There's a world of social media or a part of social media that believes in general psychologists,

the field of psychology is quote unquote not real. That it's all very suggestive, it's not actually helping people what do you have to say to those

individuals who believe that well I I got to say that I have about 7,000 patients who

would tell them they're wrong.

When I say hypnosis, most probably think of a magic show where people get invited on stage

to get hypnotized and perform some ridiculous act.

I'm not going to lie, I too thought of hypnosis as more of a silly parlor trick rather

than a proper psychological intervention.

Well that's about to change.

Please welcome to the Checkup Podcast Dr David Spe Spiegel, world-renowned psychiatrist,

Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of

Medicine and leading expert on hypnosis.

Dr. Spiegel has spent decades studying the mind and exploring how hypnosis can help us overcome

common medical problems like chronic pain, anxiety, and insomnia.

He even claims he's seen it help patients quit smoking.

Get ready to hear how you might be able to use hypnosis to address your problems using Dr. Spiegel's new app called

Reveri. What's the official definition of hypnosis because I know you've part of

the group that kind of formulated right the definition? That's me. That's right. It consists of three things, highly focused

attention, what we call absorption. Have you ever gotten so caught up in a good movie that

you forget you're watching the movie and you enter the imagined world?

Is it like a flow state?

It's like a flow state in the sense that, you know, Chick Sent Me High calls it an autotelic experience. You're just in it. You're not judging it. You're not evaluating it.

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