Allow me to present some definitions before going right into the big ball game of hypnosis.

Okay so what really is "hypnosis"?

The technical definition is "to bypass the critial factor and establishment of acceptable selective thinking".

We shall elaborate on that some more...

The "critical factor" is an area of the mind that keeps the subconcious mind safe. It prevents it from allowing a far-fetched suggestion to be considered as reality. Let me explain: If I said pigs have wings, your 'critical factor' section would take it and reject it because it doesn't match up with your past memories/information you've stored previously. Conversational hypnosis is an IDEAL technique in order to literally break this barrier the subconcious mind has in place.

When under hypnosis, the "critical factor" part of the mind is bypassed. The things the hypnotist tells you are then put into your subconcious without any problem. At this point, the suggestion is not examined or criticized by the "critical factor" - so it is taken literally. The suggestions you are given will be then taking effect on you (such as feeling as if it's true).

But bypassing this "critical factor" we speak of is not every piece of the puzzle. Very constructive conversational hypnosis also requires the hypnotist to direct the subject into a highly focused state of attention. The "...establishment of acceptable selective thinking" part of our definition today is going to take hold now. Why 'acceptable'? It's simple: you can't TOTALLY control the CORE values and beliefs of someone with conversational hypnosis. So if someone tells you to murder someone, you will not do it if it violates your values. At that point you will 'snap out of it' or just naturally ignore the suggestion. So conversational hypnosis can be very helpful and effective, but when treated poorly, expect poor results.

So tell me about the "conversational" part of conversational hypnosis...

With conversational hypnosis, the subject's attention and focus is still narrowed & you still have to bypass the 'critical factor'...BUT the way it's done is with the subject completely concious and eyes open. The suggestions are enforced into the subject without him/her actually realizing what's taking place! Quite simply, using conversational hypnosis is hypnotizing someone in an unconcious way.

The way this is set forth is by using a variety of non-verbal techniques along with some linguistic ones as well. For effective conversational hypnosis, there must also be some steps to be followed. They are outlined below. Note that each step outlined below doesn't necessarily have to be followed to-the-letter. Some steps can be accomplished quite easily...allowing you to smoothly move along to the next one.

Here's the list of things "to do" when using conversational hypnosis:

1.) Make sure to aquire your subject's attention - from there you must keep the attention throughout the rest of the 'induction'. For you (the hypnotist) to guide your subject into an open frame of mind, you'll need their attention so they'll be open to listening to your 'suggestions' when you perform the conversational hypnosis on them.

2.) Make sure to have rapport with your subject before applying suggestions! Rapport can be defined as relation; connection, esp. harmonious or sympathetic relation: a teacher trying to establish close rapport with students. Easily put, rapport is a feeling of connectiveness two people have for each other based on the quality conversation they may be having (while warming up with each other). So having very nice rapport with someone BEFORE putting forth the hypnotic inductions is important.

3.) This is where the induction of the trance begins. Now is the time where you introduce SPECIFIC LANGUAGE to your subject in order to get them into 'an acceptable mind set' that is LIKE a hypnotic trance, only with his/her eyes open while being fully concious. One thing to consider here is that human beings go into these hypnotic states of mind naturally...all the time! For instance, if an expert on a subject you do not know about is telling you all about it, you would be subject to a level of conversational hypnosis in that you are not critically questioning the information he/she (the expert) is giving you. Things are not questioned critically by humans. This is just naturally a fact. Humans more often than not will take new information and facts as the truth. For example, the news on television is a place where humans take information at face value. Most of the time the information taken in from that source is not watched all too critically. They, in general, take and support what is being told to them as being true and not question it very much. So is the concept of conversational hypnosis starting to make a little sense to you now?

4.) Send suggestions out. This is the part where you take the "code" and install it into their computer chip you want programmed in their brain to stay. There are SEVERAL ways of using conversational hypnosis in such ways that your subject does not realize these suggestions/commands are happening. This is where the true power of conversational hypnosis comes into play. Visit the website towards the bottom of this article for more information into this.