Have you ever met somebody who seemed to be able to convince anybody to do anything, just by talking to them. You know, like the salesman who can sell ice to Eskimos?

How are these incredible persuaders able to do this?

One effective way of persuading others while talking to them is by using conversational hypnosis

Let me tell you what conversational hypnosis is.

Conversational hypnosis is not about placing people in deep trances, like a professional hypnotist would do in his office.

What I mean is using language that distracts or gets past the persons conscious mind so you can speak to or make suggestions to the persons subconscious mind. When you speak to the subconscious, you are using conversational hypnosis.

One of the best at doing this is a guy called Robert Dilts. He calls this kind of language sleight of mouth. He says that language is really a map of our world, and that no two people live in the same world. (Deep, huh?)

What he means is that every person sees the world in a different way, and they use language to both talk about their world (describe it), and to actually create their world.

So basically, what Dilts is saying is that when you talk about something in a certain way, you actually begin to think about that thing in that way. For example, if you are always saying things like, I hate school then you will hate school. You are actually making yourself hate school by saying you hate school.

So how is this connected with conversational hypnosis?

Similar to how you created the reality of hating school by merely talking about it, you will influence other people to hate school also by speaking to them in this way.

Have you ever heard the phrase attitudes are contagious? Well, they are. And one reason they are is because the words people use both make and reflect their attitudes.

Remember how your parents used to freak out if they thought you had the wrong friends? Well, there maybe something to that. If you hang around friends who think a certain way, the words they use will carry those attitudes like a virus into your subconscious and literally start infecting you to think the same way. For good or for bad.

This is because words are powerful! One of the reasons words are so powerful is that the subconscious mind soaks them up like a sponge.

Your subconscious brain is very aware of what goes on around you. In fact, most of your thinking happens there. The subconscious mind can be influenced by what you and others say.

Someone’s world can literally be changed by hearing the correct words. And what are these words? For that you’ll need to read the next part of this article, or visit by blog to find out.