457 - How to Use Hypnosis to Improve Sleep and Reduce Stress, Anxiety, and Pain with Stanford’s Dr. David Spiegel

About this episode

Dr. David Spiegel discusses how hypnosis can be used to improve sleep and reduce stress, anxiety, and pain.

Every time you've gotten lost in a book, zoned out on a drive, or cried at a movie you've already seen, you’re in a special neurological state. And it turns out, that state is one of the most powerful things your nervous system can access. Most of us have just never thought to use it intentionally. That state is hypnosis. Stanford psychiatrist Dr. David Spiegel has spent 45 years researching exactly what it does in the brain and how to use it on demand for stress, pain, anxiety, a...

People in this episode

Host: Michelle Grosser

Guest: Dr. David Spiegel

Topics covered

• hypnosis
• sleep improvement
• stress reduction
• anxiety management
• pain relief

Keywords

• hypnosis
• sleep
• stress
• anxiety
• pain
• nervous system
• Stanford

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Organizations: Stanford

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