AI or Human Therapy?

 Hello, I'm Greg Newton and I'm a master hypnotist and hypnotherapist with the State of Washington. And I'm gonna talk to you today about when a hypnotherapist or your therapist is a bot. So here's a question who's really listening? When your therapist. Ai. So we're stepping into a world where AI is being marketed.

As your coach, your confident and your late night therapist piping your feelings. It spit back wisdom. It's like a digital oracle. It's always available. It's everywhere. It never sleeps. And on the surface, that sounds incredible. Imagine a waiting list. No insurance forms, no awkward silences. Just you, your AI friend at 3:00 AM talking through your heartbreak, your panic attack.

Here's the paradox, you, when you pour your heart out to a bot, to an ai, what's really happening is you're not being heard by another human being. You're being reflected back, like shouting into a canyon and hearing your own voice return just slightly distorted. It can be soothing, but it's not healing

because healing isn't just about words. It's not about the words we hear, it's about the felt sense that someone else has entered our experience. It's that they've shouldered a corner of it, some piece of burden, even if just for a moment, and ai, not now, never can do that. It can't carry your weight. It can only mirror it back.

Now, don't get me wrong, there's value. Sometimes we don't need a therapist, we just need a place to offload to sort our thought. Thoughts to hear them reshaped in language and in that way AI is like a notebook that talks back, but if we confuse that with a relationship we're in, we're in danger because the human mind, our mind is wired for reciprocity.

We grow not just by speaking, but by being received. It makes me wonder if AI therapy. Is like drinking salt water. When you're thirsty, when you're dying of it, it feels like a relief. It feels like, ah, this takes care of everything. But in the long term, it can deepen the hunger for connection that you went to it to satisfy in the first place.

And hypnosis, hypnosis teaches a. That suggestion matters. The voice you listen to, the narrative that you allow in this shapes your inner world, that voice, that algorithm that it's trained on, not on human care, not on you. What kind of suggestions are you internalizing and allowing you? It. So maybe the question isn't, can AI heal us?

Maybe the real question is, what does it say about us that we're willing to turn to machines instead of each other to feel less alone? Because if we don't pause, we risk outsourcing, not just our therapy, but our very human capacity. To be human to one another. So talk to the bot if you need to use the tool.

But don't forget that your soul doesn't just need words. It needs witness, and witness can't be automated. So as you move forward, who witnesses you?

That's it for now. I look forward to seeing you next time.

Hello, I'm Greg Newton and I'm a master hypnotist and hypnotherapist with the State of Washington. And I'm gonna talk to you today about when a hypnotherapist or your therapist is a bot. So here's a question who's really listening? When your therapist. Ai. So we're stepping into a world where AI is being marketed.

As your coach, your confident and your late night therapist piping your feelings. It spit back wisdom. It's like a digital oracle. It's always available. It's everywhere. It never sleeps. And on the surface, that sounds incredible. Imagine a waiting list. No insurance forms, no awkward silences. Just you, your AI friend at 3:00 AM talking through your heartbreak, your panic attack.

Here's the paradox, you, when you pour your heart out to a bot, to an ai, what's really happening is you're not being heard by another human being. You're being reflected back, like shouting into a canyon and hearing your own voice return just slightly distorted. It can be soothing, but it's not healing

because healing isn't just about words. It's not about the words we hear, it's about the felt sense that someone else has entered our experience. It's that they've shouldered a corner of it, some piece of burden, even if just for a moment, and ai, not now, never can do that. It can't carry your weight. It can only mirror it back.

Now, don't get me wrong, there's value. Sometimes we don't need a therapist, we just need a place to offload to sort our thought. Thoughts to hear them reshaped in language and in that way AI is like a notebook that talks back, but if we confuse that with a relationship we're in, we're in danger because the human mind, our mind is wired for reciprocity.

We grow not just by speaking, but by being received. It makes me wonder if AI therapy. Is like drinking salt water. When you're thirsty, when you're dying of it, it feels like a relief. It feels like, ah, this takes care of everything. But in the long term, it can deepen the hunger for connection that you went to it to satisfy in the first place.

And hypnosis, hypnosis teaches a. That suggestion matters. The voice you listen to, the narrative that you allow in this shapes your inner world, that voice, that algorithm that it's trained on, not on human care, not on you. What kind of suggestions are you internalizing and allowing you? It. So maybe the question isn't, can AI heal us?

Maybe the real question is, what does it say about us that we're willing to turn to machines instead of each other to feel less alone? Because if we don't pause, we risk outsourcing, not just our therapy, but our very human capacity. To be human to one another. So talk to the bot if you need to use the tool.

But don't forget that your soul doesn't just need words. It needs witness, and witness can't be automated. So as you move forward, who witnesses you?

That's it for now. I look forward to seeing you next time.

 Hello, I'm Greg Newton and I'm a master hypnotist and hypnotherapist with the State of Washington. And I'm gonna talk to you today about when a hypnotherapist or your therapist is a bot. So here's a question who's really listening? When your therapist. Ai. So we're stepping into a world where AI is being marketed.

As your coach, your confident and your late night therapist piping your feelings. It spit back wisdom. It's like a digital oracle. It's always available. It's everywhere. It never sleeps. And on the surface, that sounds incredible. Imagine a waiting list. No insurance forms, no awkward silences. Just you, your AI friend at 3:00 AM talking through your heartbreak, your panic attack.

Here's the paradox, you, when you pour your heart out to a bot, to an ai, what's really happening is you're not being heard by another human being. You're being reflected back, like shouting into a canyon and hearing your own voice return just slightly distorted. It can be soothing, but it's not healing

because healing isn't just about words. It's not about the words we hear, it's about the felt sense that someone else has entered our experience. It's that they've shouldered a corner of it, some piece of burden, even if just for a moment, and ai, not now, never can do that. It can't carry your weight. It can only mirror it back.

Now, don't get me wrong, there's value. Sometimes we don't need a therapist, we just need a place to offload to sort our thought. Thoughts to hear them reshaped in language and in that way AI is like a notebook that talks back, but if we confuse that with a relationship we're in, we're in danger because the human mind, our mind is wired for reciprocity.

We grow not just by speaking, but by being received. It makes me wonder if AI therapy. Is like drinking salt water. When you're thirsty, when you're dying of it, it feels like a relief. It feels like, ah, this takes care of everything. But in the long term, it can deepen the hunger for connection that you went to it to satisfy in the first place.

And hypnosis, hypnosis teaches a. That suggestion matters. The voice you listen to, the narrative that you allow in this shapes your inner world, that voice, that algorithm that it's trained on, not on human care, not on you. What kind of suggestions are you internalizing and allowing you? It. So maybe the question isn't, can AI heal us?

Maybe the real question is, what does it say about us that we're willing to turn to machines instead of each other to feel less alone? Because if we don't pause, we risk outsourcing, not just our therapy, but our very human capacity. To be human to one another. So talk to the bot if you need to use the tool.

But don't forget that your soul doesn't just need words. It needs witness, and witness can't be automated. So as you move forward, who witnesses you?

That's it for now. I look forward to seeing you next time.