Modes of the mind

I don't understand why people feel the need for someone else to make them do something.

I see that increasingly, people believe that they are small and helpless and they need external controls to make them change. They believe that they need to be "cured", or "someone needs to lead them". These people are all around you.

For example, it appears that hypnosis therapy has been marketed as a way to "reprogram" the subconscious and kick bad habits. It has been done in every habit, from smoking to seduction to procrastination. While all this sounds awesome to many people, the word "program" is already a severe, I have several concerns:

the safety issue. Almost all reviews of it claim that it is not harmful in any way. In particular, they stress that no one can be made to do anything against their will. Do you see anything wrong with this statement?

The term "will" simply means the conscious effort of the mind. But when the conscious effort is diverted (by the general process of hypnosis), then the person under the procedure is not in control. And suppose the hypnotized person does realize the immorality of what they are doing, there is still little he can do, as the willpower is controlled by the procedure. Worst still, people in a hypnotic state will most likely not reason, and therefore any sense of morality can be bypassed.

The next issue is that some believe that they are no longer capable of controlling themselves, or that a conscious effort cannot work. I'm sure there have been times when we just cannot help procrastinating and doing something else. Here, the actual situation is not that one is not capable of attention and must therefore be diagnosed of attention deficiency mental disorder, or must undergo hypnosis. What is actually going on is very simple. The person simply has things of higher order of priority for, say, watching music videos as opposed to doing homework. There is simply a higher demand within the mind for doing something else, or maybe that the work requires far more effort and stress than something else and the person is already overloaded.

What the person requires is not some reprogramming of their minds, or someone telling them what to do. What they require is a belief in themselves, that they are capable of making their own decisions and they can always be happy with the results.

Someday, some scientist may make education an entirely subconscious work. But when that happens, the individual will no longer exist and people under such a trance will not be human people anymore. Then, we the human race would be worse than any animal we currently believe to be superior to.

In our quest to understand more about ourselves and our minds, we must be careful that we do not see ourselves as mere programming objects and then become blinded by our own desires that we accept the belief that someone needs to "program" you.

Of course, in the end, it is a personal choice. Some may accept the objectification of their minds, but they must be reasonable.