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Interview #48: Why Aren't We Using Hypnosis? (With Dr. David Spiegel)

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy

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The Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation

I've been thinking about different states of consciousness because that's kind of what we're talking about. A hypnotic state. I have quite a lot of experience with meditation. And one question I had for you is, do they exist in discrete categories? Or is there a significant overlap? Is it more of a spectrum rather than having distinct buckets of different, distinctly different states of conscience? Well, we, there are areas of overlap and difference. But I think your fundamental point is right. That our brain is wired to exist in different states of Consciousness. There are benefits of that. So just changing mental state is a kind of brain model for us of taking different points of view about

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