The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Hypnosis has been shown to activate the insula, which can enhance our sense of interoception, our sense of internal state... hypnosis is that it increases areas of the brain that are responsible for deep relaxation, focus, and self-awareness, this interoception, simultaneously.
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What this paper essentially shows is that specific areas of our brain that are involved in executive function, which is associated with our ability to focus, as well as what's called the "default mode network," which is sort of the way that your brain idles, does your brain tend to idle at a level of high anxiety or calm, as well as activation of a brain area called the "insula."
It really all has to do with how self-hypnosis can modulate activity of the prefrontal cortex and related structures like the insula. The prefrontal cortex is involved in our executive function as it's called, our planning, our decision making, but also how we interpret context, what the meaning of a given sensation is.
He talks about this a lot. And I always wonder as we take down activity within the default-mode network, what what surfaces in its place, does that somehow reflect that the two are normally in a push-pull?