The Huberman Lab Podcast discusses neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. We also discuss existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. His laboratory studies neural regeneration, neuroplasticity, and brain states such as stress, focus, fear, and optimal performance. For more than 20 years, Dr. Huberman has consistently published original research findings and review articles in top-level peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, and Current Biology. He is a regular member of several National Institutes of Health review panels and a Fellow of the McKnight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Huberman regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations, and various units of U.S. and Canadian Special Operations.
Essentials: Using Hypnosis to Enhance Mental & Physical Health & Performance | Dr. David Spiegel
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 School of Medicine.
We discuss the science and clinical applications of hypnosis, including how hypnosis works in the brain. We examine the evidence-based uses of clinical and self-hypnosis for pain, trauma, phobias, sleep and stress, and explain how to gauge your own level of "hypnotizability." We also outline practical ways to access these tools, from working with a trained clinician to using structured self-hypnosis protocols.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) David Spiegel
(00:00:20) What is Hypnosis?; Clinical vs Stage Hypnosis
(00:02:33) Brain & Hypnosis, Cognitive Flexibility
(00:06:14) Sponsor: Function
(00:07:54) ADHD, Self-Hypnosis & Focus
(00:08:57) Stress Reduction, Mind-Brain Connection; Improve Sleep, Phobias
(00:12:16) Narrative & Hypnosis, Mental State Change; Reframing Trauma
(00:18:26) Sponsor: AGZ by AG1
(00:19:56) Naming Importance; Clinical Hypnotist, Durability of Hypnosis, Reveri App
(00:22:29) Obsessive Thoughts, OCD, Hypnosis
(00:23:47) Hypnotizability, Spiegel Eye Roll Test, Eye-Brain Connection
(00:27:02) Sponsor: Rorra
(00:28:31) Trauma Recovery, Deliberate Self-Exposure to Pain or Trauma, Control
(00:30:37) Mind-Body Connection, Control; Reframing Pain, Tool: Opportunity for Action
(00:33:22) Children & Hypnosis; Group Hypnosis
(00:35:09) Breathing in Hypnosis, Cyclic Sighing, Relaxation
(00:36:46) Peak Performance & Hypnotic States
(00:37:55) Reveri Hypnosis App, Finding Clinical Hypnotist; Acknowledgements
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