How to free yourself from anxiety, with Paul McKenna
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Do you struggle with anxiety? For this episode of The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show, Liz chats to hypnotherapist and behavioural scientist Paul McKenna about how we can free ourselves from anxious feelings.
Paul guides Liz through different techniques, such as havening and freeze frame, to help us when we are feeling stressed out.
The episode also covers neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and whether manifestation can help us hit our goals. Plus, Paul reveals how he first became fascinated with hypnotherapy and the science behind it.
Links mentioned in the episode:
Purchase Paul's new book, Freedom From Anxiety here
Listen to our episode on tapping, with Poppy Delbridge
Learn more about Mindvalley here
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| 0:00.0 | It's important to realize that the uncomfortable emotions like fear and anger and guilt and sadness, |
| 0:06.0 | they're part of our intelligence and our experience of living, but they're also ones that you don't want to live in. |
| 0:12.5 | When you anxious all the time, you tend to, well first of all, get exhausted, you're weakening your immune system, |
| 0:18.0 | but you'll make bad decisions because everything's a reaction rather than a response. |
| 0:21.5 | So it wouldn't it be better to be in a state of relaxed alertness in control of your feelings and thoughts |
| 0:28.5 | so that you can think clearly, sure, you don't lose any of your age, but at the same time you've got all of your ability to respond to things. |
| 0:38.5 | Well that's Hypnotherapist and behavioral scientist Paul McKenna, and he's here to help us stress less. |
| 0:45.0 | This is the Lizelle Wellbeing Show, the podcast helping us all to have a better second half. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm Lizelle, and as you probably know by now, I'm on a bit of a mission to find ways for us all to thrive in later life |
| 0:57.5 | by investing in our health and our wellbeing today. |
| 1:00.5 | Well there is just far too much stress and worry in the world right now, yeah? |
| 1:05.5 | And I think we're all well aware at this point of the psychological and physical harm that it can do to us. |
| 1:11.5 | So what if we could learn to just switch off anxiety and go into a state of instant calm at will? |
| 1:18.5 | Wouldn't that be amazing? |
| 1:19.5 | Well the guy known for a bit of magic and stage hypnotism by those like me who are old enough to remember his early years |
| 1:26.5 | is so much more than just smoke and mirrors. |
| 1:29.5 | Paul McKenna's brilliant 30 year career has seen him helping people with everything from weight loss to confidence, to sleep. |
| 1:36.5 | And now he is focusing on another big one, freeing us from anxiety and he is really good at it too. |
| 1:44.5 | His new book Freedom from Anxiety is a whole brain learning system that he hopes will reset those thought patterns and behaviors |
| 1:52.5 | that currently hold us all back through techniques including NLP and self hypnosis. |
| 1:57.5 | I have to say that I for one am intrigued, not least because I do follow his guided meditations on mind valley when I get into bed |
| 2:05.5 | and as you're about to find out he does have a great voice. |
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