Don’t cults use hypnosis to bring people in?

A. Unfortunately, yes, they do.  Hypnosis is a very powerful tool for good and, unfortunately, it can also be used as a manipulation tool for bad reasons.  Many cults or religions use what can only be described as hypnotic techniques to bypass a persons’ critical faculties and bring them into their group.

There are many approaches which they use, including:

  • suspension of disbelief, as if the one at the top knows all
  • inculcation of new beliefs
  • showering with love to start with and excluding if you then start asking questions
  • coercing you to drop any and all friends outside the group
  • special words or phrases to describe those on the outside
  • repetition through sermons
  • hymn singing or chanting
  • rituals to reinforce beliefs
  • repetitive drumming or dancing
  • fasting or going without sleep for long periods
  • sweat lodges
  • twisted logic ‘you need to be inside with us to know about us’
  • a structure which restricts information to only those that are at ‘the next level’ edge.

There is a very informative site by Rick Ross, www.rickross.com in which you will find a vast array of useful information about cults, religious groups and various other self-awareness or human-potential movements.

I would recommend that if you or someone you know has been approached by any groups that you are unsure about, then type that groups name into the search facility at www.rickross.com and check for any information about them.

Many people have suffered emotional and financial destruction by joining up with groups that appeared well-meaning but had a very manipulative approach.

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can be applied to help overcome many conditions.  If you want to contact me to discuss your situation or to make an appointment, my telephone number is 07563 674275.  Alternatively, you can send me your details using the contact form on my website and I will then contact you.

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Helen Keller

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Will hypnosis help me to forget something?

A.  Perhaps what might be more useful is that hypnosis could help you to reduce the influence that old thoughts and memories have on your current and future life.  This can be analogised to turning down the volume of a television set and re-setting the picture from something being received by a modern, crystal-clear HD digital colour set to that of an old fuzzy black and white television from the 1960’s.

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can be applied to help overcome many conditions.  If you want to contact me to discuss your situation or to make an appointment, my telephone number is 07563 674275.  Alternatively, you can send me your details using the contact form on my website and I will then contact you.

Why do hypnotists always say ‘close your eyes?

A.  Whilst you do not need to close your eyes for hypnosis to be successful, if you do close them then you will find it easier to focus your mind inwards and then the subsequent steps in the process of the hypnosis session will flow easier for you.

Also, the muscles around your eyes will relax naturally as the rest of your body relaxes and holding them open when the rest of your body is relaxing seems unnecessary for most people.

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can be applied to help overcome many conditions.  If you want to contact me to discuss your situation or to make an appointment, my telephone number is 07563 674275.  Alternatively, you can send me your details using the contact form on my website and I will then contact you.

How does hypnosis differ from other alternative therapies

A.  I strongly believe that all alternative therapies offer significant benefits for their users.  However, hypnosis, because it deals directly with the unconscious mind where all our beliefs, thoughts and memories are stored, offers the fastest and most effective way of making permanent changes to our lives.

Sometimes a client will come to me after having spent quite a while using an alternative therapy to keep their problem or issue at bay.  After a short period of hypnosis, perhaps over a few sessions, they can at last be free from the underlying reason behind their problem once and for all.
Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can be applied to help overcome many conditions.  If you want to contact me to discuss your situation or to make an appointment, my telephone number is 07563 674275.  Alternatively, you can send me your details using the contact form on my website and I will then contact you.

Is there a particular voice that a hypnotist has to have?

A.  Not as such. It’s more important that a hypnotist has good skills with inflection, pace, timbre and suchlike.  They need to be able to recognise how their client is responding to their voice and alter its pitch and pace to ensure they deliver their words in the manner appropriate for their client.  A soothing voice will offer more flexibility than one that is not relaxing to listen to.  Since the client will be listening with their eyes shut for most of the session it is important the hypnotist projects confidence in their voice otherwise their nerves will show through and their client will not derive the greatest benefits.

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can be applied to help overcome many conditions.  If you want to contact me to discuss your situation or to make an appointment, my telephone number is 07563 674275.  Alternatively, you can send me your details using the contact form on my website and I will then contact you.

Why are hypnosis and hypnotherapy so powerful?

A.  Hypnosis and hypnotherapy allow the hypnotist and the client to identify specific thoughts, memories and associated beliefs around whatever it is that is causing their experiences in the here and now.

By enabling the beliefs associated with those thoughts and memories to be revised or new beliefs to be incorporated, significant and permanent change in the way we think can take place.

We all hold core beliefs and then future events are coded to support what we believe as true.  However, once we are able to change these beliefs we can change our lives.

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can be applied to help overcome many conditions.  If you want to contact me to discuss your situation or to make an appointment, my telephone number is 07563 674275.  Alternatively, you can send me your details using the contact form on my website and I will then contact you.