Learn How to HACK Your Mind with Hypnosis: The Ultimate Cognitive Upgrade : 1218
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Explore the science and potential of hypnosis as Dr. David Spiegel, Stanford’s leading expert in mind-body medicine, joins Dave Asprey to reveal how hypnosis can radically enhance cognition, mental clarity, and resilience. In this episode of The Human Upgrade, you’ll learn how hypnosis influences the brain’s most vital networks, including the default mode network and executive control, to break mental barriers and amplify focus, perception, and healing.
Discover how hypnosis, unlike traditional meditation or neurofeedback, accelerates response times, manages pain, and even helps alleviate PTSD. Dr. Spiegel shares stories of patients overcoming chronic pain and trauma through self-hypnosis, and details the mechanisms that make hypnosis a powerful tool for emotional and physical transformation.
Dive into the fascinating brain science behind the practice, from theta brainwave induction to deep sensory modulation, and learn simple self-hypnosis techniques that can elevate mental performance, improve sleep quality, and instill lasting calm. If you’re seeking a powerful, accessible way to biohack your brain and harness the potential of your mind, this episode delivers the insights and tools you need to make hypnosis your ultimate cognitive upgrade.
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Resources:
• Dr. David Spiegel’s Website – https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/david-spiegel
• Reveri Hypnosis App – https://reveri.com (available on App Store and Google Play)
• Dave Asprey’s Website – https://daveasprey.com
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• Dave Asprey’s Linktree – https://linktr.ee/daveasprey
• Dave Asprey’s Book: Smarter Not Harder – https://daveasprey.com/books
• Upgrade Collective: Join The Human Upgrade Podcast Live – https://www.ourupgradecollective.com
• Own an Upgrade Labs – https://ownanupgradelabs.com
• Upgrade Labs – https://upgradelabs.com
• 40 Years of Zen – Neurofeedback training for advanced cognitive enhancement https://40yearsofzen.com
Timestamps
• 00:00 – Introduction to Hypnosis
• 00:59 – Dave Asprey Introduces Dr. David Spiegel
• 02:03 – Dr. Spiegel’s Journey into Hypnotherapy
• 06:06 – The Power of Hypnosis in Medical Practice
• 11:19 – Understanding Hypnosis and Brain Function
• 16:14 – Hypnosis for PTSD and Trauma
• 19:33 – Hypnosis vs. EMDR: Key Differences
• 22:30 – Pain Management through Hypnosis
• 31:06 – The Impact of Psychedelics on Cancer Patients
• 33:04 – Exploring Psychedelic-Assisted Neurofeedback
• 34:05 – Neuroimaging and Brain Activity in Hypnosis
• 35:22 – Hypnosis and Cognitive Enhancement
• 38:53 – Hypnosis for Sleep and Stress Management
• 42:26 – Hypnosis and the “Manchurian Candidate” Concept
• 48:21 – Hypnosis and the Immune System
• 53:11 – Live Hypnosis Session with Dave Asprey
• 58:46 – Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | Something sort of surgical about hypnosis. It's a state of highly focused attention. |
| 0:04.6 | You can make a big difference even in the first session. |
| 0:07.2 | You're twice as fast at responding to reality than you are when you're not hypnotized. |
| 0:11.4 | And he said, you'll have to stop doing this. |
| 0:13.4 | It's dangerous. |
| 0:14.2 | Can you hypnotize me on the podcast real quick? |
| 0:17.2 | Sure. |
| 0:18.7 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. When you hear about Hythmic Therapy, what's the first thing that comes to mind for you? |
| 0:31.0 | Do you have that, oh man, this seems like a stage magician trick or do you think maybe this is something that can work or maybe you've tried it? |
| 0:39.0 | Well, I think there's a huge amount going on inside your mind, inside your body that you're not supposed to see |
| 0:46.6 | and hypnotherapy is a well-studied science that can give you techniques and give you access to things that otherwise just wouldn't be available. |
| 0:56.0 | But you don't have to believe me and if you do, thank you. |
| 0:59.0 | How about we learn from Dr. David Spiegel, who's a world-leading expert in hypnotherapy who's going to |
| 1:06.6 | teach us what works. Now, he is a world-known psychiatrist and a professor at a little school you might have heard of called |
| 1:15.4 | Stanford University where he leads groundbreaking research in mind-body medicine and hypnosis. And I love psychiatry because it has |
| 1:25.8 | one foot in the emotional world and one foot in the hard medical world, so it's the one |
| 1:32.4 | medical profession that really moves seamlessly between the two in a way that's |
| 1:36.2 | unusual. David has spent decades studying how hypnosis and mental states can |
| 1:42.0 | directly influence your health, including how you manage pain, how you manage |
| 1:46.8 | stress, even big stuff like cancer. |
| 1:49.6 | And we're talking decades of research about what the mind can do and what you can do to change things in your |
| 1:55.9 | life. |
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