Dr. David Spiegel

And so unfortunately, the evidence there is it just isn't taken seriously because it can't be that quick and easy and safe.

But it is.

You bet.

Well, this wonderful figure skater, Elisa from Oakland, she does visualization.

To me, that's all self-hypnosis.

She said, I would just, before I did the routine, many times, I would just close my eyes and picture myself making every move I wanted to make.

And she would do it.

Rory McIlroy, who won the Masters, he was frustrated for like seven years because at one point on one hole, I think the ball wound up in a tree somewhere.

Yeah, I remember that.

He was humiliated.

And and he kept doing it every year.

And the same thing happened on that whole learned association.

His brain thought, you know, here it's going to happen again.

And the more you say, oh, my God, I hope it doesn't.

Of course, the more it's likely to happen.

He decided to get professional help from a from a hypnotist.

And he won the Masters.

There's a book called Zen and the Art of Archery.

An Irish sociologist figured out that the main difference between Zen archers and most archers is they say if you're focusing on the target, you're making a mistake.

Focus on your relationship with the bow and arrow.