If you are planning to learn conversational hypnosis, one of the biggest factors for its success is building rapport with the person you want to hypnotize.

How did “building rapport” came about to be so important in the art of covert hypnosis?

“Rapport” is actually a small cog in the big wheel in the field of understanding human communication and interaction. The wheel is an analogy for the field of neuro linguistic programming or NLP.

In my previous blog post, I’ve have already explain the concept of NLP. In short, NLP starts off with the attitude of curiosity.

Curiosity leads to role modeling or imitating the experts in any particular field. It is through role modeling we can find out what it was that allow the experts to produce magical results.

It is through role modeling, the founders of NLP discovered the importance of rapport. This was achieved when they did a study on one of the world’s greatest hypnotherapist, Dr Milton Erickson.

When Dr. Erikson was conducting a therapy session, it seems he has the natural ability to create trust with his patient instantly. After studying Dr. Erickson’s sessions, they noticed he is imitating his patient’s movements. That process is now known as matching and mirroring.

Rapport and hypnosis was always defined as the magical and mystical state where the person under hypnosis listens only to the sound of the hypnotist’s voice.

If you are learning verbal hypnosis, understand how rapport makes it work. A new student of hypnosis will find it tough to create rapport with another person at the beginning stage. The only way to be good at it is through practice.

If you want to shorten your learning curve, the only way is to be mentored by an experienced conversational hypnotist. With a mentor, you will make fewer mistakes and save time doing that.

What is Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)?

I asked that question when I was first introduced to it about1 year ago by a friend.

At first, I didn’t think much of it. But after doing some research, I realized many successful people have been using NLP to achieve the results they wanted.

So, what is NLP and how can it benefit us?

As it turns out, NLP has many definitions, as many as the number of people practicing it. Richard Bandler, who is one of the creators on NLP describes NLP as an attitude and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques.

The attitude in NLP is the attitude of curiosity. NLP was discovered by watching and observing experts doing what they did to achieve their desired results.

The curious attitude will ask, how they do that?

What’s going on in their head that’s getting them to produce the results over and over again?

To a lay person, the final results produced by the expert may look like magic. The fact is, any magical results that somebody produces have an underlying structure.

When we find out what that structure is, we can then make that replicable and achieve the same results ourselves. That was the whole idea that launched the concept of NLP.

Now, how can NLP benefit us?

Here’s an example. If you are in the sales profession, think of the most successful sales person in your team or company. How did he become successful in his job?

Have the curious attitude and ask why. Observe him every day. Notice his actions and attitude. You will start to see a certain techniques and patterns.

The concept of NLP is to model the action of the successful sales person with the goal of achieve the same desired results for you.

Can it be really that simple?

Well, there are a lot of techniques involved in practicing NLP. I will write about it in my future posts.

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