Conversational Hypnosis is the skill of cleverly communicating with someone’s subconscious mind without them being aware of it. This can be made to manifest itself in the course of what would appear to be a normal conversation. The aim is to change the projected actions of the participant.

 

A typical example is a marketer explaining to the customer how good he or she will be after buying a particular product. A deliberate use of carefully chosen phrases, body language, planned gestures that seem ordinary (eg. pointing a finger in a particular direction) and facial expressions (a frown to the potential customer to express the silent opinion that he or she is making an error) in order to subtly communicate with a person’s intuitive psyche. The goal is to have the subject make their own choice to change their decision.

 

It is a type of hypnosis trying to achieve near mesmerizing conditions in the subject. In conversational hypnosis the participant is innocent of the fact that the hypnotist is either a hypnotist, or hypnotising them.

Conversational hypnosis is an experience not too dissimilar to indirect hypnosis in method but the major characteristic is the act of an individual becoming hypnotised and being a participant in the trance without conscious effort or choice.

 

Conversational hypnosis, similar to Ericksonian Hypnosis, functions through covert and clever means ensuring that the participant reaches more intense levels of consciousness than are affected by the exterior construction of language. It is the idea that the instigator, 'the hypnotist,' can be in command of another individual's actions by gaining an affinity with that person and then putting forward ideas which the subject is not completely aware of the meaning of.