Back to episode — Episode 645 Scott Adams - Talking About Politics, AI, and Brain Hacking
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refer systems over goals people get confused and they say wait repeating the thing you want in your mind and visualizing it isn't that like a goal without a system? To which I say no the system is the repeating it. Because the repeating it is what causes your brain to create filters that allow you to notice things and act upon things that maybe you wouldn't have noticed or acted upon. So using aff…
← Previous segment →l of hope and everything looks great and good things are happening in that forest. That's just a simple but the point is that 20% of the people would have a physical experience. Their body would start to conform to what that experience would be like if they were in the real world having the experience. So you could make somebody feel hot. You could make them feel cold. You can change their heart rate, their pulse. You can really change a number of chemical situations and electrical situations in people's body through hypnosis. So to answer your question could you fix somebody's depression through hypnosis? I don't know. I don't know that it's been tested but my strong intuition with 95% confidence is that at least 20% of people could have more of those chemicals that tend to be on the low side when you have depression. So I'll say that with a fair degree of certainty. But whether that's a cure I don't think that's been tested.
Somebody say they meditate daily it's a direct route to fix depression. I don't know. I've not seen studies on that either. I hear lots of good things about meditation and it's something I did in my younger days and I found great value to it until I learned hypnosis. Hypnosis is a more direct and stronger version in my opinion. They're different. You know meditating is not hypnosis. They're different things. But hypnosis does better what meditating does. In fact one of the things hypnotists learn is self-hypnosis. So I can count to 20 and put myself into a meditative state pretty quickly and I do that sometimes.
All right do you have any ties yourself? Yes I do. I use all the tricks that you just saw which largely come from the field of hypnosis. But I also use a trick I learned as I've noticed to rather quickly put me in that state. So it's a trainer I've developed over time.
All right somebody said I tried hypnosis but my will was stronger so I couldn't be put under. Now what happened was you don't know why. Hypnosis is that's all. So somebody said my will, my will was too strong I couldn't be put under hypnosis. That's not
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a thing. That's somebody who didn't want to be hypnotized. That's all that it is. If you want to relax and listen to somebody you can sit in a chair and relax and listen to somebody talk. That's being hypnotized. If you have some mental process that says it wasn't working that's a false message. You were being hypnotized. You just didn't feel like it. That's different. All right that's all I got…
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