Meet the mum-of-three who has HYPNOTISED her kids into acing their exams and doing the housework – and charges mums £95 a session to ‘train’ their naughty children too
She has passed her skills onto her teenage kids... one of whom even influenced a teacher into bumping up her grades
A MUM who believes she hypnotised HERSELF into having kids after fertility problems is now using tricks of the mind to change other people’s kids from ‘demons’ into ‘little angels’.
Lisa Machenberg, 56, reckons she can influence kids to do their chores, finish their homework, and have better manners – and charges parents £95 an hour to make their sprogs less ‘naughty’ and ‘horrible’.
The mum-of-three, from California, has been hypnotising her teenage kids throughout their lives – from sleeping through the night as babies, to potty training and getting good exam scores.
The kids now use the mesmerising techniques themselves, with her 17-year-old daughter admitting she influenced one school teacher into giving her a better grade.
Lisa has 19-year-old twin boys, and believes hypnosis helped her both to conceive and to bear the pain of childbirth.
She said: “I used hypnosis for the mind-body connection to help me conceive and carry my children.
“I had a very, very hard time having children. I used hypnosis in conjunction with western medicine and conceived twin boys.
“Then I used hypnosis so I could be very, very comfortable when I went into labour and then I used hypnosis to help the children sleep quickly, calmly, soundly and deeply all through the night.”
Lisa, who qualified as a hypnotist 23 years ago, now teaches other parents how to train their kids, and claims mind influence is the ultimate form of parenting for a ‘harmonious home’.
She said: “Hypnosis and parenting is a natural combination.
“If we learn hypno-parenting we learn how to hypnotise our children to be cooperative, peaceful, have containment and have good study habits because they have focus and have more resilience out there in the world.”
Lisa insists that hypnosis has helped her and her children get ahead in life – while admitting she tricks her family into doing things for her.
She said: “I taught my children hypnosis so that they could have focus, concentration and be very calm taking their SAT’s to get in to college.
“I hypnotise my husband and my children to do things for my benefit all the time.
“When mums are happy, everybody is happy. When the wife is happy, everyone is happy.
“We have a household to run and so many times I exert influence so that my children get their chores done so that the house runs efficiently.”
Apparently, controlling hypnosis has caused conflict between the family in the past.
Lisa said: “My children rebelled against hypnosis when they were younger but it’s helped them and they use it themselves today to get what they want – so they can’t really complain.”
Her son Jake, a student, added: “It could get a little crazy when she tries to kind of hypnotise us at every single possible situation that she can. It could get a little overbearing - she gets in your head.
“But as far as things like getting into college, I think it was an advantage.
“It helped me to talk to teachers and get them to write really good levels of recommendation for me. I think it’s helped me, you know it’s helped me have control over my own mind.”
Lisa’s daughter Rayna, 17, has even used hypnosis to improve her school grades – with a teacher she had never liked.
She said: “He gave me a very bad grade that would have brought my grade down to a B from an A, so I went to talk to him and when I did, I made sure my hand was close to his arm and I said ‘you will raise my grade’.”
However Lisa’s other son Max insists they don’t have an unfair benefit over their peers.
Max, who is also a student, said: “It’s not like we’re using some sort of magic to overpower people’s will.
“There are just subtle things you can do to influence yourself and influence other people if you want to.”
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Lisa has attracted some criticism, adding: “If someone says to me it is unethical to manipulate a child by using hypnosis to take control of the child’s mind also, I’ll ask 'tell me what you mean by that’.
“I’ll ask, 'when you parent your child tell me about what you do: is it effective, is it working, is it kind, are you a transitional hero raising your child in a way that you want your child to raise your grandchildren’.
“If they say 'well, wait a second sometimes yes sometimes no', I’ll say 'would you like to learn some techniques to exert influence so you will have more a cooperative, peaceful home?’
“We can use hypnosis to hypnotise our children to be the best that they can be, to be peaceful, cooperative.
“We can solve conflicts in a wonderful peaceful way that creates not just good children but helps them grow into good adults.”