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Can Hypnosis REALLY Change Your Life? Answers from Dr. David Spiegel

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May 8, 2024

Dr. David Spiegel, a leading researcher in hypnosis, discusses the science behind using hypnosis to overcome trauma, fears, and habits. He explains how hypnosis can aid cancer patients and introduces a new app, Reveri, accessible to everyone. The conversation explores the mind-body connection and the transformative power of hypnosis in healing and guiding individuals towards a better life.

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Hypnosis As Focused, Flexible Attention

Hypnosis is a state of highly focused attention that narrows awareness like a telephoto lens.
It pairs focused attention with dissociation and cognitive flexibility to let people try being different.

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Mindfulness Versus Hypnosis

Mindfulness cultivates open, nonjudgmental awareness and is intentionally unfocused.
Hypnosis is goal-directed Western practice meant to solve problems using intentional mental strategies.

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Performance Imagery Mirrors Hypnosis

Performance imagery naturally activates hypnotic-like processes: focused attention, dissociation of doubts, and role enactment.
High performers use these processes without labeling them 'hypnosis', but the mechanisms overlap closely.

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Does hypnosis really work?

That word has become a bit taboo in scientific circles. It brings to mind magicians, black and white spinning spirals, and traveling sideshows and cheap tricks. “You are getting very sleepy” does not have a strong scientific foundation.

Or… does it? In truth and practice, hypnosis can be so much more.

That’s why I’m thrilled to share this conversation with Dr. David Spiegel, professor of Psychiatry at the Stanford School of Medicine and researcher in psycho-oncology and the neurobiology of therapeutic hypnosis.

Dr. Spiegel is a pioneer in the research on hypnosis. His work over the past several decades is foundational - helping patients overcome deep-seated trauma, work through fears and anxieties, build new habits, break existing ones, and even guide cancer patients through the pain of treatment and recovery using hypnosis.

Now, this isn’t the hypnosis that you see on daytime television, with swinging pocket watches and heavy eyelids. It’s a science of the mind-body connection, and a way of looking at how the subconscious can be trained to influence, guide, and heal our bodies.

We’ll also talk about how all of this doesn’t require a physician or therapist or even a hypnotist, but is available to everyone with Dr. Spiegel’s game-changing app, Reveri.

I hope this conversation opens your mind to a new tool that just might be able to change your life.

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