Have you ever heard of anything like that?

[Kalashnikova]

Freedom from hypnosis:

One of my typists by the name of Georgia started working with me about a year ago. She is a very Spirit-filled, godly Christian woman. She had one vice that she was trying to quit and that vice was smoking.

A year before we had met and started working together, she had gone to a hypnotist one time to try and help her quit smoking. She was warned by her own mother and a few of her friends not to do this as they did not think that God would approve of her doing this. She went against the advice of her friends and her own gut feeling not to do this and went for just the one visit.

The hypnotist put her "under" in the one session that they had. When she got out and went home that night, she found herself starting to lose her memory ability.

In other words, she was starting to lose her ability to retain and remember things - both short term and long term. Within just a couple of days, she literally lost 50% of her ability to remember things. She could not retain and remember things the way she used to.

She confessed her sin and was delivered.

Have you ever heard of anything like that?

[Iryssa]

Can't say that I've ever heard anything like that before, but as a rule I avoid things like hypnotism that could leave my mind and spirit open to suggestion. There are many other ways to ditch habits and the like.

[MK202002]

I've alway heard hypnotism was not of God, but I've never heard of reprocussions from it, I'm glad she's better now.

Hey, I read about a cold snap in the weather over there, is everyone ok? Was it as bad as it sounded in the papers? I know things get exagerated sometimes.

[OneGenesis]

Did she quit smoking?

[felix]

hello sister,

That is interesting. There is a place where they offer hypnosis treatment around the corner from my parents' store. It provided hypnosis for smoking, weight loss, and other things.

I believe that hypnosis has an affect on you where you are sort of half way into your dreaming and waking state. I think that the conscious and unconscious mind are working at the same time which would greatly interfere with the consciousness. I think this would be some cause as to why she couldn't have short-term memory.

I am sure that hypnosis is very dangerous.

[mikado5001]

hello sister,

That is interesting. There is a place where they offer hypnosis treatment around the corner from my parents' store. It provided hypnosis for smoking, weight loss, and other things.

I believe that hypnosis has an affect on you where you are sort of half way into your dreaming and waking state. I think that the conscious and unconscious mind are working at the same time which would greatly interfere with the consciousness. I think this would be some cause as to why she couldn't have short-term memory.

I am sure that hypnosis is very dangerous.

I have never heard of someone losing memory like that. And if you are dealing with an honest, caring, and certified hypnotist. Than the above metioned problems should not occur. Hypnosis is NOT from Satan. Any more than accupuncture. Accupuncture helped my Aunt quit smoking. And hypnotism helped me to lose some weight. Had I the money to continue. I bet I would have lost more. It was not cheap. And I cold have found cheaper. But it helped a bit. Just my $.02 on the matter. Like medicinal marijuana, the Word of G-d(look at the Inquisition), and chocolate cake. All things can be perverted for ill purpose. Especially when abused. A lot of the TERROR STORIES I have heard about hypnosis are much more fluff than fact.

[Guest Slightly_Deranged]

If she got hypnotised and actually put the smokes down during that time frame, anything is possible, but more so from the lack of the cigarettes than what the hypnotist did. Total loss of concentration can be countered somewhat with wellbutrin- helps keep the mind from racing, slightly. I can quit for 6-8 hrs, but then axe murder comes to mind (redrum redrum), as i'm about to jump out of my skin with eye balls bouncing up and down. I went to a hypnotist once, that was a joke.

Edit

I know of several people who were delivered from smoking, THAT is the only way to accomplish it without heinous side effects. When God takes something, IT IS GONE!!!!!

Edited January 30, 2006 by Slightly_Deranged

[DaniJ87]

I had a lot of information about hypnotism last semester... Apparently, in the studies that have been done, you can get people who are NOT "hypnotized" to do the same things as those who ARE. It was really all a matter of someone allowing someone else to control them. If someone decided before hand, "she can't hypnotize me"... it didn't happen. Also, if someone had been "hypnotized", and a remark was made about how gullible they are, they came out of it right away.

I think whoever is trying to help with smoking cigarrettes with hypnotism, is just trying to get your money. It has been shown in many studies that hypnotism does not offer any benefits for ending addictions, such as smoking, or drinking. However, you could easily be hypnotized, and come to associate a bad flavor or texture with a certain food... and then you wouldn't eat it very much, because whenever you ate it, the bad flavor/texture would come to mind.

hypnotism, though,

1. has nothing to do with the person performing it- it has to do with the openness to suggestion of the person being hypnotized.

2. Being an authoritative person is more influential on someone you are trying to hypnotize, than any other quality affects them.

3. Someone who is hypnotized cannot be made to do anything against their core beliefs.

[Kalashnikova]

No, it wasn't exagerated. we nearly frose to death here. Pray for us. i work with sreet kids and help them. They are having a rough time. Feb. is very cold and It's hard to for me to imagine how I'll survive such bad weather. well, I'll just stand in faith.

I've alway heard hypnotism was not of God, but I've never heard of reprocussions from it, I'm glad she's better now.

Hey, I read about a cold snap in the weather over there, is everyone ok? Was it as bad as it sounded in the papers? I know things get exagerated sometimes.

[Kalashnikova]

I agree.

hello sister,

That is interesting. There is a place where they offer hypnosis treatment around the corner from my parents' store. It provided hypnosis for smoking, weight loss, and other things.

I believe that hypnosis has an affect on you where you are sort of half way into your dreaming and waking state. I think that the conscious and unconscious mind are working at the same time which would greatly interfere with the consciousness. I think this would be some cause as to why she couldn't have short-term memory.

I am sure that hypnosis is very dangerous.