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Paul McKenna

Paul McKenna

British hypnotist

Oct 21, 2026

4:21
So could I perchance ask you to give us maybe like a little 10 second tip on just being still for a moment and making ourselves feel a little bit better?
4:33
Do you know there's a technique that's used by all four divisions of the American military, right? When you feel stressed and overwhelmed, it takes less than a minute.
4:41
So, you know, get yourself stressed about something.
4:45
Then put your hand over your heart, like touch your heart.
4:50
So when you do that, you bring your attention to your heart, which is for a number of reasons calming.
4:55
But then what you do is you change your state of mind and body by forcibly taking in, slowly taking in breath, And then gently take an out-breath.
5:10
And then you take in another in-breath.
6:17
What sort of first stirred something inside you when it comes to those sort of early automotive memories?
85:14
Oh
85:14
... every day for a week, and i-it's almost certain, it's not absolutely certain, but it's almost certain to help you quit.
85:20
And also, ninety-seven percent of people do not gain any weight when they use my system.

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90:34
Mm.
90:34
So you're in that state of focus.
90:37
You know, there, there...
90:38
it takes the, the anxiety away and, you know, e-every, every professional athlete in the world now has somebody like me, has a success coach.
55:46
Apparently it's, apparently it's not really good for you.
55:50
Oh, no. It's, it's, uh-e- it does, um, does a very good job in controlling stress, but it's got a massive negative long-term health consequence for a lot of people.

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61:14
[laughing]
Paul McKenna
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61:14
And by the time you've eventually got to zero, you'll be like, "I can't even remember why I started listening to this in the first place.
Paul McKenna
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61:21
I'm, uh, do I...
Paul McKenna
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61:22
I don't even play golf." Anyway.

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