Doctor Explains The Health Benefits of Hypnosis #podcast #mentalhealth #shorts

Hypnosis is a naturally occurring state of highly focused attention. It allows us to concentrate intently, to put inside conscious awareness things that matter and put outside of conscious awareness things you don't want.

To attend to. Where is the research showing this has the most leverage? What are the conditions or problems that people suffer from?

I would have to say the top of the list is pain control more. We've done EEG studies where we take Stanford students, give them shocks on the wrist in normal conditions and then in hypnosis where they're filtering the hurt out of the pain, your arm is in ice water, cool tingling and numb. And we reduced by half the electrical activity in the brain in response to the shocks. We did EEG time linked to when the shocks were administered. And the first component of the ERP, the P100, disappeared entirely. So within a tenth of a second, their brain is substantially reducing the signal of the same shocks that are being administered. So the brain literally turns down the amplitude of its response to these shocks.