When you hear the word ‘hypnosis’, you typically think of a doctor dangling a swinging watch in front of a patient or a comedian on stage ‘hypnotizing’ people to do funny things. While this type of hypnosis is useful, there are many other uses of hypnosis, including one that you can use to persuade people without them even realizing you are doing it. It’s called conversational hypnosis, and even you can use it to convince people of anything you want!

Man has actually used this type of hypnosis for quite some time, you may have even had it happen to you and were unaware because it is so subtle. That’s because you won’t have someone asking you to count backwards or swinging a watch in your face, you can actually put people into a state of hypnosis or autosuggestion simply with the words you use and they way you use them in normal every day conversation.

Conversational hypnosis is an interesting means of ’selling’ or swaying someone to your side, It simply uses conversational techniques to magnify the art of persuasion and lower the defenses of your subjects conscious or critical mind and get right into the subconscious which will be more open to your suggestions. This is much like what we do every day - try to persuade your co-workers to go with your idea, try to get someone to do you a favor or to get agreement on something. The difference is that if you knew the techniques of conversational hypnosis you would get them to agree a lot more often!

You can use conversational or, as it is sometimes called, covert hypnosis on one person or on a whole crowd of people. It uses intonations, language patterns and vocal timing to influence others. It can be learned easily by anyone and can be used in most situations. People that use it are able to engross their subjects in what they have to say, hypnotizing them into empathy and respect and changing their minds easily and readily into agreement.

In fact, perhaps the most interesting use was by Dr. Milton Erikson who used conversational hypnosis to help his patients in the 1940’s and 1950’s because hypnosis itself was banned. However, someone let the cat out of the bag and Dr Erikson was called to a disciplinary hearing by the American Medical Association. Ironically, he was able to emply these techniques on the doctors of the AMA and instead of taking away his license, the charges were dropped and the next year the AMA dropped the ban on hypnosis allowing it to be used by any doctor who wanted to!

While some may see conversational hypnosis as a way of manipulating people, it can also be seen as simply a more persuasive use of conversation. While some will try to use it for bad purposes, there is no need to be afraid of it since your subconscious will never allow you to be forced into anything that would bring you harm. You can use it effectively to get what you want - be it getting someone to agree with your opinion, implement one of your ideas or even buy one of your products. It is a tool that can allow you to enjoy life and get everything you ever wanted, while also making the lives of those you care about better too!

If you are interested in learning more about conversational hypnosis, please visit www.hypnosislearningguide.com where you will get the latest on how you can better your life through these interesting conversational techniques.

- Lee Dobbins

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