Power of POSITIVE THINKING
It’s no surprise that Paul McKenna, the hypnotherapist and motivational guru, describes himself as an optimistic person, but even he has not emerged unscathed from the world-changing events of the past two years. ‘About 18 months ago, I said to my wife, “I feel a bit down” and she replied, “Been watching the news all day?” and I went “Ah…”,’ says McKenna, nodding his head slowly to illustrate the lightbulb moment that transformed the way he digests news.
‘If you open a newspaper or turn on the TV, the narrative is that you’re under attack – from the virus, the economy, terrorists, some extremist political party – and, in recent years, the temperature has cranked right up. I now limit the amount of news that I watch. I just take in the headlines and try not to get drawn in.’
I’m sitting in McKenna’s airy second-floor sitting room in Kensington, west London, opposite the man whose legendary powers have transformed everyone from mega stars to PTSDstricken war veterans, not to mention the
