Would you like to be able to hypnotize anyone whenever you wanted? Do you think it’s possible to hypnotize anyone and have them change their behavior without them even realizing it? The truth of the matter is that this is not only possible but it’s probably a lot easier than you think. And forget about it looking like traditional hypnosis. There’s no lying down on the couch, no staring at the pocket watch and no counting backwards from 10.

Would you believe it if I told you that this practice of hypnotizing people ’secretly’ or happens all of the time? Now, before you think that there’s no possible way to hypnotize anyone with out the person knowing it,let me clarify what I mean by ‘hypnotize.’ I’m not talking about sitting or laying down in a dimly lit room listening to a soft soothing voice as you drift into a state of total relaxation.

The secret, however, is to be able to do this just by talking to someone while using the same language patterns that work in traditional hypnosis. And this can happen in regular conversations as well as using the written word when communicating with someone. Skeptical? I don’t blame you. But what if I told you that we are influenced by words all of the time, and that many of these words that are ‘hypnotizing ‘ us are happening right under our noses without us even knowing it!

Is it possible to influence the subconscious mind without the conscious mind knowing it? In an experiment developed by psychologist John Bargh a group of subjects were asked to make a four word sentence out of five words as quickly as they could. Try this yourself:

1. throw John gray the ball

2. sunny gray is always Florida

3. learn tricks dogs old wrinkled

Seems pretty simple, right? What’s interesting about this is that when the subjects left the office after completing this exercise, they actually walked more slowly out of the office than when they walked in. Their behavior actually changed as a result of completing these sentences. Why? Because sprinkled throughout these sentence fragments are the words “gray”,”Florida”, “old”, and “wrinkled”.

Now consciously the subjects probably didn’t even pay attention to these words, but subconsciously these words had a huge impact on the way the subjects behaved. They basically put the subjects into a state of feeling old and the subjects responded by acting this out through their slow walk out of the office. (For an excellent resource on how the subconscious is easliy influenced on a day to day basis, check out Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink).

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.

And that’s the power of knowing how to use the language patterns and hypnotic techniques of traditional hypnosis and use them in regular everyday conversations. If you master these skills and learn how to create hypnotic commands that speak directly to the subconscious mind of the people you are talking to, you too will learn how to hypnotize anyone in regular everyday conversations!