Paul McKenna and his claim to change people's lives

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Case 1:
Celia graduated as doctor in 1991 and she lives now in South-London. When she was working with sero-positive patients, she was pricked by a used needle. Since that day, she had to live with an unbearable phobia of everything that is sharpened enough to potentially cause injuries. Her career was ruined and for ten years she avoided medical environments.

When McKenna read her case notes, he thought he could help her and was very confident about it. His method consists in desensitizing the triggers of her phobia and also reprogramming her mind for her to feel inconsciously secure and deeply conviced that she is able to protect herself against diseases.

Case 2:
Matthew is a 20 year-old boy who's got almost everything to lead a normal and interesting life. He's passionate about dancing, he's got a black belt in matrial arts and he's a driver for a local cab firm. But something bothers him constantly in his life, even though he's making huge efforts to try to live normally. He has the Tourette syndrome, a nervous disorder that incontrolably manifests itself in tics and unusual vocalisations.

In order to treat this case, Paul McKenna called Matthew to make him feel confortable during his treatment by saying that he had already worked with people with Tourret before him. After that he asked him a couple of questions in order to have more information about him and to choose the right treatment (mmm...very professional!). For him, Matthew has to learn to control his stress and NLP can help him. Finally, Paul managed to help our boy reduce the symptoms of his disease but most important, he learnt to feel better about himself so he was less under stress which helped him move forward in his life.

Case 3:
Lizzie had a boyfriend for 12 years which left her 18 months ago. Now she's completely obsessed about him and hardly sleeps at night. She feels like her mind is giving her the same images and the same emotions again and again, day and night. Trying to get rid of that already cost her a fortune but she didn't get any satisfying results in return.

For Paul, this is not a mental disorder since almost everyone has to go through this at least once in his life. The problem Lizzie encounters is the proportions that the love pain gained in her life. According to him, the solution is to reprogram Lizzie's mind in order to modify the way old images of the past made her feel. She can't forget the past unless she has some serious accident but she, and like everyone, can change the way she feels about things.

Paul McKenna's method
McKenna believes that the mind has a limitless capacity to reprogram itself. Like Grinder and Bandler, he conceives the human mind as a computer with many little programs that are constantly run. One can choose which program to run, which one to shut down and which one to modify. These techniques are very similar to hypnosis.