The #1 Reason Demons Possess You

Author

Hal Cranmer
January 14, 2026

This video appeared in my YouTube feed.

Maybe you don’t believe in religion. That’s everyone’s personal decision. I bring it up to discuss it from a health standpoint.

In the video the priest, Father Ripperger, talks about keeping statistics on the exorcisms they do.

When they analyzed the data, they noticed a trend among those people who seek the services of this priest and others. Specifically what those people do that allows the demons to enter into their bodies.

The number one factor for demonic possession, according to the good Father, is the following:

“Demons were attacking people because of the fact that they lacked elementary discipline in their spiritual life. Elementary spiritual discipline. What does that mean even concretely? It means this. It means that what we noticed is that there is not an area in a person’s life where they are consistently practicing self-denial every day. That’s what it means…There’s not a disciplined part of their life where they have to keep telling themselves ‘No’.”

In summary, he is talking about self-denial. Do it consistently. Keep the demons out.

Starting to see the parallels to health?

Many of the chronic diseases of the modern world (health demons) enter the body due to self-indulgence:

  • Junk food/sugar

  • Eating all the time

  • Too much relaxation (sedentary lifestyle)

  • Alcohol

  • Drugs (prescription, illegal, whatever)

  • Smoking

  • Binge watching TV

  • Environmentally controlled surroundings

Self-denial takes you on the path of casting out those demons of chronic disease:

  • Fasting

  • Eating only whole foods

  • Exercise

  • Abstaining from vices (smoking, drugs, alcohol, porn etc.)

  • Saunas

  • Cold plunges

  • Going outside regardless of the weather

We live in a world full of self-indulgence. Brilliant minds throughout history have consistently come up with more and more inventions to make our lives easier.

Many of these breakthroughs have been life changing. I don’t think the state of Arizona where I live would have nearly the same population if we didn’t have air conditioning for instance.

Those same wonderful inventions may have inadvertently lead to many of the chronic diseases we see today, especially Alzheimer's.

Heart disease is coming down. Lots of new treatments are coming out allowing people to live longer. People are also exercising and not smoking (self-denial) nearly as much as they did in the 1950’s and 60’s. But it is still quite elevated from the early 1900’s when very little of today’s modern conveniences existed.

A worrisome trend is that heart disease among young people is still going up.

Not to dump on younger generations, but they do have a lot of temptation to self-indulgence these days. More than any other generation before. Older generations have dumped on younger ones since the beginning of time.

Maybe the reason older generations like to tell younger generations ‘it was a lot tougher when I was your age’ is because deep down those older generations are proud of their self-denial. Yet is it really self-denial if the indulgence wasn’t available in previous years?

Self-denial truly comes when the temptation for indulgence is there, and you say ‘No’. Or ‘get away from me Satan’.

Next time you’re tempted by leisure or comfort, consider casting those demons out. Consider practicing the art of saying ‘No’.