This is precisely why I don’t permit negative “jokes” or “warnings” or “fears” or “worries” to be posted here in the comments. Words not only describe reality, they shape reality by influencing thoughts.
PSYCHOLOGICAL CURSES
In essence, a psychological curse is another word for a negative post-hypnotic suggestion. This type of a curse can occur, for example, when someone tells you that you will have an accident, or die, or develop a disease, or something else negative will happen to you. Sometimes the curse is placed accidentally, while at other times it is done to a person quite deliberately to harm him or her.
For example, doctors often place curses on people when they say in an authoritative tone, for example: “You have cancer, and you may die of it.” Several reasons for this are possible:
- The doctor is just trying to scare the patient into following the doctor’s orders.
- The doctor is just sloppy with words, and does not intend to do harm. However, such words can instill needless fear and horror in a person – and this is quite common.
- The doctor is projecting his or her own fear of death or of disease.
Teachers or parents sometimes inflict this kind of curse on students. They make statements, at times in a loud voice, such as “You will become a bum”, or “You will waste your life”, or similar negative statements. Once again, sometimes they say this to help a child to work harder in school, for example. However, this is not the way to do it, in my view. Often, parents and teachers are just projecting their own fears onto vulnerable children, or worse, they are trying to upset the children and vampirize or steal energy from them.
HOW CAN AN OPERATIVE REINFORCE THIS TYPE OF CURSE?
When negative suggestions are spoken to you, the person making the negative suggestion may consciously or unconsciously use hypnotic methods to “implant” the suggestion of misfortune deeply in your subconscious mind. This is an important part of black magic or voodoo. It is also used in satanic rituals and cults, during rapes and beatings, and during brainwashing, which is related to curses.
WHAT OCCURS AFTER A SPOKEN CURSE IS MADE?
In many cases, if the post-hypnotic suggestion or psychological curse is accepted by the subject, then a proportion of the people to whom it is spoken will actually go on to develop the problem that was spoken of. One hears about this often in psychological therapy sessions, for example.
A teacher may have told a student that she is stupid when it comes to mathematics, for example. If the student accepts this, she mysteriously finds that cannot excel in this area. An angry mother may have told her teenage boy that he will end up just like his drunken father. If the boy accepts the curse or post-hypnotic suggestion, then he mysteriously finds himself drawn to alcohol.
This type of conditioning is extremely common, in fact. Most people, I would say, must deal with these types of curses or post-hypnotic suggestions that parents, teachers, doctors, attorneys, and anyone else in authority hand out, often without thinking much about it.
When combined with a rape or torture of some other kind, these suggestions become even more powerful and this is used to control people, often for the duration of their lives.
This is also why the Prosperity Gospel, also known as “name it, claim it” theology, is fundamentally wicked. It’s literally practicing psychological magic in order to obtain material wealth. Scott Adams, for example, is a very successful practitioner of this sort of psychological magic.
But this is why relentless positivity of mind, the determined avoidance of negativity, and the refusal to live in fear are vital for the Christian. It’s also important to pay attention to the lyrics of the music one listens to; classical music is much better for your mental and spiritual health than imprinting your mind with emo goths droning about how unhappy they are or metal gammas screaming about how they hate the world because everyone hates them.
Skeptical? Test it. The next time it’s late at night and you’re feeling down, or feeling afraid, or wallowing in self-pity, listen to the following three songs. Crank them up. Sing along. Then measure how you feel versus how you were feeling previously.
- Tubthumping by Chumbawamba
- Move Any Mountain by The Shamen
- Indestructible by Disturbed
Then keep in mind that the effect works both ways. Over time, you’ll begin to observe that luck, like confidence, builds on its own success. I don’t merely hope to be fortunate and I don’t just know I’m fortunate, I fully expect to be fortunate. Remember, the ancients’ idea that Fortuna personally favored some individuals and disfavored others wasn’t an invention ex nihilo, it was an observation.
This is why God tells us to bless others, and not curse them. At the very least, stop cursing yourself do not permit others to do so.
When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
James 3:3-12
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