How Your Mind Learns to Change: The Science of Absorption with John Wylie

Can understanding how the mind works help us create lasting change? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with John Wylie about hypnosis, absorption, automatic patterns, attention, imagination, and the science behind meaningful behavioral change.

John shares insights on:

✅ What absorption is and why it matters in everyday life

✅ Why hypnosis can be understood as structured absorption

✅ The difference between knowing better and doing better

✅ Why willpower alone may not be enough to change automatic patterns

✅ How the mind learns through new experiences

✅ Using imagination to create and reinforce better responses

✅ How attention and automatic behavior influence our actions

✅ A practical way to begin changing an automatic pattern

✅ The Unified Absorption Model and its connection to modern science

✅ Why lasting change requires more than knowledge and motivation

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