsious mind.  

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Coffee With Bill: Spiritual Journey, Erotic Hypnosis, and Reloading The Persuasion Matrix

                                 Image Credit: Coffee Break

“Sometimes you must risk all to find the truth.”  -Unknown

I wish I had some cool story about persuasion guys to share, like I went to study the forbidden secrets of covert hypnosis in the mountains with a grand master of persuasion and I am back to tell the tale.

I wish I had some killer article that I was working on to share with you guys, like how to influence someone without saying a word.

Nope, the reason for my absence was the need to go on a bit of a spiritual journey.

Some time back in June I would wake up in the morning and wonder if I am fulfilling my life purpose or not.

I guess it’s something we all go through at one point or another.

A little over a year ago I set a goal to have an apartment in Los Angeles that was so cool it would be the envy of all who entered.  I had an image in my mind of what I wanted it to look like. 

I thought it would make me happy.

And so I did it. I got my cool bachelor pad.  And whenever I had friends come over they were always telling me how cool my pad was.  I had expensive furniture, fancy paintings, and a huge television.

About a year of living there I began to get sick of my place, I realized that what I thought would make me happy did not make me happy at all.  I started to ponder what is happiness and what is purpose.

That’s when I stopped blogging, and that’s when I started feeling inspired to do something a little extreme.

 My friends all thought I was nuts for what I did next.

I threw away a lot of my possessions, books, clothing, paper work etc.  I even let go of some people in my life that I was holding onto, one of which was my hypnosis mentor.  I stopped studying persuasion even (naturally I kept all of my persuasion books just in case )

I sold all of my furniture for pennies on the dollar on craigslist and moved out of my apartment. 

The crazier part is I had no idea of where I would be living next.

                                  Photo Credit:  Homeless Lego

I spent the entire month of July staying on friend’s couches, a hotel once in a while, and even slept in my car a few nights. 

Everything I owned I could pretty much fit in the trunk of my car.

I showered at the gym.

I was homeless.

And you know what; I can’t remember having such a fun and exciting month in the past 6 years!

Perhaps the adrenaline rush of not knowing where you will sleep at night gave me the enthusiasm for life that I needed.

-I am now in phenomenal shape.  I now get up every morning and go to the gym at 5:00 a.m. EVERY MORNING

-I was able to spend time in nature and learn more about the beautiful city I live in. 

-I have made so many new friends by being out and about all the time, and I have built stringer relationships with my current friends.

-I have a higher self esteem.

-I notice I am friendlier; chatting up conversations with strangers comes easy

-I learned I have a very very very artistic side, and I am going to start pursuing acting.

-To go out in public I used to have to wear the nicest clothes, and have my hair all greased up to be confident.  Now I usually wear just a simple t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers, and I feel so great.  And I notice women checking me out even more now.

-Speaking of women. I have met and had sexual relationships with more women this past months than I have had in the past three months.  Which is the hilarious part because obviously part of the reason for wanting my super cool pad was to attract women. And being homeless I met so many amazing and beautiful women.  Perhaps I have read too many pick up artist books.

I am having a blast, life is so good, and I feel like I was reborn, I feel 18 again, I feel amazing.  And great things are continuing to happen.  I haven’t figured out all of the secrets to The Universe yet, and I probably never will and I am okay with that.

Basically I let go of all the things that I thought would make me happy and let in an avalanche of amazing life experiences that bring me great joy. I believe because I let go of so many virtual attachments I was able to get closer to what I am truly attached to myself.  I feel a stronger sense of self; I feel I understand who I am a bit better now.

So where does this leave Persuasion Artist?

Good question, I do not know.

We’ll learn together.

I want to get back in the flow of writing, and even as I am typing this I must say it does feel good to be blogging again.  I don’t know how or when things will return back to the way they were, or if things will ever be the same again.

I am pondering the idea of beginning a new blog with a little different spin on persuasion and hypnotic language.

All I can say is that the seduction and pick up guys will love it, but it wouldn’t be a seduction blog per se.  What I have been studying in my time off is how to give women incredible pleasure using hypnosis, language, psychology, and some other interesting stuff.

It’s interesting you guys know me as Bill the guy who teaches persuasion and I can be quite persuasive in sales.  But my passion, what I love more than anything in the world is using this material to make women feel incredible pleasure and that’s what I really want to blog about.

This would be material not necessarily to get women to sleep with you (although it could be used in that way), but if you are already in a sexual relationship with someone this will allow you to make your lover feel things that no man would be able to make her feel.

Persuasion and seduction would not be the right words because I look at it as a gift I can give a women rather than something I do to get from women.

I was thinking of doing a blog for guys on how to use this material to better pleasure your partner(s) or I will make a blog for women using hypnotic story telling to create stories that arouse, borderline erotica.  I actually am meeting with an erotic novelist to entertain a possible collaboration.

I have wanted to do this since I used hypnotic story telling to make one of my lovers’ orgasm. She asked me to record what I was saying so she could listen to it over and over again.

I will most likely use a Penn name for both, no Bill Alexander is not my real name either

So I will either run one to three blogs expanding on the ideas of Persuasion Artist and stepping into the realm of sexuality and hypnosis OR I will keep all this sexy juicy info to myself, give my lovers earth shattering pleasure using their own minds and my voice as an aphrodisiac, and disappear into the shadows of the blogosphere never to be seen from again as I pursue a career as an artist.

So now you know where my crazy little head is at and what I am working on, as you can see there a number of possibilities.

I love blogging so unplugging completely from the blogging matrix is unlikely, but based on last month I like leaving things open ended it makes life a bit more exciting.
 

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The Dangers of Dognosis

I know, I know, I hear everyone saying “Bill took over a month off and this was the most brilliant post he could conjure???”

Come on you know it’s cute

I think this is Mark Cunningham’s Dog; I snagged it from the Marknosis yahoo group.

Thanks to everyone who patiently remained a subscriber of Persuasion Artist while I go through my personal hiatus, I will be back soon promise.

Big thanks to everyone who participated in my survey in the sidebar I will use that information to make Persuasion Artist better than ever!!!

-Bill

And thanks to everyone who emailed me questions and concerns about my situation, I miss you guys too!

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