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Hypnosis for Christians: Good or bad?

Hypnosis itself is neither good nor bad. Used wisely, it can help Christians as much as non-Christians to break bad habits and improve themselves. There are many accounts in the Bible of saints of God entering trance-like states that parallel self-hypnosis.

Christians, like non-Christians, can benefit from hypnosis. In itself, hypnosis is neither good nor bad. Neither right nor wrong.

You can use a knife to cut your food, or to kill someone. Similarly, you can use hypnosis to build self-confidence, lose weight, and have a tooth out without anaesthetic and without pain. Or you can use it in voodoo rituals to scare people and make them susceptible to occult practices.

But you also may be taking medication that you may not know is derived from plants that jungle shamans and medicine men have used for centuries in non-Christian spiritual healings. Many of the largest pharmaceutical companies have worked side by side with shamans to find ingredients that the shamans have used in healing. Do we refuse to take life-saving drugs because their roots are in sorcery? Of course not.

Informed Christians rarely take a stand against hypnosis these days (except against its use in stage shows, the occult, or voodoo-style practices), because the benefits are so well documented. A Harvard study showed that hypnosis helped broken bones heal faster and also that women who had breast surgery recovered much more quickly after hypnosis.

Those who strongly oppose it have failed to document examples to prove their case. Some opponents even use bad logic by saying that because we can't explain how hypnosis works then it must be bad. Can they explain how their thought processes work? How planes fly? How bees make honey? Perhaps they should ban thought, air travel, honey products, and everything else they don't understand.

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