Have you ever known exactly what you should do — and done the opposite anyway?
In this episode, I explore imagination not as make-believe, but as one of the ways your body prepares itself for a future before it's even arrived. Drawing on hypnosis, prediction, and years of hypnotherapy practice, I look at why intellectual insight so often fails to change behaviour, and what's actually happening underneath procrastination, addiction, anxiety, and self-sabotage.
We talk about the difference between awareness and reconciliation, why shame turns a passing impulse into a verdict on your whole identity, and why the old meanings and self-protective strategies you built years ago might need a little forgiveness rather than force. We get into why the size of your imagination might really just be a measure of how much reality you're willing to let yourself play with — and why the goal was never more willpower, just a little more room, and a little more humour, with yourself.
This isn't an episode about fixing yourself. It's about understanding the parts of you that you've been fighting — and discovering there might be more possibilities available to you than you've been sure of.
A few books relevant to today's episode are below, if you'd like to go deeper. No pressure to chase any of it down.
Antonio Damasio, The Strange Order of Things
Andy Clark, The Experience Machine
Moshe Bar, The Power of Prediction
Fabrizio Benedetti, Placebo Effects
Robert Sapolsky, Determined
Anil Seth, Being You
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