Exactly right, we’re all hypnotists hypnotising each other constantly. An intentional hypnostist (if you will) knows the tools to get them to a desired outcome.

For example,

A little boy is shopping with his mum and, in his innocent youthful exuberance, wonders off. Mum, scared to death that her child is missing, looks around and spots him by the sweet counter. Mum storms over and grabs him hard by the arm (anchor) and shakes him, putting him into a fearful state, she then drops the post hypnotic suggestion bomb, “You are a bad boy!”

This is an identity statement and the child, in his suggestible fearful state will take this suggestion from his mother, who is already an authority in his world, and internalise it. Mum didn’t say, “That’s bad behaviour” or even better, “I expect better behaviour from you.” She’s now linguistically bound the poor kids very identity in time (past/future) as being bad to the core. Tell him enough times and this will become one of his core beliefs and haunt him until he starts to act it out, probably becoming a top class scally and getting in no end of shit.

All because mum didn’t know how good a hypnotist she was with her son.