Easy to Learn Techniques of Mind-Control

Everyone would love to know how to use mind control on others and bend them to our will or make them act the way we want them to. The trash guy who always throws your trash can in the middle of the sidewalk, or the one coworker who always drives you nuts with their chewing. If you could just control their mind, everything would be great! Mind control is an exciting topic and one I have been fascinated with (for no particular reason), and did you know it’s biblical? Exciting right? Well, today, I will give some ways that you, too, can use mind control to make your life easier. 

Controlling someone else’s mind really isn’t that hard. Small children are experts of control, in fact. If you can generate a strong emotion in someone else, you can predict the result pretty accurately. The easiest emotion to cause is anger. If you find out what makes someone else mad, you can control them quite easily. It’s no incredible feat to do this, though; as I said, even small children are experts. We don’t want the easy way, though; no, we want the most fantastic and incredible feat of mind control of all time! The principles of this extraordinary feat are what I am going to lay out before you today, and as I said, they are biblical principles. 

We always want to remake people into our own image; worse, we want to make God over into our own image. We do this with the spiritual world and our own, so a desire to make our neighbor walk and talk like a chicken is natural. We seek out things like hypnotism because they seem to offer an avenue to this chicken behavior without the person's knowledge, yet this represents a misunderstanding of true hypnotism. Still, there's got to be a way to make our neighbor act like a chicken. The easy way is to start an idiotic tic-tok trend (are there un-idiotic ones?) that contains a chicken dance and get your neighbor to sign up. People will almost always go with the flow because that is the easiest way to go. If everyone else is doing it, it must be great! 

We live in Satan's world, and the flow is his. As Christians and children of God, we stand against the flow and walk upstream against the current. In fact, this is a major aspect of the mind control we are going to learn today. The entire technique can be summed up in one scripture. 

Proverbs 16:32 LSB He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his own spirit, than he who captures a city.

That’s right, true mind control, the really tough kind, is control of our own minds. It's really quite easy to get people to do what you want, as a whole, but it's more challenging to get a person to do what you want. To quote one of my favorite movies, “People are dumb, panicky animals, and you know it. A person is smart and dangerous.” That's because, as a whole, we go with the flow because that is what is easiest. So, in controlling our own minds, we are dealing with a single person, and that is very hard indeed, especially because this person knows our every move before we make it. We have to be stronger than our flesh, and we have to be stronger than the whispering voice of Satan and our Old Man, AKA our flesh. 

We have to be in control of our own thoughts, so how do we do that? 

Our body is a great whiner and liar. It tells us constantly that we’ve got to have that sugary treat, or we can’t possibly take another step up that mountain. It convinces us that we are weaker than we really are and strips a lot of our God-given abilities away from us. 

What does it look like for someone to rule their body?   

All those incredible people who keep going in spite of overwhelming obstacles, the ones who climb impossible mountains, the ones who survive unsurvivable conditions, the ones who overcome the greatest of addictions, and the ones who endure horrible things in the name of Christ, as Christ Himself did. The main piece of the puzzle is focus. 

One of my favorite quotes is that a man who can learn to think about one thing for ten minutes can rule the world. If you can discipline your mind to be able to concentrate on one thing for even ten short minutes, you will be mentally stronger than most people in the world. 

Our modern world is designed in a way that destroys focus. Everything is instant, from our food to our entertainment. Two-minute videos proved to be too long for people, so something called reels was invented. These videos are less than a minute in length, and you can scroll through endlessly on most platforms offering video capabilities. 

This is astonishing to some, but what's even more astonishing is the reason behind this spoon-fed entertainment. According to supportive care dot com, a website that studies ASD (autism spectrum disorder), the ability of the average human to concentrate on a single task is down from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8.25 seconds in 2015. Our modern world only fuels that, because now marketers have to figure out how to grab and hold someone’s attention in only 8 seconds. Ads get dumber and dumber; Entertainment scraps the well-written and slower storyline for a stupid, action-packed one. 

All this is to point out that in a world where everything is against focus and that promotes instant gratification, we’ve got a lot of work to do and a hard fight ahead of us to take back control of our own minds. Indeed, God helps us, but we wouldn’t be very good or strong warriors if He didn’t make us fight some of our own battles. 

Our ability to be self-controlled goes way up when we can focus, which is only logical because the focus is self-control. Here, we come to the first principle of learning focus. Self-denial. We’ve got to submit our minds to Christ even to have a chance at truly controlling our minds and bringing them into full subjection to Christ. 

James 4:7 NKJV Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Titus 2:11-12 NKJV For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 

12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,  

Luke 9:23 NKJV Then He said to [them] all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

We have to be able to choose God, and that means we have to be able to deny everything else that has a hold on us. Now, this can be taken overboard as a particular sect of philosophy called stoicism did. Not allowing yourself any pleasures because you deny yourself everything was their creed. That’s not what I am advocating. 

What I am advocating for is if you have something that you feel like you have to do, whether it’s eating something sweet, going on social media constantly, looking at your phone every ten minutes, or whatever it may be in your life, deny it. Go sugar-free for a while. Get off social media for a set amount of time, as in three months or forever. 

This denial doesn’t have to be permanent, but it needs to be there so you can learn mind control. You have to learn to rule over your own body, or someone else already is. If there is something you feel like you can’t stop yourself from doing, then you need to kick it out of your life for a time. If you don’t control it, then it controls you.

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be dominated by anything.

The next trick I have for you today is learning to focus your mind for a set period of time. It’s quick, you can do it anywhere, and you don’t need any equipment. Best of all, it only takes five minutes to start with. 

1 Peter 4:1-2 KJV Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 

2 That he no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 ESV For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 

5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 

6 being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.  

Philipians 4:8 KJV Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.

Sit down, close your eyes, and think about one thing for five minutes. Set a timer for yourself and force yourself to tune everything else out, and think about one thing, preferably about God. Take deep, measured breaths to the count of four. This isn’t a time to pray, but it is a time to think about God. Eventually, you want to make it up to ten minutes, but you’ll be surprised how hard five minutes is to think about one thing. 

Every time your mind tries to run off down a rabbit trail, reign it in and bring it back to the one thing you are trying to think about. Kick the other thoughts out and focus on the one. This is not emptying your mind, not in the least. You are forcing your mind to think about what you tell it to, far from empty. 

One more thing you can do to improve yourself is to do hard things. Climb tough mountains, and do what makes you uncomfortable. If swimming makes you uncomfortable, then go swimming. If being outside makes you uncomfortable, or going hiking or heights makes you uncomfortable, then do that more. This, too, will train your mind to rule your body. 

These are a few basic techniques to take back your own mind and relearn to focus in a world that encourages extremely short attention spans. This sort of mind control is far harder to learn than controlling someone else’s mind, but the result will be a mind of Christ. A mind that cannot be controlled by those around you and a mind that is not ruled by emotions. A mind that rules the body and, in turn, is ruled by the spirit of God. I would like to leave you with this scripture.

Ephesians 4:17-24 NKJV This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 

18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; 

19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 

20 But you have not so learned Christ, 

21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 

22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 

23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 

24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.