January 2, 2009

How Covert Subliminal Signals Can Help Your Get Your Way

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The art of persuasion is exactly that - an art that has to be mastered and understood before it can be successfully applied. This is not a by line to begin your course to tricking people into believing what ever you want to them. This isn’t mind control. This is using the faculties that you already have on hand and some nuances as well as a good sense of perception to see change in behaviours and predict people’s reactions to what you’re saying to them. The messages that you exude - even something as basic as your posture affects people on a subconscious level - and can actually influence the likelihood of them seeing things your way - in layman’s terms; how to persuade people using covert subliminal signals.

Posture, like mentioned before is an extremely important subliminal signal. These are the messages that you deliver to someone even before you open your mouth. Your posture can spell confidence, arrogance, a happy disposition and can make you see either open, friendly, successful and confident or even closed off and unfriendly. By posture alone a person can assume what kind of a person you most likely are, and based on their perception of you they can already decide if they want to listen to you in the first place. Putting your hands in your pockets, keeping your chin up and stiffening your body gives the impression that you are arrogant, closed off, think highly of yourself and unfriendly. Try to appear less closed off, be more relaxed and confident in your posture by seeming at ease with the person, show a genial and open expression to show that you have nothing to hide.

What about clothes? You’re right. What you wear and how you wear it is also a powerful subliminal indication of the type of person that you are, and ultimately how successful you’ll be in persuading people. Imagine a confident person who is dressed well - dressed in a way that gives the impression that he is a neat, well kept and successful person. This lets most of people’s guard down, opens the mental state of people for greater acceptance and be easily persuaded.

The last aspect of this bag - while not limited to is of course the speech factor. Words are extremely important and the direct, and indirect messages that they carry can influence anyone and give you the power of persuasion. This normally must be combined with an ability to read people and their posture. Strategies must be changed when you see people being unreceptive to the messages. Reassess the things you’re saying, make subtle alterations to the ideas you’re trying to get across so they’ll be more receptive to them, vary the inflection in your voice and the emotions you portray.

Of course this is not an entirely comprehensive manual on how you can better persuade someone. Subliminal psychologists all over the world agree that the five senses, touch, smell, etc all come into play when you try to persuade someone. What you do, what you say, what you wear and the right kinds of actions like a light touch or a firm handshake at the same time are all subliminal signals you send out to the person in front of you - signals that sculpt an image of character in their minds - character that gains you trust, trust you can use to your advantage and of course only for good.

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