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Family gatherings can be complicated. Sometimes we look froward to them and other times we feel tense and anxious knowing that problems could arise. Here are some ways to navigate those times by taking some realities into consideration. I hope it helps.
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• Each FRIDAY, guests join me in a conversation.
• Come back each Wednesday
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Today, my guest is Erik Vance a researcher and science water whose work has been published in The New York Times, Scientific American, and National Geographic. He is the author of
Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform and Heal published by National Geographic
(click for more book info)
SHOW NOTES:
MIN 2:00
When the brain heals or cures the body without medicine and studying the placebo effect.
Being a Christian Scientist as a child and experiencing faith healing.
MIN 4:30
Faith healing and gullibility
Hypocrites
1940s studies determined that the non responders to placebo “pure”, the the response in part of being human.
MIN 7:30
Hypnosis and being “talented” if you are hypnotizable.
[My conversation with Magician Kevin Ferguson about HYPNOSIS and DECEPTION]
MIN 8:30
Expectancy, belief, and placebo effect
MIN 10:30
Priming and doctors using he placebo effect to help people.
Brain is a giant prediction machine.
MIN 12:30
When Erik got electric shocks and his brain filled in the gaps
MIN 15:00
Distraction and pain killing and hypnosis
MIN 18:00
Memories, Suggestibility, and Placebo
Dr Steven Porter – False and Implanted Memories and placebo
[My episode with Dr Porter on implanted and false memories.]
Who we are is so tied up in our memories
MIN 20:30
3 phases of memories
PTSD
memories and expectation for healing
MIN 23:30
Flashbulb memories and how memories changed
MIN 25:00
Eastern vs. Western medicine in terms of healing and placebo
Now used more in certain conditions that track with placebo research and findings.
MIN 28:30
The conditions that respond to placebos
MIN 30:30
Placebo effect that works on top of medicines
MIN 32:30
Marketing medicine in certain ways to increasing effects
MIN 34:30
The rules in play that can cause a 60% response rate to placebos
MIN 36:30
Want Nocebo is (“I shall harm”)
MIN 38:00
Fear is powerful motivator
MIN 38:30
Superstitions, curses (nocebo) and when Erik ask a witch doctor to curse him
MIN 43:00
Proper Hoc Ergo Hoc
(looking for a cause as a reason after something happens)
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SHOW NOTES:
Is it getting harder to be around other humans? Today I explore this phenomenon and what can be done. If you’re an introvert or just someone who’s been using technology more in the last five years, you’ve probably noticed that your in-person interactions take more energy than you would like and might not be as deep. Something has fundamentally changed in our ways of being and being together and there’s a way to encounter each other that we’ve left behind. Have you noticed?
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• Come back each Wednesday
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