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What are some subtle ways that people manipulate others? How can you make sure nobody uses mind control and NLP techniques on you? If you want to know how to analyze manipulative people, detect deception, and defend yourself from their obscure strategies, this book is for you - so keep reading! Manipulation, targeted deception and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) are the world's most prevalent methods of mind control, used by everyone from sales callers to politicians to media pundits. But upstream of tricks and strategies, it is useful to have clear ideas about relational processes that can transform a normal relationship into a manipulative dynamic of extreme effectiveness. Manipulation is defined as "having control over others by having the ability to influence their behavior (emotions) and their actions so things can go in the manipulator's favor" and "to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means especially to one's own advantage." A manipulator tends to play on others' fears or guilt. Those being manipulated feel pressured, trapped, or angry. NLP is a technique of layering subtle meaning into spoken or written language so that you can implant suggestions into a person's unconscious mind without them knowing what you're doing. Combined with subtle language patterns, leading questions and a whole slew of other techniques, a skilled NLPer can steer the other person wherever he like, as long as the other person isn't aware of what's happening and thinks everything is arising because he has given consent. An NLP person essentially carefully fakes the social cues that cause a person to drop their guard and enter a state of openness and suggestibility. Understanding Manipulation and NLP Techniques is crucial simply so that people can resist its use. All this leads to an obvious question: how to defend ourselves from the manipulative tricks of other subjects? This book will reveal th