Diet and hypnosis

[Little_Mary]

There is a set of CD’s you can buy to use at home that can hypnotize you to stay on your diet.

Is that OK?

 

[stayathomemom]

Little Mary,

I am not sure if it is ok to use hypnosis (I don’t see why it wouldn’t be ok), but I lost all of my pregnancy weight after having 3 kids. I did it through proper diet and exercise, and ALOT of determination. It was 70 lbs total that I lost, so if you are interested in my “secrets” instead of hypnosis, feel free to PM me at anytime. I’ll give you a great pep talk!!!

 

[Little_Mary]

stayathomemom:

Little Mary,

I am not sure if it is ok to use hypnosis (I don’t see why it wouldn’t be ok), but I lost all of my pregnancy weight after having 3 kids. I did it through proper diet and exercise, and ALOT of determination. It was 70 lbs total that I lost, so if you are interested in my “secrets” instead of hypnosis, feel free to PM me at anytime. I’ll give you a great pep talk!!!

Thanks stayathomemom. I might take you up on that!

Stay safe from hurricanes!!

 

[puzzleannie]

why don’t you record some CDs it sounds like you have a market here. good work, mom, you are also teaching your kids healthy habits.

 

[TridentineFan]

I don’t know the Church’s position on hypnosis. I remember from my evangelical Protestant days that hypnotism was deemed dangerous because it opens the mind to whisperings, it makes the mind vulnerable. Satan and his demons are real, are around us, and cannot insert thoughts into our brains but can “whisper in our ears.” Therefore, making our minds very vulnerable to suggestions from the hypnotist (or CDs) opens our minds to any other creature who is hanging around making suggestions.

I was unable to find mention of hypnotism in the Catechism or Canon Law, but I did find an article on it in the Catholic Encyclopedia (has the imprimatur). Some quotes:

Hypnosis is not only powerless to effect a moral or physical cure, to heal radically any malady whatever, but it is also, and above everything else, a dangerous method. It is right that this point should be insisted on. In the practice of hypnotism there are physical or physiological, psychic or intellectual, and above all moral, dangers.

Hypnotism, therefore, is a dangerous, if not a morally detestable, practice. In the process of suggestion the individual alienates his liberty and his reason, handing himself over to the domination of another. Now, no one has any right thus to abdicate the rights of his conscience to renounce the duty towards his personality.

The Church has not waited for the verdict of science to put the faithful on their guard against the dangers of magnetism and hypnotism, and to defend the rights of human conscience; but, ever prudent, she has condemned only abuses, leaving the way free for scientific research. “The use of magnetism, that is to say, the mere act of employing physical means otherwise permissible, is not morally forbidden, provided that it does not tend to an illicit end or one which may be in any manner evil”

You can read the whole article here: newadvent.org/cathen/07604b.htm

Personally, I am not comfortable with hypnotism and I wouldn’t participate in it.