Your subconscious mind should be thought of as a bright 9 year old child. That is the level of emotional maturity we get before ‘Grown Up’ becomes our preferred mask.
I was reading a marketing blog today a friend pointed me to, when I came across this wonderful description of what you get when you grow up, talking about 5 year old Austin…
“You don’t get an evolved, new mature being. You get Austin with fifteen blankets over his head.” Johnny B. Truant
Keep this in mind next time you are suggesting anything to anyone hypnotised or not and talk as if you talking to a bright kid with scuffed knees and loads of kids-smarts. The subconscious is not stupid and does make choices even if it doesn’t reason.
Of course that means when using persuasion and influence the trick is forgetting all the grown up clever stuff and remembering what it was like when you made friends faster than an ice cream disappearing and the whole world was dead simple.
Thinking of people this way is a great way of getting rid of the jitters when talking to someone your adult self says is ‘superior’. And it’s a fabulous way of not having to think up complex intellectual arguments or even harder metaphors or stories. Just keep the language simple and you’ll get through those blankets a hell of a lot easier!
Smiles
Jonathan Chase
