The word hypnosis is derived from the Greek word hypnos, meaning sleep…. hypnotism is a means of bringing on an artificial state of sleep to the participant …more accurately described as a state of reduced consciousness while one is a awake.
Frederick Mesmer (c. 1733-1815), a German physician was one of the earliest proponents of hypnotism. His treatments by hypnotism known as mesmerism, popularly believed to be based upon electricity and magnetism, attracted a cultish and fashionable clientele in Paris. It is technically known as Artificial Somnambulism. (Pastor David L. Brown, Ph.D.)
Hypnosis claims to heal depression, cure asthma, and even improve the one’s memory. It is routinely used for curing smoking addiction, motivating one to lose weight, and removing phobias (such as fear of heights and fear of public speaking).
Num 24:15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: 16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
Acts 10:9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: 10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, 11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
Acts 22:17 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance. 18 And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
(The following are excerpts from ChristianHypnosis.org)
It is our desire that through utilizing Christian hypnosis and the powerful prayer-like meditative state of hypnosis, our customers can facilitate rapid change and identify and release unresolved conflicts resulting in major improvements in health, motivation, self confidence, emotional stability, pain relief, creativity, performance levels, habit control, and spiritual strengthening.
We strive to teach believers, and non-believers about the true nature of hypnosis. That it is no different from any other tool that is available in this world. We educate people by exposing myths of hypnosis and encouraging scientific and spiritual research.
Whereas there are Christian counselors available, there is not always a Christian hypnotist available. This site provides an opportunity to have programs that do not include metaphysical beliefs within the hypnosis. Our Christian Hypnosis CDs and Hypnotherapy CDs are the most unique programs on the internet. They combine hypnosis and prayer for maximum results! Choose which program suits you best!
Hypnosis provides the experience that we need to put our conscious and subconscious minds directly in line with one another. This makes it so we feel what we really want to feel.
It is not an unusual state of mind and may feel like you are not in a trance or in hypnosis. For most people they simply feel very relaxed. It is the state of mind you enter into as you pass into sleep every night. It is a very comfortable state of mind. During hypnosis your mind is very open to visualizations and creating a rich sensory experience. The more real the experience becomes in the subconscious mind during hypnosis, the more effect it will have on your waking behavior.
With hypnosis you can bypass the critical factor. The critical factor is what is preventing you from making the change you want to make. It is the subconscious. With hypnosis we give you the suggestions you need to put your subconscious directly in line with the way you want to feel.
What this site is referring to as the “subconscious” is the limbic system of the brain. It is what causes us to have emotions. The good thing is that the limbic system effects all parts of our body. The Amygdala takes in our experience and decides how the rest of the body will respond. This is why we can create virtually any desired feeling or programming through hypnosis. Through hypnosis we give ourselves an experience, that causes our body to react in a positive way. And in hypnosis, the experience is one hundred times as powerful than in our waking state.
Hypnosis is a normal state of mind, one which most people go in and out of every day. Everyone goes into hypnosis. When you are watching a movie that you are engrossed in, driving down a long monotonous road, listening to music that captures a mood or engrosses you, you are in a light stage of hypnosis. We experience hypnosis every day and don’t even know it. When you are in a guided hypnotic trance session, or driving down the road in trance, you have an observer self, which is an actual part of you that is always aware and watching out for you. This observer self has been documented as a credible aspect of our mind, that keeps us safe, even when asleep. It is our primitive protector. During hypnosis you can trust that your observer self will watch over you. This is not a guide or spiritual being. During a hypnosis session you would instantly get up and leave the room if it caught on fire, even if it felt previously that your arms and leg were too heavy to move.
You cannot do anything in hypnosis against your will. You are in no way more susceptible to “evil spirits” with any of the programs on my site. They are totally the opposite in fact. The goal with Christian hypnosis is to maximize the potential within you and align you more with God and His spirit. This allows us to create the good change you desire.
(ChristianHypnosis.org)
Prov 28:26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
This is the deadly mixture that can poison Christians and non-Christians alike. Terminology that sounds scientific or Biblical causes many undiscerning believers to involve themselves in what is portrayed as supposedly neutral innocent techniques. They are subtly seduced to be involved in counterfeit practices and experiences. Just as the serpent seduced Eve, many are led away from a pure devotion to Christ and His Word. (LetUsReason.org)
Prov 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Hypnosis is a mental state of heightened suggestibility characterized by trance-like sleep. The basis of hypnosis is the fixation of the subjects attention upon a gradually narrowing source of stimulation, until he is attendant upon only the directions of the hypnotist. This is variously achieved by repetition of instructions in a low, level voice, or having the subject fix his gaze upon a light in an otherwise dark room. The subject remembers nothing of what he did during the hypnotic period. Certain effects may be suggested to continue after the subject returns to consciousness; these are called post-hypnotic suggestions.
People who underwent hypnotism might graft onto their memories fantasies or suggestions deliberately or unwittingly communicated by the hypnotist and that after hypnosis the subject cannot differentiate between a true recollection and a fantasy or a suggested detail.
(Pastor David L. Brown, Ph.D.)
Deut 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
An ‘enchanter’ and ‘charmer’ are basically hypnotists.
We need to understand that it is a very serious matter to entrust ourselves over to another person, even if we trust them. The hypnotized person comes under the will and bidding of the hypnotizer. Our will is essentially neutralized and can be suggested to believe and do whatever is asked by the hypnotizer. Our control subjugated to the will of the hypnotizer can affect the mind as well as the body. Putting oneself in a hypnotic state is yielding oneself to a vulnerable position.
Some wonder as to whether or not a hypnotist can cause the subject to do something against his will. Many hypnotists claim that the will cannot be violated. However, we often see people do whatever is asked of them no matter how outrageous it is; anything from clucking like a chicken to getting up and singing and dancing in front of strangers. In a hypnotic state one can even be convinced that they are going to be murdered and might kill the other person in self- defense.
What actually happens during Hypnosis is nothing new. It has been used for thousands of years by witchdoctors, and shaman spirit mediums alike. Hypnosis has always been a powerful tool of the occult, even if known by other names. Four ways to get in touch with the spiritual realm quickly is by hypnosis, drugs, meditation, and visualization. Anytime we interfere and change the normal brain pattern we bring ourselves into an altered state of consciousness, and if radical enough, in touch with the spiritual realm. A hypnotist may encourage the participant to enter a light or medium trance, but he cannot guarantee the hypnotized subject from spontaneously entering the danger zone. This is where real and permanent damage can occur. One can experience a sense of being separated from their body, hallucinate, or go into a mystical state similar to those of mystics and meditators.
2 Cor 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
The fact is no one knows exactly how hypnosis actually “works,” and though they may have intentions of using it for good it is still an unexplored area that affects the mind. Some use it for self-healing. The Occultist Edgar Cayce also used self-hypnosis to enter a trance state and diagnose disease and prescribe treatment to patients he never saw, some from far away places. Self-hypnosis can be occultic and just as dangerous as a trance induced by a hypnotist. This is the same state mediums go into to contact the“dead,” or when clairvoyants receive information of events they could not know by natural means.
Just because hypnotists use scientific terminology and have letters after their names does not mean their abilities are from natural phenomena. Most hypnotists do not believe in the occult. They feel it is either latent human power or something undiscovered as yet.
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Subliminal tapes are a way to be hypnotized when one is asleep. Under the background of water rushing and birds singing or melodic music one is taken into a place of tranquility to relax. Up to 100,000 messages are pumped into the mind that is unguarded with positive affirmations such as ‘I am successful’, and ‘I can do whatever I set my mind to’. All this is done while you’re sleeping, and who knows what else is pumped in since their is no government or commercial agency to monitor the messages in this industry. When you pass the conscious mind, which is our protector, anything goes in. We have no protection, there is no critical thinking, no judgment exercised to protect yourself because you are in a passive state. There’s even Christian subliminal tapes of the Bible but this contradicts the very reason for it being written. The Bible says faith comes from hearing, which instead is done when we are conscious. We are to use our faculties in understanding the word. This is what Biblical meditation is, to think on what you have heard or read.
(Let Us Reason.org)
Under no circumstances are Christians ever to blank their minds out in order for someone else to be able to plant suggestions in their own minds – even if those suggestions are positive types of suggestions. (bible-knowledge.com)
Nobel scientist Sir John Eccles said of the human mind that it was “a machine that a ghost can operate.” Millions of people are opening up their minds to “ghosts” (unholy spirits) through altered states of consciousness. Altered states may involve a large variety of subjects — everything from hypnosis and other trance states to possession states (as mediumism and shaminism) to altered states that are characteristically pathological (as in kundalini arousal and shaminism), to direct visualization and imagery, lucid dreaming, drug-induced states of consciousness, meditation and bio-feedback-induced consciousness, and many others. Many cases of temporary and permanent insanity, spirit contact, occult transformation and spirit possession have resulted.
Witchdoctors, Sufi practitioners, shamans, Hindus, Buddhists, and yogis have practiced hypnosis.
Ritual hypnosis and dance were integral elements of shaman’s communication with the spirits.
(Pastor David L. Brown, Ph.D.)
The Holy Spirit works with an active mind, not a passive one. When the Bible says to meditate on God’s word, it means to think about, to chew on, to try and figure out what the different Scripture verses mean. It does not mean to totally blank your mind out waiting for illumination from God. God works best when you are in an active and seeking mode with Him, not when you are in a passive, robotic, zombie-like state.
The Bible says that the Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth. One of the ways that He will do this is by guiding your thoughts into what the correct answers are as you are trying to figure something out. He will also communicate to you through the inner knowing. But these inner knowings will either come in on you while you are thinking about what you are trying to figure out, or while you may be thinking about something else entirely different…. [And, not while you are in a trance, high on drugs, practicing TM, or hypnotized!]
The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 10:5 that we are to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Jesus. This means that we are directly responsible for what we choose to think about and dwell on. This right does not belong to anyone else, including any hypnotist who may want to plant their thoughts and suggestions into your mind.
(bible-knowledge.com)
How many people have the testimony that they became a born-again Christian while hallucinating on ‘Acid’? None? How many of these became tormented by devils? Many? I believe that the Holy Spirit doesn’t operate when someone is in an alterred state of consciousness…but devils sure do.
Eph 4:27 Neither give place to the devil.
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Ps 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Have God search you, not an hypnotist…