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Nothing groundbreaking, but a concise compilation of methods, May 21, 2005
This review is from: Gut Impact: Using Covert Hypnosis to Persuade, Motivate, and Inspire (Digital)
The concept of "Covert Hypnosis" was something I had never come across, or so it seemed.
After reading through this PDF file, it would appear that Covert Hypnosis is simply the rather sensationalist name given to a mixture of conversational techniques born out of NLP and hypno-therapeutic procedures.
The Grinder Bandler book, "Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H Erickson, MD" contains a good half of the content discussed here in "Gut Impact", and I only came across one or two things that I do not remember previously encountering in NLP related literature.
Gut Impact is not a revolutionary system teaching the reader how to communicate on a profoundly powerful level, using "Covert Hypnosis", and in this respect it may be worth only 2-1/2 or 3 stars.
I decided it deserved 4 stars however, because Gut Impact is a well-written, easily understandable and concise collection of direct ideas and applications related to influencing people through gaining rapport and, as the blurb advertises, "bypassing" the natural barriers of a person to talk directly to their "gut".
This book contains nothing really that cannot be found elsewhere by perusing some of the excellent listmania or "So you'd like to..." guides here on Amazon related to NLP. This book does however present some of the more direct and easy to apply methods without the often more in-depth writings and specifics of other works in a "stripped-down" sort of a way making it a useful "no-nonsense" reference or a great place for beginners to start to learn about NLP techniques.
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Very well written, October 23, 2004
This review is from: Gut Impact: Using Covert Hypnosis to Persuade, Motivate, and Inspire (Digital)
Using NLP skills and Ericksonian hypnosis in the area of seduction seems to be a rather profitable business and it has stimulated the emergence of many ebooks that deal with this topic, some of which leave a lot to be desired.
Sexual Key and Gut Instinct by J.D. Fuentes are very well written and I think he should eventually publish them as books.
The books first point out very different ways in which men and women process information and then teach you how to communicate what your outcome in a way that will get through the opposite sex, by "translating" it in the language that will make the other person responsive.
Even though these books are written for men who want to seduce women, the material covered in this book is not limited to those applications. The area of seduction may stimulate one to learn to become a better communicator (lust being a powerful motivating force for men, at least), but the communication skills you develop in the process are transferable to any other area of your life.
Sex and seduction simply add more fun and spice to learning any new skills - even foreign languages - and speaking to the opposite sex may feel as if you've got to master speaking in a slightly different language that you've been accustomed to, to be really understood.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Basic NLP principles well explained, May 12, 2007
This review is from: Gut Impact: Using Covert Hypnosis to Persuade, Motivate, and Inspire (Digital)
This work is a booklet about suggestion and influencing methods. The central idea is to talk directly to the subconscious part of your subject (Gut), bypassing conscious thinking (Head).
For example, you can flood the conscious mind with a series of obvious affirmations which weakens Head and puts it to sleep, and then make a suggestion which goes directly to the subconscious. Total communication is not limited to words - everything matters: clothing, voice tone, power and rhythm, body posture and touch, etc.
Alignment of body, gestures, attitude, and words goes to amplification of the effect (this is internal alignment). Aligning the other (body, gestures, voice, walking, and breathing) is named external alignment and creates an opening useful for suggestions.
The way of talking (especially rhythm) matters much more than the words themselves do.
You can create a whole world in the subject just by using words, and the subject can start living in that world. Suggestions are assimilated easier talking in third person (such as stories) because this way the conscious ignores the talk since is about someone else. People have different sensitivities to images, sounds and movements, so suggestions should be tuned accordingly (a visual person should be served mostly images). People have some values they guide their life upon (NLP names them criteria) - such as strength, power, wealth, safety - and using them in suggestions can greatly increase their effect.
Ambiguities are phrases in which words like "now" can be interpreted more ways (changing punctuation). Subconscious considers them all.
A state in the subject (e.g. happiness, or trust) can be conditioned (flagged) by a gesture (flag), and making that gesture can induce that state in the subject.
Gut Impact touches the subject of human personality classification, presenting two systems: one analytical (Keirsey/Bates/Hermann) and other intuitive (enneagram). Moreover, a complex verbal suggestion example is presented, where the subject's personality is first classified and the suggestions insist on elements which are important to that class.
Most people can be easily suggested.
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