Subliminal Persuasion - What Is It?

Although subliminal communication is not something that most people are aware of, it is a form of communication that virtually everyone will have been influenced by at some time or another.

Natural Forms of Subliminal Communication

Here is an example that you might be able to relate to of subliminal communication.

No doubt you have been amongst a group of people who are chatting and you were listening to the conversation. You may join in the conversation occasionally by offering your opinion or relating examples of your experiences to the group.

Then you say something to the group, only for one of the other members of the group to declare I have just said that! You realise that you have repeated what someone else has just said. To cover your embarrassment you might add that you didnt hear it being said at the time.

Of course the opposite of the above example of subliminal communication can happen too. On this occasion you say something to the group and then another person, a second or two later says the exact same thing. They also protest saying that they never heard you say those words.

Intriguing isnt it that this happens? On both these occasions, both people, you and the other person, said that you never heard what the other had said. This, being unaware of what was said is true in an interesting way.

The excuse used for repeating what had been said, I didnt hear you is true from a point of view of conscious hearing. You see in these examples, both never consciously registered what was said. In fact it could be argued, both you and the other person were deep in thought, daydreaming or in a trance. A hypnotherapist may well suggest that you were both momentarily in hypnosis.

Whatever your opinion is, it is true that those words were not heard by the conscious mind. However they were heard by the subconscious mind. Later on when the conscious mind was thinking of something to say the subconscious mind delivered forward the words that had just been uttered by someone else.

Recognising that those words were relevant to the topic of conversation the conscious mind used them in the form of speech.

The word "subliminal" means below consciousness.

This is an excellent example of how the conscious mind can miss some communication and also how the subconscious mind will be sensitive to it. This is often what a hypnotherapist will aim for with their suggestions in a normal hypnosis session. To bypass the conscious mind and to encourage acceptance of positive suggestions in the part of the mind that needs to make a change; the subconscious mind.

This is the same idea that can work so effectively when used in a subliminal cd. The subliminal cd will include words and suggestions specifically targeted at assisting the listener to change. The words used in a subliminal cd may be masked by music or sounds of nature or a more modern breakthrough is to use speeded up speech called a Whisper Subliminal.

The conscious mind cannot comprehend the speeded up speech in a Whisper Subliminal and so those suggestions bypass the conscious mind. The subconscious mind is vastly superior and more able to pick up communication in its different forms. The positive subliminal messages for change reach the best place for them, the subconscious mind and the listener notices changes in behaviours and habits with repeated listening to a subliminal cd.