Created on: December 14, 2006 Last Updated: March 04, 2007
How the Masters Seduce
Their Customers with Word Power
to Make Millions!
It's amazing just how powerful words are and how little we recognize there enormous power to influence us. Scientific research, over and over again, validates the power of words to seduce our every action.
In the minds of children words can surface in later years, bringing with them scars of horror or bliss and happiness and all the while not knowing there origin.
John Steinbeck's observation was as he wrote: "These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well."
Unquestionable published research, in journals, technical papers and the indisputable proof found in sales and marketing, show that words have tremendous power. Why then do we find it so shocking that the average person has little understanding of how they impact our thinking and actions?
You are about to discover, in this article, the power of words and move beyond popular misconceptions about hypnotic communication.
Deeply embedded in the minds of many people is the notion that hypnotic communication is cleverly concealed in the body language of a person as if they were swinging a magical gold watch to get someone to go into a trance. Unfortunately conceptions or misconceptions are equally among the well-educated as with the uneducated.
Many unsuspecting people are exposed to communication techniques that are clearly structured in the exact same way hypnotists use to put their subjects into an alter state of mind.
For the unwary listener the communication may or may not have the rhythmic sound or monotone a hypnotist would use.
Nevertheless they get charmed into the offering of the communicator. Other factors such as confidence, voice, and body language play a major role in influencing others however, as you will read, the real power comes from words and how the words are strung together.
As you move beyond the sensationalism, experienced while watching a movie or a television show, you'll discover that every day words strung together have power - both fascinating and frightening.
Leaving all disagreements to the experts, about the perfect definition of hypnosis, there is little to argue about as to the structure and key components.
You could say that all communication is hypnosis. Arguably however, all hypnosis is communication and communicating a message hypnotically bypasses
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