An effective conversational hypnosis skill is to talk about many things and direct the listener's mind into a deep trance. If you get them to focus on 10 different things you'll find your covert influence skills will naturally increase.

There are many ways you can induce trances states in people and the handshake inductions are some of the more dynamic methods. Now you can add to your hypnotic induction bag of techniques with these elegant ideas from masters Erickson and Elman.

Do you have a behaviour you would like to change?  Do you want to get more control of your life? With NLP Six Step Reframe, you can discover new, more successful behaviours to help achieve goals and change your life.

Clinging on to the comfortable and being afraid of the unknown can be put the breaks on any goal you've set. Letting go will liberate you and help you get control of your life.

Here's a great NLP technique for sport, business, indeed any goal you'd like to achieve. Personal excellence depends on resourceful, excellence states. The circle of excellence will help in anchoring those states in to a performance you'd like to ace.

Trance states aren't special states... they happen to us quite often. Use this fact about hypnosis to induce hypnotic encounters naturally.

Belief change techniques centre around the idea that we create maps of reality. The fact that the map is not the territory means we are more than we think we are.

Creating a vivid sensory experience can have profound hypnotic effects. Overlapping representational systems is a powerful way to send someone into trance  and can be used to great effect in conversational hypnosis contexts.

Because people love reasons...! Communicate better and develop better coaching skills by using the word "because" to tell stories.

These are one of the best NLP language patterns are they not? Develop better language skills fast through the use of tag questions.

A soothing voice tone can make people feel good, relaxed and help them drift off into relaxing trance. Whiny, train-crash voice tones have the opposite effect. Voice tone flexibility can help you communicate better and enhance your conversational hypnosis skills.

Here's a great NLP technique for sport, business, indeed any goal you'd like to achieve. Personal excellence depends on resourceful, excellence states. The circle of excellence will help in anchoring those states in to a performance you'd like to ace.

Stacking realities, i.e. looping stories with stories within stories will lose the conscious mind and render the unconscious mind of the listener more suggestible. Stacking realities is a great conversational hypnosis tool combining the best of overloads and pattern interrupts.

When doing hypnosis, give someone a nudge in the direction you want to go. That's right...

Who says??? Judgements and statements often lack a reference. Without a reference how can you verify the rules, laws and judgements that limit your behaviours and emotions? Develop better coaching skills with this profound insight. 

Needs, neccesity, rules and regulations govern the experiences we have and therefore don't have. Knowing how to properly challenge necessity viewpoints is necessary if you wish to get control of your life and develop greater personal excellence.

Think you can't? This clip may help you to think again and move beyond the limits that only exist in our minds. Would removing the roadblocks to success be a useful insight for you?

Effective conversational hypnosis begins with setting up a communication channel with a person's unconscious mind. This can be done easily with a combination of story and gesturing...