Many successful people today have borrowed a strategy from the medical community called conversational hypnosis. While usually used in a clinical setting with patients to help them solve problems, this tactic is often used by sales executives, parents and singles to get others to see things their way – whatever that may be.
As Used By Therapists
In a doctor-patient relationship, conversational techniques are designed to get the patient thinking and talking about their situation in a comfortable, non-threatening setting. By starting casual interaction with the patient, the therapist can start to build rapport and trust. By encouraging active engagement in the conversation, the therapist will often guide the patient to make his or her own conclusions that will result in healing or finding a solution to the problem at hand.
When rapport and trust have been established, the therapist goes on to the next part of the technique – distraction. They will distract the patient’s thoughts by asking questions about other things that may seem unrelated to the purpose of the session. Through asking hypothetical questions, the hypnotist will take the current issue off the patient’s mind for the moment and get them talking in more general terms. While the questions may seem unrelated, they usually relate somehow to the final outcome. Based on the answers and ideas presented, the therapist is able to challenge the thinking of the patient and allow them to establish their own conclusions and resolutions to their problems.
Understandably, when a person comes up with their own resolutions through a thoughtful process like this one, their decision is more powerful because it is their own. The therapist didn’t listen to the problem and tell them what to do. But rather, the patient was skillfully guide to the answer and thought it was their own idea and became committed to the solution. Don’t fail to realize how powerful this can be.
Using conversational hypnosis to your advantage…
How successful would you be if you had the ability to talk to someone and make them believe the point you were making – without them knowing you were making a point?
For instance, if you are a sales professional you may have used this strategy with some success. You start by getting your prospect talking and you try to persuade them that they want whatever it is you’re selling. If you think back on successful sales pitches, you might see that some clients just seemed to sell themselves. Whether you knew it or not, you may have used some of these conversational strategies. Imagine if you knew all the tactics and could make this happen nearly every time?
Others have successfully used these strategies in the dating game. Wouldn’t it be better to build a relationship with someone who decided on their own that you were the hottest thing around rather than you telling them it was so? When a person decides something on their own it has so much more power than if someone else tells them an opinion. By the skill of conversational hypnosis, you can convince someone to make the conclusion you want them to and they’ll think it was their idea all the while.
If you think it’s time to stop sitting on the sidelines and start making great things happen for yourself, check out conversational hypnosis training. You can get started right away and learn exactly what you need to do to make things go your way for a change.