#150 - World's Greatest Hypnosis Scientist Hijacks My Mind Live On Camera!

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David Spiegel is the world's leading hypnosis scientist — fifty years at Stanford spent proving that trance is a measurable brain state rather than a stage trick, across thirteen books, four hundred papers and roughly seven thousand patients hypnotised personally. I told him to his face that I thought his entire field was a scam, so he ran the hypnotisability test on me live on camera, my left arm floated off the desk and stopped obeying me for the next forty minutes, and he scored me seven out of ten.

Expect to learn what hypnosis actually is and the three components it breaks down into, how stage hypnotists secretly screen their audiences before the show even starts, what changes in three separate brain networks the moment you go under, why "suggestibility" is the wrong word and cognitive flexibility is the right one, how hypnotised subjects cut their brain's electrical response to pain by 50%, why one in four smokers quit after a single session, the two very different childhoods that both produce highly hypnotisable adults, why eight-year-olds are the most hypnotisable people alive, how Rory McIlroy used self-hypnosis to break a seven-year Masters curse, what it feels like to have your own arm stop belonging to you, and much more…

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00:00 Trailer

0:02:27 Who Is David Spiegel?

0:03:39 What Hypnosis Actually Is

0:05:37 Why He Calls Stage Shows "Dumb Shows"

0:06:29 How Hypnotists Secretly Screen The Audience

0:09:08 The Student Who Relived Being A Newborn

0:10:46 What Hypnosis Does To Three Brain Networks

0:13:23 It's Not Suggestibility, It's Cognitive Flexibility

0:16:12 Cutting The Brain's Pain Signal By 50%

0:17:05 One In Four Quit Smoking In A Single Session

0:18:33 The Meditator Whose Migraines Vanished

0:22:36 Why Hypnotisability Is Partly Genetic

0:23:54 The Two Childhoods That Make You Hypnotisable

0:27:16 Hypnosis, Flow States And Peak Performance

0:32:54 How Rory McIlroy Broke His Masters Curse

0:38:05 Why You Can Forget Your Own Name

0:44:29 Filtering The Hurt Out Of Pain

0:55:00 The Hypnotisability Test, Live On Camera

1:00:15 "It's Actually Going Up"

1:08:52 Evan Scores 7 Out Of 10

1:18:42 Trying To Erase The Number Four

1:31:04 "Please Don't Do This On My Other Arm"

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