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!

OK, so how would you actually hypnotize anyone just by talking to them? well, the answer is…secretly! Alright, a better answer would be subconsciously, which for the purposes of this article simply means outside of someone’s conscious awareness.

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.

Does this seem too far fetched to even consider? Psychologist John Bargh developed a simple experiment where he asked subjects to make a four word sentence out of five words as quickly as they could. Give this a try:

1.is a fruit wrinkled raisin

2. good oranges Florida sweet are

3. fur dog old my sheds

Not very difficult, is it? What the subjects didn’t know was that the researchers weren’t really measuring the subject’s ability to finish sentences. What they were measuring was whether or not certain words would the affect the subjects in a certain way. The results of the experiment were that the subjects walked out of the testing room and down the hallway much more slowly than when they entered the room.

what slowed the subjects down, you might ask? Well,according to the researchers, the reason was a couple of words that were hiding in plain site- namely, the words ‘old’, ‘Florida’, ‘wrinkled’, and ‘gray’. It seems that although the subjects were not impacted by these words consciously, subconsciously the words had a totally different effect. The words brought on the feeling of ‘old’ and the subjects (without knowing it or making a conscious decision to do so) acted accordingly and took on temporarily the characteristics of feeling old. Hence the slower pace when leaving the room than when entering.

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.

Now, you might be asking yourself, can you really influence someone subconsciously just by talking to them? And the answer is- absolutely-if you know what you’re doing. The father of modern psychological hypnosis, Dr. Milton Erickson, had mastered the traditional techniques of hypnosis to the point where he could easily hypnotize anyone simply by talking to them. He was a master story teller who could, through the use of stories or metaphors, implant subconscious suggestions or commands.

How hard would it be to hypnotize anyone in a conversation without their awareness? well, if you could engage the ’subject’ and get them to concentrate on one part of your conversation, you could sneak in (using regular everyday words) hypnotic suggestions and commands that would completely bypass their conscious mind. Then you would only have to decide what you wanted them to do and then ‘hypnotize’ them to do it!

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