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What would it be like if you could hypnotize anyone that you wanted to? Is it even possible to hypnotize anyone and actually change their behavior without them even knowing it? Not only is this possible but it’s probably a lot easier than you realize. And by the way this looks nothing like traditional hypnosis.As a matter of fact this can actually be done just by talking to someone!

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.

What I mean by hypnosis is literally going up to an individual,whether it’s a complete stranger or someone you know, and talking to them just like you would with anyone else that you talk to on a daily basis. The difference is that in these hypnotic conversations you would be using the same language patterns and hypnotic techniques that are used in traditional hypnosis, but you would use them in a conversational way. And although the person you were speaking with would consciously hear every word of the conversation, the subconscious hypnotic commands that you would use would fly completely under their radar.

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. sunny gray is always Florida

3. learn tricks dogs old wrinkled

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).

What’s interesting about the study is the fact that these words were hiding in plain site- they weren’t disguised or in some way manipulated to get the attention of the subjects. As a matter of fact just the opposite occurred- the ‘hypnotic’ words were blended right in with ‘regular’ words. Now, I say the “hypnotic words” meaning “old, Florida, gray, wrinkled’ but these words are no more ‘hypnotic’ than any of the other words on the page. I’d even be willing to bet that you’ve probably used the words “Florida, gray, wrinkled, and old” before.

Dr. Milton Erickson, generally regarded as the father of modern psychological hypnosis, developed a conversational style of hypnosis that was based on simply talking to people. Erickson was a master, possibly the first person to really incorporate the traditional techniques of hypnosis but use them in a conversational way. He could literally hypnotize anyone just by talking to them, using hypnotic suggestions that bypassed the recipient’s conscious mind and cut right to their subconscious.

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.