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

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Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Hypnosis is a state of highly focused attention. One of the things that happens in
0:06.6	hypnosis is you put aside your ordinary assumptions of who you are and what you can do.
0:11.6	Hypnosis is highly effective and you don't get addicted to it.
0:14.7	Be prepared to meet your better self.
0:17.0	David, I'm an astute learner.
0:18.5	I saw you try to hypnotize me.
0:20.6	I already felt it.
0:22.1	Okay.
0:23.0	Okay. Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm your host Dr Michael Jervay by
0:38.4	trade and training a high-performance psychologist. Now we talk a lot here about the power of mental
0:44.2	imagery. It is one of the foundational and fundamental tools that I use when working
0:49.0	with individuals and teams and
0:53.0	organizations
0:54.0	you use all five of your senses
0:55.0	to imagine and thereby unlock what might be possible for you.
0:59.0	It turns out that's a close cousin to hypnosis, which is the topic of today's conversation.
1:07.0	That word has become a bit taboo in scientific circles.
1:10.9	It brings to mind magicians and black and white spinning spirals and traveling sideshows and cheap tricks.
1:17.0	You're getting very sleepy.
1:20.0	Does not have a strong scientific foundation or does it?
1:25.0	In truth in practice, hypnosis can be so much more.
1:29.4	That's why I am thrilled to have a conversation with Dr. David Spegel, professor of psychiatry at the
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