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✦ Featured · Hypnosis & Neuroscience

Why your brain treats success like a threat — and how to update the file

Before age 7 you were running in theta state — the same brainwave as hypnosis. Everything you witnessed about money was absorbed as hard truth. That file is still running. Here's the neuroscience of why, and exactly what it takes to overwrite it.

✦ 8 min read Tina · March 2026
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