Hypnotism

sleepy

Has any one here ever been hypnotised?
I'm intrested in whether there is a link to repetative meetings and book studies and hypnotism.
Hypnosis is defined as a "sleep like state in which people are open suggestion and will act how they are told to."
Can this wok over a long term period , such as the years in the "truth' or only on a short term basis like in a hypnotists show?

How does hypnotism work , or does it work?

Are the Watchtower articles and meetings deliberatly repetative and designed to get stuck in peoples minds?
Or is this just coincidence and the lack of variation due to lack of good material?

FreePeace

Hi Sleepy,

I recently got my certification as a Hypnotherapist/Hypnotist. You raise some very interesting ques-tions.

I firmly believe that the WTS are masters at Hypnotism.

My area is Clinical Hypnosis. I have a website that answers many questions about Hypnosis, http://www.newlifedynamics.com/faq.htm . This should answer some of your questions.

One thing about hypnosis in general is that you cannot be made to do something not in line with your beliefs and values.

Brainwashing on the other hand is prolonged exposure to different beliefs. JW's are conditioned over a long time to believe as they do, and even embrace things such as shunning and blood abstinence that simply make no sense to a rational adult.

Hope this helps. Feel free to email me with any questions.

FreePeace
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radar

Feeling Sleepy ?, then we will begin.

This is the mechanics of hypnotism: Firstly the hypnotist has to overcome a person’s “critical censor”, this is the bit in your brain which says “hey hold on a minute I don’t want to do that”. It is what stops you putting your head in the fire just because Fred Bloggs just did it.
The censor sifts information coming into the brain and allows us to make choices rather than us being just a puppet to every command or idea that comes to us.

How the hypnotist overcomes this, is to get in through the back door so to speak.
He gets an individual to consciously focus on something and while the person is doing this, he then feeds suggestions to the person’s unconscious mind, (you are feeling sleepy) by allowing the hypnotist to do this, the hypnotist voice is slipping through the back door and his suggesting go to the persons brain uncensored, it become like an inner voice speaking to that person.
When the person actually becomes sleepy, then the hypnotist knows his suggestions are getting through, and then can take control of that person’s consciousness.

It is interesting that once JWs accept that the “Governing Body” are the voice of God on Earth today. Then anything that is spoken by “the body”, gets to their brain uncensored so to speak. Automatic obedience follows without question.
So once a person accepts “the truth” he actually is giving his will over to the hypnotists of the “governing body”.

It can be said that all fundamentalists are guilty of this type of control.

larc

FreePeace,

Thank you for a most informative web site. I was particularly struck by the cure rates for different treatment modalities. Your data makes a point that I was trying to get across on two other threads regarding Psychoanalysis. One poster said it was very effective. Another poster said it was very effective with certain conditions. However, they never bothered to state what those conditions were. To me, a 38% cure rate with Psychoanalysis, that takes an average of 600 sessions does not represent, either an effective or an efficient treatment regimene.

wonderwoman77

I have been hypontized 3 times in the past. IT is a great feeling when you are done, you feel like you have slept a whole nights rest, yet you are still able to sleep that night. Yes you can be open to suggestions. I was hyponotized in comedy show at my school, it was so fun though. You know what you are doing, but you do not care, it is like your inhibition has been taken away. The first time I did not go very deep, but the last 2 times, I was much deeper. It is quite fun!

target

I went to a therapist to help me deal with my relationship with my mother and one brother that had inflicted a lot of trauma. She used hypnosis to change the way I reacted to both of them. I was aware the whole time of what was going on. I was able to disconnect from both of them and no longer have overwhelming emotional feelings when I thought about them. A lot like how JWs disconnect from their DA or DF family and friends. It only took a few sessions. And remember, I was AWARE the whole time the sessions were going on and yet they were very effective.

Target

Kristen

Interesting site, Freepeace.

Wishing I was near Port Charlotte Florida