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Beliefs

A Mysterious Message From 1986…

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HEY! It’s “Transformation Tuesday” and This Song Has Been “Bugging Me” For A While…

It kept popping up and running through my head off and on last week… I wrote it in 1986. Over 30 years ago! I was 25 years old. My first born child was only 4 months old…

  • Ronald Reagan was in the White House
  • The Oprah Winfrey show debuted
  • The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight..
  • A house cost an average of about $89,000…

Looking back, it feels like this song was too far ahead of me at the time for me to understand what it was about… It’s one of those songs that I had to kind of “live into.” In other words, it feels true TODAY… for me. And it’s a good, solid, Sound Healing Hypnosis message that YOU might resonate with as well…

It’s one of the hundreds of songs I’ve written and kind of forgotten about… I’d actually forgotten how to play it… but the other day, just messing around on my guitar, the “riff” came in through my fingers without me thinking about it… so I OBEYED the riff!

Today’s Mind Mastery Message works perfectly with this song… and as I write this, two pithy quotes come to mind, (well 3 actually)

  • “You do not know what is in your best interests.” – The Course In Miracles
  • “God’s delays, are NOT God’s denials.”  – Robert Schuller (at least that’s who gets credit for saying on the internet, but I heard somebody else say it before he did which totally proves the point.)
  • “Obey the riff!” – Mark Shepard (yeah, I just said it, so I’m quoting MYSELF! ;o)

Your assignment today, should you choose to accept it, is to ponder your own interpretation of your “reality” and question it a bit. What if what you are currently struggling with is exactly what you need to be working through so you can “roll your stone away”? What if the things you think are negative in your life are actually MOVING you elegantly towards a bigger, better version of living the life you long to live? You don’t have to BELIEVE that, just consider it… for today. :o)

Here’s the song:
Song #89, “Out of the Shadows” (please subscribe, like and share this puppy ok? thanks)

BTW It’s Day 17 of 90 Day Transformation Challenge #5 How you doin’?

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Quick Reminder: you can still audit my emerging course,
“Beyond Beliefs: How To Stop Limiting Beliefs From Stopping YOU!”

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– Mark
p.s. any questions? Contact Me! and let me know what you’re thinking about ok? thanks! – m

More About Beliefs & the NLP Evidence Procedure

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More about Changing Limiting Beliefs & reinforcing the changes with the NLP Evidence Procedure, (plus a Review of Week 2 of 90 Day Transformation Challenge #5 and YOUR mind mastery message and assignment)

Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to keep a log or a list of at least 1 thing you did each day to move towards your big dream. Whether it’s related to your life purpose, your path with heart, your career, relationship, health etc. If you did SOMETHING, it’s helpful to REMEMBER what you did in order to REINFORCE how damn good it feels to take another step towards what you most desire… then take another step and another…

Go git ’em!

– Mark

p.s. If you would like to get my new “Beyond Beliefs” course before we release it for sale this summer you can still “audit” the class. Here’s the link:
“Beyond Beliefs: How To Stop Your Limiting Beliefs From Stopping You”

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Changing Beliefs with NLP

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Why are Beliefs Such A Big Deal?

(BTW It’s day 12 of 90 Day transformation Challenge #5)

Hey Kids!

How’s it going? Things are hopping and popping over here. Midway through week 2 of the new challenge I’m already enjoying watching the improvements that our Inner Circle Master Mind members are making and experiencing  in their lives as they begin to apply the very first NLP Belief Change technique in their own lives. And it’s just the first of at least 7 different transformation tools that will put them behind the wheel of their own mind mastery by the end of this 90 day challenge. At the moment I’m calling the course, “Beyond Beliefs: 7 Powerful Ways To Master Your Mind For A Change.”

As usual I’m learning as much from the class as they seem to be learning from me. We call that a win/win. For those of you who aren’t in the class I thought it might be helpful to fill you in from time to time on our progress as well as on a few of the details that might elucidate for you why beliefs are such a big deal.

First of all what are beliefs?

The dictionary definition doesn’t quite tell us the whole story:
be·lief  bəˈlēf/  noun    plural noun: beliefs

  1. an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists. “his belief in the value of hard work”
  2. trust, faith, or confidence in someone or something. “a belief in democratic politics”
    synonyms: faith, trust, reliance, confidence, credence “belief in the value of hard work”

The kind of beliefs we are talking about are the ones that are constantly running under the surface of your conscious awareness that tell you how to behave, what’s possible, what’s true or not, what’s good for you. What your purpose is. What’s not possible for you. One of the most universal beliefs that shows up in my private practice over and over again is “Not good enough.”

For me a key limiting belief that I’ve discovered in my own unconscious mind is a variation on that, even though I now believe that my music IS good enough to be heard by other people (and almost a million views of “Together We Can Change The World” prove that), I had a belief that being good enough wasn’t good enough to get people to actually listen! I first noticed myself saying, “Nobody wants to hear my music” like some kind of self torturing “mantra.”

Negative, limiting beliefs like that can be devastating to your dreams. Ultimately it was my struggle to get my music out into the world that forced me to learn all this hypnosis and NLP stuff so that I could get out of my own way. So while I’m grateful that I learned these tools, I also appreciate that there are always new layers of the “onion” to clear and release as we grow and mature and work on healing ourselves.

Here are a few deeper definitions of what beliefs are and what they do…

  1. Beliefs are filters through which we process reality. If you’ve ever seen an entertainment hypnosis show, you may have laughed your ass off at some audience volunteer brought up on stage and given a brand new identity or personality. All of a sudden some shy guy is openly walking around kissing everyone. Or as was the case for me, as an audience volunteer, I was told my name was “Betty” and for about 20 minutes I was definitely NOT MYSELF. In the case of that show, it was temporary. But in the case of most of us, we walk around with these limiting beliefs like, “I’m not good enough” or  in my case, “Nobody wants to hear my music” that are like thought cages that we walk around in without even knowing it.
  2. Beliefs are extremely powerful unconscious “programs” that often defy logic. AND they can sometimes be so powerful as to affect whether someone lives or dies.  In Ernest Lawrence Rossi’s book, “The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing” he recounts a story that exemplifies how powerful and non logical beliefs can be. There was a cancer patient named “Mr. Wright” who insisted on receiving an experimental drug named Krebiozen even though he didn’t actually qualify for the study. Finally his doctor relented and gave Mr. Wright his first dose Krebiozen and then went off for the weekend. When the physician returned to the hospital on Monday morning, Mr. Wright had somehow made an almost full recovery! A short while later he checked out of the hospital and went back to his normal life… UNTIL he read in the newspapers that Krebiozen was proving to be a dud. Suddenly he was riddled with cancer again. He went back into the hospital and the doctor this time administered a placebo, telling Mr. Wright that it was a “new and improved” Krebiozen. Again Mr. Wright rapidly recovered and went back to his life. Finally Mr. Wright stumbled upon an article that basically trashed Krebiozen and called it a failed experiment. This time Mr. Wright returned to the hospital, once more filled with cancer and died not too long after that. Ultimately it was his BELIEF in the efficacy of that drug that cause Mr. Wright to recover so rapidly twice as well as to relapse and die.
  3. Many beliefs were “installed” in us without our knowledge or consent by well meaning parents and teachers as well as by our nefarious and ubiquitous Media Machine. Remember when butter was bad and Margarine was healthy? Remember when eggs were vilified because they had cholesterol in them? Both of those turned out to be false beliefs. But many people never changed back and there are still millions upon millions of people out there who still think butter and eggs will give you a heart attack and saturated fat makes you fat. So one aspect of mastering beliefs is to become aware when some belief is being imposed on you from external sources and how to immunize yourself from those kinds of “thought viruses.” It turns out that the evidence pointing to SUGAR was suppressed and researchers were PAID to point the finger at FAT… and 30 years after the Low Fat craze, just look around. We are waaay fatter as a nation than ever. These kinds of limiting beliefs may have been installed in us by outside voices, but we are the ones who keep them playing on our internal radio station. What’s cool is that we can change the channel.
  4. Beliefs are “rules” that we are living our lives by. The sad thing is that most of us don’t realize how limiting these “rules” are and how small they are keeping us. Few people can even conceive of how easily these rules can be updated to serve us instead of crippling us.
  5. Beliefs can last for an entire lifetime or be changed RAPIDLY. Old beliefs that limit you can be replaced with new beliefs that empower you… RAPIDLY. IF you know HOW! And if you don’t have a limiting belief about how long it takes to change limiting beliefs!

That’s all I have time for today. In my next post I’ll explore this a little bit more.

Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to catch yourself the next time you have some limiting belief skip across your awareness… Even without the full Beliefs change course, you can still CHALLENGE any limiting thinking you catch yourself indulging in. Start today! I BELIEVE in YOU.

In the meantime, here’s a song for your day. If you could help me by subscribing, liking and sharing this song it would help ME to add more evidence into my own unconscious mind that people actually WANT to hear my music :o) thanks!

Want to go deeper? You can still audit the new “Beyond Beliefs” Course. You’ll get all the videos and class materials a few days after the Inner Circle Members as I build the course over the next 10 weeks.
Beyond Beliefs Course Audit

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Any questions? Feel free to ask! Contact Me

 

NLP Evidence Procedures

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Hey Kids, it’s Day 5 of 90 Day Transformation Challenge #5 and some SERIOUS transformation is happening…

…in my own mind!

(Today I’m going to talk about NLP Evidence Procedures and how they are a vital piece of the NLP Belief Change process…)

I decided after a lot of thought and meditative deliberation to revive my “Transformation Tuesdays” as the context and pretext for creating my next online hypnosis course, called, “Beyond Beliefs: Adventures in Mastering Your Mind For A Change To Live Your Dreams, Faster, Easier Better!”

(or something like that)

Anyway, the first class was this past Tuesday and It’s actually working out better than I can possibly imagine!

Module #1 is Done and if you want to follow along as I build the course you can still sign up for the “basic option” which is only $19.99 per month for the 3 months of this challenge.

If you would actually like to be in the class, I have room for 2 or 3 more folks and it’s only $99.00 per month, so if the add to cart button works there is still room. But I’m closing it down as soon as I get 10 people or by Tuesday night, April 18th whichever we hit first.

Here’s all the “buy me” buttons in case you can’t wait to join us until after you’ve read this whole article:

90 Day Challenge Basic – $19/month for 3 months

  • Get access to the class videos AFTER the live sessions. Watch at your leisure.
  • Get FREE, Lifetime access to the Limiting Beliefs course I will be creating as we go through this challenge.

90 Day Challenge Pro – $99/month for 3 months (expiring soon!)

  • Everything for Basic, plus
  • Access to & Participation in the live, weekly webinar

90 Day Challenge Expert – $199/month for 3 months (expiring soon!)

  • Everything for Basic and Pro, plus
  • Personal, Private, Confidential 15-30 minute check-in call each Month with me (since I currently charge $3,500 for a 90 day coaching period this saves you a ton of moolah).

But HURRY! This group is limited to 10 participants and we are about to shut the class down to any new members for the next 90 days. Don’t let someone else steal your spot…

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90 Day Transformation Challenge #5 – Choose the plan that’s right for you

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What happened for me is that as I was describing the process of challenging our limiting beliefs and building what we call in NLP an “evidence procedure” for the new, empowered beliefs, I chose to use my own “stuff” as an example (hey, one of the main reasons I “teach” this stuff is because it helps me to “wawk my tawk”).

To counter the limiting belief that pops up from time to time in MY mind, of “Nobody wants to hear my music…”, I demonstrated my process of COUNTERING my own internal B.S. (That stands for “Belief Stuff”) by going to youtube and searching for “Together We Can Change The World.”

Then I counted up all the views of the various versions of  the TWCCTW song and it turns out we are pretty damn close to A MILLION VIEWS!

COW-AH-FREAKING-BUNG-AH!!!!

CHECK THIS OUT!
Like this one, put up only a year ago it already has 250,000 views…

or this one with 463,000 views…

or this one with 69,000 views…

or this one with 25,000 views…

or this one with 41,000 views…

or this one with 33,000 views…

or this one (one of my favorites) by a group of Ukrainian orphans… with only 16,000 views…

or this one with me singing with a bunch of little kids from Waterbury CT… 28,000 views!

or this one in my living room… 14,000 views…

or this one (looking quite well fed, LOL) of my studio version… 4,000 views…

or this Karaoke version… 10,000 views…

or this district wide choral performance in the Niskayuna Schools performed at Proctors… 2,500

250,000
463,000
69,000
25,000
41,000
33,000
16,000
28,000
14,000
4,000
10,000
2,500
955,500 (is THAT enough evidence? Almost a MILLION?)

And this is NOT a boast. It’s EVIDENCE CONTRARY to the dumbass, defeatist voice that still sometimes rattles around in MY head.

The point is, if I STILL HAVE THAT VOICE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS OF WORKING ON MY CRAP, then just MAYBE….YOU might just have some negative little voices too. :o)

There’s an old story about a guy in a mental hospital who believed he was a corpse. The psychologists did everything they could to convince him that he was alive. But no. He INSISTED he was a corpse. Finally they asked him “do corpses bleed?”

“NO! Corpses DON’T bleed,” he replied.

So they pricked his finger and blood came out. Rather than changing his ridiculous belief, he responded, “I’ll be damned, corpses DO bleed!”. He just adjusted his belief to include the new evidence as proof that he was a corpse.

That’s an example of an evidence procedure that is working the WRONG way!

We are pretty weird creatures we humans!

YOUR evidence procedure is active and functioning right now but what “evidence” is it building about you and your life? Evidence that you’re not enough? Evidence that you “can’t do what you really want to do with your life?” Evidence that you’ll just end up being alone? Evidence that there’s never enough time, or money, or love?

OR, you COULD use the same evidence procedure to ADD to your internal awareness of your many SUCCESSES and to REINFORCE

  • ALL the gifts
  • AND talents
  • AND abilities
  • AND passion
  • AND strength
  • AND courage
  • AND audacity
  • AND boldness
  • AND love
  • AND power

that you have ALWAYS had… but that your old beliefs filtered out?

HERES ANOTHER ONE OF MY NEW EVIDENCE PROCEDURES… and by sharing this publicaly you better believe it helps to anchor it into my own neurology.

I suddenly remembered that I’ve been making videos and putting them up on YouTube for almost ten years now… so I did a search on my crush anxiety videos, the very 9 part series I put up back in 2007 and discovered… they’ve been watched a lot more than I thought…

  • 42,971
  • 29,330
  • 25,174
  • 26,241
  • 53,185
  • 65,156
  • 32,633
  • 22,424
  • 17,039

That’s adds up to ANOTHER 314,153 people who I’ve helped to CRUSH anxiety. Booom! Take THAT you old limiting beliefs! Suck THAT deep into your unconscious mind Mark Shepard! Not bad for a singing hypnotist!  Shazaaaam!

I, Mark Shepard do solomnly SWEAR and TESTIFY to my OWN UNCONSCIOUS MIND, that I have had OVER A MILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE.

and if I took the time to count up ALL the views from ALL the other videos I’ve uploaded, I am pretty confident that it would be more like 2 MILLION VIEWS. So evidently a few people want to hear my music and what I have to say. BOOM TALLA DING!

The “evidence procedure” is just a single one of the many tools I’ll be teaching YOU so that YOU have the key to moving yourself Beyond Your Beliefs To Master YOUR Own Mind For A Change…

Now. If by chance YOU would like to join us in clearing the little voices in YOUR head that tell you, “you’re not good enough” or “nobody wants what you have to offer” or “who do you think you are?” or “I’m no good at selling…” or “Why do I keep repeating my same old patterns of behavior even though I try hard not to…?” or whatever it is for you, you might want to…

a. Join The “Basic” membership level to get the module’s as I upload them after the Tuesday night class.

b. Join our Tuesday night mastermind group before I close the  program to anyone new for the rest of this challenge or

c. Consider applying for one of my 1 on 1 Breakthrough programs (I have room on my calendar for 1 person) – Contact me ASAP

Here’s all the details and “buy me” buttons:

90 Day Challenge Basic – $19/month for 3 months

  • Get access to the class videos AFTER the live sessions. Watch at your leisure.
  • Get FREE, Lifetime access to the Limiting Beliefs course I will be creating as we go through this challenge.

90 Day Challenge Pro – $99/month for 3 months (expiring soon!)

  • Everything for Basic, plus
  • Access to & Participation in the live, weekly webinar

90 Day Challenge Expert – $199/month for 3 months (expireing soon!)

  • Everything for Basic and Pro, plus
  • Personal, Private, Confidential 15-30 minute check-in call each Month with me (since I currently charge $3,500 for a 90 day coaching period this saves you a ton of moolah).

But HURRY! This group is limited to 10 participants and we are about to shut the class down to any new members for the next 90 days. Don’t let someone else steal your spot…

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90 Day Transformation Challenge #5 – Choose the plan that’s right for you

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To your success,

Mark Shepard, YOUR Personal Mastery Mentor

P.S. You know in your heart that your old patterns of behavior are costing you more than you care to admit. So just admit it. It’s the same for all of us. You are NOT alone in being imprisoned by your own beliefs. That where we all start. Even the Buddha. Even Gandhi. It’s just part of being human. What’s cool is that you can actually DO something about this. And it is just another way to send out ripples of transformation into the world. You do the world a favor by working on your “stuff” (mostly because you’re a lot more fun to be around when your HAPPY… ;o)

P.P.S. If you do nothing. If you don’t take action right now. You and I both know you will continue to get what you’ve been getting… loneliness, isolation, frustration, shame, embarrassment, fear of rejection… Whatever it is you’ve been attempting to change in your life that just doesn’t seem to want to be changed… Whatever it is that has been slowly draining your energy or making you feel really bad about yourself or your life or your lack of money or your sex appeal or your car or house or whatever… of course only YOU can guarantee that you use the tools and techniques to change. No one can make you change. No one can make your changes for you. No therapist, No witch doctor, No coach, No lover, No Mommy or Daddy or Teacher or Guru. We all have to “get” that WE are the ones creating our realities and the only way to change our reality is by changing ourselves. And BELIEFS are one of the main FILTERS we use to create our realities… I’ll explain all this in the course… but more than that, YOU will be able to take charge of your own mind. Do you have any idea how powerful you actually are? What I do is teach you how to be the driver instead of the passenger of your own life.

Trust me on this, these old beliefs are sneaky little critters… I keep discovering new ones that were somehow hiding invisibly underneath the limiting beliefs I’d already cleared. And as I keep clearing, my life keeps getting better, to the point where I can finally step powerfully into the new belief that seems to have finally settled into my neurology:

I came here to touch the lives of millions of men and women in a positive, healing, transformational way with my Music, My Message, and My Methods.

So far, 40 years into this quest, I’ve touched over a million lives with my music and hypnosis practice and I am just getting started on  a course to touching many, many more MILLIONS of minds, bodies, hearts and spirits before I’m done with this “little project called life”.

P.P.P.S. Maybe you’re not really ready to change. But the worst case scenario is you get the program, try it out and decide it’s not for you. You risk nothing by giving it a thorough test drive.

As always, if you have questions, you can…
contact me today