1.Hypnosis is a state of a person. It is an artificially induced state of relaxation and concentration in which deeper parts of the mind become more accessible: used clinically to reduce reaction to pain, to encourage free association, etc.

2.Hypnosis will never heal you from some physical disease, so you can easily forget about statements that hypnosis is a panacea.

3.As for the street-quacks who hypnotize people in order to get their money there is a simple scheme they act according to which. At first they do something in order to attract one’s attention and than something in order to distract one’s attention.

Mass suggestion

It is common for suggestion to be aimed on hypnotizing of a person. As a rule there are two people involved in process of hypnotism. Though, it is not the only possible way of hypnosis. There is also the way of mass hypnosis. It is when a person suggests some thoughts to a great number of people at a time. There is a great number of "hypnotizers" who hold the sessions of mass suggestion.

If talking about the effectiveness of such suggestion, there is no effectiveness of it. In most cases such hypnotizers are people who want to earn a great sum of money and they have chosen the way of mass fraud. They state that they are able to help people and so they gather hundreds of people in some auditorium and start their session. Though, there is no way for such suggesters to perform the mass hypnosis.

Though, the mass suggestion does exist. Moreover, it is constantly performed by means of mass-media. People read newspapers and magazines, they watch TV and TV-news and they percept the information suggested by those, who provide us with that information. Actually, frankly speaking the mass opinion about some political or social event is also a result of mass suggestion.

As you can see, the mass suggestion is not the supernatural phenomenon and it is a common event of our lives. We are being suggested every single day of our lives through watching TV, reading newspapers and so on and so forth.