124 - HEARTBREAK - Is self-hypnosis the ultimate 'healing from heartbreak' hack we’ve all been missing? Ft. Dr David Spiegel
Oct 30, 2023
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Leading American psychiatrist and Stanford Professor, Dr. David Spiegel, discusses self-hypnosis and healing from heartbreak. They explore the benefits of self-hypnosis, building new pathways, and developing cognitive flexibility. Dr. Spiegel introduces the Reveri app as a tool to help manage heartbreak and reshape one's reality.
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Self-hypnosis can aid in healing heartbreak by reshaping the brain's neural connections and allowing for cognitive flexibility and new perspectives.
Self-hypnosis helps individuals manage and ease the biological reactions associated with heartbreak, allowing them to redirect attention and focus on new connections and experiences.
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Power of Self-Hypnosis in Healing Heartbreak
Self-hypnosis is a powerful tool that can aid in healing heartbreak by allowing individuals to focus their attention on what they want and redirecting thoughts away from painful memories or feelings. It helps in reshaping the brain's neural connections, allowing for cognitive flexibility and the exploration of new perspectives. By using self-hypnosis, individuals can break free from the grip of past relationships, gain confidence, and build new habits and pathways in their brain. Hypnosis enables them to view the breakup objectively, balance the positive and negative aspects of the relationship, and see the potential for new and better experiences in the future.
Understanding the Biological Aspects of Heartbreak
Heartbreak involves both psychological and biological responses in the body. The brain's neural pathways associated with the lost relationship remain active, causing distress and a deep longing for closure. However, hypnosis can help manage and ease these biological reactions. By regulating perception and controlling mind-body connections, self-hypnosis allows individuals to transform pain, redirect attention, and reshape their brain's responses. It helps them focus on the potential for new connections and experiences, rather than remaining stuck in the pain of the past.
Self-Hypnosis for Cognitive Flexibility in Heartbreak
Self-hypnosis promotes cognitive flexibility, which is crucial in healing from heartbreak. It encourages individuals to view their past relationship from different perspectives and objectively evaluate its positive and negative aspects. Through hypnosis, they can detach from the pain, redirect their attention, and explore new beliefs and stories about themselves. Hypnosis enables them to break free from the constraints of past experiences and open themselves up to new possibilities, ultimately paving the way for personal growth and the building of new neural pathways.
The Benefits of Self-Hypnosis and Neuroplasticity
Self-hypnosis harnesses the power of neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to rewire and reshape itself. By using self-hypnosis, individuals can actively influence the creation of new neural connections, breaking away from old patterns and beliefs. This process allows them to create positive changes in their brain, such as increased confidence, pain management, habit formation, and cognitive restructuring. Self-hypnosis provides an opportunity to take control of one's brain and consciously shape it towards a more fulfilling and empowered future.
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Can you reprogram your mind to deprogram the ex you can't get over? Today, we’re exploring all things 'self-hypnosis' and how to start getting your brain to work 'for you' rather than working against you during those times of deep heartbreak, loss, grief, and sadness.
We’ve all been there—the breakup you cannot get over. It’s a mental, physical, and emotional rollercoaster, and hearing ‘it will pass’ and 'time will heal all' sometimes doesn’t help us at all.
This week, Louise asks leading American psychiatrist and Stanford Professor, Dr. David Spiegel, how his clinically backed, evidence-based self-hypnosis app Reveri can help you work *with* your biology to move through some of the most difficult times of our lives.
The pair discuss:
What self-hypnosis actually is
Why you need to heal your biology, not just your 'psychology,' to heal your heartbreak faster
How we can use these states of highly focused attention to start creating new thoughts, beliefs, stories, and pathways—rather than the ones we get fixated on and play repeatedly
The importance of cognitive flexibility in the grieving process and how this contributes to the development of new perspectives concerning the past, present, and future
How self-hypnosis contributes to building confidence and STOPS you from thinking you were the only problem in the relationship
How neuroplasticity allows for the formation of new neural patterns and behaviors, including the development of new stories and beliefs
How self-hypnosis can help you open your mind to meeting someone new; and
How hypnosis can also help with stress, pain, and grief, and how we can learn to work with the pain we are feeling in our body
Dr. Spiegel has created Reveri so you can access all his sessions in 1 app.