Learn the Basics of Conversational Hypnosis
If you have ever watched Star Wars you probably remember how the Force was used to talk people into doing things or accepting things. Just by lifting up the hand Obi Wan Kenobi was able to tell people exactly what to think. This is fiction of course, but by using conversational hypnosis you are able to do much of the same things. You do not even have to lift your hand.
The Basics of Converational Hypnosis
When we talk about conversational hypnosis we often think about hypnosis shows or street hypnosis. Conversational hypnosis is no magic or black art technique. By using some well tested strategies we are able to use conversational hypnosis to convince people about close to everything, and they will believe it as the truth. Milton Erickson is one of the leaders of conversational hypnosis and he discovered how people fall into different trances all through the day. Watching TV, waiting for the bus, reading, working and in other every day situations.
What Milton Erickson discovered was that he was able to use this trance like situations to enter into the mind of his prospects. He was then able to turn them into his way of thinking. He was able to remove their resistance towards the suggestion he was about to present. He also discovered that he could use rapport and confusion to get people into this trance like state and then be able to use conversational hypnosis to change their way of thinking. Rapport, confusion and indirection suggestions are the basic elements of conversational hypnosis.
Rapport: You have probably tried to build rapport with a person or the people around you. Rapport can be defined as an agreement mode where you have the same thoughts and the same interests in common.
Rapport helps in getting the subject’s guards down. In case you strike a rapport with the subject then the subject considers you as “his party” and then it becomes easy to influence him.
Confusion: When using confusion in conversational hypnosis your goal is to get the subject to go to you for advice. He gets unsure about the thing he is talking about and turns to you for an answer. Getting a subject into confusion can be as simple as saying “are you sure there are no better ways to do this?”
Suggestion: When you have established rapport and you have used confusion to get your subject to go to you for an answer it is your time to strike. Now it is your time to suggest a better way to handle the situation. You want to do this indirectly to make the subject think that he thought it out himself.
Conversational hypnosis is an excellent tool to influence people to your way of thinking especially if your way is beneficial to them. However, word of caution here excess use of these principles may make the person see through your technique. Conversational hypnosis is a great technique to influence your lover or your friend to your way of thinking.
