Stage 3 is to ‘activate an unconscious response’. At this stage ANY unconscious response is a good response. It does not matter what it is. Now, for the record, what are some examples of unconscious responses?
Well, the classic one is an emotional response. You don’t choose to have an emotion at a particular point in time. It occurs to you as a result of your thinking and your everyday understandings. So, whenever someone’s having an emotional response, you’re having an unconscious response. You’ll notice that people who are particularly emotional – in other words, let’s say something shocking just happened, or someone’s in love – these people are virtually immune to reason. They simply will not reason with you. They will not listen to this idea. This is because they’re already well on the way into a hypnotic process; one in which you are not a hypnotic authority in their world. Once you actually get
the unconscious to respond to you as a hypnotist, you actually have something to work with.
Excerpt from: The Power of Conversational Hypnosis
