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Anxiety Relief

Trumpidation! Inauguration Anxiety Part 2

January 20, 2017 by Mark Shepard

It is day 12 of 90 Day Transformation Challenge #4 but it is DAY ONE of the new Presidential Administration of Donald Trump.

Here’s a reassuring conversational hypnosis session to help you make it through Inauguration Day and any inauguration anxiety you may be experiencing.

Remember, “Anxiety is thinking about what you do not want to have happen and you’re unconscious mind reacting to those thoughts as if they are true.”

So the solution is to focus your mind consciously on what you DO want to have happen. Peace. Prosperity. Health. Wealth. You and your loved ones safe, sound and happy.

– Mark

p.s. Today’s TranceFormation Tune is below the video… :o)

p.p.s. Remember to BREATHE!

p.p.p.s. Can you imagine President Trump’s level of anxiety? I mean SERIOUSLY he’s a real estate developer who is about to have all of the problems of the world placed on his shoulders. I kind of feel bad for him don’t you? For the sake of all us “little people” I sincerely hope he rises to the Office.

Video:

Here’s your TranceFormation Tune for today.

If anxiety is a problem for you, check out my best selling self help program, “How To CRUSH anxiety NOW!”

Any questions? Contact me.

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Filed Under: 90 Day Challenge, Anxiety, Anxiety Relief, current events, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Hypnosis for anxiety, Transformation

What is “Anxiety” Really?

September 2, 2016 by Mark Shepard

50923995_mlI got an email the other day from one of the Transformation Nation Members with a pretty good question.

It’s a good question because it nails the true issue that stops a lot of anxiety sufferers from actually finding relief.

And the key issue is whether anxiety is something we do or is something that happens to us.

I don’t know if you can handle me telling the truth here. Not everybody can.

Hopefully you are up to our transformation nation standard of being willing to take honest feedback and use it to “stalk” your own “stuff.”

Sometimes we need to get some tough love and honest coaching in order to cut through our own self deceit, clear it and move on to a more empowered, happier, more productive place where we can each bring MASSIVE value to the world through our own talents, and contributions instead of staying stuck in the old helpless, hopeless, victim place where most people live.

Here’s the question:

Hi mark! I miss the Transformation Tuesdays

I have a question for you that has been reoccurring for a while

It is known that ingesting certain chemicals can cause anxiety. Also the withdrawal of chemicals can cause severe anxiety. Stimulating certain parts of the brain electrically can cause anxiety as well as pressure on certain parts of the brain. Fatigue in general can cause anxiety, etc.

If this is the case, how is anxiety solely a product of imagining what you don’t want? And how is it not an illness? Who is to say that a person’s brain is not genetically prone to have pressure on the parts that causE anxiety or have more of certain chemicals in it which naturally cause more anxiety?

Thanks, very interested to hear your take on this! – E.

First of all, thank you for noticing I’ve stopped doing my “Transformation Tuesday Programs”.  I’m currently working with a high level business coach who gave ME some tough love and insisted I STOP doing anything that could possibly distract and delay me from passionately pursuing my Passionate Purpose EVEN if at some point in the past Transformation Tuesdays supported it.

Transformation Tuesdays were a fabulous training ground for me. I cleared a lot of my old “stuff” by committing to doing a program every week. The public commitment FORCED me to face some of my OWN self deceit and little bits of my own anxiety around performing my music. And I stepped up and took my own damn “medicine”.

However.

  1. I needed a break.
  2. I needed to find a way to reach a larger audience who is hungry for my message and music FIRST.
  3. I installed a bunch of really cool, powerful BIG goals into my Time Line (like Traveling the Country teaching my Modern Jedi Mind Mastery Methods to bullied Teens) and some of them are shaping up BIG time which means I HAVE to focus my energies on what could actually SUPPORT me as well as thousands of young, open minds.
  4. I WILL however keep up my daily discipline of writing a blog post or email newsletter almost every single day (or at least 6 out of 7 days. and since I started writing this yesterday and haven’t finished it until now this one counts for two days :o)

cool? cool.

Now to answer your question!

As you may know from my various courses and videos about How To CRUSH Anxiety, my definition of anxiety is this:

Anxiety is the thought process of focusing on what you DO NOT want to have happen in the future.

And BECAUSE your unconscious mind DOES NOT know the difference between what is real or imagined, your body will react to the imagined event AS IF IT IS REAL.

Big Pharma and Big Medicine want you to think Anxiety is a “Mental Disease” so they can sell you pills and get the health insurance companies to pay for them every month…and since they own the media, they have done a pretty good job of hypnotizing the masses to believe their definition of anxiety…

And its so much easier to believe that its outside of you… But there is no “anxiety germ” or “anxiety virus” or “anxiety gene” other than the one we all have which enables us to imagine a future we don’t want and then DO something to prevent it.  I INSIST that it is a step by step PROCESS that we all do in some form or another at some time or another…

So for example, I could imagine being strapped into the seat of a roller coaster and slowly, steadily being pulled up to the top of the track and then suddenly “falling” down the other side at a stomach clenching, GRAVITY obeying drop off that is  MASSIVELY SCARY (for me), not to mention the terrifying speed, g-force pulling curves etc….

If I do this vividly enough, my body will literally REACT as if it is REALLY HAPPENING.

But it’s not.

So, for another example, when someone has social anxiety, they are doing the same thing, imagining something embarrassing or uncomfortable enough around other people to trigger all the same fight, flight or freeze bio-chemistry that we recognize as “anxiety”.

Now where it gets interesting is that usually anxiety provoking situations are caused by a one time learning event at some point in our past. One example I use is Billy shoving a frog in Mary’s face in kindergarten and Mary “freaking out”. So now whenever Mary even hears the word “frog” or even sees a cute little cartoon frog on a greeting card or whatever, it brings up all the same memories and experiences in her neurology,( a.k.a. her imagination a.k.a. her unconscious mind).

The frog event is a “trauma”, a “one time learning event” that is so emotionally charged and intense that it STICKS. Because of it’s intensity and our hardwired desire to AVOID pain which is way stronger than MOVING TOWARDS PLEASURE, her unconscious mind is forever on the lookout for this situation… and anything that looks like the original situation will definitely get a lot of attention and focus and most likely TRIGGER the same reaction.

The anticipation of it happening again in the future is “anxiety”. Does that make sense?

Now I suppose all of this might “happen” somewhere specific in a person’s brain. I’m not a neuro scientist. I’m just a practitioner of NLP, Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy who has conquered anxiety in my own life as well as helping thousands and thousands of people to do the same in their lives.  So I don’t know where this actually happens in your brain or your left pinky or your gut.

The research I’ve encountered over the years as well as in my NLP training indicates that The body is a holograph. emotions don’t just happen in the brain. Emotions happen EVERYWHERE in the body as well as the body’s energy field.

The gut is also a key place where feel good and feel bad chemistry happens. Serotonin is created mostly in the gut. Wipe out all of your healthy bacteria in your digestive system and all of a sudden you might feel depressed or anxious.

A lot of research has been done lately with autistic kids who have totally recovered once their digestion was healed with pro-biotics and fermented vegetables. That’s another reason why I’m a total pro-biotic and fermented veggies guy. It totally has been proven to support cognitive functioning and balanced emotions.

so let’s say some one takes a drug that causes the body to experience what you “interpret” as anxiety.

Is it really anxiety? Meaning does the drug cause you to imagine worst case scenarios vividly enough to trigger fight or flight? Or is the drug triggering the same neuro connections, synapses etc that FEEL like anxiety.

Do you see the challenge here? Anxiety is A NAME, a label we have attached to a feeling, an emotion, a behavior, a habit, a response to a stimulus…

It’s a neurological pattern that you have practiced thousands upon thousands of times until you have no clue how you do it. But you ARE the one who is doing it.

So the answer to your question is, Who knows?

But the underlying presupposition,  your true concern is this: you want to somehow explain your inability to clear your anxiety even though you have tried so many techniques including mine, yet you STILL feel anxiety!

So you want someone to reassure you that it’s not your fault. Your internal dialogue or monologue may be going something like this:

“Maybe it’s a PHYSICAL thing and maybe I am not really in charge of my body, mind or anything else in my life. Maybe some day there WILL be a cure! In the meantime, I just have to stay here in  my parents house and not deal with all the shit from my childhood that is totally messing me and my entire life up.”

And again I ask you as I have asked so many times before with you and others:

  • What do you gain from staying the same?
  • What do you gain from being a victim of this thing you call “anxiety”?
  • What to you get out of “nothing works for Me?”
  • And when will you finally see that YOU are the one thinking your thoughts whether your thoughts arise because of some chemical in your body and make you think shitty thoughts… or your shitty thoughts trigger the chemicals in your body that make you feel bad.

What does it matter? You are still the one who is making yourself feel shitty. You don’t want to hear that “it’s a choice”. Because it doesn’t feel like a choice. It’s something you do unconsciously.

The ultimate belief here is that somehow you have no power to stop this.

And that’s why I often insist that a client attempt to make the problem WORSE first. Before we make it better.

Because if YOU can make it WORSE. Then WHO is making it in the first place?

Now. If you broke your leg. I would say some outside force acted upon the bone and snapped it.

But if you have anxiety, where is the “outside force”? Where is this coming from? Ghosts? Demons? Evil Spirits? some CHEMICAL? A DISEASE? Your GENES?

Did you inherit this from your parents who are also anxious? Did they inherit it from THEIR parents?

Is it in the genes? or Is it behavior that was modeled at a very young age by a very smart kid who knew instinctively that one way to stay alive was to act like mommy and daddy? Or was it a response to actual life threatening abusive conditions that as a kid you had no control over? When you were a child you might have been an actual victim of a horrible situation. But now that you are an adult you can change ANYTHING you truly want to change.

But here is the deal and I’m sorry to be the truth teller here:

NO ONE is going to fix this for you. My courses are the best in the world. But you still have to apply the tools. And if you think you have applied them but aren’t getting an improvement, then you aren’t actually applying them.

Seriously. When was the last time you wrote out “Why does this work out better than I can possibly imagine?” a hundred times? A thousand times? While you were doing the 7 other Anxiety CRUSHERS? When did you spend a day totally and completely obsessively and compulsively running the tools and techniques through your neurology? did you keep a log and check your progress every single day as you compulsively and obsessively practiced the anxiety crushing tools?

The tough love truth is that YOU have to commit beyond what you have committed so far up to this point. You have to commit beyond what you think is commitment. You have to burn the boats and know that this is the moment to fully and completely go FULL OUT TOWARDS what you want.

In other words take repeated, sustained ACTION.

There will never be a drug that stops this. Drugs only mask the real emotions and keep you from doing the deep work you know you need to do but don’t want to do yet.

If you are in a bad home situation. Move out.

If you are a massive introvert and need solitary time. Give it to yourself. But learn how to increase your social intelligence and enjoyment of people when you go out and about in your life.

You want more friends? Start by being a great friend and learn the dynamics of social intelligence. And practice, practice practice with no expectations. Join a bunch of meetup groups and actually go to them.

If you want to lose weight stop eating crap, eat only whole, real foods, fast 1 -2 times per week from dinner to dinner (no big deal). get your ass to a gym and start doing slow burn resistance training and High Intensity Interval training. Get rid of your desk chair and stand while you work at you computer, do stuff you like that requires moving your body. take the stairs instead of the elevator. Stop watching TV.  YOU  are living in that body. TAKE CARE OF IT. No One Can Do It For You.

So anxiety is not some special category from any other human “problem”.

Your problem isn’t really anxiety. Your “problem” is that you’ve been allowing other people or your “disease” of anxiety to write your story for you. Your story is stuck in the opening scene and hasn’t progressed to the hero leaving home and striking out on his or her own on the big adventure of your life. Your story hasn’t progressed beyond the call to adventure. You are being called out into the world as a man as a woman as the hero of your own story.

If Frodo Baggins had stayed in the Shire… If Harry Potter had stayed under the stairs and never gone to Hogwarts… If Odysseus had never left home in Ithaca… his 4,000 year old rep as a serious badass wouldn’t exist… do you see this? This is a Universal call. And you’ve been avoiding it because change is scary. Even POSITIVE change.

And you are terrified. Of what? Dying?

That’s the ultimate game ender. But until you tear it up and wear out your welcome here on this amazing planet in the middle of a small solar system in a small galaxy in an infinite universe… it’s time to start living instead of staying stuck in your little cubicle or little life or little relationships or preconceived, generalized notions of “reality”.

I hold all of you in such deep respect. Please understand. I know you’ve been in excruciating pain. I don’t want to be that guy that just shouts at the team to do 10 more pushups…

You don’t want to hear me say, “Grab life by the metaphorical balls and get the fvck out into your life.”  You want me to somehow let you off the hook for the fact that you are creating this experience. You want compassion from me.

But right now? Right now it’s time for tough love.

There is also kind of dis-belief that we create these experiences that seem so painful for us. I often hear, “why would I do this to myself?”

You know?

If I’m really in charge of my emotions and experience of anxiety or being overweight because I eat when I’m anxious then I’m doing it to myself. This is not “blaming the victim.”

There are no victims here.

Playing the victim is still a self delusion. I’ve had clients ask, “Why would I cause myself so much pain? This HAS to be from somewhere outside of me. The HAS to be a medical thing… I CAN’T be doing this to myself! Why would I be so cruel to myself?”

And those are exactly the questions that only YOU can answer…

  • Why would you do such a horrible stultifying thing to yourself as install and practice INTENSE anxiety so severe you can’t leave the house? What? Is your unconscious mind Crazy?

Nope. It’s not crazy. It’s doing it for a reason but you are not “getting” the message yet. And maybe you never will…

Until the day that you CAN NOT STAND IT ANY MORE AND YOU TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR CHANGE AND START FOCUSING RELENTLESSLY ON A FUTURE THAT IS WORTH LIVING AND WORTH BREAKING OUT OF YOUR CAGE FOR…

Until that day you will just be another victim thinker sitting in their own mess.

But on that day… The day that is coming…

When you realize like Tyler Durden in the movie Fight Club, that

“this is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time”

You will begin your hero’s journey.

You’re probably not ready yet. But that’s ok.

You’re getting there. You’re close.

When you are totally ready the movement will appear.

The shift. The transformation… is coming.

And who am I to say, “You’re ready. You’ll only be ready when you are ready to be ready…”

if you get my Ericksonian Hypnotic “drift” deep in to a transformational experience the next time you forget to do the problem… and release all expectations or goals other than this present precise precious moment that is here and gone, here and gone, here and gone, the beating of your heart… Who do you want to be? The writer, director, star and biggest fan of the movie of your life? Or just someone doing what he is told by an old script that was written by someone else or by your 3 year old self who didn’t quite get how the world works..

In the old days young men and women went through initiation trials that were often intense and even life threatening. We have lost that in our culture so you might want to consider that THIS is your initiation.

Find your edges and lean in to them even if  you fall down…

Brush your self off and get up again. You have work to do…

Love yourself until your love is true. True for you….

It may be really, really, hard but you can do it.

The only way out is through.

Peace.

The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

Click the link below to:

  • Check out Crush Anxiety Now
  • Review my hypnosis video programs
  • Contact me today

– Mark

p.s. listen to this song. Over and Over and Over again. There will be a test.

Filed Under: Anxiety, Anxiety Relief, Articles, Changing The World, Clearing Limiting Beliefs, Conversational Hypnosis, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Dominant Thoughts

Are You Hypnotizable?

July 22, 2016 by Mark Shepard

21710015 - pocket watch silver swinging on a chain black background to hypnotiseIn Hypnosis Research There Was Once Upon A Time A  Significant Effort To Determine Who Was Hypnotizable (a good subject for hypnosis) and Who Was Not.

  • There was a famous experiment where volunteers were asked to listen to a hypnosis induction on an LP record (this was back in the 1960’s I believe). 25% of the subjects went DEEP into trance.
  • 25% of the subjects went into a moderate trance
  • 25% went into a light trance
  • and the remaining 25% didn’t seem to be affected at all.

So one conclusion they made from this was that  25% of the population “couldn’t be hypnotized”. The researchers also concluded that some people were far more suggestible than others.

This still “seems” to be true.

If you’ve ever gone to a hypnosis stage show you may have noticed that some people are totally affected by the hypnosis and some people don’t seem to be quite as “gullible” as the folks up on stage doing all the weird, embarrassing shit the hypnotist is telling them to do.

Most of the audience doesn’t seem to be affected much at all.

The bottom line is that EVERYBODY in the audience is being hypnotized JUST as much as the volunteers on stage!

Seriously. I mean EVERYBODY!

The audience is fully focusing their attention on the show. The rest of the world has basically disappeared for them. They are fascinated. Whether they are doubtful or total believers, it doesn’t matter. They are just as deep in trance as anyone else in that room.

Hypnosis is actually about focus and following directions.

Milton Erickson would often just ask his client to, “do me a favor will you? Could you walk over to the window and open it?”

If the client DID that what really just happened? The client followed Erickson’s suggestion.

Trance Formation happens usually without our conscious knowledge. It is a phenomenon of your unconscious mind…

That’s what’s so cool about it (and what some folks find freaky about it). We are often totally uncosncious of the fact that we are… well…. unconscious.

The bottom line is that We humans are ALL hardwired by default to go into trance.
We all go in and out of various trances all day long.
The question is, are you going into trances that are valuable?

Ultimately here at Honest Hypnosis my goal and intention is to give you the power to DIRECT YOUR OWN TRANCE.

Step one in that process is to sift through the thoughts and ideas flowing like a river around you or a cloud surrounding you in order to clarify what YOUR thoughts are and what OTHERS thoughts are.

And sometimes this is not so easy.

Personally, I have to be careful.

(not “Fearful” but “Careful”)

I am highly suggestible.

What does that mean?

One thing it means is that I am really, really good at going into trance.

Another thing it means is, the things people say, the things I watch, books I read, the music I hear as I go through my day affect me. A lot.

You could also say I’m energy sensitive.
What does that mean?
It means that I am affected by the energy of people around me.

So doesn’t it make sense to be pretty damn careful about what I read, what I watch, what I listen to and who I’m around?

The bottom line though is that MOST people, and definitely MOST OF YOU who find my emails, blog posts, music, books and programs valuable, are ALSO highly suggestible and sensitive.

Welcome to the human experience!

We are actually receiving and broadcasting stations.
What are you broadcasting? What channels are you receiving?
What are the people around you broadcasting to you? What are you believing?

Beliefs are filters through which we experience the “world”.
Are YOU determining your beliefs? or Did you inherit or learn beliefs as a little kid that are still operating in your unconscious mind?

Part of what I do every single day is to watch my thoughts and get rid of the beliefs that stop me or hold me back. Sometimes it’s not pretty.

For example back in the last 90 day Transformation Tuesday challenge I caught myself believing an old lie that I had sucked in as “truth”. That lie was: “No one wants to hear my music.”…

It seems kind of ridiculous now. But beliefs don’t have to make sense to screw you up!

What small thinking are you indulging in on a daily basis in YOUR life?

What would you do, have or be in your life if you could get out of your own way, take the “limiter” off of the Lamborghini of your Mind and actually go for it?

Write that down.

The reason I write these almost daily emails and blog posts, (if you’re not getting the almost daily Mind Mastery Newsletter sign up right now while you are thinking about it) the reason I committed to doing a live program every single week as well as walking my talk and making my goals public as part of this current 90 day transformation challenge is because I think the process of clearing our crap is something that we all need to learn if we actually want to live the fullest, most empowered, healthy lives possible.

I want to share this. I want to make a difference in your life. Why? Because it feels good.
I like feeling good. I want to feel good more and more. Don’t you?

I also found that when I want to truly learn something and “install” it deep in my own unconscious mind, I HAVE to teach it.

I HAVE to write songs about it.
I HAVE to almost obsessively and compulsively put what I’ve learned into practice on a daily basis.

My vision for YOU is that you will use my words and music to clear away the “clutter” of old thinking patterns in your life. If you get off the path, I intend my work to be the light in the dark that brings you back to yourself.
Back to your true self.

The song that’s been running through my mind the whole time I’ve been writing to you this morning is “Clear The Fear” which I sang on Transformation Tuesday #12.

I knew I’d recorded it at some point. But I couldn’t remember what CD It was on… So I went looking but I couldn’t find “Clear The Fear” or figure out what CD it was on ( I will eventually)… However, in the process I found this little music video I’d made back in 2008… It’s a bit… um… out of date format-wise… but it was cool to see it again.

So can I make a suggestion? If I were to give you a simple “hypnotic” suggestion for today, it would be to watch/listen to this music video once. If you like it you might experiment with watching/listening to it a few times today. You might want to hit “repeat” and play it on a low volume. Whatever it takes to get it “stuck” in your rostromedial pre-frontal cortex (the place in your brain where songs get “looped”)

Like a lot of my songs, This song is quite literally an NLP/Hypnosis Session. I’m curious to see how open you are to the suggestions embedded in the song. I’m curious to hear what your experience with it is.

You may or may not choose to accept my suggestion or notice how your perception of your day progresses after listening to it or watching it. If you were open to another suggestion I would like to suggest that you listen and observe and then Write down specifically how your day improves. Send me an email. It’s for science!

clear the fear music video

That’s it for now. I’m back to my adventure. A lot of cool stuff is about to happen. So pay attention.
Take notes. Imagine yourself being, doing and having what you most desire, in the best way possible.

Over and out.

Mark

The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

Click the link below to:

  • Check out Crush Anxiety Now
  • Review my hypnosis video programs
  • Contact me today

p.s. BTW it was cool to discover that almost 20,000 people have viewed this video. More evidence for my unconscious mind to “get” that the old silly belief is just that. An old silly belief. Conclusion? It just might be time to totally go for it.

p.p.s. In case you haven’t checked it out yet, my totally new and updated CRUSH anxiety NOW! program is available for instant access. If you’ve ever struggled with fear, worry, anxiety or panic attacks you might want to check it out Now.

 

Filed Under: Anxiety, Anxiety Relief, Conversational Hypnosis, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Self Hypnosis, Suggestibility, Transformation

Trauma & Anxiety Are LINKED

April 4, 2016 by Mark Shepard

Today’s Mind Mastery Daily is about the connection between Trauma (one time learning events in the past) and Anxiety (imagining what you do not want to have happen in the future)

Trauma and anxiety are deeply linked neurological processes. But they are CLEAR-ABLE!

Hypnosis for PTSD must include conscious tools for clearing old beliefs, childhood vows, and limiting decisions we made about the world as children…

It’s time to stop running old beliefs that “program” you to be fearful, weak, frustrated, and small. And time to start installing bigger, better, more useful beliefs… like, “Why am I more powerful than I can possibly imagine?” [sound FX of Lion roaring!]

It’s all in the video! (Make sure you also listen to today’s Transformation Tune which is below the video)

 

Transformation Tune for Today: Song # 161 Beautiful Person (version #2)

This is the 2nd version I recorded of “Beautiful Person”.

The first one is from Visions & Voices CD and was arranged by Gene Moore. This version is a very simple “chant” that includes some significant shifts in language inspired by the field of Neuro Linguistics. Most notable is the shift into the past tense.

So, “I can not love you if I hate myself” became, “I could not love you when I hated myself”.

The past tense pre-supposes that I no longer hate myself… see how it works? Even the subtlest of language patterns can free us from our old patterns and stories or keep us stuck.

This is another one of those songs to listen to repeatedly for its potential to get “stuck” in your head… and do some good in there… :o)

BTW I actually did have a dream where there was a lion coming up out of the bathtub drain! It scared me awake from a deep slumber. As I lay there in the dark it occurred to me that the lion represented my own true power. And that it was time to stop running away from it.

May you too find your power and experience how incredibly beautiful you are. Right now. Right here.

The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

Click the link below to:

  • Check out Crush Anxiety Now
  • Review my hypnosis video programs
  • Contact me today

Or just leave a comment below 🙂

Filed Under: Anxiety, Anxiety Relief, Articles, Change, Clearing Limiting Beliefs, Creating Change, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Dominant Thoughts, Empowerment Songs, How to Overcome Trauma, Hypnosis for PTSD, NLP Techniques, Self Hypnosis, Self Improvement, Transformation, Transformation Songs

Focus & Meaning Rap

December 8, 2015 by Mark Shepard

hh-12-08-FocusRap-ss2Hey, hey, hey, hey,

HAY!

Surprise! a VERY short video for you today.

With a new song that is just now moving through me…

Inspired by what I talked about in yesterday’s video/blog post about Dr. Donnie Epstein…

Grounded in the idea that the only two things we humans can control in our world is

1. Where we are focusing our attention or What we are focusing ON…

and…

2. What meaning we give to whatever is happening…

To simplify it into a “chant” or “rap”

It becomes a new mantra…

Where is my focus?
What am I making it mean?

Your assignment today is to write this out, whisper it to yourself, chant it, rap it, sing it… all day long and then let me know how your day went.

Got it? Good!

Cool and groovy. I’m outa hear!

(yes you beloved detail oriented “spell checkers out there”, I MEANT to spell here, “Hear” it’s called “Phonological ambiguity” in Ericksonian Conversational Hypnosis…  Sum People call it Punning… But it adds up to something deep going on in your unconscious mind… That’s right… mmm hmmm :o)

– Mark

p.s. HEY!  a special warm welcome to New Transformation Nation Members Jason from upstate New York and Carina from Hamburg Germany!

Welcome!!!!

p.p.s. Focusing on how bad things are? Want to stop doing that? Need help shifting it? Check out CRUSH anxiety NOW!

Filed Under: Anxiety Relief, Articles, Changing The World, Clearing Limiting Beliefs, Creating Change, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Dominant Thoughts, Focus, Gratitude, Happiness, Hypnosis for anxiety, Imagination vs. Will power, Innovative Thinking, Self Hypnosis, Transformation Songs

Habit Change

November 18, 2015 by Mark Shepard

37057223_mHey Fabulous One, Welcome to whenever you are reading this!

We are continuing to shake up routines today.

So, watch the video first, then read my brilliant thoughts below it…

When people think about hypnosis they usually think about it as a way of changing habits.

And it is. Faster. Easier. Better.

But the majority of people kind of believe in it like its some kind of magic voodoo thing where the hypnotist “makes” them change. The reality is far more interesting. The person who says they want to make the change, will only make the change if they want to make the change.

Smoking is a habit. When people want to quit, they are actually not quitting cigarettes so much as they are retraining their unconscious mind to let go of the habit of smoking.

Overeating is a habit. When people want to lose weight they often attempt to change their habitual way of eating and moving (or not moving as the case may be). Weight loss is more challenging than smoking cessation because there are usually multiple changes that need to be made in multiple areas of your life.

Anxiety is a habit. It is habitual, vivid repetitions, of what you do not want, played out on your internal movie screen. Your body reacts biochemically to the habitual focus on doomsday scenarios and the body needs less and less reminding to create the habitual fight, or flight hormones a pumpin’.

So when I say it’s a good practice to consciously PRACTICE changing things up in very small ways. It’s just one of many ways I’m attempting to give your power back to you so you can stop doing the stuff that stops you and start doing the stuff that will lead you to the health, wealth and love that you say  you want.

So your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to do something differently in the next 24 hours. And then repeat. See what else begins to change as you demonstrate to your unconscious mind that change is actually fun. At the very least it’s more interesting than doing the same old thing and expecting a different result. LOL.

Peace out,

– Mark

p.s. Want to go deeper? Here are a few of my Related courses you might want to check out:

Stop Smoking Dammit!

CRUSH Anxiety NOW!

CRUSH anxiety FOREVER!

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