Change Your Life In 7 Days

290 Pages·2009·0.99 MB·English

ALSO
BY
PAUL
McKENNA

The
Hypnotic
World
of Paul
McKenna

How
to Mend
Your Broken Heart

(with H u g h W i l l b o u r n )

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C H A N G E

Y O U R LIFE IN
7 DAYS

The World's Leading Hypnotist

Shows You How

P A U L M c K E N N A , Ph.D.

E d i t e d
b y M i c h a e l
Neill

H A R M O N Y
B O O K S

N E W
Y O R K

Mantesh

Copyright © 2004 by Paul McKenna

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Harmony Books, an imprint of the
Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York,
www. crownpublishing. com

HARMONY BOOKS is a registered trademark and the Harmony Books
colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Originally published in Great Britain by Bantam Press, a division of
Transworld Publishers, London, in 2004.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McKenna, Paul, 1963-

Change your life in seven days : the world's leading hypnotist shows
you how / Paul McKenna.—1st ed.
p. cm.

1. Self-actualization (Psychology)
2. Self-perception.
3. Autogenic
training.
I. Title.

BF637.S4M3926
2005
2004018135
158.1—dc22

ISBN 1-4000-8287-0

Printed in the United States of America

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First American Edition

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To my parents,

who gave me more than I realized

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Acknowledgments

I w o u l d like to t h a n k all of my c o l l e a g u e s , clients, a n d

students w h o h a v e c o n t r i b u t e d t o this b o o k .

I w o u l d
especially like
to
t h a n k R i c h a r d
Bandler,

M i c h a e l Neill, M i c h a e l B r e e n , D i a n a Beaver, D o u g Y o u n g ,

C l a r e Staples, M i k e O s b o r n e , a n d Paul D u d d r i d g e .

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Contents

Author's
Note

xi

Introduction

1

DAY 1
Who Are You, Really ?

15

DAY
2
A
User's
Manual
for
Your
Brain

39

DAY
3
The Power of a Positive Perspective

75

DAY 4
Dream Setting

105

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PAUL
M c K E N N A

DAY
5
Healthy Foundations

139

DAY 6
Creating Money

169

DAY
7
Happily Ever After

207

Conclusion:
Changing Your Life,
One
Week at a
Time

233

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PAUL
M c K E N N A

DAY
5
Healthy Foundations

139

DAY 6
Creating Money

169

DAY
7
Happily Ever After

207

Conclusion:
Changing Your Life,
One
Week at a
Time

233

I M P O R T A N T

There is a special hypnotic •recording to accompany

this book. It. will help Y O U ••re-enforce I he positive

benefits von gel from the techniques you are about

to use.

You can download it for free by visiting:

www.paulinckcnna.eom/t ranee

I N T R O D U C T I O N

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l l T M t t H M .
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Y o u HOLD in y o u r h a n d s a b o o k that has the p o w e r to

c h a n g e y o u r life forever.

D o e s that s e e m like a n o u t l a n d i s h claim? S o m a n y o f

t h e p e o p l e I've g u i d e d t o a c h i e v i n g their desires started

o u t w o n d e r i n g h o w i t i s possible a n d e n d e d u p a s t o u n d -

i n g t h e m s e l v e s . N o w it's y o u r turn. D o n ' t u n d e r e s t i m a t e

t h e p o w e r of the system in this b o o k . I p r o m i s e y o u — i t

will c h a n g e y o u r life!

Success a n d h a p p i n e s s are n o t a c c i d e n t s that j u s t h a p -

p e n t o s o m e p e o p l e a n d n o t t o o t h e r s — t h e y are pre-

dictable results c r e a t e d b y d e l i b e r a t e ways o f t h i n k i n g

a n d a c t i n g , ways that I'll b e s h a r i n g with y o u o v e r the

n e x t s e v e n days. As t h e saying g o e s , success is all a b o u t

l u c k — a s k any failure!

C A N I REALLY C H A N G E MY
LIFE IN SEVEN DAYS?

P e o p l e
w h o
a t t e n d
m y
s e m i n a r s
a r e

always a m a z e d w h e n w e c u r e l i f e l o n g

p h o b i a s i n less t h a n a n h o u r , o r c l e a r

u p s u p p o s e d l y d e e p - s e a t e d issues i n j u s t

Whether you think

you can or you think

you can't, you're

probably right.

—Henry Ford

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M c K E N N A

a few days. B u t m o s t p e o p l e c a n t h i n k of a time w h e n

their lives c h a n g e d i n j u s t a few m o m e n t s . P e r h a p s it was

g e t t i n g a n e w p i e c e of i m p o r t a n t i n f o r m a t i o n , or m e e t -

i n g a special s o m e o n e a n d k n o w i n g that y o u r life w o u l d

n e v e r a g a i n b e the s a m e .

H e r e i s the r e a s o n w h y c h a n g e c a n h a p p e n s o quickly:

The changes that matter most are more often

changes in perception than changes in the

world outside us. And we can change the way

we perceive the world in a heartbeat.

In fact, t h e m y t h that it takes a l o n g t i m e to c h a n g e

has o n l y b e e n a r o u n d f o r a b o u t a h u n d r e d years, w h e n

F r e u d i a n analysis b e c a m e t h e d o m i n a n t i n f l u e n c e i n the

t r e a t m e n t o f p s y c h o s o m a t i c
illness.
W h a t
m a k e s
this

p o i n t of view ironic is that t h e g o a l of psychoanalysis has

n e v e r b e e n to change p e o p l e , b u t r a t h e r to h e l p t h e m

g a i n a d e e p e r u n d e r s t a n d i n g of w h y t h e y are t h e way

they are. In my w o r k , u n d e r s t a n d i n g is the b o o b y prize!

S o m e t i m e s e v e n a small c h a n g e c a n m a k e a h u g e dif-

f e r e n c e . F o r e x a m p l e , i m a g i n e y o u a n d a n o t h e r p e r s o n

are driving a l o n g two straight roads, stretching side by side

off into the infinite distance. N o w i m a g i n e that o n e o f

those roads shifts e v e n a tiny bit away f r o m the other. At

first the difference m i g h t s e e m i m per c epti b le. B u t over

time, that small c h a n g e in direction w o u l d take y o u to an

entirely different destination f r o m the o t h e r p e r s o n .

T h e t e c h n i q u e s c o n t a i n e d in Change Your Life in Seven

Days a r e state of the art, o f f e r i n g n o t o n l y t h e latest soft-

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w a r e b u t also a w h o l e n e w o p e r a t i n g system f o r y o u r

b o d y a n d m i n d .

E a c h day, y o u will m a k e tiny c h a n g e s , c h a n g e s that

m a y b e i m p e r c e p t i b l e t o y o u a t first. B u t a s y o u c o n t i n u e

m o v i n g f o r w a r d , y o u will b e g i n t o realize j u s t h o w far y o u

have already c o m e a n d j u s t h o w m u c h y o u have c h a n g e d .

Let's f a c e i t — i f y o u d o virtually a n y t h i n g consistently

for seven days, it will c h a n g e y o u . W h a t m a k e s this system

different i s that m a n y o f the t e c h n i q u e s y o u will b e learn-

i n g a s y o u r e a d will g o o n w o r k i n g , h e l p i n g y o u l o n g

after y o u stop u s i n g t h e m . O v e r the n e x t seven days t h e

actions y o u take will set up a wave of c h a n g e in y o u r life

that will in turn affect m a n y o t h e r areas of y o u r life,

w h i c h in t u r n affect others. Just as an oil t a n k e r takes a

little while to start m o v i n g , it b e c o m e s difficult to stop

o n c e i t b u i l d s u p sufficient m o m e n t u m .

F o r c e n t u r i e s p e o p l e t h o u g h t i t was i m p o s s i b l e t o r u n

a f o u r - m i n u t e mile. T h e n o n M a r c h 6 , 1 9 54 , R o g e r B a n -

nister d i d w h a t all g r e a t p i o n e e r s d o — h e m a d e
the

i m p o s s i b l e h a p p e n .

Recently, I m e t Dr. B a n n i s t e r a n d we

talked a b o u t h o w a m a z i n g i t was that

within a y e a r of his b r e a k i n g t h e four-

m i n u t e m i l e , thirty-seven o t h e r p e o p l e

a r o u n d t h e w o r l d d i d so as well. In the

f o l l o w i n g year, an i n c r e d i b l e three hundred r u n n e r s b r o k e

t h r o u g h that previously i m p e n e t r a b l e barrier.

T h e finest m i n d s o f the a g e h a d b e l i e v e d i t was i m p o s -

sible
to
d o ,
a n d their beliefs b e c a m e a self-fulfilling

p r o p h e c y . ( S o m e n o t e d scientists actually s u g g e s t e d that