Covert Persuasion--why Conversational Hypnosis Doesn't Work

You've almost certainly heard of conversational hypnosis and how somebody can be taught Ericksonian hypnotic language patterns and modify them for the purpose of mastering the art of covert persuasion. Up until a few years ago, conversational hypnosis was one of the most recent trends within the covert persuasion community.

But is conversational hypnosis capable of doing everything it says it can do? Although conversational hypnosis does have some interesting topics in its teachings, we need to go beyond our topics of interest and continue to focus upon the question as to whether or not conversational hypnosis really works. To answer this question, we should briefly consider the male seduction community, because the idea of using hypnotic language patterns to influence people is by no means as new as some covert hypnosis students have been led to believe.

The male seduction community in the beginning began its attempts to seduce women through the use of language patterns that were designed upon the exact same principles as conversational hypnosis is made upon. This means that conversational hypnosis already existed in the form of nlp before it took on its new name. And men failed in their attempts to seduce woman through hypnotic language. This is exactly why the male seduction community quickly moved away from hypnotic language patterns unto different covert persuasion techniques that actually worked.

In fact, you rarely even hear any dating coaches teaching covert hypnosis tactics that consist of hypnosis language patterns anymore, because they just don't work and are too difficult to learn and employ in real life situations. This means that conversational hypnosis looks much better on paper than it does in real life situations where you need to get some real results. It is impossible to take the hypnosis techniques that were invented for therapeutic purposes and apply them to the power of covert hypnosis.

Covert persuasion is, and has always been, on an entirely different level than conversational hypnosis, because covert persuasion was invented in order to equip you to be able to persuade people outside of clinical settings. There is a big difference in using conversational hypnosis in an office to help someone quit smoking from attempting to use conversational hypnosis to covertly persuade someone without them knowing what you are doing.

Conversational hypnosis is based upon the use of words, and yet everyone had heard before that talk is cheap. Words can be resisted, words can confuse people, or people can simply chose not to agree with them. Strategic human behavior, on the other hand, is something that no one can resist because there is no actual message given to them that their conscious or unconscious mind can reject. Non verbal suggestions consist of power, and everybody knows that those who increase in power also rise their social status. For this reason many hypnosis experts are in agreement that the disguised and invisible forms of hypnosis are the most successful resources to get good at covert persuasion.