by Arthur Xavier King
Would you like to be able to hypnotize anyone whenever you wanted? Do you think it’s possible to hypnotize anyone and have them change their behavior without them even realizing it? The truth of the matter is that this is not only possible but it’s probably a lot easier than you think. And forget about it looking like traditional hypnosis. There’s no lying down on the couch, no staring at the pocket watch and no counting backwards from 10.
Would you believe it if I told you that this practice of hypnotizing people ’secretly’ or happens all of the time? Now, before you think that there’s no possible way to hypnotize anyone with out the person knowing it,let me clarify what I mean by ‘hypnotize.’ I’m not talking about sitting or laying down in a dimly lit room listening to a soft soothing voice as you drift into a state of total relaxation.
The secret, however, is to be able to do this just by talking to someone while using the same language patterns that work in traditional hypnosis. And this can happen in regular conversations as well as using the written word when communicating with someone. Skeptical? I don’t blame you. But what if I told you that we are influenced by words all of the time, and that many of these words that are ‘hypnotizing ‘ us are happening right under our noses without us even knowing it!
Is it possible to influence the subconscious mind without the conscious mind knowing it? In an experiment developed by psychologist John Bargh a group of subjects were asked to make a four word sentence out of five words as quickly as they could. Try this yourself:
1. throw John gray the ball
2. from are oranges Florida sweet
3.fruit wrinkled raisin is a
Does this seem like a pretty easy exercise? Well, the subjects that completed it thought so too. What they didn’t realize was that the researchers were measuring something completely different. What they found was that the subjects that completed this exercise actually walked out of the testing room and down the hallway slower than when they walked in.
Now consciously the subjects probably didn’t even pay attention to these words, but subconsciously these words had a huge impact on the way the subjects behaved. They basically put the subjects into a state of feeling old and the subjects responded by acting this out through their slow walk out of the office. (For an excellent resource on how the subconscious is easliy influenced on a day to day basis, check out Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink).
The point is, these subjects had no idea that they were acting any differently than they would normally act, and yet they didn’t even realize that they had changed their behavior. They thought that they were just making sentences out of a bunch of random words, when in reality they were being influenced in a way that they weren’t even aware of. Such is the power of activating the subconscious mind.
Now, you might be asking yourself, can you really influence someone subconsciously just by talking to them? And the answer is- absolutely-if you know what you’re doing. The father of modern psychological hypnosis, Dr. Milton Erickson, had mastered the traditional techniques of hypnosis to the point where he could easily hypnotize anyone simply by talking to them. He was a master story teller who could, through the use of stories or metaphors, implant subconscious suggestions or commands.
Chances are you already know and use the words that you would use to start to hypnotize someone subconsciously. How can I know this about you? Well, have you ever used the words “gray, old, wrinkled, Florida” as in the example above? Of course you have! It’s not about learning new words or ‘hypnotic words’; it’s about using the words that you already know in such a way as to engage the conscious mind so that you can deliver a particular hypnotic suggestion or command to the subconscious mind. Once you master this skill then it is only a question of practice until you can hypnotize anyone just by talking to them.
Writer: Arthur King helps people turn their everyday words into irresistible hypnotic commands. You can visit his site at Hypnotize Anyone
