#85: Neuromagic & Illusion - Stephen Macknik,...

Neuroscientist Idil Sezer joins the FitMind Podcast to explore what meditation changes beyond the brain. She explains how meditation may influence attention, emotional regulation, pain, brain–heart communication, and our fundamental sense of self. The conversation also explores t ...  Show more

Mindfulness, Medicine & the Biology of Stress explores how meditation can change our relationship to stress, support the body's natural healing systems, and help us live with more presence, compassion, and ease. In this episode of The FitMind Podcast, we sit down with Craig Hasse ...  Show more

Why does magic fool us so easily? Is our perception of reality just an illusion? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Gary O’Reilly explore the neuroscience behind magic with magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) and neuroscientist Susana Martinez-Conde.

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Dr. David Spiegel is a psychiatrist, Stanford professor, and leading authority on hypnosis and stress-related health. What exactly is hypnosis? Most of us picture it as a magician’s trick, when someone dangles a watch, your eyes get heavy, and suddenly you’re suggestible. But tha ...  Show more

This episode will make you believe in Magic. This week, Ashdin is joined by Illusionist, Mentalist, Magician, Hypnotherapist, and Author Suhani Shah. In this episode, we learn about the mind, body language, how different schools of thought teach similar concepts, lessons learnt f ...  Show more

The growing understanding of how vision and breathing directly affect the brain—rather than the more generic categories of the mind and emotions is a topic that we find fascinating. And today, in this special encore release from the Collective Insights vault, Dr. Andrew Huberman, ...  Show more