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When you hear the word 'hypnosis', you typically think of a comedian persuading people to embarrass themselves in front of the audience, or a doctor with a swinging pocket watch. 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!

This type of hypnosis isn't new, in fact, you may have experienced it yourself and never even known it. That's because you won't have someone asking you to count backwards or swinging a watch in your face, it simply uses different words, voice tones and other techniques that are normal during 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 employs the use of vocal timing, language patterns and voice intonations in order to influence others. It can be used in most situations and learned by most anyone. If you are on the receiving end of this type of hypnosis, you might find yourself engrossed in what the speaker has to say and hypnotized, if you will, to agree with him easily changing your opinion from what it may have been before.

An interesting use of this type of hypnosis was by Dr. Milton Erikson who used it on many patients in the 1950's because hypnosis was banned by the AMA, and by doing it conversationally, he could use it's power for healing, but not get into 'trouble' for using hypnosis. When he was called to the American Medical Association for disciplinary hearing because of his use of hypnosis, he used those same techniques on the board itself and instead of having his license revoked, all the charges against him were dropped and the next year the AMA reversed their ban on hypnosis allowing all doctors to use it!

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. However, it can be effective in allowing you to get the things you want - a sale of a product, getting your spouse to agree with you, even getting your boss or coworkers to implement your ideas. This very powerful hypnotic tool can be learned and used to make your life, and perhaps even the life of those around you better!