Changing People's Minds (Including Your Own) With Conversational Hypnosis By Marisa Singhnarinaath At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Conversational hypnosis is a method by which you help someone get into a trancelike state and then use conversation to change their point of view about an issue or their attitude or feelings.

You've probably heard of hypnosis before and think of it as something like you've seen on television, where someone is put into a deep trance and then they are suddenly able to remember things that happened to them in the past.

There are actually several different kinds of hypnosis and one of the most interesting for regular people is what's known as conversational hypnosis. This is a method by which, through talking to someone in a trancelike state, you can change their mind or the way they feel about an issue or situation.

The idea behind conversational hypnosis is that everyone goes into trances throughout the day, perhaps when doing something sort of mindless like waiting for a bus, or when doing something that takes a lot of concentration like studying for an exam. If we can mindfully access these trance states we can actually plant suggestions in other people's minds.

This of course is not a simple thing to do. It takes a lot of training to be able to build the rapport with someone that is necessary to get them into a trance state and to properly build on that through confusion and suggestion while they're in the trance state, which is what really allows the suggestion to be planted and the change of mind to take place.

Even if this isn't something you can do yourself without a lot of training from someone experienced in the field, it is a very cool idea that just opens up to us the amazing power of the mind. YOur mind can actually be trained through the power of suggestion to change a long-held opinion, break a habit or even just change your attitude and make you feel more positive.

It's really powerful to understand this and to think about how you can use this power of positive persuasion in your own life. If you think about it, the steps of conversational hypnosis can be used on yourself, though maybe not as dramatically, to change the way you think about things.

Consider how you feel about a particular issue. Maybe you think your life is going nowhere fast. First you build rapport with yourself by stating or writing down everything that you think proves your point of view. Then confuse the issue by turning your current idea on its head. Suggest to yourself that some other idea might in fact be the truth, rather than the ideas you've been holding before.

This trick might not work instantly to change your mind since you probably won't be in a true trance state when you practice this exercise, but doing it consistently every few days can allow you to see that your idea of the way things are isn't the only way of looking at things, and perhaps you've had the wrong idea all along.

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