By: Jonathan Groves
Submitted: 2011-01-10 16:12:37 | Word Count: 383
Non verbal suggestion not only uses a person's image and reputation as a means to influence and persuade others, it also uses social conditioning to hypnotize people and to modify their decision making processes. Social conditioning takes place when social systems program a person or a group of individuals to adhere to a specific set of social beliefs or standards. When covert persuasion utilizes the processes of social conditioning and combines them into the power of persuasion, this is commonly referred to as social engineering.
The reason why social engineering is so powerful is because it possesses a much larger scope of influence over human behavior than language does. People are influenced by social engineering when conversations are not taking place. They are influenced and sometimes even controlled through the power of social engineering even in the absence of the application of any covert persuasion techniques. This means that conversational hypnosis cannot possibly embody the fullness of covert hypnosis.
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Now, whilst it is true that covert persuasion will use conversational hypnosis if the circumstances are right, it is equally as true that the circumstances seldom permit an opportunity for conversational hypnosis to be utilized. Social engineering techniques never fail because they take advantage of the fact that people have already accepted certain things as being true. When people have already accepted certain things as being true, they can easily be persuaded to take actions that are within the boundaries of what they accept as being true.
Even the existence of conversational hypnosis is in violation to what many people acknowledge as being true because many people have been led to believe not to talk to strangers. This means that the moment a person is approached by a stranger trying to use conversational hypnosis, that the conversational hypnotist has already initiated the persuasion process the wrong way. If they have initiated the persuasion process the wrong way, it goes without saying they are likely to finish it the wrong way.
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