Hypnosis is a natural and common occurrence and it happens one faces it almost regularly. All of us go in and out of hypnotic trances throughout our day. These trances are generally well intend and are pretty harmless, but there are some people who drive others in to a hypnotic state just so that they can forcibly convince others to buy something that they would not buy under normal circumstances.

You would probably wonder who these people are that uses hypnotism as tool. The main culprits are actually those of the media, the advertising agencies, Governments and those who push their opinion onto others. No advertisers exist to be welfare agents. Their entire existence center on the premise, that their advertisements will affect the choices that you make regarding purchases of products. Their marketing campaigns are directed towards making the public purchase their clients’ products regardless of whether you require it or not. Governments too also use the media to showcase and pushes their policies onto the electorate. A good example is the current presidential campaign that is going on in the US. Ever notice how advertisement heavy the campaigns are and as well as how emotionally charged those advertisements can be? Why do you think that this is so?

The majority of the advertising campaigns are planned very carefully. Market researches are done to see what factors influences a consumer more and the data collected are then incorporated into the advertisement. They are designed to make you buy and item or at the very least be influenced to want to buy. This is the darker side of hypnosis. We are influenced to be affected by material things rather than spiritual well-being.

With respect to News, in fact, they are meant to inform us about the latest events that are happening around us. However, today, this is no longer the case. No longer are news related to the daily affairs which affects the nation, or us they are now more infotainment. These are designed to inform and entertain as the same time making us wanting to watch the news for the entertainment sake.

The truth is that good news is boring. You cannot hear to a happy story through out the day. It is more interesting to hear a story that goes like a happy man leaving for his job and then getting abducted by terrorists and it would make it all the more interesting and hypnotic if we add that meantime his wife lost her sanity and committed infanticide.

This is the darker aspect of hypnosis.

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