Can Your Reality Turn on a Word? — with Anthony Jacquin

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🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	Knowing you're in control, you can let go completely.
0:04.8	That's Hypnotist Anthony Jackwin.
0:06.9	Anthony has been practicing hypnosis and hypnotherapy for more than 20 years.
0:10.7	He had a television show in the UK and wrote the book Reality is Plastic and now runs
0:15.1	the Jackwin Hypnosis Academy.
0:17.0	He's also a former teacher of mine.
0:18.6	If you know you're safe then it's fine to fall and move and swing and dance and whatever
0:23.1	else it happens to be.
0:25.2	Many of the best experiences we have in life are when we are right on that kind of age.
0:31.5	Surrendering and losing control in hypnosis in a therapeutic environment can feel good
0:36.0	because the purpose is about healing.
0:38.3	But there are other times when we surrender control, say inadvertently, like when we
0:42.4	fall into a newsfeed or end up scrolling for much longer than we intended, where we're
0:46.4	caught in a kind of trance and we didn't mean to lose control.
0:50.1	But some of those same mechanisms are operating.
0:52.8	We can do so much good with this and of course it can be exploited.
0:58.1	Here's why we're talking about hypnosis on a podcast that's traditionally about how
1:02.1	technology and social media are influencing society.
1:05.4	It's an episode about uncovering the underlying code, the underlying operating system of your
1:11.4	own mind.
1:12.8	And hypnosis is one of the access points into the code that's beneath the conscious mind,
1:18.6	into the subconscious mind.
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