How Do You Know?
Most humans have the experience of falling in love at least once... many of us have had the experience multiple times. Have you, however, stopped to think about how you know you’ve fallen in love?
Awkward Silence
Somehow, awkward silence has gotten a bad rap over the years. Humans fear awkward silence when on a date, in the boardroom, at social events, and most other interactions with other humans.
What’s Your Mission and Why?
A personal mission statement should guide the decisions you make, the beliefs you hold, who you spend your time with, how you behave in private and in public, how you view the world, how you navigate life, et cetera.
How To Create Emotions in Humans
You can say the right words, do the right things, and have the best of intentions, but you will never fully master the art of creating states in another human being until you know how to create states within yourself.
The key to guiding others into the state you want them to feel is going first.
Pattern Interrupted
Recently, I have heard many experts touting the benefits of forming routines. Having the routine of making your bed can be a great way to add structure to your mornings and give you a sense of control and accomplishment to start your day, and it’s nice to pull down the sheets and crawl into bed at the end of the day. Routines can help you stay organized, be more productive, and relieve stress. Breaking a routine, however, can be even more important.
Can You Make Someone Do Something Against Their Will?
This is the most common question that I get asked by far, and I thought I should answer it before you read further. It is not always phrased as “Can you make someone do something against their will?”.
How to Make a Great First Impression
You only have 7 seconds to make a first impression. This impression is not a fleeting thought either; it’s a solid impression of who you are as a human.
6 Rules of Communication
Today, I had a phone conversation with a good friend of mine, and we got on the subject of how much name-calling and hatred is happening on social media as well as in real life (IRL for you acronym junkies).
I’ve always said that social media is like the worst bar you’ve ever been to, and politics and the pandemic have really taken the online circus and real-life communication to new levels.
During our conversation, my friend shared that he had been pondering if the arguing and fighting isn’t simply a battle over who was wrong and who was right but a symptom of not understanding one another.
3 Tips for Having Better Conversations
Being an expert on hypnosis, influence, and persuasion, I am often asked to speak on how to have effective conversations. I am teaching a class on this very subject at a university beginning this week.
Can You Talk During Hypnotherapy? (Video)
Julia from New Zealand messaged me with a question… Can you talk during hypnotherapy?
Yes, you can talk during hypnotherapy. As a matter of fact, you’ve already been doing just that your entire life. Let me explain.
Down the Hypnosis Rabbit Hole
This process that your mind goes through when changing emotional states is hypnosis.
I know… Mind Blown!
What Are Your Beliefs?
Personal Power is the ability that top leaders, celebrities, therapists, authority figures, and even con artists have developed.
Personal power is the ability to move humans (even yourself) to take action
How Ambiguous Can You Be?
In normal communication, it is often important to be specific. To be ambiguous causes confusion and misunderstanding… except when you purposefully want to build a trance within the human with whom you are speaking.
What Women Want
Men rarely take the time to discover what women really want, because they think they already know. When a woman doesn’t want to go out with them, pulls away from the relationship, or finally says “Bye!”, they blame it on the fact that “women are crazy”.
The Moment Between Stimulus and Response
Jumping on social media has always been like walking into the worst bar you can imagine. Humans are screaming at each other, name-calling, complaining, attempting to convince followers of this week’s conspiracy theory, and just being detestable. As of late, it is only getting worse. The boldness that humans have developed online is now spilling over into real life. (“IRL” for the humans who know the lingo.)
Unconscious Questions
Embedded questions allow you to give a command within a question… even though it is not a question!
Unconscious Conversations
The art of communicating with precision and purpose, and the results appear magical.
Indirect elicitation is the skill of getting a desired response from your conversation partner without their conscious awareness.
Not Feeling "Okay" Will Change Your Life
You don’t have to feel “okay”! Not everyone has to receive a trophy. Not everyone is good at everything. There are humans better than you, and you are better than others. That’s OKAY!
Questions Are the Answer
Before you can effectively communicate with other humans, you must learn to effectively communicate with yourself.