It's really true that you can "hypnotize" anyone without their knowledge. This type of hypnosis is called "conversational hypnosis." It's very easy to use and in fact, it's pretty elemental. It can be done so effortlessly, in fact, that you may not even know you're doing it.

Conversational hypnosis can happen by default when you so passionately believe in something that you want your conversational partner to believe in it, too.

In that case, you may be so persuasive and so truly "within" your point of view that you bring the person into your thinking without much resistance from them.

This can be one manifestation of conversational hypnosis. Of course, the reverse is also true, and you've probably been a party to conversational hypnosis as the subject without your knowledge (and maybe without the other person's knowledge, too).

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Let's take a look at how this works...

A hypnotist and psychotherapist named Milton Erickson coined the phrase "conversational hypnosis".

He also established many of its defined techniques. In his day, the popular thinking was that trance states were unnatural and induced, but he disagreed.

He thought that trance states were very natural and commonplace. For example, we often go into a sort of trance state if we are driving someplace we've been to many times before but can't remember how we got there.

You may also lose track of time and lose yourself in daydreaming doing a very common chore you don't really have to think about, too.

Because this type of "trance state" is so natural, Erickson's thought was that formal hypnotist techniques actually went AGAINST the natural state because they instructed or told people to go into a trance instead of simply inducing an already natural state.

In fact, he thought that "directives" such as those used in hypnotism might actually cause someone to resist being hypnotized. However, if these techniques are simply worked into a conversation and the subject is not aware of them, they can be quite effective.

There are several things you'll need to do to get subject to go into "conversational hypnosis."

First, you'll need to establish a connection or rapport with your subject. One of the easiest ways to do this is simply to agree with what that person is saying.

This establishes a bond with your subject and can open up the "hypnosis" connection with them.

For example, you can say, "Yes, I agree that the environment is an absolute mess and that there's nothing that can be done about it anymore."

As an example, you've just agreed wholeheartedly that the environment is a mess and unfixable.

However, what if you introduce an opposing viewpoint into that, seamlessly? You don't actively disagree with what you just said. Instead, you create some confusion by opening up the viewpoint.

For example, you can say, "Do you really think the environment is absolutely in a hopeless state? What if it's not? What if we could do this or that? What would happen then?"

This is often central to this kind of conversational hypnosis. When you do this, though, you also subtly encourage the other person to disagree with your original agreement with THEM.

For example, you can say, "Yes, I agree with you that the environment is SO bad that there's absolutely nothing we can do now, and we should all just give up and die."

By doing this, you confuse the subject and make it impossible for him to take a firm stand either way. This leaves him open to suggestion, which is the final step.

Here, you want to offer a suggestion that embodies what you want the person to agree with you on. For example, you really want the person in question to see that the environment isn't hopeless, can at least be helped, and may even be entirely reparable.

For example, you can say, "I see that you might be thinking that the environment can be helped after all. Is that true?" This opens the door for the person to agree that indeed, there are things that can be done.

In fact, he's temporarily converted atheists into Christians using just this method. In many cases, it should be noted that these behavioral changes can reverse once the conversational hypnosis is over; this is also true of conventional hypnotic techniques.

Nevertheless, conversational hypnosis can very effectively open people up to seeing other points of view, and many people have used it for just this purpose.