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If you are interested in learning covert hypnosis then you absolutely must master the art of pacing and leading in regular conversation.  When I talk about pacing and leading in this article I’m specifically referring to the use of language, as opposed to the body pacing (mirroring/matching) that you lean in NLP.  I’m talking about pacing current experience. 

When you make statements that pace somebody’s current experience you create rapport, and you create unconscious agreement.  Here’s an example of pacing YOUR current experience:  You are reading an article about covert hypnosis.  The font size is suitable for many people, but some people like it larger and some people prefer smaller fonts. 

All I did was to give you a statement that was true.  That is pacing.  Now let’s talk about leading.  When you think about covert hypnosis, you are probably interested in knowing how to lead people. After the end of this post come back and re-read that sentence.  You’ll see I used leading right there.

Leading is where you make a statement that you want the other person to assume is true.  You want them to associate it to the previous pacing statement in an unconscious way.  You want their brain to think in terms of a cause and effect relationship between the pacing statements and the leading statements. 

Here’s a complete example: You are reading an article about covert hypnosis.  You’ve read several paragraphs now, so I know that this topic is quite interesting to you.  It’s interesting to a lot of people.  As you continue reading this blog, you’ll begin to notice that you can learn a lot from me.  You might start to look for ways that you can accelerate your learning of covert hypnosis through books.  Or even better, you might look for audio courses that you can purchase online.

I hope you see the beauty of this technique.  The first two statements in the above paragraph are truths.  The third statement is an assumption based on the two truths, and it will be deemed true by most readers.  The rest of the statements are leading statements.  The brain will unconsciously associate the leading statements to the pacing statements and this will cause them to be true in the readers’ mind.  

To use this tool you must start by understanding where you want to lead your subject.  Once you know the answer, you must simply pace their current experience and morph the verbal comments that you make into leading statements.  We’ve almost come to the end of this article.  The tool is very simple.  As you think about the simplity of the tool, and realize that it can be incorporated into everyday language, you can wonder where you’ll try it out in your own life.  The astute readers noticed that the last sentence was anothe pace and lead.

Covert hypnosis can be a lot of fun and the tools are simple, but require plenty of practise.  Stay the course.  Have fun.  Start using this stuff.