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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Using Hypnotic Speech

By Rob Andrews

Language is a powerful thing. Although you may not know it, the words you use show others how you see the world.

In fact, some experts believe that we not only use language to talk about how we see our world, but also that language actually helps us make the world we live in.

How does this work?

Our subconscious mind loves consistency and so will try to interpret what it experiences in a way consistent with the words we use.

This powerful tool on the tips of our tongues not only affects us, but also affects people listening to us. So you can change the way someone else views the world by consciously choosing certain words to help their subconscious form a world view you desire.

How is this done?

You can use language to hypnotize people you talk to. What I mean is that you can actually speak to the subconscious mind when you use the correct words and speak in the right tones. By doing this you have a huge ability to help people see things your way and even change how they see the world around them.

So you can subliminally influence how people act and think by planting certain hypnotic seeds in their mind during an otherwise normal conversation.

Saying the right things

Influencing someone's subconscious mind is actually pretty straightforward. The world famous hypnotist, Milton Erickson, developed a conversational hypnosis model with three stages:

Stage 1.

Look for signs that reveal how the person views something. Notice the language used. What words does she use to describe her feelings. After you spot the pattern, use her experiences to lead her attention to her own inner experiences.

This can be done with questions like, "How do you feel about this?", or "What was that for you?"

This focusing inward allows them to understand how seeing the world the way they do makes them feel.

Stage 2.

This second stage of the Milton conversational hypnosis model is to distract the listener's conscious mind. This is done by using complicated and unclear language.

He would use words that sounded the same, but had different meanings, like wander/wonder, sale/sail, hear/here, right/write, You get the picture.

He would also use double binds that left the mind only a desired set of options. For instance, he would say something like, I don't know if you will fall into a trance now, or in five minutes.

This use of language allows the mind no options, except to go into a trance now or in a few minutes. This also uses an embedded command, to fall into a trance now or in a few minutes.

When words are used in the wrong way on purpose in a sentence, they confuse and distract the conscious mind. When this happens the conscious mind turns inward, basically asking the subconscious mind for help which is exactly what we want!

These are only a couple of the many Milton Model methods for distracting the mind. I don't know if you will want to learn more about the Milton Model now, or later ;)

Stage 3.

Finally, once the conscious mind has been sufficiently distracted, the final stage in the Milton Model is to uses the resources of the subconscious mind.

There are a few methods of doing this. The simplest is to embed commands in your sentences, so they are not apparent to the conscious brain, but will be perceived by the subconscious brain.

Some examples are things like:

--Who knows if you will certainly wash to dishes right away --You should do it, shouldn't you? --You are going to do this, didn't you? (this sounds like it doesn't make any sense, but your subconscious mind will hear the command)

So you may be asking yourself, self if I just say confusing things to people, or things that have embedded commands in them, then I can get people to do whatever I want them to?!

Maybe.

The important point of conversational hypnosis is that you can only make someone do something that does not violate their beliefs and values.

You can definitely speak to someones subconscious mind using the Milton Model techniques, but it takes a lot more than a quick conversation to change someones values.

Practicing the Milton Model, you can become quite good at applying conversational hypnosis to make embedded commands to covertly influence those around you. - 20769

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