Episode
~114 min
TL;DR
The four things you'd lose by not watching
4 items
TL;DR
The four things you'd lose by not watching
4 items
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Hypnosis rapidly reduces anxiety (salience network), boosts mind-body control (prefrontal-insula connectivity), and suspends self-critical identity (default mode network) — all visible on fMRI.
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Dr. Spiegel’s Reveri app delivers self-hypnosis that cuts stress and pain by 15–20% in 10 min for 4 in 5 users; a single session helps 25% of smokers quit permanently.
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Hypnotizability is a stable trait assessed in 5 min with a hand-float test; it’s influenced by the COMT Val/Met gene and by life experience (imaginative play or trauma).
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He combines hypnosis with cyclic sighing breathwork — long exhales trigger parasympathetic activity — improving mood and slowing breathing rate after a month of daily practice.
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I call it the my fault mode network.
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Topics covered
hypnosisbrain-mechanismssalience-networkdefault-mode-networkhypnotizabilitycomt-genetmshypnotic-inductionself-hypnosissmoking-cessationpain-managementstress-reductionsleepbreath-workcyclic-sighingtrauma-therapyevolutionary-psychologyreveri-app
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