Eccentric self-help guru Paul McKenna believes you can wish things into a reality, including a parking spot in central London – ‘I thought he just got lucky but he did it again and again’
Oddball self-help guru Paul McKenna reckons people can manifest parking spaces if they focus their minds enough.
Focusing on your goals can make them happen, the celebrated hypnotherapist says. He has been a believer in manifesting, and he recalls one friend who was able to manifest parking spaces in central London time after time.
He, said: “I thought it was very ‘woo-woo’. When someone said to me, ‘Oh I ask the parking fairies to find me a parking space, I said, ‘Oh, f*** off, that’s ridiculous,’ but then a parking space appeared. I thought he just got lucky but he did it again and again.
“I thought, maybe there’s a scientific explanation for these, maybe we’re setting our perception to target a parking space – you’ve trained your brain to notice it.”
Paul says he was in the red when he first started manifesting in the early Eighties, while trying to get his hypnotic London theatre show off the ground.
He cut out the red ‘overdrawn’ figure on his bank statement and glued in its place a new number, which said £77,000 in credit.
As he tried to manifest financial freedom, he also imagined walking out to perform to a full house, hearing the applause and feeling success.
A few weeks later he got the London theatre show which would kickstart his self-help career.
Within months he was in credit beyond the £77,000, but only after he’d taken a photo of himself next to the ‘House Full’ sign at the theatre before a new run, pinning it on his fridge and repeatedly imagining what it would be like to play to a full house.
The self-help whizz, who has worked with stars including Roger Daltrey, James Corden, Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell and has trained thousands of hypnotherapists, asserts that if you can visualise success and focus your energy on your goals, you can make them happen.