How Do You Feel When Your Fingers Are Magnetized?

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In the film, we're dealing with both in the case of technology and the case of magic or a hypnotist. There's a play a few steps ahead and knowing how to steer people's experience. The science has made clear that even if we do the induction, the score you would get on a test of suggestibility is pretty much the same before the induction and after the induction. If we do something that looks like an induction, then it nudges a little more, but ultimately it's not that significant. And so it's this kind of daisy chaining of experience, compliance, choice,. But then through the absence of understanding what's really going on, and being just one

Can hypnosis be a tool to help us see how our minds are being shaped and manipulated more than we realize? Guest Anthony Jacquin is a hypnotist and hypnotherapist of over 20 years, author of Reality is Plastic, and he co-runs the Jacquin Hypnosis Academy. He uses his practice to help his clients change their behavior and improve their lives. In this episode, he breaks down the misconceptions of hypnosis and reveals that despite the influence of hypnotizing forces like social media, we all still have the ability to get in touch with our subconscious selves. “What can I say with certainty is true about me — what is good, true and real about me?” Anthony asks. “Much of what we’ve invested in is actually transient. It will change. What is unchanging?” Anthony draws connections between hypnosis and technology and the impacts of both on our subconscious minds but identifies a key difference — technology is exploiting us. But maybe a little more insight into one more dimension of how our minds work underneath the hood can help us build better, more humane and conscious technology.