The truth is that one is usually hard work and the other – well the other just happens.

Persuasion means using reasoned argument and supplying facts to create a change of thinking in the brain of the respondent, the person being persuaded. The persuader has to convince them that whatever it is they are selling or promoting is the right thing and they need to cajole and urge. Everything they do is pre-thought and done consciously and with deliberation. Which of course means you have to keep doing it because those persuaded to get what you have will soon lose interest if you stop ‘working’ on them.

Influence however is a completely different beast. People of real influence don’t have to ‘do’ anything. Influential people are just that. They don’t need to persuade because everything they are brings in people ready to accept their stuff and to ask to get more. True an influential person can steer those who are in their influence but this happens easily and without effort. Yes this often uses persuasive language and facts and such but it’s done from a position of acceptance rather than one of reticence so you only need to do it once.

The silly thing is that it’s way harder to become a persuader than an influencer. To persuade you need to get to as many people as possible and change their minds. To become influential you need to focus yours and wait for those who think like you to find you.

This video has been watched by over a quarter of a million people on YouTube alone. It is what you see.

The full story was Mike – the Victim – was bet by Andy a fellow attendee at a class I run in Wolverhampton when camcorder were still called video cameras and had a handle to turn on the side… – that he could be hypnotised even if he didn’t want to be…..

Mike took the challenge, said he could ‘resist me’ and the game was on!

Initially of course for the rest of the morning coffee break I was using the simple persuasion and influence techniques I teach in the Svengali System so preparing the way as it were and I’d built amazing Awe rapport with Mike.

Now remembering that hypnosis is the acceptance of suggestion Mike’s barrier is broken by the simple direction to “Sit’n Relax.” I then use a pattern interrupt, that’s anything that throws the conscious off balance, by looking at the class and announcing, “See? Got him!” That is a not embedded command to his subconscious. The rest is very easy.

Basically all I have to do after that is stare at him and wait for him to go under. I do silently ‘suggest’ his eyes closing by closing mine slowly instead of blinking. However he begins to giggle as he feels himself entering hypnosis for two reasons, the main one being he knew he was losing his bet, the other was he simply enjoys being zapped!

I ignore this and he stops and goes into a total state of gone out fascination just staring at me but that is crap for the camera so I said something like, “That’s right, sleep!” And tap him on the forehead, that’s when he drops his head forward and again laughs.

Anyone who tells you that a hypnotised person shouldn’t laugh or cry or even burst into song if they feel like that hasn’t hypnotised enough people!

Tomorrow I’ll put up the video most people don’t go on to watch, especially the ones who have said this is fake and that I am a fraud. You’ll see Mike is an excellent somnambulist and a damn good hypnotist to boot.

That evening, the first on the training, he went out before dinner with two other guys in the class, Andy an Army Nurse, and Max, who was from Russia and swore he was a lawyer but we all KNEW he was KGB! Any way they went into a pub and hypnotised two young ladies they’d never met before in that noisy environment using the methods they had learnt that day.

I just love it when a plan comes together!

Make today an awesome day!

Smiles
JonC

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Jonathan Chase

In the “Svengali System” I go into much more detail as far as technique is concerned but the bottom line is really simple.

Hide it right out front and just do it.

Don’t expect full blown trance, it’s too much trouble and you don’t need it. Go for a moment of distraction and or fascination which happens best when your targets are talking about emotive things.

Now some people claim if it isn’t trance you are not doing hypnosis it’s NLP. The fact is that the workable stuff in NLP is hypnosis, that’s where NLP came from in the first place. NLP models hypnosis not the other way around. “Trance” is a by product of hypnosis not the thing itself and real hypnotists have been using suggestion forever without trance.

In my experience that sort of hypnosis happens all the time. No, not when you are day dreaming or distracted, it’s when your subconscious takes over all together and it can be directed and steered there to the point that you just don’t consciously know it.

Creating what I call Momentous Moments, that’s moments when we pick up our beliefs which lead to our behaviours which lead to our perceptions…. creating those moments is very easy with a bit of practice. You can create this simply by repetitive tapping at a level almost inaudible, or by using questions with a repetitive theme – that’s how advertising works. And then at the right moment pop in the suggestion – which is the true art of hypnosis anyway.

Is it that simple? Yes.

Is it hypnosis? If that’s your intent then yes.

Will it be covert? If they are not a hypnotist they won’t notice.

Will it sell more Coke? Of course it already does!

Is it ethical? Well everyone manipulates and controls, influences and persuades anyway so I guess that’s down to the intent behind your using these skills.