Have you ever met one of those smooth talking salesmen who can sell snowballs to Eskimos? Some people just seem able to convince others to do almost anything they want.

Why are some people able to do this and other aren't?

Conversational hypnosis is one way of influencing others by simply talking with them.

What is conversational hypnosis?

Putting people in deep trances like a psycho-hypnotist would do in this office is not what conversational hypnosis is about.

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.

Words you hear infect your subconscious brain just like a virus you get infects your physical body. So if you hang around friends who use constantly use words to express that they hate school, then it is quite possible you will start to feel that way too. Not because you agree with their logical argument, but rather because the words they use to describe their feelings will penetrate your subconscious mind.

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.

You may not realize it, but your subconscious mind is always aware of what is going on around you, as well as inside you. Most of your thinking actually happens in the subconscious, and the subconscious can be influenced by what you say, and by what other people say to you.

Using the right words can affect the way people see the world. What are the right words? Ahhhh, that's the question. But you'll need to wait until the next part of this article to find out. Or of course, you can visit my blog.