ACTORS
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DegGeneres Show 2006, for Quit Smoking.
Ellen DeGeneres with Paul McKenna hypnotizing her on the Ellen DeGeneres show.
“I feel so good. I feel healthier! It seems ridiculous but my skin looks better, I just feel
like, I feel healthy. I feel really good.”
Paul-So do you feel like a cigarette?
Ellen-No, I don’t.
Ben Affleck
Orpah show March 14, 2008. For Quit Smoking
I finally decided to quit smoking when I was going to have a child, and that was the
thing that sort of put it over the top for me,” Ben says.
Ben decided to take a leaf out of pal Matt Damon’s book by visiting a hypnotist.
My last cigarette was on November 10th, 2005, and I feel a huge difference in my health now that I don’t
smoke. I feel like I’m in better shape than I was five years ago.”
Whoopie Goldberg
Overcoming Fear of Flying
Using hypnosis and visualization to conquer her fear of flying.
“I am sweating a lot. My mind is doing bad stuff to me….I am not a good flyer. I don’t
like it. I don’t wanna do it.” “It starts the days before, I start to panic. I stop eating. I shake and lose tempertaure. I get
pale, which is not cute.”
Matt Damon
Jay Leno show 7 December 2004 For to quit smoking:
16 year smoking habit. “I should have done it years ago. It’s amazing I didn’t even want cigarettes any more.”
Denise Richards
Using Hypnosis to stop cussing
Singers/Artisits
Lilly Allen
Daily Mail Weight Loss
Award Winning Singer with weight problems talks to British newspapers about losing weight through hypnotism. Allen, 22, is delighted with her new look and said: “After the hypnotism, I want to go to the gym every day, otherwise I feel really bad.” “I just want to get more toned and healthy. I’m really good about everything at the moment – I’ve never been happier.”
Courtney Love
British Newspaper the Daily Mail 27th of July 2008. Weight Loss
The former Hole singer has told friends that she trusts McKenna, author of bestseller ‘I Can Make You Thin’, despite concerns over her dramatic loss of weight. “I’ve known Paul for years,” Love was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying. “I lost weight last year the old-fashioned way by dieting and living off protein shakes. But it was hard to stay disciplined. “He’s brilliant and is totally responsible for me staying so skinny. Whenever I start to feel my resolve weaken, I go to Paul for another hypnosis session.”
Fergie (Stacy Ferguson/Black Eye Peas) Award Winning Singer
San Francisco Chronicle April, 03 2007 Beating Drug Addiction
“I do hypnotherapy, which is a really big thing in my life. It works well with me because you go back into your subconscious and there are positive suggestions that are said to you. It really works for me.” “Hypnotherapy helped me a lot. I love it. The first time I went was hilarious. I told the doctor I didn’t want to do any of that hypnosis, I just wanted regular therapy. The next time I went in I was biting my nails, so I told her I’d been biting my nails and wantedto try hypnotherapy. I went into the chair, and it was amazing. It completely worked.” This is an example of a celebrity using hypnosis to dispose of bad career and health affecting habits.
Melanie Brown/ Spice Girls
Daily Star Nerves/Anxiety
“My friend hypnotized me before I started rehearsals to have a real open mind,”
She tells People magazines “I was getting a bit nervous. My anxiety was getting to me, I
was getting a bit nervous. I was hypnotized to calm me down and it worked.”
SPORTS / ATHLETES
Damion Easley Major League Baseball player
Los Angeles Times May 10 1998. Peak Mental Performance
“I needed something to make a difference,” Easley said. “I was skeptical. When you’re in the limelight everybody has a quick fix for your problems. But I was at a point where I
needed to do something. So I was ready to listen to what he had to say.” “The physical ability to play was always there. I had just become blocked mentally. Baseball is not my job, it’s my passion. I had accomplished a dream making it to the big leagues. And when you’re struggling, you’ll do anything to keep you where you think you belong.”
Steve Hooker Olympic Gold Medalist and World Record Pole Vault holder
Beijing on August 22nd 2008. Peak Mental performance
“It’s not like she had me walking around like acting like a chicken or anything,” Hooker said. “It was more getting really relaxed, so your subconscious comes to the forefront, and just having her run through scripts about what things I needed to focus on. “I would talk to her at the start of the session and say, ‘I want to talk about lowering the pole vault in my last couple of steps and jumping off the ground.’ I would tell her the cues I wanted to work on, so she’d work it into the things that she was saying while I was under hypnosis. “I felt like that kind of stuff was cool. The more you do it the more you realise pole vault is mental. Just having any sort of mental stimulation, where you are thinking deeply about what you’re doing, helps.”
Tiger Woods
Sports Illustrated. Improving Golf Performance. Overcoming Mental Blocks
So clear-minded and open to all possibilities in golf that Brunza was able
to hypnotize him in less than a minute. “Tiger, hold your arm out straight,” Brunza said. Tiger did. “Now, Earl,
try to bend it.” Earl pulled, pushed and even hung off that arm, and it wouldn’t bend.
Brunza got so good at hypnotizing Tiger, he could do it over the phone.
Vincent Hancock – Olympic Gold Medalist in Skeet Shooting
SanFrancisco Chronicle on Sunday, August 17, 2008
“When you are shooting in the Olympics, it comes down to who can best perform under extreme pressure. Out there, everybody is as good as the next person. It’s not a physical thing anymore. The difference between the
best and the rest is the mental game.” That’s where the hypnosis comes in. The idea, Vitchoff said, is to put the athletes into a meditative state by lowering their blood pressure and heart rate, sometimes with music.
Vitchoff then uses what is essentially the power of suggestion to reinforce positive thoughts. He said he goes over the relaxation techniques repeatedly until his subjects are able to reach what he calls the “zone.”
Jim Eisenreich professional major league baseball player
Sports Illustrated Magazine on April 23, 1984. Nervousness Home and Sport Life
A person instrumental in his comeback, St. Paul hypnotist Harvey Misel, worries that “They’re really walking on eggshells around him,” says Misel. “That might not be the best thing. Everybody is afraid to say something
or do something wrong. No one on the team has a pipeline to him. If he just had somebody to use as a sounding board…. He must feel like an island.”
Adam Nelson Olympic Silver Medalist in shot put
NPR Radio May 27, 2008. Peak Mental Performance
It’s the day before his first big competition of the outdoor season, and Pete Siegal has hypnotized Nelson. The session gets more and more intense, with Siegal leading Nelson through a powerful imaginary throw. This is an example of a famous athlete using hypnosis to improve performance and to overcome metal blocks on and off Olympic tracks.
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Deana Rushworth PGA Golf Professional
CBS 2008 – Improving Mental Game
“I attended a four-day intensive course…. It centred around how the brain receives and processes information and how to maximise each golfer’s personal potential. “The wealth of strategies learned has improved my outlook on how to coach both the golf swing and the golfer, making lessons more personal and in turn more productive.” This is an example of a famous athlete using hypnosis to improve performance and to
help enhance teaching on and off the Golf Course.
Professional boxer Tommy “2 guns” Griffith
Using hypnotism to prepare for fights.
“I am a 100% convinced this helps me.” “It tells you what you already know”
