Is it Possible to Use Covert Hypnosis to Reach My Goals?

If you really want to do something badly but you always seem to be "stuck," not quite sure how to get there, and not quite sure what to do next, the problem could very well be your subconscious. Hypnosis has proven to be very helpful to people who want to break bad habits, reach goals, and be successful. Covert hypnosis or so-called "street hypnosis" is yet another way to do hypnosis.

Of course, done in a conventional sense, hypnosis is a sort of "agreement" between you and the therapist that you are going to be hypnotized specifically to overcome whatever roadblocks you may have.

Covert hypnosis, sometimes also called "conversational hypnosis," works differently. It's usually done without the hypnosis subject's knowledge. In fact, it would probably not work nearly as well if the subject of the hypnosis knew what was going on! That is, the subject of the covert hypnosis or the conversational hypnosis has to be unaware that he or she is undergoing this particular form of hypnosis in order to have it work.

That's because it works on a sort of "manipulative" basis. That can mean either positive or negative manipulation (positive manipulation can help you overcome a bad habit, while negative manipulation can make you buy something you neither want nor need). Done right, though, if you engage in covert hypnosis as a means to try to help someone overcome his or her roadblocks, it can be a very beneficial way to provide help to someone who really needs it, in order to be a success.

Here's how it works. Say you've got a friend who's got lots of great ideas, seems gung ho at getting a business going, but then can never seem to follow through. She is absolutely stymied as to why things get stuck in this way. You can see that the problem is really low self-esteem rather than lack of smarts or initiative. When the going gets tough, in other words, your friend gives up because she simply thinks she doesn't have it in her to do it.

You know better, so you want to help your friend increase her low self-esteem. That, you know, will help her be successful. So through covert hypnosis, you begin by absolutely agreeing with your friend when she says, "I'll never make anything work!" By absolutely agreeing with her (establishing rapport), you throw her off balance (create confusion), which gives you the ability to implant a suggestion while she's off balance that she can actually succeed.

What if it's you, though? What if you don't have the ability to break through some particular roadblock you've got? You know about covert hypnosis, but obviously, you can't practice it on yourself.

The solution is rather simple. Have a friend practice it on YOU. For example, if you've gotten someone out of the doldrums and onto a better life by doing covert hypnosis on him or her, eventually, you may just break the secret of why that was so successful. If you do, you can train that friend in the ins and outs of covert hypnosis, and then be the subject yourself during casual conversations.

Now, here's the thing. You're not going to entirely be unaware that any kind of hypnosis is happening, likely, when your friend is practicing it on you. After all, you're the one who taught it to her. But it does help even so to see things from another viewpoint, so that you can break free of your roadblocks and get on to your own success.

The author of this article became interested in covert hypnosis techniques and NLP since he was 16 years old. Now he creates a site dedicated to this passion, which he called The Magic of Covert Hypnosis, where you can find different interesting sources, among the other things a 3 audio tape hypnosis/covert hypnosis course for free. He wrote many different articles on this subject, we can recommend you to read his article about Leadership and Covert Hypnosis.