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Essentials: Using Hypnosis to Enhance Mental & Physical Health & Performance | Dr. David Spiegel

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Essentials: Using Hypnosis to Enhance Mental & Physical Health & Performance | Dr. David Spiegel

Huberman Lab

3 DAYS AGO
Huberman Lab

Huberman Lab

3 DAYS AGO
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In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Dr. David Spiegel, MD, the Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Center on Stress and Health, and Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University Sch...

Highlights

This episode explores the science and therapeutic potential of hypnosis, focusing on its neural mechanisms and real-world applications for mental and physical health. The discussion emphasizes how focused attention can reshape brain function and subjective experience, offering tools to enhance self-regulation.
00:20
Clinical self-hypnosis enhances control and cognitive flexibility
02:33
DLPFC shows increased functional connectivity with the insula during hypnosis, enabling control over bodily functions like gastric acid secretion.
06:19
Hypnosis leverages the mind-body connection to reduce stress
07:56
Hypnosis allows people to dissociate physical reactions from psychological stressors by visualizing the body in a safe place and the stressor on a screen.
11:50
People can reframe problems and activate the mesolimbic reward system faster than they think using hypnosis.
12:17
Hypnosis helped a trauma survivor realize her self-protection saved her life.
18:27
Two-thirds of users find the 1-minute refresher in the Reveri app helpful for maintaining focus and reducing stress.
20:04
The Spiegel Eye Roll Test predicts hypnotizability based on eye movement when eyelids are closed.
22:35
Closing the eyes in this practice maintains alertness instead of inducing sleep.
26:43
Hypnosis enables active pain regulation by directing attention, not just enduring sensation.
27:03
Pain should be categorized to determine if it signals re-injury or part of the healing process.
28:37
A randomized trial showed hypnosis made procedures for children easier, reducing procedure time, anxiety, and pain.

Chapters

David Spiegel
00:00
What is Hypnosis?; Clinical vs Stage Hypnosis
00:20
Brain & Hypnosis, Cognitive Flexibility
02:33
Sponsor: Function
06:14
ADHD, Self-Hypnosis & Focus
07:54
Stress Reduction, Mind-Brain Connection; Improve Sleep, Phobias
08:57
Narrative & Hypnosis, Mental State Change; Reframing Trauma
12:16
Sponsor: AGZ by AG1
18:26
Naming Importance; Clinical Hypnotist, Durability of Hypnosis, Reveri App
19:56
Obsessive Thoughts, OCD, Hypnosis
22:29
Hypnotizability, Spiegel Eye Roll Test, Eye-Brain Connection
23:47
Sponsor: Rorra
27:02
Trauma Recovery, Deliberate Self-Exposure to Pain or Trauma, Control
28:31
Mind-Body Connection, Control; Reframing Pain, Tool: Opportunity for Action
30:37
Children & Hypnosis; Group Hypnosis
33:22

Transcript

Andrew Huberman: Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and oph...