Heads Up - Watch GMA Wednesday Morning

For those interested, tomorrow morning on Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer and some of the other staff are going to use self-hypnosis to walk across hot coals. They have been working with a psychologist from Stanford University to be able to do this. He worked with them independently to see how susceptible they are to his techniques.

In looking at brain scans when the mind is in a hypnotic state, pain centers are almost inactive.

The hypnosis process has also been well-described:

Hypnosis has been called 'believed in imagination.' It's a form of highly focused attention," said Dr. David Spiegel, a psychiatrist at Stanford University. "You control what you focus on and what effect it has on you and your body.

Source: ABC News