Comments on: Covert Hypnosis Review

By: Kent Montville

Kent Montville — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:04:08 +0000

Maybe this book does help becuase I was totally taken in by the marketing hype describing the book.

First, this book has quite a lot of the shortcomings of many self-published books — rampant typos, grammatical errors and unverifiable testamonials followed by unsubstantiated anecdotes sprinkled with factual errors.

Second, it’s regurgitated, dumbed down NLP for the masses.

Third, the information is dated although presented as “new” and “cutting edge”.

There are many other books on NLP and body language that are a lot more helpful. Don’t buy this book, especially at its inflated price. That’s part of the ploy. If it costs so much it must have the “good stuff” in it, right? Wrong!

I’m just very disappointed to be told that I need to lose weight, grow taller and dress for success to get my subliminal message across to make the sale.

By: A. Eason

A. Eason — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:04:42 +0000

This book is more than a book on covert hypnosis. Master the skills in this book to be an elegant communicator, have a greater, more thorough understanding of persuasion techniques and gain the upper hand in negotiations.
This book is easy to read, easy to understand and follow. As someone who has worked in the hypnosis field for a number of years now, this is THE book on covert hypnosis.
Whatever field you work in, you will benefit from this book. I have followed Kevin Hogans work for a number of years and this book delivers his usual brilliant high standard and is packed with information. Very enjoyable.

By: LEON

LEON — Sat, 21 May 2005 09:05:16 +0000

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.