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.

Ways of suggesting

One may be surprised but it is common for every one of us to undergo the suggestion every single day of our life. There are a number of ways people suggest to us certain information they want us to believe in. there are a number of ways they suggest to us that information. There are verbal and nonverbal suggestion, there visual and audio suggestion and a number of other suggestions performed by people.

The verbal suggestion is usually performed by people we communicate with: by our friends, our relatives, our parents, our co-workers and so on and so forth. The suggestion is performed through repetitive information they pronounce. Parents, who always say their children to wash their hands before eating suggest this idea to them. Soon, it will be impossible for a kid to eat without his hands washed up.

The nonverbal suggesting is performed through images we see on the bill-boards. It is the poster panel advertising we see every day on our way to our work and on our way home. Those are bright images accompanied with slogans. One way or another every one of us reads those slogans and sees those images. And those slogans and images are stored in our mind subconsciously.

There is also another way of suggesting that is performed by other people. That is the way of audio-suggestion. And that is revealed through the verbal announcements we hear on the radio. You drive your car listening for the radio and in pauses between songs you hear suggestions that tell you that car B is better than all other cars.