Despite celebrity endorsements and growing popularity of the practice, there’s still little scientific proof to support these claims.
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How can exercise, meditation and hypnosis change our brains and potentially prevent disease?
See if you can get your head around this.
A review of studies in psychology and neuroscience shows we are well on the way to understanding what goes on in our brains when we are hypnotised.
While some respectable organisations have lists of recommended apps, very few of these apps are supported by experimental evidence.
The new TV show You’re Back in the Room would have us believe a powerful hypnotist can make us do whatever he says. This is inconsistent with over 200 years of evidence from the science of hypnosis.
Despite long standing associations with mysticism and stage hypnotism, hypnosis has also been used for medical and scientific purposes. For well over a century, hypnosis has been used to treat a wide range…
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